BACHMANNTrains McKinley Explorer Ready to Run Electric Train Set

Nice detailing

I love my time with my grandson running our trains, and this is a great addition.

So let me start by saying the quality of the set is great. The GP40 locomotive has a lot of good detail, very nicely built and has a nice solid feel to it. The cars are also very well made, with good detail, however they are huge but at the same time they are relatively very light and the locomotive appears tiny in front of them. In my case I bought a use model from warehouse deals and the locomotive was bad and didn't work so had to return the set. I did try to run the cars using my locomotive and I found because of the specs I listed above they would keep derailing. Also they cannot do curves less than 22" which is a shame, because majority of the other Bachmann sets come with 18" radius tracks, which means this set will not be compatible if you have some of the other Bachmann set. The cars were also not lighted, though I feel you can always easily add an LED in there, but nevertheless a few marks off for that also.

This is a great set we picked up and it's greatly detailed however you need to use the track it comes with (shallow turns) due to the long cars. We wound up placing this set around the outside of our other set and it worked great! Love it. Very nice engine and detail to cars overall.

Great train for people who love model railroading easy to assembly since we did the guy thing and never read the instructions and had it complete assembled in about a half an hour and have played with it for several days now!