Will they run together?

From: Puckdropper <puckdropper@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:03:42 GMT

(I posted this on the Yahoo! Group The HO Scale Model Railroad Club, and
got no response, so I'm reposting it here.)

I picked up several new locomotives a short time ago, and even though
they're the same make and model, they have drastically different speeds. In
your experience, have new locomotives smoothed out and started to run the
same speed as they got broken in, or is the speed of the locomotive pretty
constant throughout its lifetime?

Puckdropper
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