TM88

Thanks for all the advice and welcomes! All extremely useful to hear. long time reader - first time poster! Going on this it sounds like perhaps wiring the two carriages together may be the best option in terms of reliability. I have seen this mentioned before, I never have any need to split the loco so could be a good move. It’s a great loco which as someone previously said has a great likeness to the real thing- I could do just do with it running a little bit better. I suppose some more regular servicing wouldn’t go amiss either

I have an elderly Hornby class 142 ‘pacer’ in the orange GMPTE livery. It runs like a bag of spanner’s ( very similar to the real thing actually...! ) This particularly model is one of the old ones that has a motor situated in each of its 2 cars, and in my opinion contributes to its poorer performance- as often the motors can run slightly out of sync. However, I was wondering if anyone has tried removing one of the motors, and just running just on the one...? If so, any feedback on the performance? They are only small motors - so not entirely sure of the pulling power. I’m guessing the newer Pacers (with just the one motor per unit) run on different motors? Thought I would ask before dismantling....