(12-28-2024, 09:26 PM)Mister No Wrote: Is it just me ....
No it's not just you. Good spot. I just checked back through the Takara Tomy release pictures of all the ES wrapping trains, and they all show this. Furthermore, in some of the pictures it looks like the front wheels of the power car are actually raised slightly off the rails. I suspect that the reason for this is that when they take the publicity photographs the trains are posed without batteries in them. When they do have batteries in them the weight will be more evenly balanced between the two axles.
They seem fine in this video (running starts at about 13:40): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_L_yqlclRo