It has been my experience that many Bachmann Locomotives (even Spectrum) are notoriously lacking in lubrication brand new out of the box. A good dose of LaBelle in the right places might drastically improve this model’s low speed performance.
Most, if not all, of Bachmann’s sound and DCC locomotives have a dual mode decoder. This allows them to work on DC power, albeit with limited control over sound and lighting features.
Id love to get this guy being as how im from the area. However no smoke unit? Thats like... the best part of these steamers. Im not familiar with takings these things apart and modifying them either. Oh well.
@@MoreTrainsPlease it’s jamming on 22 curves and derailing on the “s” switches. Kind of crazy how bad this thing is and they try to charge $500 on the site. I was hoping to get their Dreyfuss if this was good until BLI ran them again or MTH came back…but nope
How does it run still? Thinking about getting one to try in DCC/soubd
It has been my experience that many Bachmann Locomotives (even Spectrum) are notoriously lacking in lubrication brand new out of the box. A good dose of LaBelle in the right places might drastically improve this model’s low speed performance.
Thank you for the tip! I’ll have to give it a try!
Cool!
So dcc/sound value locomotives can still be operated on dc power or is it just this particular Bachmann one?
Most, if not all, of Bachmann’s sound and DCC locomotives have a dual mode decoder. This allows them to work on DC power, albeit with limited control over sound and lighting features.
@@MoreTrainsPlease oh ok gotcha! Thanks for the info 💪🏽
Id love to get this guy being as how im from the area. However no smoke unit? Thats like... the best part of these steamers. Im not familiar with takings these things apart and modifying them either. Oh well.
No whistle?
No whistle while running on standard DC unfortunately. The whistle can be controlled on DCC, but I do not own a DCC system.
Just got one, this thing is a POS. Running on unitrack 22, it binds in the turns badly
Sorry to hear that. It’s definitely more suited for wider radius turns. I have not ran mine since filming the video as it’s just not enjoyable to run.
@@MoreTrainsPlease it’s jamming on 22 curves and derailing on the “s” switches. Kind of crazy how bad this thing is and they try to charge $500 on the site. I was hoping to get their Dreyfuss if this was good until BLI ran them again or MTH came back…but nope
@@DietPizza1 any further luck with this?
@@DanthehorseI returned it, problems solved :)
Nnn😂🎉😂