I have this same engine! Excellent sound. Had to send mine in for repair, it would stop suddenly and restart all in its own. Should have it back this week. Hopefully they fixed it right. Love it.
Mine developed some problems also, including the random stops. They replaced both of them under warranty. The new ones seem to be doing well. Seems like maybe they have some quality control issues, but they do at least deliver excellent warranty service.
+Steven Jones Including couplers, each unit is 7 1/8 inches, for a consist length of 14 1/4 inches. By comparison, an SD90/43 is only 5 7/8 inches long. The locomotive in real life was over 90 feet long if I recall correctly. Baldwin also built a 4-engine, 6000hp locomotive in this same basic body, though only two engines were ever installed in it. One would extrapolate that the 3000hp model was actually longer than it needed to be in order to have parts in common with its never-created big brother, but who knows? This is really quite an amazing model for N-scale; it even has separately lit number boards that stay on even when the headlight is off. Kudos to BLI.
+MrTech2three Yes, I definitely do. The only at all negative things I've noticed are: 1) that the decoder doesn't want to start or stop smoothly when using acceleration/deceleration values. It's like it's skipping three or four speed steps when it starts or stops using those values. It does creep perfectly and starts/stops smoothly when you manually control the throttle, so it's a fault in the decoder programming and not with the loco's drive train. It's honestly a very small thing, but it annoys me just a tiny bit. 2) Those leading and trailing trucks don't look good going around curves. BUT, I don't see any other way it could have been designed, so it's just a necessary evil. 3) This isn't really a complaint, but you'd think that the longest diesel loco ever to hit N-scale would pull a TON of cars. In actuality it doesn't pull quite as well as a Kato SD70ACe. These don't have as much weight to them as you might think, likely to limit strain on the motor and drive train, and thus are fairly average in pulling power. Like I said, not a complaint, just a note. The detail on this loco is extremely good, and the sound is great great great for an N-scale loco. I love that they turned the radiator grills into speaker grills and give you sound that's not being beamed down at the tracks and is instead crisp and clear and loud. The number boards are separately lit and will remain lit even when the headlight is off. The loco creeps very slowly on a throttle setting of 1 and runs very smoothly. When I turn off the sound it makes almost no motor or drive train noise at all, very smooth and quiet. This is a really good quality loco. Get one :)
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I have this same engine! Excellent sound. Had to send mine in for repair, it would stop suddenly and restart all in its own. Should have it back this week. Hopefully they fixed it right. Love it.
Mine developed some problems also, including the random stops. They replaced both of them under warranty. The new ones seem to be doing well. Seems like maybe they have some quality control issues, but they do at least deliver excellent warranty service.
Yes sir, they replaced one of my engines for a brand new one, the front engine, it now runs EXCELLENT.
I'm thinking of getting one of these. I just recently got BLI's new N scale PRR M1A steam loco. It's fantastic!
thanks for the info mike, I had planned on running long trains with those. might have to rethink things.
very nice
Very nice. Whats this monsters total length? just wondering.
+Steven Jones Including couplers, each unit is 7 1/8 inches, for a consist length of 14 1/4 inches. By comparison, an SD90/43 is only 5 7/8 inches long. The locomotive in real life was over 90 feet long if I recall correctly. Baldwin also built a 4-engine, 6000hp locomotive in this same basic body, though only two engines were ever installed in it. One would extrapolate that the 3000hp model was actually longer than it needed to be in order to have parts in common with its never-created big brother, but who knows? This is really quite an amazing model for N-scale; it even has separately lit number boards that stay on even when the headlight is off. Kudos to BLI.
Might put an order in thanks
do you recommend?
+MrTech2three Yes, I definitely do. The only at all negative things I've noticed are: 1) that the decoder doesn't want to start or stop smoothly when using acceleration/deceleration values. It's like it's skipping three or four speed steps when it starts or stops using those values. It does creep perfectly and starts/stops smoothly when you manually control the throttle, so it's a fault in the decoder programming and not with the loco's drive train. It's honestly a very small thing, but it annoys me just a tiny bit. 2) Those leading and trailing trucks don't look good going around curves. BUT, I don't see any other way it could have been designed, so it's just a necessary evil. 3) This isn't really a complaint, but you'd think that the longest diesel loco ever to hit N-scale would pull a TON of cars. In actuality it doesn't pull quite as well as a Kato SD70ACe. These don't have as much weight to them as you might think, likely to limit strain on the motor and drive train, and thus are fairly average in pulling power. Like I said, not a complaint, just a note.
The detail on this loco is extremely good, and the sound is great great great for an N-scale loco. I love that they turned the radiator grills into speaker grills and give you sound that's not being beamed down at the tracks and is instead crisp and clear and loud. The number boards are separately lit and will remain lit even when the headlight is off. The loco creeps very slowly on a throttle setting of 1 and runs very smoothly. When I turn off the sound it makes almost no motor or drive train noise at all, very smooth and quiet. This is a really good quality loco. Get one :)