Looks to be a nice unit. I don't have Overland but Rapido passenger cars are extremely picky about the track. I had to cut some of the underside to run on mine. I think passenger coaches are more sensitive to track problems in general.Scott
I love this engine. It reminds me of N&W 1218. I think it's currently awaiting a repair. It will be running 2 years after the Big Boy. Good review by the way.
love the challenger look on the athearn genisis models they run great. I'm 16 year's old and love ho scale railroading and I'm in the Colorado and great western modular rr
I had the athern locomotives I had 2 GP50 NS .Very strong locomotives .Also so had 2 CSX CW -8s.How ever my eyes decide they did not like ho and more.I went up to O gauge.I still have a few locomotives. Bachmann narrow nose dash 8 2 athern NS and CSX and Bachmann SP GS4 and a NW class J
Question about the front coupler. With the McHenry installed, does it lose its retracting capability? Also, I bet this thing would be AMAZING with a TCS Wow installed.
I'd buy it for the sheer reason of it being the best version of 3977 anyone has done, I dont think Lionel did this number, otherwise id get the lionel. Soundtraxx continues to be unimpressive compared to the competition, but im glad Athearn makes a dcc ready version and doesnt force you to have soundtraxx
flanges on the wheels some are too much overhang hit a high spot an derail take a mic to the OD of the wheel.I spent hours and hours to figure this out. A a particular car always derailed and could not find why it until I gave the car a shove and a high spot at a joint and this one car would derail, ground the flange down a bit and those cars would run for hours and were perfectly tuned and lubed.
Incredible locomotive, breath taking. James I have a question. If I do a review on a locomotive on You Tube can I be brutally honest about it. I bought a Bachmann locomotive HO Scale an to be honest its a piece of garbage. Sad to say I am being kind. I don't want to get myself in trouble but I don't want to tell people a bunch of lies either. Notice LOL I didn't mention which one it is. Keep up the good work on your reviews James. Very professional and always informative.
I have an off topic question for you. I have an MRC Prodigy Express system.I recently purchase a Proto GP-20 and new Intermountain. These units will not let me give them a specific address, they keep replacing the # I give with factory default 3. I had no issue installing a new Bachmann with basic spin. I read that I can change the cc289. Is this true? I plan to eve finally 'st abooster but in the time being I'd like to quick remedy.also,the club I could f gone to has disbanded. Any help would be great. Thank you!
Attenzione dopo qualche anno il telaio in metallo si deforma mi è accaduto ad una Big Boy ho scritto alla Sthearn due volte per avere il ricambio e non ho avuto alcuna risposta.
Hi, would you by any chance have any 00 scale British locomotives? If so, how out of scale do they look next to HO North American locos as i am planning on getting a Challenger (Probably 3985) Big Boy (Probably 4014) to do an imaginary special excursion and double head her with an A4 or something just for a bit of fun!
Why would he have any British engines? Also American ho is 1:87 scale wile British ho is 1:78 scale. So 0.11 is the amount that it is off scale. To be honest, I'm not quiet a fan of British engines :/ they can't pull much in real life or in ho scale. The first time I got a British dcc engine and tested it I was disgusted. A high pitched whistle and it performed very poorly on inclines and could not pull ANYTHING. I here British engines go fast and well good for you but most engines don't have use if they can't pull more then 2 cars on level track. I blame your wheel configurations and it's lack of weight.
Thanks, one of the reasons our locomotives are so light is because of railway viaducts that date back to George Stephenson, if we had locomotives the weights they are in North America the Victorian infrastructure would crumble, and it'd be pretty expensive to replace. I do completely agree that this effects haulage capability however rail is usually passenger in Britain so there is little need for long consists, and when we do require a moderately long freight consists (still tiny in comparison to consists in North America) we just hook up one or two Canadian built Class 66's. To be honest, I knew the difference in scale, however due to Britain having a very small loading gauge compared to North America's comparatively large loading gauge I was wondering if the model locomotives would look similar in size due to the scale difference, but thanks anyway! Also, what British locomotive did you get, what manufacturer and what year was it from (if you know)? Because I have many new hornby models and in my opinion they are pretty good at haulage, obviously I cannot compare these to North American locomotives as i have none so my opinion has its flaws, however my best hauler would be Hornby's recently released P2 Class named "Cock O' The North" (an odd name I know). Finally, you may find a British locomotive on an North American layout A: many British locomotives ran in North America on excursion services, for example, A3 Class "The Flying Scotsman" and the Princess Coronation Class "Duchess of Hamilton" (known in North America as "Coronation"), and B: there are many British locomotives in American Railroad museums, for example A4 Class "Dwight D' Eisenhower" which served as Dwight D' Eisenhower's mobile command base during WWII and the British A4 could be seen steaming around the US; and A4 Class "Dominion Of Canada" fittingly in a railway museum Canada. Anyway, I love British and North American locomotives alike and was just wondering what they look like to the eye in model form standing side by side. :-)
A l'échelle HO cette locomotive ressemble a une pièce d'orfevrie C'est q peine SI ont ose la faire rouler Pourtant les embiellqges sont fignds de l'horlogerie haut de gqmmd de la SUISSE
Really nice review. You always keep me inspired to model railroad. Check out my video on my brand new layout. There will be more updates etc. in the future so check back frequently:)
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I can confirm that Challenger #3977 is indeed on display in North Platte, NE at Cody Park.
That whistle at 11:01 is a Beast! Incredible!
I just got a used Rio Grande version of this engine. Fantastic runner with top notch detail. the sounds are more or less dated but I still love it.
Had the privilege to mess with one of these at my hobby shop a few weeks ago before the displayed it. Awesome locomotive and great review.
Hermosa locomotora a vapor. Saludos desde Chile.
Looks to be a nice unit. I don't have Overland but Rapido passenger cars are extremely picky about the track. I had to cut some of the underside to run on mine. I think passenger coaches are more sensitive to track problems in general.Scott
As an N scaler i sometimes get jealous of you HO guys. Looks like N scale is getting some great stuff in the new year too though. Cheers.
Wow thos model is amazing the day you got this model, I got the same model! Its truly an amazing and detailed steam engine
MERRY CHRISTMAS JAMES , and family , THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP THIS YEAR , see you next year
I don't mind how you do these videos, they are good-enough for me.
Steam-Locos and Passenger-Cars are my favorite.
I love this engine. It reminds me of N&W 1218. I think it's currently awaiting a repair. It will be running 2 years after the Big Boy. Good review by the way.
I want to see the 1218 run one day
Yeah that locomotive is in North Platte Nebraska Challenger 3985 is in Cheyenne Wyoming
love the challenger look on the athearn genisis models they run great. I'm 16 year's old and love ho scale railroading and I'm in the Colorado and great western modular rr
I had the athern locomotives I had 2 GP50 NS .Very strong locomotives .Also so had 2 CSX CW -8s.How ever my eyes decide they did not like ho and more.I went up to O gauge.I still have a few locomotives. Bachmann narrow nose dash 8 2 athern NS and CSX and Bachmann SP GS4 and a NW class J
According to steamlocomotive.com:
3977 is at Cody Park in North Platte,NE.
Nice review, thanks
Chuck
First time viewing your channel. Well done sir! 👍🏼
take any deal that they give ,, a pricey hobby and it all helps bring the cost down a bit ,, , , , but great looking steamer ,, thanks for showing us
Using the pencil pointer reminds me of the UK series "Look Around You".. thanks for the info... great videos sir.
Awesome Review!
nice video can you do an video on all your locomotives
I love these engines, one day I will own one for myself.
Awesome engine and review! But not quite the best way to take a locomotive out of a box😂
Question about the front coupler. With the McHenry installed, does it lose its retracting capability?
Also, I bet this thing would be AMAZING with a TCS Wow installed.
I'd buy it for the sheer reason of it being the best version of 3977 anyone has done, I dont think Lionel did this number, otherwise id get the lionel. Soundtraxx continues to be unimpressive compared to the competition, but im glad Athearn makes a dcc ready version and doesnt force you to have soundtraxx
flanges on the wheels some are too much overhang hit a high spot an derail take a mic to the OD of the wheel.I spent hours and hours to figure this out. A a particular car always derailed and could not find why it until I gave the car a shove and a high spot at a joint and this one car would derail, ground the flange down a bit and those cars would run for hours and were perfectly tuned and lubed.
next time you do a review can you show the train your reviewing going around your layout?
He explained he's doing track repairs at the moment
+railroadpics _ hes never shown a train going around the layout in a long time.
Are you referring to run bys or the entire layout? Maybe I misunderstood.
Overland livery for the win!
Is the TARDIS on your layout? I keep seeing this tardis-like object in the background
Enjoyable presentation.
Excellent review!
does the whistle sound are little off when compare to the UP 3985 or is that how it suppose to sound?
Incredible locomotive, breath taking. James I have a question. If I do a review on a locomotive on You Tube can I be brutally honest about it. I bought a Bachmann locomotive HO Scale an to be honest its a piece of garbage. Sad to say I am being kind. I don't want to get myself in trouble but I don't want to tell people a bunch of lies either. Notice LOL I didn't mention which one it is. Keep up the good work on your reviews James. Very professional and always informative.
I liked the challenger when it was in custity of Rio Grande
awesome! I want it!
Hello. Its possible listen a complete startup and shutdown sequence? Thanks :)
I've been watching your reviews for a while and it got me wondering how many engines do you have in total?
Is that the 611 in the painting to your left shoulder?
Will you be getting BLI's Milwaukee Road #261 next spring?
Great, thanks. Nice review.
I have an off topic question for you. I have an MRC Prodigy Express system.I recently purchase a Proto GP-20 and new Intermountain. These units will not let me give them a specific address, they keep replacing the # I give with factory default 3. I had no issue installing a new Bachmann with basic spin. I read that I can change the cc289. Is this true? I plan to eve finally 'st abooster but in the time being I'd like to quick remedy.also,the club I could f gone to has disbanded. Any help would be great. Thank you!
The Henry Ford museum in Detroit had a big Boy that was completely rebuilt and placed in the museum with out any dust a virgin train.
I love the shirt
good job
Attenzione dopo qualche anno il telaio in metallo si deforma mi è accaduto ad una Big Boy ho scritto alla Sthearn due volte per avere il ricambio e non ho avuto alcuna risposta.
Hey, I am waiting for the Broadway limited review, have you got it yet?
what year of this video. also what year of the new 844 video.
I'VE BEEN PEEING ALL NIGHT I DON'T NEED ANY MOTIVATION...
How is the kid or is he a baby
2 questions, 1, is this HO scale?
and 2, how much did this cost?
stupid ol' me! I didnt even read it! lol!! but still, how much did this cost?
Moises Elias almost $500 for Dcc and sound
Hi, would you by any chance have any 00 scale British locomotives? If so, how out of scale do they look next to HO North American locos as i am planning on getting a Challenger (Probably 3985) Big Boy (Probably 4014) to do an imaginary special excursion and double head her with an A4 or something just for a bit of fun!
Why would he have any British engines? Also American ho is 1:87 scale wile British ho is 1:78 scale. So 0.11 is the amount that it is off scale. To be honest, I'm not quiet a fan of British engines :/ they can't pull much in real life or in ho scale. The first time I got a British dcc engine and tested it I was disgusted. A high pitched whistle and it performed very poorly on inclines and could not pull ANYTHING. I here British engines go fast and well good for you but most engines don't have use if they can't pull more then 2 cars on level track. I blame your wheel configurations and it's lack of weight.
Thanks, one of the reasons our locomotives are so light is because of railway viaducts that date back to George Stephenson, if we had locomotives the weights they are in North America the Victorian infrastructure would crumble, and it'd be pretty expensive to replace. I do completely agree that this effects haulage capability however rail is usually passenger in Britain so there is little need for long consists, and when we do require a moderately long freight consists (still tiny in comparison to consists in North America) we just hook up one or two Canadian built Class 66's. To be honest, I knew the difference in scale, however due to Britain having a very small loading gauge compared to North America's comparatively large loading gauge I was wondering if the model locomotives would look similar in size due to the scale difference, but thanks anyway! Also, what British locomotive did you get, what manufacturer and what year was it from (if you know)? Because I have many new hornby models and in my opinion they are pretty good at haulage, obviously I cannot compare these to North American locomotives as i have none so my opinion has its flaws, however my best hauler would be Hornby's recently released P2 Class named "Cock O' The North" (an odd name I know). Finally, you may find a British locomotive on an North American layout A: many British locomotives ran in North America on excursion services, for example, A3 Class "The Flying Scotsman" and the Princess Coronation Class "Duchess of Hamilton" (known in North America as "Coronation"), and B: there are many British locomotives in American Railroad museums, for example A4 Class "Dwight D' Eisenhower" which served as Dwight D' Eisenhower's mobile command base during WWII and the British A4 could be seen steaming around the US; and A4 Class "Dominion Of Canada" fittingly in a railway museum Canada. Anyway, I love British and North American locomotives alike and was just wondering what they look like to the eye in model form standing side by side. :-)
+Dr. Jak G. Cogsworth oh, and British Steam Locomotives have high whistles in real life so the whistle on the locomotive you have is realistic
If people help I would be so happy you don't need much but you would help my achieve my dream
A l'échelle HO cette locomotive ressemble a une pièce d'orfevrie
C'est q peine SI ont ose la faire rouler
Pourtant les embiellqges sont fignds de l'horlogerie haut de gqmmd de la SUISSE
Hi
Really nice review. You always keep me inspired to model railroad. Check out my video on my brand new layout. There will be more updates etc. in the future so check back frequently:)
Is it just me or does the whistle sound weird? Other than that,...I want one!
from what I can tell its a diesel horn.....
Third. :)
Run ur trains!!!!!!!😡
Awful lot of steam locos reviewed lately. MORE Diesels please.
first
That's not necessary. It's childish and just immature.
+railroadpics _ you are childish
Ok
+David Goodwin Jr. 13th BOO YA!
Well congratufuckinlations
still don't like the word prototype in the way he uses it. Should just say full scale version.