01-24-2009, 01:33 AM
Today UPS brought my first HO scale Steam Engine. The Broadway Limited Blueline 4-8-4. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.broadway-limited.com/catalog/AT_SF_4_8_4_HO-1852-1.html">http://www.broadway-limited.com/catalog ... 852-1.html</a><!-- m -->
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I installed the DCC chip.... took me longer to figure out how to open the tender then to do the install, then I added the parts that dont come preinstalled. I tried to change the smoke stack but couldnt figure out how to do it. Anyone have one of these and know how??? There is also this item that goes next to the stack... I dont know what it is and it is not installed on the pictures. Can someone tell me what it is and which way it faces before I glue it in place?
Took it out and fired it up on the layout. Sounds good... it was pretty loud and I may have to adjust that in the settings.
The roof hatches do open and the bell swings freely. The detail is very good, at least for me and overall I was happy. The biggest disappointment, the number boards do not light up... :cry:
I will try to take a video of it and post it on youtube if anyone is interested. Let me know.
Comments welcome.
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I installed the DCC chip.... took me longer to figure out how to open the tender then to do the install, then I added the parts that dont come preinstalled. I tried to change the smoke stack but couldnt figure out how to do it. Anyone have one of these and know how??? There is also this item that goes next to the stack... I dont know what it is and it is not installed on the pictures. Can someone tell me what it is and which way it faces before I glue it in place?
Took it out and fired it up on the layout. Sounds good... it was pretty loud and I may have to adjust that in the settings.
The roof hatches do open and the bell swings freely. The detail is very good, at least for me and overall I was happy. The biggest disappointment, the number boards do not light up... :cry:
I will try to take a video of it and post it on youtube if anyone is interested. Let me know.
Comments welcome.