06-06-2012, 12:27 PM
Hi Reinhard, looking good.
Glad you like your Bachmann Geeps. I have a Bachman GP35 that is technically identical to your geeps. however, I don't like the way the mechanism sounds, it makes a strange 'crackling' sound when running. The build in decoder isn't very good (it's actually based on a very cheap Lenz design) for low speeds, but even so I managed to get some reasonable low speed performance out of it.
I personally don't like the led's provided, TOO orange for my liking. I would prefer blueish leds (a bit like metal halide lamps), but of course a white lamp would be nicest in my opinion.
Currently the drive of this Bachmann unit, has been used to power my son's bachmann spectrum GP 30, an almost straight swap. That way my son can run DCC. I decided that I didn't like the shell of the GP 35 anyway, it is too different from Athearn and Cannon&Co cabs in appearance (some of the cab windows are too large), but your GEEP's look pretty decent for the money.
So all in all, my personal Bachmann experiences so far have not been that succesful, but you seem to have found a great way of expanding your fleet with 'cheap' locomotives, that look pretty good.
Would love to see a bit more of your layout though, can you point me to a thread, as I'm sure you've written about it somewhere here :-)
Koos
Glad you like your Bachmann Geeps. I have a Bachman GP35 that is technically identical to your geeps. however, I don't like the way the mechanism sounds, it makes a strange 'crackling' sound when running. The build in decoder isn't very good (it's actually based on a very cheap Lenz design) for low speeds, but even so I managed to get some reasonable low speed performance out of it.
I personally don't like the led's provided, TOO orange for my liking. I would prefer blueish leds (a bit like metal halide lamps), but of course a white lamp would be nicest in my opinion.
Currently the drive of this Bachmann unit, has been used to power my son's bachmann spectrum GP 30, an almost straight swap. That way my son can run DCC. I decided that I didn't like the shell of the GP 35 anyway, it is too different from Athearn and Cannon&Co cabs in appearance (some of the cab windows are too large), but your GEEP's look pretty decent for the money.
So all in all, my personal Bachmann experiences so far have not been that succesful, but you seem to have found a great way of expanding your fleet with 'cheap' locomotives, that look pretty good.
Would love to see a bit more of your layout though, can you point me to a thread, as I'm sure you've written about it somewhere here :-)
Koos
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