I recently purchased a Bachmann B23-7 and the speed of the locomotive is a little slow. I was hoping to couple it with a F7 but my F7 is much faster. Any way up speeding a train up?
Better to ask that over on the MR forum. We’re usually talking real locomotives over here.
“Extreme Trains” didn’t have any problem speeding the trains up…
The fast foreward button works amazingly well!!
What brand is the F7, a Tyco? The Bachmann doesn’t run too slow, the F7 runs too fast. Unless you’re using DCC there’s no way to change either one of them.
Well you get what you pay for, If you would have baught a EMD unit there would not have been any issues but since you baught a GE unit live with it as this is how those units was made. There is a reason those are cheaper, you just found out 1 of them
The post above is an epic troll.
Regearing is probably your only hope.
Actually, there is a simple solution. Bypass the transformer, and connect the tracks directly to the electric outlet. The engine will run really fast. Unfortunately, there are a couple of drawbacks. The first is that the engine won’t run very long. But when it expires, it will do so in spectacular fashion (best to have a fire extinguisher at hand). Secondly, one should keep pets, children and selves away from the tracks, or they too will expire in spectacular fashion.
Yah, I know this is kinda silly, but I just finished watching a Mythbusters episode, and this is the sort of thing they do all the time.
Im a epic troll… thanks
Different speed locomotives from different manufacturers is a long standing problem in the modelling world. I am not sure you can do too much about it but run similar engines from the same company together. We can’t all have DCC after all. Try posting this in the MR section.
You cannot speed up the locomotive but if you want you could slow down all your others by adding a series resistor in each one. I would just give it to a friend as a first locomotive to get them started in the hobby.