Doesanyone have the K-line Tank engine, Im thinking about getting it but i was wondering if anyone had expirence with it.
Modelling the Boston & Albany this engine was a must have. I’ll start with the good points. Engine is a very nice model of a unique locomotive. Pretty good runner as long as you have it programmed for 128 steps. Sound I’m sure is a generic set. Not sure which one but it sounds nice. The small tender portion must resonate it well. I prefer setting the chuffs at 4. They seemed to rapid to me and switching the setting to 3 seemed to bring it closer to 4. Paint and finish is nicely done. The B&A is loaded with white striping. I prefer the plainer NYC version. I usually weather my engines. This one I think will get only a light dusting. Often times engines were striped up for a retiring engineers final run. I’ll just portray the engine as that.
Now for the few negatives. If you plan on running the smoke unit. A mod must be made to the engine or it produces a rapid chuffing when you turn on the smoke unit. A simple fix and the dealer you are buying from should have the factory fix they came out with.
Running along the top of the chassis are a red and green wire I believe. Probably goes to the smoke unit. These stick out like a sore thumb and detract from the engines appearance. Some heat shrink tubing over the wires should fix it and blend it more into the chassis.
I still experience stalling on my ROSS Doublecrossover at slow speeds. The engine comes with 3 or 4 pickup rollers. I can’t remember at the moment. The problem seems to be the rigid chassis when crossing the diamond portion. You have a traction tired wheel, a blind driver and only one making real contact with the outer rails. Pushing down on the engine or jumper wiring the wheels will get it running. I’ve had issues with other engines that have been solved with soldering more wires to the rails and adding relays. It’s not a track problem. But there seems to be an easy fix. Generally trailing trucks and pony trucks are just loosely mounted to the chassis. Adding some wipers to t
I picked one up at York from Eastern Depot in CNJ paint. Only test run it so far, so can’t comment a lot on running charictoristics. Have the problem as to what to run with it also. I’ve never seen any coaches in the standard CNJ paint scheme, so looking to pick up some generic coaches and have them painted to CNJ colors. Not Blue Comet [:)] which is all you see in CNJ.