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Video: Broadway Limited Imports HO scale USRA heavy Pacific 4-6-2 steam locomotive
liked the video very much but the digital was choppie
Ilove the quality of the video, the sound recording, and the programming features demonstrated. i hate the inference that the subscriber gets second class reviews if they don’t subscribe to video plus!
Awesume locomotive
The locomotive is great, but the blending of your shelf scene into the backdrop at 0:56 is fantastic. It’s absolutely seamless to my eye. The matching of foreground to background colors is perfect. Extremely well done.
BTW, how is the chuff rate to driver rotation synced on this engine: via a sync cam or via decoder programming?
Being of short memory, what did you say would still be on this site and do not have to subscribe to Video Plus to see it?
WHERE’S THE SMOKE?
The concept behind BLI locomotives is great but they need to work on developing a more robust mechanism, especially the electronic package. I’ve bought three of their earlier offerings and all of them had to have extensive shop work done multiple times. When mechanical quality matches visual quality they’ll be truly great engines.
I really like the Erie heavy pacific, but the steam sounds in the Paragon 2 line are just weak and muted in my opinion.
Another great video of a new product. I know the focus is on the steam engine, but it would be nice to know which company made the passenger cars. That could be added as a subtitle. Thanks.
AWSOME VIDEO. LOVED THE BACK GROUND & MOST OF ALL WHAT A GREAT TRAIN. MIGHT HAVE TO GET ONE.
Is it just me, or should the manufacturers do a little more work on the basic “chuff-chuff-chuff” of the locomotives? When I visit a prototype or “real” locomotive, the piston / exhaust sounds are constantly varying in little interesting ways even while operating on a level, track section for a period of time. Remember, in the days of steam, these engines and valves were not controlled with precise computer technology.
Having traveled to boarding school in England in the 50s by rail pulled by steam. I am sure when the engine came to a stop there was a great release of steam. I don’t hear that. However the layouts you show are amazing. Should have got into model railroading 30 years ago not 3.
Great looking engine! I may have to get one!
I’d like to see a deck plate between the locomotive and tender and I’d also like to see more realistic cab window frames. The close up shot in the video revealed a toylike appearance, due to lack of attention to those details, that was inconsistant with the overall fine quality of the rest of the model. I understand that the rating that I provide applies only to my appreciation of the artical, not my appreciation of the model.
Always been impressed with the BLI locomotives. I do have one purchased when they first appeared. A few years ago I suggested the Southern Heavy Pacific as a possible model / railroad paint scheme. Therefore, I am extremely disapointed that BLI did not market one in the Southern Railway Crescent Limited green and gold colors. I would be buying one if they had. This model looks good on the MR&T.
Ditto. I love the layout. I can’t see the bonus of recording sounds when the are all ready there for you in sequence?
Another Great Video.
BLI hit it out of the park with this one. Excellent version of a classic Pacific! Better than brass?
I love that layout, especially the bridges. As for the loco, I have a partiality toward the USRA design Pacific, and have many N and HO models of it, There is nothing more balanced than watching a light Pacific pull some heavyweights in some well finished scenery.