Has anyone else had a issue with the last run of the Spectrum HO heavy weight passenger car trucks metal crumbling apart?  These are for the last run they made with light bulbs and separately apply hand rails. 

Not sure if there are any replacements available.   This also makes to very Leary of purchasing any of the new runs.  Will they also fall apart after 10 years.   

I just want to give kudos to Bachmann for a great locomotive. I have 3 of them and they work the yard and industry areas. 

They have great detail and run smooth. and can crawl at very low speeds.   Now they great thing Bachmann has done is to go with TCS WOW decoders. This makes this already great loco even better.

First the sound this little loco puts out is outstanding. It is CD-quality uncompressed samples. I can hear the loose base compression in the other band decoders. It's very obvious when they are running side by side. Bachmann put the large High Bass speaking in the 2-10-0 another plus.  And the WOW has a 4Gb SD card (that's around 5 CD of audio storage.)

Beside the high quality sound.  The WOW also has "True Scale Sound" and this works great I will more reviewers would demonstrate this feature.  And it works perfectly on 2-10-0.  The Chuffs get louder and more intense has you start to pull a load of cars out of the yard and then even more has pull the cars up a grade. and then as you go down the grade it automatically start playing the costing sounds. (This is one main feature that has made we change out most of decoders to WOWs and TSU2s) The audio assist menu is very handy and very easy to use. And it has the ability to turn on automatic tots and bells (for us with lazy fingers). 

These are great little locos.   

And I am so thankfully Bachmann is using TCS WOWS and SoundTraxx decoders.

also lets not forget the axle ends are also painted!

Good job Bachmann.



 

Can you please bring back the Williams steam locomotive lines but with factory install Blunami decoders?    Think about having a Williams S2 with blunami in it!  And a semi scale Hudson with Blunammi!  The other semi scale manufacturers are just to pricey and have very little selection. (But one of them it starting to ramp up again.) 

Thank you.

Just have a question for Bachmann.

Way was the Frisco No. 1522 3-Chime "Steamboat" whistle not include in the set of available whistle on this model?
The NYC 4-6-4 have has the "Frisco Step Top 6-Chime (1)" And "Frisco Step Top 6-Chime (2)" in it whistle set.   The new HO berkshire has the 1522's whistle in it's set. 
But not the one Frisco model that should have it. 

If it does have it please let us know what whistle number it is.  But from the whistles I tested the set seems to match the whistle list on Soundtraxx website for the light mountain from the previous run of these models.

Thank you.

 

Have a question.  I notice that the catalog list "DCC Econami Sound Value-equipped)for the HO 2-8-4, 2-8-0, 2-6-0, 4-4-0.  But the web shop and most stores still have the non Econami Sound Value list in the description.

So which one do they come with?  There is a big difference between these sound boards. Is it specific item numbers that have the Econami?  Or is it just a catalog misprint.

Soundtraxx website still only show the Sound Value for HO. 

Thank you.

I have a question about the latest N scale 2-8-0 DCC ready releases.  It says "This Bachmann 2-8-0 Consolidation arrives DCC-ready with a socket built-in for the addition of the DCC decoder of your choice."
But does not list the socket type.

Do you know what sock type is being used?

Thank you.