I popped off the front and golly, the LED is bright and nice, plenty of light, however the little "LIGHT PIPE" plastic that is supposed to direct the light to the lamp housing is the problem. It does not seem to transmit hardly any of the light from the LED, basically because the LED directs its light out the front and the lightpipe rests on the SIDE of the led when installing the cover.

I do beleive Bachmann has messed this up in the basic design. OH WELL, I will now see if I can come up with another solution myself.

Well to make it simpler, I have it hooked up to a Bacmann EZ-Command and it still is very dim, I can turn it on and off, it is on going forward, it turns off going in reverse and ii is stll really dim. mmist I have ever seen and I have 20 Locomotives in my roster at the moment, I have had other locomotive in the past and never had one like this, maybe it is time to send it to the Bachmann Doctor, it is less than 3 months old and was like this out of the box.

Sorry, it is the DCC Sound on Board and I am using the Digitrax Zeypher and a DT400 Throttle. I can turn it on and off but it is so dim you can hardly see it.

The headlight on my locomotive is extremely DIM, I think it uses a light pipe but even if I set it to Dynamo I can not get it any brighter, are there any know issues with this locomotive.

It is the Spectrum #84404

I found the "N" scale units, but what a grabbed today is a "HO" scale F7 B unit in NYC colors, I have already stripped it and am getting ready to match it to my Southern Pacific MRC and Athearn units, was just wondering when Bachmann made it in HO - sure looks good with my other F7 units

I just picked up a Bachmann in a FT box, but what was inside was a F7B unit with DC only Installed. How long ago ws this product produced as all I can find in the 2008 AND 2009 CATALOGS ARE FT UNITS.