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 Posted - March 01 2015 : 10:16:21 AM
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My contribution to this week's LOTW is a DCC Sound fitted H0 scale Illinois Central E-unit that I got with 8 coaches for $60 and both the A and B unit have motors and sound.  At first when I saw it, I thought it was just gonna be a cheap locomotive but I felt at that price it's worth a shot, and when I put it on the test track and turned on the power, the horn came on, the front light flashed much like Daylight, the sound of the engine whirred (and this is all DCC Sound stuff, mind you) and then I went "Wow! I totally got to buy this thing, especially at the price" and I did.The only thing I'm wondering is; who made it?
-Steve
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Posted - March 01 2015 : 11:16:02 AM
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looks like proto 2000
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Posted - March 01 2015 : 11:18:11 AM
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At first glance, I would guess LL Proto 1000 or 2000.
Just guessin.
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Posted - March 01 2015 : 12:14:00 PM
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Proto E7. That is a fantastic price. Literally a steal. Enjoy.
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Posted - March 01 2015 : 12:21:51 PM
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quote:Proto E7. That is a fantastic price. Literally a steal. Enjoy.
Originally posted by raysouthernpac - March 01 2015 : 12:14:00 PM
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I know! That's why I knew I had to have it at that price when I found out it had sound.And the guy selling it said he never ran it in his possession so yeah.
-Steve
"A lot of modellers out there who go to these train shows see broken HO stuff and go, 'This is useless' when, in reality, they can still be used for modeling whether it's as a prop on your layout or a cool project to make something old new again."
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Posted - March 01 2015 : 1:16:32 PM
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* My two Alco centuries, C-420's. One is Rivarossi . The other is Lima.
Lima has Knuckler couplers. Rivarossi has X2F couplers.
frank
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Posted - March 01 2015 : 2:30:38 PM
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quote: quote:Proto E7. That is a fantastic price. Literally a steal. Enjoy.
Originally posted by raysouthernpac - March 01 2015 : 12:14:00 PM
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I know! That's why I knew I had to have it at that price when I found out it had sound.And the guy selling it said he never ran it in his possession so yeah.
Originally posted by kovacste000Â -Â March 01 2015Â :Â 12:21:51 PM
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That would have been a steal on the A unit alone, in DC!
But for a the A&B together - with DCC and sound - PLUS THE COACHES????
I'm calling the police!!
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Posted - March 01 2015 : 4:51:51 PM
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My LOTW looks something like a trailer park reject on rails. I bought this at a show, but I honestly do NOT remember it, nor do I know where it is at the moment.   Gonna have to try to find this one. Amazing how much stuff I have that I have to look at all my pictures to remember I have something like this. Maybe I have too many trains? Nah!  I believe it's a CS_ ES4990001 , by Piko ( at least , thats' the name I saved it as ).
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Ah, I found it online, this is what it SHOULD look like ( with all the roof parts intact ) -
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Posted - March 01 2015 : 5:30:36 PM
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My LOTW is this Bachman Ten Wheeler on the Covered Bridge Central in the snow!
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Posted - March 01 2015 : 7:05:14 PM
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quote: quote: quote:Proto E7. That is a fantastic price. Literally a steal. Enjoy.
Originally posted by raysouthernpac - March 01 2015 : 12:14:00 PM
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I know! That's why I knew I had to have it at that price when I found out it had sound.And the guy selling it said he never ran it in his possession so yeah.
Originally posted by kovacste000Â -Â March 01 2015Â :Â 12:21:51 PM
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That would have been a steal on the A unit alone, in DC!
But for a the A&B together - with DCC and sound - PLUS THE COACHES????
I'm calling the police!!
Originally posted by JNXT 7707Â -Â March 01 2015Â :Â 2:30:38 PM
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The guy didn't fully know what he had.
-Steve
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Posted - March 01 2015 : 8:18:19 PM
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Well that looks pretty fun Steven. Be interesting to see how a G gauge rotary snow plow would do.
quote:My LOTW is this Bachman Ten Wheeler on the Tincup and Telluride in the snow!
Originally posted by metalsmith1Â -Â March 01 2015Â :Â 5:30:36 PM
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Posted - March 05 2015 : 12:38:31 AM
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"Trailer park reject" on wheels is so ugly,
it's beautiful. Love that 10 Wheeler Barry.
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Posted - March 05 2015 : 02:36:35 AM
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quote:
Um, a B-Unit? Any chance to get a close-up of those handrailings and bottom?
I am voting on a Broadway Limited locomotive because those curves are a bit too precise and clean to be a LL Proto. And you said you got matching cars... you got a hot deal, I'd say!
John
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Posted - March 05 2015 : 09:22:20 AM
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quote: quote:
Um, a B-Unit? Any chance to get a close-up of those handrailings and bottom?
I am voting on a Broadway Limited locomotive because those curves are a bit too precise and clean to be a LL Proto. And you said you got matching cars... you got a hot deal, I'd say!
John
Originally posted by zebrails - March 05 2015 : 02:36:35 AM
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I looked closer and it seems to have brass handrails. On top of that, my club has a Broadway Limited switcher and it has the same decoder as the A and B unit you see as my LOTW for this week.But yeah, here's a picture of the handrails on the B unit, which is identical to the A unit.
And this is the BLI BN switcher I was talking about and I did a bit of research and found a similar model of #4012, but it was #4027 instead and it has the same decoder (paragon2) as my model and the #4027 model. And I do believe this decoder was exclusive to BLI products, I think.
Therefore, I am now starting to believe that my A and B unit may in fact be BLI products.
-Steve
"A lot of modellers out there who go to these train shows see broken HO stuff and go, 'This is useless' when, in reality, they can still be used for modeling whether it's as a prop on your layout or a cool project to make something old new again."
Edited by - kovacste000 on March 05 2015 09:46:15 AM
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Posted - March 05 2015 : 2:06:53 PM
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I got this late last week, but I was too busy with other things, but today I finally got to use it...
An IHC 2-8-0 Santa Fe consolidation steam locomotive!
If it looks familiar to you, it's because I think IHC used the same tooling for TYCO's old Consolidation/0-8-0 locomotives, only this one runs much better! I have since swapped out the horn-hooks for knuckle couplers after these photos were taken. Maybe I'll even upgrade it to DCC or something.
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Posted - March 05 2015 : 10:07:38 PM
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IHC Mountain. New. Someone at some point poked a hole in the cellophane cover and robbed the small add-on parts kit. I found the source, got all the parts, installed them, trimmed the Styrofoam box to clear, so it's all in one place. "Sale" price on the box was $129.95.
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Posted - May 01 2015 : 9:25:22 PM
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Update: I opened up the shell of the two Illinois units and found that they were, in fact, made by Broadway Limited and has a copyright date of 2004.I looked on Broadway Limited's discontinued products list and found my two A/B units on there, with a launch price of $424.99.
-Steve
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Edited by - kovacste000 on May 01 2015 10:34:21 PM
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Posted - May 01 2015 : 10:28:16 PM
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| Very nice score!
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Posted - May 01 2015 : 10:35:02 PM
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quote:Very nice score!
Originally posted by wildecoupe - May 01 2015 : 10:28:16 PM
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Thank you. I'm still getting over how well I did on that thing.
-Steve
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Posted - May 01 2015 : 10:50:25 PM
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| Jealous!
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Posted - May 01 2015 : 11:35:52 PM
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quote:Jealous!
Originally posted by wildecoupe - May 01 2015 : 10:50:25 PM
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I don't blame you.
-Steve
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Posted - May 02 2015 : 12:42:38 AM
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quote:Well that looks pretty fun Steven. Be interesting to see how a G gauge rotary snow plow would do.
quote:My LOTW is this Bachman Ten Wheeler on the Tincup and Telluride in the snow!
Originally posted by metalsmith1Â -Â March 01 2015Â :Â 5:30:36 PM
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Originally posted by Barry - March 01 2015 : 8:18:19 PM
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Not well. Depends on type of snow, but generally 1:1 snow with a 1:22.5 or so plow makes a solid ice mass at the blades.
I've done it, takes a remotor, batteries, wings on the plow housing (so narrow you jam the body in the cut).
There are VERY expensive German units that do work. I have the brass to make a new blade for mine that will cut snow...just have to find the time.
Anniversary 4-6-0. Version 5 or 6?
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