BLI Light and Heavy Southern Pacific Pacifics...WTF?!!

[JMaurer1]

Overlooking any problems that some others are having with the engine, why would a company that prides themself in producing nice, accurate, SCALE trains come out this the USRA light and heavy pacifics, with sound and a hefty price tag of $350 release one for the Southern Pacific, who didn't own ANY USRA engines in a foobie paint scheme? Closest thing to an SP engine would require engine skirts, a skyline casing, and a Vandy tender. Disappointed is an understatement.

[bbunge]

Perhaps belongs in the Product section thread, but for the same reason they have a B&O green "President Washington" what doesn't much look like the real thing.  Many will still buy it, run and have a blast.  If it makes them money and funds more N scale steam development, all the power to them. 

[Sokramiketes]

Really, the point is that they're reusing the USRA Mikado boilers and putting them on a 4-6-2 chassis.  So they stretch the tooling (Rock Island only one that's prototype?) and maybe we get a Pacific that's better for shell swaps than the Model Power one. 

There were so few USRA Pacifics that this is where they land on producing a model. 

[Chris333]

I thought the boiler of a USRA 2-8-2 was different than a USRA 4-6-2?

[prr7161]

My understanding was that the light Mike boiler was used for the heavy Pacifics, and that the light Pacifics got a slightly smaller boiler.

[basementcalling]

Hell, why waste resources on antiquated steam engines at all? Give us some more modern diesels instead. 

I'll show myself out behind my 2-6-8 Samuri steamer.

[Chris333]

The boilers themselves are the same size, but all the walk ways and other details are different.

[Nato]

       If the B&O green locomotive had a high mounted headlight it might be sort of OK. Con Cor got Rivarossi to do a high mounted headlight boiler front that plugged into the front of the boiler on the green President Pacific they did for a trainset (Limited Edition) eons ago. Nate Goodman (Nato). "Collected almost all of them", sets that is.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Perhaps belongs in the Product section thread, but for the same reason they have a B&O green "President Washington" what doesn't much look like the real thing.  Many will still buy it, run and have a blast.  If it makes them money and funds more N scale steam development, all the power to them. 

[thomasjmdavis]

Overlooking any problems that some others are having with the engine, why would a company that prides themself in producing nice, accurate, SCALE trains come out this the USRA light and heavy pacifics, with sound and a hefty price tag of $350 release one for the Southern Pacific, who didn't own ANY USRA engines in a foobie paint scheme? Closest thing to an SP engine would require engine skirts, a skyline casing, and a Vandy tender. Disappointed is an understatement.

What?  No Amtrak????

[peteski]

What?  No Amtrak????

Or Conrail? 

[SkipGear]

Something is better than nothing in my opinion. Who knows when we will see any more model power pacifics so your options are a K4 or nothing at this point.

There are more people out there that will just be happy to have a steam loco with SP on the side of it than will complain about it not being an accurate model. Hopefully a lot more, so they can keep making money and making us more unique models.

[learmoia]

Or Conrail? 

Maybe they will do Conrail if/when they do a Reading T1

I'm surprised Walthers didn't do Penn Central with the Life Like Berkshire.

[learmoia]

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[JMaurer1]

I could easily see Concor or Bachmann making up paint schemes, but if I'm paying $350 for an engine, I just expect more than a fantasy. After checking my files, even the Christmas loco is painted wrong