Another Big Boy in N

[nstars]

For those who don’t have enough Big Boy’s.

https://www.trix.de/fileadmin/media/trix/landingpage/4013/Minitrix_Sonderflyer_T16990_EN_online.pdf

My only question is: why another one?

Marc

[Chris333]

Well everyone need one with smoke and one without.

-Snoop Dogg

[nstars]

Well everyone need one with smoke and one without.

-Snoop Dogg

But two different models with smoke? 

Marc

[peteski]

That's pretty funny.  I guess Marklin/Trix decided to shrink their H0 version to Minitrix size.  We really needed another big Boy, didn't we? 

Ignoring the N scale brass models we have:
Old Rivarossi/Con-Cor
Athearn
Kato
BLI (smoker)
And now Minitrix. (smoker)

Cool! Life is good for UP fans modeling steam era.

[MetroRedLine]

For those who want a classic Big Boy with smoke that's not a BLI.

[thomasjmdavis]

For those who don’t have enough Big Boy’s.

https://www.trix.de/fileadmin/media/trix/landingpage/4013/Minitrix_Sonderflyer_T16990_EN_online.pdf

My only question is: why another one?

Marc

You have to make a Big-Boy if you want to sit at the grown-ups table at the Manufacturer's Breakfast.

I'm surprised they have delayed the announcement of the GG1. They have to do one of those, too, don't they?

[Chris333]

And without a 0-6-0 who will make up the train for the big boy to pull?

[learmoia]

Ooo this one comes with smoke AND rapido couplers. 

~Ian

[GhengisKong]

Watch it somehow out pull a Kato lol

[chessie system fan]

As models go, it looks like they did a good job. Perhaps better detailed than the Kato one, and more correct for the 1950s (especially with the coal tender). Paging @robert3985 for in-depth analysis on how accurate it is and comparisons with other models.

[Chris333]

All I saw was a bunch of air gaps between the wheels and the locomotive like it was still 1970.

[mike_lawyer]

And yet we still can't get a good 2-10-x or 0-6-0 in N scale....

[C855B]

Apparently Big Boys are the current hot franchise in model railroading.

Make it stop. 

[peteski]

Apparently Big Boys are the current hot franchise in model railroading.

Make it stop. 

Mike, this might be a good time to backdate your layout to the late steam period.   

[C855B]

Nope. No more steam. Two Athearn Big Boys, one no-op. One Athearn Challenger, also nonfunctional, even after a factory fix. One Bachmann consolidated, threw the valve gear, no-op. Two Kato FEFs; now they run, but pick at frogs through #10 crossovers. And one 2nd-gen Bachmann J... probably the only trustworthy runner of the lot, and that was after a bunch of repair to the wiring harness between cab and tender when adding the decoder. IOW, a boatload of bench queens.

N scale steam in my experience is finicky and unreliable. Not enough time left in this man's life to mess with it any more.