Broadway Limited production schedule NEWS!! - Combined thread

[garethashenden]

Minuteman

Excellent. Thanks

[tony22]

Beyond that, no other variations are mentioned. The B's have circulator detail on the firebox.

Thanks. I was worried about putting in a reservation and then finding out that they had variations in pilot or headlight details.

[towl1996]

An M1? A centipede?? H32's???  Reeeeeaaaalllllly....??? Must. Remain. Calm. This can't be happening..., Are there two parallel universe's converging? Gotta go I think I see Big Foot outside rummaging through the trash cans. 

[Mike C]

  I'm not a SPF , but I just might have to get one of the M1's .  Question for Tony. In your opinion, Is this going to be something that I would need to preorder, or will it be available in my LHS. ....Mike

[SkipGear]

  I'm not a SPF , but I just might have to get one of the M1's .  Question for Tony. In your opinion, Is this going to be something that I would need to preorder, or will it be available in my LHS. ....Mike

I'm sure early on you can get one without a pre-order, but if they are like the E units, they will only last a couple weeks on the shelves. Most of their products are hitting the shelves somewhere at 85-100% pre-ordered. Almost none of the popular road E-units from this last run are still available from distributors but you can still find them on the shelves here and there.

[VonRyan]

I'm going to shop around for the cheapest pre-order price before I commit.
If I find a cheap enough price, I might have to preorder a centipede set, if the PRR units are cheap enough and sold as pairs.

[Dave V]

I don't see it at my favorite e-tailers yet...

[Ed Kapuscinski]

I won't believe anything from these people until I see the actual product in a store.

They originally announced that they were doing the M1s back when I worked at MB Klein. That was over ten years ago.

Their credibility gap is going to take more than a post to their website to close up with me.

I'm not saying it's not going to happen, but I'm also saying I would never, ever, give anyone a single cent of a deposit toward one.

[reinhardtjh]

I won't believe anything from these people until I see the actual product in a store.
I'm not saying it's not going to happen, but I'm also saying I would never, ever, give anyone a single cent of a deposit toward one.

Fortunately the two places I'd pre-order don't require deposits.

But I think someone at BLI is dropping the ball.  If you look at their Product Delivery Schedule page, they have multiple items, HO included that the pre-order windows are closing as soon as March 28th and they haven't even created or updated the product page on the web site yet.  Example, the next run of N scale ALCo PA are slated for Sept 2014 with a pre-order cutoff of March 21st.  But no page update to show what's being produced.  Same with the HO PRR H32 hoppers.  Cut off date of March 21st - 2 weeks away and no description of what's coming.

Since Tony just got the distributor flyer yesterday, hopefully BLW will update their pre-order page soon since I wonder how accurate it is being based on the old 2006 information.  Looks like the sound decoder has switched from a ESU LokSound to the BLI Paragon 2.  And Tony said no non-sound, non-DCC options which are still listed on both the BLI site and BLW's pre-order page.

[towl1996]

But I think someone at BLI is dropping the ball...

and floating a trial balloon. Nothing to see here folks, go back to your daily lives.

[Chris333]

BLW has the 4-8-2 and centipedes up, boy am I glad I don't need them $$$

[C855B]

(Street) prices don't seem out of line to me versus other recent sound-equipped models. Until very recently wasn't it nearly a $100 premium for sound? I do have some annoyance with their bundling, however - the UP version is only offered as a pair, and I agree that gets pricey for a novelty "almost happened" fantasy scheme. I took a hit on the most recent E8/9 release - I only needed a dummy B, and it was not available without a powered A. The A will show up in Trading Post sooner or later. Maybe they think UP modelers have more to spend on trains than others? I dunno.

I'm puzzled by their illustration of the UP model, however, indicating road numbers of 1600 and 1601. The UP Centipedes were (to be delivered as) 998 and 999. 1600/1601 were FA-1s. It's bad enough that it's a foob, but then they fumble the road numbers actually assigned by the RR? Really? I wouldn't mind having a pair for the "nearly was" factor, but given BLI's propensity for bulletproof paint I would not risk trying to renumber them, so frankly my money is staying in my wallet.

[CBQ Fan]

I had thought about the UP units but between only really wanting one unit and now I find out that's they were never painted UP colors, I may have to pass.  I knew that UP did not actually buy them but I am under the impression that several of the more exotic engines UP ran where actually owned by the manufacturer and painted in UP colors.  Not sure if I want one bad enough for the  price of one Pennsy engine.

[eric220]

Got a notice from BLW that they've changed the part numbers, so all preorders were cancelled. I re-upped my preorder for M1's and added a set of centipedes.

[CBQ Fan]

Would the M1's ever pull the Broadway Limited from Kato?