ScaleTrains to announce all-new N Scale locomotive at NSE Nashville

[mu26aeh]

Everyone just needs to calm it a little bit 

[oakcreekco]

I have a few N scale Scale Trains ET44AC's and Dash-9's, and they're all really nice - some of the nicest runners I own, absolutely up there with Kato and above Atlas IMO. I expect that these will be just as nice.

This group of road numbers is the same as their first run of HO SD40-2's, at least for NS, and I have nothing bad to say about their HO scale offerings either.

Thanks, and good to hear.

[SD452XR]

Does anyone make decoders for scale trains locos? (Dash 9’s). Would like to pick up some sd40-2’s but don’t want sound.

[jagged ben]

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Will they be THAT much better than the IM ones to warrant replacing an existing fleet? Probably not.
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Eh... Probably.

[jagged ben]

Does anyone make decoders for scale trains locos? (Dash 9’s). Would like to pick up some sd40-2’s but don’t want sound.

They usually sell a DCC version without sound.   But they all come with a Next18 connector if you want to pick your own.  Any Next18 decoder.

[peteski]

How about the always mentioned hood width question?  IIRC, Kato's is too wide, I wonder if the Scale Trains version will have scale-width hood?

[basementcalling]

Holy Sh*t! That's effing GORGEOUS!

Look...there's lettering on the separate truck brake cylinders!  Three little brackets under the arm rest (with bolt details on the brackets!)  Look at the details on the headlights...and on the CLASS LAMPS for Hell's sake!!  Horn bells?  eh...but....look at the diameter of the handrails!!

And the frame, brake, truck details...!!

Almost makes me want to buy one just to look at the finest SD40-2 Snoot I have ever seen, even though it's nowhere close to my layout's era...and change out those HUGE N-scale couplers to MTL True Scale Couplers....N-scale couplers on this are an insult to it....

WOW Scale Trains...now for some GP-7's, 9's and B-units!

A sure winner, trend setter and money maker I am 100% positive!

Kato, Intermountain and any brass I've ever seen, pale in comparison and look like toys.

Cheerio!
Bob Gilmore

Interestingly, rrpicturearchives doesn't have any photos of this unit. And BTW, what the heck is up with the slow speed of their site?

[peteski]

And BTW, what the heck is up with the slow speed of their site?

Maybe the web server is being overwhelmed by droves of modelers anxiously wanting to get more info about the Scale Trains new-model announcement? 

[H Lee]

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Even though the page says N scale are you sure the photo isn't of an HO model?

[packers#1]

Even though the page says N scale are you sure the photo isn't of an HO model?

Unless they’re lying on the Facebook page, that is a preproduction sample

[Jbub]

Even though the page says N scale are you sure the photo isn't of an HO model?

The coupler is definitely an N scale coupler. So unless they photoshopped the coupler onto the ho model, it looks like it is the n model

Edit:
I just looked at the HO model pictures, they don't have some of the details Robert was pointing out. Ha ha the n scale model is more detailed than the ho model.

[Tristan Ashcroft]

I'm a little disappointed UP didn't paint the engine number on the fuel tank as well.  And maybe also on the brakeman.

[Jbub]

I'm a little disappointed UP didn't paint the engine number on the fuel tank as well.  And maybe also on the brakeman.

Many people don't know this but there is a disco ball in the cab that projects the engine number throughout to remind the crew what engine they are in. So no need to paint it on the brakeman.

[peteski]

Um, I guess nobody is too worried about the hood width . . .

[Mark5]

Um, I guess nobody is too worried about the hood width . . .

Is there a reason anyone should be thus concerned on this 21st century model?