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Beautiful Loco, I have a question or two if you don't mind. One is of course does the loco smoke at all or do you have to add an after market smoke kit to it? Secondly are there any vocals like in the Paragon 2 series steamers?

skeley1 1 year ago

Beautiful Loco, I have a question or two if you don't mind. One is of course does the loco smoke at all or do you have to add an after market smoke kit to it? Secondly are there any vocals like in the Paragon 2 series steamers?

skeley1 1 year ago

@skeley1

The loco does not come with smoke, but you can install 2 seuthe smoke units in it.

And, no, there aren't any crew commands in the soundset. Quite frankly, I like it better that way.

ronthecyborg 1 year ago

Thanks for the reply, Yeah I can agree about the vocals a bit it can get annoying. I had just bought this Train and looking to add the smoke units to unit, would you happen to know which ones exactly to install so I can order them? Thanks again for your replies.

skeley1 1 year ago

@skeley1

Look up Seuthe smoke units. If you plan on running DC, use the #99 models. If you want to use DCC, use the #100 models.

ronthecyborg 1 year ago

What would you say is a good minimum curve for one of these?

SCL3618 1 year ago

@SCL3618

While this thing has the ability to operate on 18 inch curves, it doesn't really look right. I'd recommend no less than 22 inch radius.

ronthecyborg 1 year ago

@ronthecyborg Thanks.

SCL3618 1 year ago

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God, I'd love to get my big boy in your mouth.

CrossCompond 2 years ago

Regarding the scenes in which the Big Boy locomotive is pulling and pushing the other steam locomotive with the help of the UP diesel at the other end, is the steam locomotive in the middle just being dragged? Its wheels aren't moving in either direction. Isn't dragging the steamer like that rough on all the locomotives and damaging to the steamer in the middle?

poopologist96 2 years ago

awesome! how much did it cost?

jjcscout 2 years ago

On the PCM Big Boy, I have one. You need to go to LokSound for all the CV's, it is 61 pages. I have 3 Blue Line engines and for the money hard to beat.

cudaken 2 years ago

I'd be surprised if it was just $4,000,000 down the train.

conductorron 2 years ago

what i dont like about most blueline is how the brake squeal sometimes starts AFTER you stop. I may just try to get rid of the sound either way, global emergency stop eature on my dcs400 remote makes all my mikados stop and squeal all at the same time after they stop and it drives me crazy. anyways nice vid! 5 stars!

CSXboy1 2 years ago

i got the nce power cab, its pretty easy to use, i like it, i know alot of people like dititrax tho and i think thats good too(never used it, but it sounds good, almost got it my self, proably will get it for my next layout

NYOWRR402 2 years ago

Thanx for the reply! I was under the impression that the Blueline was simply my PCM loco without the DCC decoder. Is the Digitrax easy to use? I am looking for a new system since mine was stolen. I had the NCE Power Cab, but didn't think it was that user friendly.

brohoop 2 years ago

We use Digitrax up at the local club. It's fairly simple to use, we even have kids coming up there from time to time! (so long as they're supervised!)

I've never had any experience with NCE myself, but it's probably second in line to Digitrax

ronthecyborg 2 years ago

Hi, Ron! Wonderful video! May I bother you with a few questions? Which Big Boy is this and which DCC system do you use? There's no way it could be the Blue Line one. And could you please tell me how you did the pitch modification in the steam whistle? LOVED that! I own the Precision Craft Big Boy, I think it's part of the BLI line, but I sure don't know how to get all the variations of sounds like you do. Any info you wouldn't mind sharing would be so very much appreciated. Thank you.

brohoop 2 years ago

hello brohoop.

Believe or not, this is the Blueline Bigboy! In my opinion, it's the best one out there! The sound system, the details, and everything are top notch! As for DCC system, I use the Digitrax Superchief set.

As for pitch modification, I'm not sure exactly if/how you can do it on the PCM model. try checking the manual on CV values. If that doesn't help, go to the BLI forums. I'm sure they can help.

Thanks for watching my video, glad you liked it!

ronthecyborg 2 years ago