N Scale Sound Locomotives
- Thread starter russell
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oplholik
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Has anyone bought these Athearn locomotives that are DCC with sound?
If yes, how do they run? Do they keep running well after some use? Any meltdowns?
I heard them in a hobby shop on the test track and was impressed by the sound.
Hoping or some news.
I bought one of the FP45's just to have 1 loco with sound. When I got it home and ran it awhile I was not overly impressed. I don't like how the electrical contacts are set up on this engine. Now my track work isn't perfect, and this engine seems to be sensitive to that, always stalling out in different places while other locos run just fine. For instance, my Atlas 4 axles will run all day smoothly. The sound I have nothing else to compare to. The bells are too loud, the diesel motor is hard to hear. But that probably needs tweaking in the programming. This little review may not mean much as at least some of the problems are probably fixable on my part, but I'm not too happy with it as far as how it runs compared to all my other locos.
