I am an avid Pennsy modeler in HO. My favorite livery is the FOM. Not crazy about Bachmann products, but you are correct - not allot of good choices out there unless you go brass. I am modeling a 1947 edition of PRR’s “Spirit of St. Louis” train. Its difficult trying to be historically accurate. I have both Walthers and Branchlines FOM sleepers. Probably going to purchase the observation (which Bachmann has accurately labeled a “Narrows” observation for the Spirit). Also purchase the diner. Thank you for doing a vid on these.
With the Walthers you are going to have to add decals to identify the coaches unless you are okay with them being blank. At least with these they are already numbered/named which is what I prefer.
I'd love some of the post war PRR cars. At some point in the near future I'm getting a PRR GP7 it would look nice pulling them. Sometimes PRR would slap one or two on a passenger train
I was able to run the prior run of PRR streamlined (not fleet of modernism cars, but the same body) on 22" radius curves. Bachmann is very forgiving when it comes to minimum radius, even if it doesn't look the best.
Grab a wheel set tuner tool from micromark and run that in the trucks for a few turns, that should free up the wheels a bit. There's usually paint residue in the wheel recievers on the trucks you can also use a teeny tiny amount of #102 or #107 Labelle oil on the wheel points where they connect to the trucks and that'll really keep them free wheeling. Standard test rule is spin the wheels with your finger and they should free spin for around 10 seconds, if they don't repeat the above with the micromark tool and maybe a super small amount of oil. Also I would stay away from Bachmann as even their top line stuff is mostly toy grade, Walthers mainline equipment is similar in price and much better out of the box performance, that however is just an opinion from experience.
Great video dude. Off topic question: those TCS bass speakers, would a resistor be needed when using with a wow121 or wow101 decoder? Also would they be a good replacement for MTH speakers? My George Bush unit had crackle of the speaker right out of the box but just want better speakers.
Performance Locomotives Inc could a replacement decoder fix the crackle? I don’t want to lose the PFA from the MTH decoder as that was the reason I got that brand of the engine.
The grabs are molded and just painted, no underside details, snap on trucks like the cheap cars have, no diaphragms. Very disappointed for the price. The paint job is superb though, after waiting for more than a year, I thought the quality for the price would be better. Compared to the walthers for the same or less price.
for the price these seem like very basic cars. no diaphragm, very little separately applied parts, and a snap fit enclosure, it really seems to lack quality, feeling more like one of those ihc cars than a walthers car.
@@RodimusPrime also, Ive heard that intermountain's PRR P85 coaches are also decent, but Ive yet to find one for myself. If love to see a review of one!
