Heavy Metal War II Broadway Limited vs Athearn Genesis Challenger  

One can never have too many 3977s.

Great review! I love these brand comparison videos!

Great review. Motor noise is a big issue for me. I have an Athearn GP9 that I had to put a Kato motor into it was that bad. Atlas Master are quiet, but I had two Atlas Classic that were really noisy. I have an Athearn Genesis 2.0 SD90MAC that is a quiet runner, so hopefully Athearn is phasing out their noisy motors. ScaleTrains and Walthers Proto are great and quiet runners too. I had a poor experience with Broadway Limited (my first sound locomotive no less), so they are on my pay no mind list.

I just got a Broadway Challenger too. It started failing after only a day. I've been searching around, and maybe the 16v on both my Bachmann E-Z Command and Piko Smartcontroller is too much for the challenger to handle. What DCC controller system do you use? And what's its voltage?

Did you smoke Deflectors come mounted to you're engine or did you have to install them? And is there a part number for left and right? Thank you

Would you sell one of those and how much you want for the locomotive

My Lionel Challenger has a QSI decoder installed at the factory. I have never heard of a Lionel coming equipped with an MRC decoder.

Didn’t you convert your 3985 to tsunami 2?

What's the length?

What happened to Rodemus Prime?? 😂

Great video. very helpful. i was just wondering what radius curves you have on your layout. thank you and stay safe

If you wanna keep one only , which one you much prefer ?

To me, I have to go with the slowest,smoothest runner, whichever one that is.

Athearn plastic? Bli metall?

Hmm...both seem like decent locos....That's a tough one!

Big Boy bli and athearn 1:87