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?
@@RodimusPrime thank you. Strange, though. I thought the Piko Smartcontrol system was basically a re-branded esu ecos. Not sure why they use a different voltage. Thanks for the reply!
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