It's hard to tell from the pictures...is the cab see through or are the windows just frames around solid black plastic like the Plymouth switcher? If it's see through, is there window 'glass' or just open holes?
Glass over a black box. Here's a closer front detail: I haven't popped the body off yet to see the space inside. But those are small windows on the side!
The 44T had a big black plastic block in the cab that serves no function that I saw. You can probably pop it out if you wanted to.
N scale supply has photos up and they show the "green one": http://www.nscalesupply.com/BAC/BAC-GE-70-Ton.html
.......and if you model before 1953, the Bachpersonn doodlebug is not far off some that W&OD bought used from I-forget-where after the WPB ordered them to resume passenger service. I never thought that I would see the day where you could model a road and have all of the powered equipment be from B-mann. The 70-tonner is very good. This one showed me how to leave in the decoder and still use DC, as I am not a DCC user. I am using an MRC 2800. If I turn on the throttle just enough to let the headlight light, then pause, then ease the throttle upwards, it will start and creep nicely. This also works on the 44-tonner. Pulling power is four Atlas wood boxcars and a weighted Roco wood caboose on straight and level. If it goes into a level nine and three quarter curve, pulling power drops by one car. Do remember that the Atlas wood boxcars are a bit heavy.
I have seen the online photos from there and another dealer that show the green one as being a Phase I. The only photos that I have seen posted by any modelers though are all yellow ones. I am just wondering if anyone that has actually laid their eyeballs on one can confirm it.
What brand of decoder? [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]• DCC-equipped for speed, direction, and lighting[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=-1][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]• dual-mode NMRA-compliant decoder[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=-1][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]• 8-wheel drive[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=-1][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]• precision can motor[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=-1][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]• die-cast chassis[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=-1][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]• front and rear metal cut levers[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=-1][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]• N scale RP25 wheel contours[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=-1][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]• E-Z Mate® Mark II couplers[/FONT][/SIZE] Ok...so why wont they give the brand and/or model number of the decoder? And YES...it does make a difference to a lot of us !! :tb-mad: .
I believe it is in their own in-house decoder. I don't believe they're trying to hide anything on this one. If it's like the 44-tonner decoder, it's a basic decoder with two lights on the board (forward and reverse) and some pretty good motor control. Obviously, a Lenz Silver Mini would be a better decoder, but this one isn't bad considering.
Yea... I suppose if they had stated it has a... • Bachmann dual-mode NMRA-compliant decoder That would have been TMI...:tb-rolleyes::tb-rolleyes: .
:tb-biggrin: When I threw my 44-tonner on JMRI's Decoder Pro yesterday and read the type the database told me it was either a Bachmann EZ 2-function or 4-function. (JMRI's database is constantly being updated and upgraded, and it is not unusual to get multiple results.) I have no complaints about the one in my 44-tonner, though I may eventually put in one with more refined motor control.
