BROADWAY LIMITED IMPORTS

[Anonymous]

I am the dissatified owner of four BLI locos, an AC5 CAB FORWARD, A CLASS A 2-5-5-4 AND TWO 2-8-2's, one in Milwaukee scheme and the other GN. Neither of these four locos are able to make a complete circuit of my small layout, 8x12 L shaped without derailing or stopping completely. My less expensive locos, Mantua, Rivarossi, Proto 200, Stewart, and Athear Genesis fun fine. I have emailed the company but received no reply. Has anyone else experienced these problems? It is my firm belief that BLI products are overrated and definately overpriced.

[nblum]

You don't happen to work for MTH by any chance? :) I gather they have a beef with Broadway Limited.

Oh by the way, this is the toy train operating forum. Suggest you post your comments on the HO scale forum here:

http://www.trains.com/community/forum/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=88

Also, suggest you not bother emailing a company to discuss your concerns of this magnitude, it's probably a waste of time. Call them, or at the very least, send them a certified mail letter, specifying the problem and your requested solution.

[Anonymous]

Frazzee,

I have seen only one Broadway limited locomotive run, and it ran well. It was a model of the 3751. The detail etc. looked great.

My only concern was the sound system:

First, it only chuffed twice per driver revolution (does not bother some, but is my pet peeve-it looks silly at low speed).

Second, the sound was not very impressive. I realize that the size of the speaker, speaker enclosure etc. is extremely small, but it was definitely not what I had expected (I am used to PS-2 and Railsounds).

Broadway Limited, as far as the sound quality goes, "Limited" seems to be quite appropriate...

[Bob Keller]

HO sound systems are about 10 years behind O gauge sound systems in the level of quality that O gaugers have come to expect. Give them time ...