USA's New Caboose!!!

[smcgill]

 

HA HA HA !!!

 Well Charlie Brown has a new place to stay worm in!!

 I went to visit Charlie @ USA's today!!

 

 

The smoke unit is under the coupla! I'll give it a try this weekend!

 

So how does it look with the GP7?

They just got a few , will have to weight for the other!

Sean

 

 

[PJM20]

What a nice caboose, the engine looks like it was made for that caboose, or the other way around! - Peter

[smcgill]

Power for the lights and smoke is taken from the track just like the older units.
I think the only diff. in units would be the "fan".
The nine volt is for lights if you want to have them on when on a siding.
I do not use that feature.
We ran the unit this Sunday at a train show.
The layout works O.K. but the cabooses lights worked better with the train running to fast for a show and that track layout.
The light flikered and I couldn't produce any smoke @ a safe speed.
When you have the unit on a test bench you can hear the smoke unit's fan going!!
When we ran it on the layout I couldn't hear the fan.
The thing does send smoke up and out the side of the smoke stack like It's suppose to!
I will try to get some smoke this weekend from the smoke unit.
I did not buy this unit for the smoke, I hardly run any thing with smoke.
The caboose looked like B&M's crummy's  "small".
No one noticed it as " Ro's New Caboose"

In closing :  Nice looking
                  Heavy
                  well trackin
                  Nice interour
                  lights work like they should with track power
                  the coupa comes off easy , to add smoke flued " use bigger  funnell than given"
                  Smoke unit  Hmmmm.  
                  The roof comes off with just removing 4 screws!!
                  I did add some HOMIES to the interour. No one noticed. The fella that came with the unit  " small"
  The unit lookes great with the older GP7 and I'm Happy!

Sean

[lownote]

 I just got one of these as well. It's a very nice model--very heavy, solid construction. It's small, but so was the prototype. I have a second on  order.

I replaced the plunger piston power pickups with ball bearing wheels. Between the weight of the car and the drag of the pistons, it was going to be hard to pull

I have not tried the smoke unit yet, but --it's kind of a pain to fill. You have to pull the top, remove a small plug and then get the fluid into a tiny hole, then replace the plug.

The lighting is weak--it's three large incandescents for the overhead and two grain of wheat style bulbs for the marker lights. The battery lights the markers, but the incandescents flicker badly and don't stay on. I will probably pull the whole thing out and replace it with leds, with a large capacitor to prevent flicker.

It's an excellent model. I painted the roof of mine black, to match the prototype

 

 

 

 

[dwbeckett]

I don't have one, But since you and Sean are giving reviews I noticed that the paint colors are off But that's usa trains.....

Dave 

[Greg Elmassian]

 I put LGB ball bearing wheels on my cabeese, much less flickering, and no drag.

Regards, Greg

[lownote]

 

Don't know if the actual colors are off or not, but on my monitor the colors I see in the pictures I took do not look right either