USA trains B6

[ondrek]

I keep coming back to this engine.

http://www.usatrains.com/usatrainsb6.html

I dont know if its even released yet, but I keep returning to it as my "really want ot own" engine.
Its expensive, yes, but the way i am thinking about is, if i get the gold ring, I will be satisfied and the searching will end and i can focus on paying it off. If I settle for a different engine, I will always still want the B6 and always have that empty feeling and then some day end up getting it anyhow and then have the cost of the two engines, not just the one I really wanted in the first place.

So I have decided, I will get this engine, But BEFORE i do, I need to read some sort of review on it or something at least. right now, I only see it on their website and in some adds in the GR mag.
How can i get some reveiw info or something on this engine?

Anyone know anything about this engine?
Help
Thanks

Kevin

[Curmudgeon]

First step is wait until it's released.
Then, wait until it gets into the hands of a reviewer who will wring it aout and give a full report.
"Gee mine runs good" isn't it.
Then, you wait for the magazine to print the review.
Then, you decide whether or not you want it, and by that time the limited production run is done.
At least that's how it usually works.

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[ondrek]

so, these will be a limited run?
and by the time the review is out, the units of the run will all be purchased?
crap, what good is that then?
so when we see this engine in an add, is for a advance order unit then, no one has the item yet. huh.

Well, I am hoping to get a chance to go into Charles Ro Co on friday. we will be in boston, so i should be able to run in. I will ask them then what the deal is and if there is anyone who knows anything about it.

Thanks

Kevin

[Curmudgeon]

All this high-end stuff is "limited run".

But, that doesn't mean ONE run.

There are some brass units that were so popular had to be a dozen runs of them, each one allegedly better than the last.
That's always been the issue in all scales with high-end, limited production items.
If you really want one, you plop your money down and take what you get.

You have to look at the track record of the company involved.
Look at the high-end things already released by this company ("Hudson" springs readily to mind) and ask about problems folks have had.
Since the same factory will be building the B-6, you might get an idea.

Funny, the original Lionel Hudson.....and the semi-scale 0-6-0 switcher (B-6), and the GG1......


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[ondrek]

So I am here on vacation, we stopped at Charles Ro Co. on the way down. nice store by the way. good prices too.

anyhow, the lady there told me that she doesnt expect that engine for a year. I am dissapointed in one way and glad in another. dissapointed because thats a ways off, glad because that allows me to save up for it.

But here is another question. Accucraft has a 0-6-0 as well. is that live steam only or is there an electric version of it too?

any one know?

Also if the B6 is going to be made in the same place as the hudson was, what is the reviews like for the hudson?

Kevin