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BLI Pacific K4- Anyone else thinking of one?
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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by selector</i> <br /><br />I have only plastic locos, and they all run and look great. I know that everyone and their dog has marketed a K4, and they are everywhere. But I happen to love their brutish firebox and that cast pilot with the generator on the front of the smokebox. I also would like an all-metal, but affordable, engine that will rip the track up from in front of it due to its tractive effort. <br /> <br />Are any of you thinking of getting the BLI K4, or have you already ordered one? <br /> <br />What are your thoughts? <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />Being a Pennsy fan, I purchased one when they first came out. It is a shelf item for me, but a nice model. It is a premium run model, and has a momentum type speed up and down programming in it. You can turn it on full throttle, and it will speed up gradual much like a real engine might running light with a train. <br /> <br />Detail is good and it runs Ok, but not better than the other BLI engines. <br /> <br />The price was higher being a special model, but probably worth it. It has the exact same whistle as the J1, M1b and T1 which is a generic Pennsy whistle not quite correct for any one of them, but it is a Pennsy sound. <br /> <br />
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