Brodway Limited New Haven I-5

[New Haven I-5]

Is it worth paying $450.00 for this Engine??

[locoi1sa]

  It depends on how bad you want it.

   Pete
 

[New Haven I-5]

 I  really want it !

[Paul3]

Welcome to the MR Forum!  I do like your forum name...

As to the BLI I-5 "hybrid" model, I saw the pre-production model at the Big E show in Springfield, MA back in January.  Quite frankly, it impressed the heck out of me.

Now, I already own one of the old 1970-'s-era NJ/Custom Brass I-5's, and that cost me $400 back in 1996 (unpainted).  Figure at least $100 extra for the paint job, and it's now clocking in at around $500 more or less.  You can get the new I-5 for around $400 if you shop around.

The new hybrid I-5 looks way better than my old brass I-5, it should pull a lot more cars, and it's got QSI sound to boot!  They played the whistle for me at the Big E show, and as well as I could hear it in that place, it sounded just right.  The I-5 has been described as having a "steamboat whistle" not unlike the N&W J's.  There is one known live recording that I know of, and that's in the WWII movie "A Great Railroad At Work" made by the NH.  The whistle sounded just like the movie.

From all appearences, this should be a "perfect" model ("perfect" as in: what they could get right they did get right).  The NHRHTA was heavily involved in this project, and it looks like FDT/BLI listened and just flat out nailed it.

I can't wait for mine.  They are supposed to be shipping/arriving this month from overseas.

Paul A. Cutler III
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Weather Or No Go New Haven
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[GTX765]

HEY HEY LOOK WHAT WE HAVE HERE! Have you seen this yet?

http://www.factorydirecttrains.com/New-Haven-I-5,-Hybrid-c3566.html

I am not advertising I am helping a fellow model railroader save a few dollars and get the steam engine they really want. I do not work fo FTD

Let us know how it runs!

[New Haven I-5]

 Thank you Thank you!!!!!!

[Lillen]

I can recommend asking questions here:

 

http://precisioncraftmodels.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=1

 

 

Only trouble is, now I want one to! What a lovely engine.

 

I can also recommend FDT from not only a price perspective. The service is according to my experience the best out there. Nothing else have so far come close to it.

 

Magnus

 

 

[BigRusty]

I have two order but haven't seen any sign of them yet. Any one seen a reliable estimate?

[GMTRacing]

I ordered mine the day it was announced so I'm in for about 40 more than FDT but that's ok. I figure Trainworld will end up with them even cheaper at some point and that's where i got my fleet of DL109s. We keep hearing and the delivery schedule says November for delivery so by December will probably work. I check with Mark at Branford Hobbies every other week and he's not heard any different. J.R.

[GTX765]

I want a UP TTT 6/7 Hybrid but have not heard anything about them either.  I am leary due to my UP MT was not a real performer like my others. They have the mfor 359 but there is a bachman southern i want that is cheaper.