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 Well in my opinion, the current Bachmann Souhtern Pacific Daylight is great. My local shop had it for $112.00. I thought it was expensive, but I didn't care. So I bought it along with some freight cars to go with my bachmann 0-6-0 Smokey mountain express. I now am unseperable from my daylight, and since my model railroad is going to be based on the Conway section of my local railroad, I will run it as a white flagged special, or a permenant visitor as a peice for the train mueseum that will be placed on the spur that in real life leads to and electric company. I will buy other engines based on vintage prototypes and paint them for more local railroads. The Daylight, how ever will stay the same. It was run with 6 bachmann Daylight Heavy weights on my local model Railroad clubs layout. It added the feel of nastalgia against the desils that reside on the layout and the desils that other members brought. They had steam enignes too. Instead of drooling over a prototypically lightted Norflok and Southern Dash 9's complete with blinking ditch lights that one member brought, Every one drooled over my Daylight while it stood in the passenger terminal with smoke wafting up to the roof (A DC loco on a DCC layout with a smoke unit, will smoke) while the desils pulled a long freight around the layout and the club passenger train sat oppisite my beloved Daylight. When the spectrum version comes out I will buy it, but, I will have the clubs DCC expert put DCC in my first Daylight. My daylight has performed well, but some light tuning up is needed along with detailing (NEVER WEATHERING). My reason for that is I like the color and don't want to see it spoiled. The tender could use some weighting and I wil convert the original couplings with the metal coiled spring couplers, also from bachmann. My Daylight is very reliable and looks good with freight or passenger (As brits would call it, a down right mixed traffic engine) I would recomend the bachmann daylight to any one. If you have DCC and you don't have the spectrum version, program it for 0000000 or something like that. Thats what the club did. When you put smoke oil in the engine, ONLY PUT TWO OR THREE DROPS, I PUT TWO THOUGH, BECAUSE IT WILL GET VERY OILEY. AN OILY HO ENGINE IS NOT ATTRACTIVE IN MY MIND. But thats just me. I sent away for the one year warrantee, and have renewed it this year for saftey precautions. I highly recomend the warrantee for those who have a bachmann daylight and love it like I do. Nicholas Parker P:S: Locomotive3, how did you come up with a password similar to mine? Oh well, I geuss great minds think alike eh. By the way, do you have a daylight. If you do please send me a picture of you and your daylight and I will send you one of me and my pride and joy.
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