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WHOOPS ALMOST FORGOT................
Posted by unionpacificchuck on Wednesday, June 6, 2007 8:56 PM

HOW TO PUT THIS IN A EASY WAY.......O YEAH

MY NORTHERN CAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It runs nicly and has smooth pistons. i had to fix the tender the wheels were messed up other than that it is a great engine and is the largest loco i have.

I now have six total engines

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Thursday, June 7, 2007 6:54 AM

All right!

There's another thread running called "Unexpected discoveries in this hobby," but this answer is more appropriate here.  I've re-discovered the joy of being a kid with trains.  When I ran my first train after installing the DCC system, suddenly it all came back, and I was 12 again.  (My drivers license says I'm 60.  Hah.  Fooled them.)

Another one of those childlike joys has been the UPS truck.  Now, when I know something's being shipped, I get all psyched up over packages at the door.  Sure, it's a bummer when it turns out to be my wife's dietary supplements, but when the return address is Discount Trains Online or Trainworld, then my eyes really light up.

May your Northern bring you many years of enjoyment.

It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse. 

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Posted by unionpacificchuck on Thursday, June 7, 2007 9:21 PM
 MisterBeasley wrote:

May your Northern bring you many years of enjoyment.

 It broke today.

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Posted by CSXFan on Thursday, June 7, 2007 9:22 PM
What do you mean by "broke"? Maybe we can help you fix it.
If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space...Wink
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Posted by unionpacificchuck on Thursday, June 7, 2007 9:48 PM

gears turn but don't touch it stops running and motor just whines

 

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, June 7, 2007 9:58 PM
You did not get the bachmann standard northern did you?
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Posted by unionpacificchuck on Thursday, June 7, 2007 10:07 PM
uhhhhhhhhhh maybe...............
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Posted by selector on Thursday, June 7, 2007 10:24 PM

Too bad if it is truly broken.  Still, I am sure you can return it.  If you can save for a few months and get a Spectrum Mountain, or maybe a BLI Niagara from Trainworld or somewhere that sells 'em cheap, it would alomst certainly be a much better experience for you.

Bummer.

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Posted by bb4884 on Thursday, June 7, 2007 10:27 PM

BLI's UP Mountians should be on the market in the first week of July.

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Posted by unionpacificchuck on Thursday, June 7, 2007 11:05 PM
i think i am gonna save my money for a athearn rs3 rio grande version and buy a plug in decoder and do whatever you do to get it in there and have it.
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Posted by MilwaukeeRoad on Thursday, June 7, 2007 11:10 PM
Where do you get all of this money?!
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Posted by unionpacificchuck on Thursday, June 7, 2007 11:44 PM
I clean out pools for the summer, pick up leaves in the fall,shovel snow in the winter, and some times water gardens in the spring but i hate when my friends see me talking to a rose.
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Posted by steemtrayn on Friday, June 8, 2007 12:07 AM

 unionpacificchuck wrote:
I clean out pools for the summer, pick up leaves in the fall,shovel snow in the winter, and some times water gardens in the spring but i hate when my friends see me talking to a rose.

 

Yer s'posed to stop and smell' em, not TALK to 'em...

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Posted by Canondale61 on Friday, June 8, 2007 5:31 AM
They cant grow if you dont talk to them lol. I am very impressed with your work ethic. The odd jobs you do may pay well but you still have to save, sorry about your engine, usually if you tell the seller the situation they will help you out.
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Posted by Cox 47 on Friday, June 8, 2007 5:56 AM
Return it Bachman will fix or replace...Check thier web site....Cox 47
ILLinois and Southern...Serving the Coal belt of southern Illinois with a Smile...
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Posted by Hoople on Friday, June 8, 2007 10:03 AM
 Canondale61 wrote:
They cant grow if you dont talk to them lol. I am very impressed with your work ethic. The odd jobs you do may pay well but you still have to save, sorry about your engine, usually if you tell the seller the situation they will help you out.
MYTHBUSTERS PROVED THAT WRONG! Turns out rock music will help your plants most... weird. Anyway, Kobi, That's what you get for buying the bachmann Overland's steam engine for $21.
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Posted by last mountain & eastern hogger on Friday, June 8, 2007 2:11 PM

Whistling [:-^]

Yes, send it or them back to Bachmann in Philly and they will help you out.

They are very good about that.  Sometimes a little slow, they say they have a 60 day turn around but I have waited close to four months.  But, they do a good job. and I am pleased.

James;1 Verse:5

The "Wobbly" wobbles on.........................

Johnboy out.

from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North.. 

We have met the enemy,  and he is us............ (Pogo)

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Posted by river_eagle on Friday, June 8, 2007 3:18 PM
used locos purchased off ebay are not covered under the bachmann warrentee.
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Posted by unionpacificchuck on Tuesday, June 12, 2007 10:24 PM
they are iuf you have the wareentee paper. LOL ebay can never trick me yeah i got a warrentee paer for the loco so that 21 bucks was a steal.
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Posted by unionpacificchuck on Tuesday, June 12, 2007 10:26 PM
I got it working again. Put enugh throttle in the oppasite directon it was traveling and it moves. then put it in the direction you want to go a it moves.
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Posted by LD357 on Wednesday, June 13, 2007 12:38 AM

Sorry to bust your bubble upchuck......but even with the warranty papers, nothing bought on ebay from an individual seller is covered....only from a recognized dealer....thats why they ask where you got the loco on the warranty paper.

  You could lie and say you got it at a LHS, but when they check the s.n. they're gonna know you lied.

 You might take it in and let the LHS look at it and see if it's worth fixing and let them do it, but Bachmann won't fix it free.

LD357
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Posted by MisterBeasley on Wednesday, June 13, 2007 8:18 AM

I would contact Bachmann and explain the situation, being completely honest.  Ask them if they'll still "stand by their product."  Use that exact phrase.  It's hard for them to say, "No, we don't stand by our product."

Model Railroading just isn't full of greedy venture-capitalist types who are trying to squeeze every dollar out of every sale.  Mostly, MR type companies are really interested in the hobby, and keeping customers satisfied is important to them.  Besides, it's a small market, and reputation is very important for future sales.

It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse. 

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Posted by Midnight Railroader on Wednesday, June 13, 2007 8:22 AM
 unionpacificchuck wrote:
they are iuf you have the wareentee paper. LOL ebay can never trick me yeah i got a warrentee paer for the loco so that 21 bucks was a steal.
Yep, you're much too smart for that.
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Posted by river_eagle on Wednesday, June 13, 2007 3:30 PM

 unionpacificchuck wrote:
they are iuf you have the wareentee paper. LOL ebay can never trick me yeah i got a warrentee paer for the loco so that 21 bucks was a steal.

NO, it's NOT, If you read the "warranty" "paper"s that you have, you would see that the lifetime warrany applies to the Original Purchaser only, and only if the warranty card was sent in within TEN DAYS of original purchase. otherwise a copy of the ORIGINAL purchase reciept from an aurthorized dealer will be required, and no, eBay doesn't count, unless from qualified store front dealer.

In other words, your S.O.L.! NO warranty!! 

P.S. stop sending me P.M.s I will not reply!!

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