I have the above locomotive and have lettered it for a Northern Pacific A1 Northern. Yes, it shy one set of drivers and is shorter than the N.P.s A-1s. However, other than what has just been mentioned, this loco has the look of the original Timken prototype, which the N.P. bought and certainly beats spending upwards of $1000.00 for a brass example of N.P.s A series Northern locomotive.
Since I believe this locomotive was the first offering from Broadway Limited, I'd like to know what have other owners found to be it's short comings? I can't get mine to stay on the track, both the 4 wheeled lead truck and front driver set constantly derail. My minimum radius is 22 inches. I also don't care for the whistle, although this may be adjustable.
NP 2626 "Northern Pacific, really terrific"
Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association: http://www.nprha.org/
I have that exact model, even the road name, and I love it.
No tracking problems whatsoever.
The only problem that I ever had with it was jerky performance when I first purchased it new.
I bought the upgrade QSI chip, and my problems were ended.
You could always add weight to the pilot truck and the trailing truck.
I have had to do that on several of my BLI steamers.
Rich
Alton Junction
NP2626 I have the above locomotive and have lettered it for a Northern Pacific A1 Northern.
I have the above locomotive and have lettered it for a Northern Pacific A1 Northern.
As a NYC fan and modeler, that's a sacrilege!
I have the 2nd generation offering from BLI with the Paragon2 decoder and I couldn't be happier with it. It's beautiful and runs very well.
You might want to check to make sure that the front truck isn't on backwards. I had a locomotive with that issue and it had all sorts of problems derailing until I rotated the truck 180 degrees. Voila! - The derailing went away.
Tom
https://tstage9.wixsite.com/nyc-modeling
Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
It's not possible to put the lead truck on backwards, You might be able to put it on upside down; but, this would lift the front of the loco and I don't think the front and middle driver sets would make contact with the rails in this configuration, so the lead truck is on correctly.
Maybe if I were to sell this loco I would decal it back to the NYC.
Has anyone ever seen a description of how to determine if a locomotive is properly balanced, for and aft?
Now that you mention it, NP, upside down was probably what it was. What I do remember is putting it in the other orientation and the front trucks no longer derailed.