BLI Pacific K4- Anyone else thinking of one?

[selector]

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.

Are any of you thinking of getting the BLI K4, or have you already ordered one?

What are your thoughts?

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by selector

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.

Are any of you thinking of getting the BLI K4, or have you already ordered one?

What are your thoughts?

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.

Detail is good and it runs Ok, but not better than the other BLI engines.

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.

[Anonymous]

I agree with bangert1. I have the J1, M1a and Heavy Mike from BLI.

The funds I was going to get the BLI K-4 was diverted instead to the "DEADLINE" for the PCM T-1 4-8-4 instead as I would like to ensure that my copy along with all the others will arrive instead of being sold out.

I also agree that everyone and thier dog has manufactoed the K-4 and have decided that I will choose BLI for my K-4.

I am not a die hard pennsy fan; I am a B&O person. However the PRR did share (Uhh.. compete) with the B&O primarily on the north and east of Baltimore.

Having said this, BLI is one of the few makers of HO steam in plastic that actually pulls a train of any length up and down grades. That pleases me as a model railroader who was raised on Tyco derailers and Bachmann no-go's of long ago.

The Spectrum K-4 is a beautiful engine, but sound and DCC is extra.

[selector]

Thanks for your responses, Gentlemen. My BLI Hudson is a fine model, and runs very well. I'm sure the Spectrum K-4 is a fine one, as well, but I really wanted a metal one just to have it, and to know that it will pull hard. So, based on the Hudson, I'll stick with BLI, choke on the cost, and get on with MRRing.

Wife says I can have it at Christmas...[|(] Oh well, at least it will come some time.