I own a 1st edition athearn big boy which runs great but sounds underwhelming. But I still love her. It has the original mth decoder that has been problem free so far. I wasn't planning on adding a second big boy. I purchased a BLI big boy #4014 in regular non gloss black. I regret every BLI purchase before this as they all ran very poorly on my DCC layout. I was very hesitant but was reassued paragon 4 got its act together. I was pleasantly surprised! BLI makes beautiful looking locos and this one is as well. I actually prefer it over my athearn. It operates really smooth similar to kato (especially after playing around with the CVs). The sound quality isn't as good as ESU loksound but it's good and better than all the others. The smoke so far hasn't been great but I am waiting for a low viscosity smoke fluid to arrive which BLI assures me is the problem. Hopefully this loco remains reliable because if it is there are a handful of BLI locos I'd love to purchase and upgrade to P4. I already sent in my BLI PA to convert it from P3 to P4.
@bobkohl6779
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Be nice if we knew which was which.
@dathpo
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The BLI version has the brass smoke rings/tubes at the chimney. It, also, has a coal load. From there you can see the differences in the finishes.
@bossmansal67
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BLI N scale is like tiny Lionel Vision Line and Athearn N scale is like tiny MTH.
@joepinto509
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There will be serious issues with BLI big boys...my friend Erin Julian who builds 3 d printed steamers got his this week. Ran his and the side rods that goes into the steam chest came out and bent everything there. The the plastic where it slides at is a flimsy rubbery plastics that flexes to much. He said this will be a serious issues for BLI. Be a bunch of them going back for repairs.. so don't that it past medium speeds
@dongbomp3
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no such problen so far ,I will pay attention.
@juandesantos6238
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@@dongbomp3 correct 💯 on that , I have been running my bli big boy for 4 days straight and changed cv 5 to 200 so it can go faster and it rolls so smooth . Smoke is amazing too.
@joepinto509
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@@juandesantos6238 give it time .then u will have issues with yours. I'm in my second replacement. ..
@joepinto509
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Want to add on the promontory version BLI didn't put the big boy decal on the boiler face ..then they didn't put the builders plate on the side front or decals on the steam pipes like athearn does let alone they painted the front boiler in dark charcoal not silver with us correct color on athearn....BLI didn't put the chrome covers on the front of the steam chest .but they did that to the fantasy grey hounds ..and BLI didn't put traction tires on the rear drivers like athearn did with there. BLI rushed this engine to beat Kato's big boy in which it will be a big seller do to it's going to have duel motors in it .one per power drivers ..
@keithbender4054
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I'm happy with my two Atherans and I'll leave it at that. not happy with BLI sound either. Then there is Kato, WTF. It's getting like ship model companies. How many Iowa class BB do we need and Yamato.....................................................................................................................
@dongbomp3
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yeah, i got bli 4014 only for smoke...
@majorkursk780
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You didn't identify which one is which...
@dongbomp3
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ath 4017 & bli 4014 , a caption at the begining
@majorkursk780
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@@dongbomp3 Isn't Kato coming out with one soon also?
@dongbomp3
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@@majorkursk780 yes, but only bli can smoke
@majorkursk780
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@Bell Darby The Kato version will likely be much less problematic mechanically
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