Took delivery of these on 8/1/2017, and test-ran them at a friend's layout. These units will take over for the Williams units that were pulling my Auto-Train a few videos back.
--Note to self...and others out there: there is no grade-crossing horn softkey (SXS) when operating in a DCS consist (lashup) mode. I don't know it this a deliberate or accidental omission--you get it back when operating the locos as single units.
--I ran the smoke units only long enough to verify they were working when the units were first run singly...curiously enough they both came back on when M.U'ing the units in DCS. I then enabled "Tier 4 Mode" on the consist...by turning the smoke off :)
--Also, the third unit is a Williams dummy.
--The layout owner has appropriate Amtrak rolling stock, it was just not practical to bring them out on short notice.
It has been pointed out on the O Gauge Railroading Forum that the units have different color road numbers on the nose (black numbers on white background(202) and vice versa(99). This is actually prototypical. Also noticed after this run that one unit has blue horns, the other silver. Presumably the real units are like this too.
I haven't forgotten about the 'Test Track'. A lack of storage space for the train sitting there now stalled efforts to make more runs. I know it's been more than a year since my last video (not to mention actual runtime on the TT itself), but there will be more TT videos once I get the storage situation straightened out. In other words, the storage shelf with which I discovered there was no longer room in the basement to even assemble, will now be parked in a vacant corner of the dining room, where it will hopefully absorb enough stray train boxes to make the test track area somewhat presentable once more (not to mention allowing me to resume inventory-ing my collection).
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