You are the dead luckiest model railroader on KZfaq to have such generous supporters. I can tell how genuinely grateful you are when you receive these wonderful gifts. Did you ever think you would be this fortunate when you started your channel?

Supplying it with the body off is just genius. Take note UK firms!

Very nice Locomotives !👍 I think the Protos are now Walthers ?

Love the Proto E7s. Have a full set of Pere Marquettes, including custom painted pre C&O merger. Then I got a pair of Great northerns and UPs . Still building up the trains for those. That square piece you found is an axle bearing DON'T LOSE IT. It looks like yours came with all 12 installed and that may be a spare. If you need anymore, you'll probably need a parts donor. Also, the E7 and E8 bearings are different.

Thanks

Dave those P2K models were good value for a descent price, good runners, they had their problems but I would class them as high-end mid-range models for their time. Love seeing you and your gifts. Cheers, Geoff

Definitely a gorgeous model... I have seen matching cars for them that I should have bought, even for my 3-rail German layout... but too cool!

That type of dcc is a qsi decoder set up in the nyc! They are older now but are really well set up great video!

The New York Central "lightning stripe" and the Great Northern scheme are two of the most attractive schemes ever. Great Northen was one of the companies that became BNSF with the paint scheme carrying over into the modern era. Very nice. Beautifully smooth running locos. Now you need some GN passenger cars.

The model railroading community is just awesome! I love seeing model railroaders give others awesome gifts. Some ppl could be envious when they do not open themselves up to the opportunity to receiving gifts from the community. The envious may comment negatively, unfortunately this happens when you open yourself up as well. I love E units. That looks like a QSI decoder. good sound for an old sound decoder. Congrats Dave! Also, NYC is a cool RR.

Great northern is the N in BNSF, where the orange colour comes from. Watch for split gears on proto models. Otherwise great. They are packed like that to show the quality upgrade when lifelike introduced proto models to replace their previous toy range. Hope this helps. Ow

amazing gifts dave i wish i could send you a new loco but with no address i can only support you by superthanks my friend

Cool locomotive, I have a E8 NYC , nice gift

I think it's awesome. You get what you get. And it's awesome when I see what you do with the stuff. Generosity comes in many unexpected places. So Bravo to you.

Congrats, Dave those are some really nice locomotives. Enjoy !

# 11 is the handbrake being applied. #4 on the great northern sound like the reverser being put in forward or reverse. Those locos in real life had window cranks like cars used to have but it went up and down with 1 single crank vs cars you cranked many times.

Wonderful gifts. I have two older Atlas Locos with QSI DCC sound decoders and I think they are great. I see alot of people complaining about them but I love mine.

wow two amazing Loco lovely gift to recieve

Wow very nice gifts. I wish I had some sponsors to get me some stuff too lol. Greetings from Hai

On QSI, you may have read, the Function buttons may do a different sounds when idling or when moving.

Wow! Those are very nice. Thanks for sharing.

Very Nice Engines Now You Work On what Else Needs To Be Done.

Very nice 😊. I love the E series.

Nice video. As always, I am impressed with the video production quality!

Hi Dave, what ever you do ,don't press the self destruct button😂😂😂 both gorgeous locos , but the New York Central mmmmm Great Northern is my favorite or favorites! 😊😊😊😊😊😊😎😎😎😎😎

Very nice great video * Happy Rails *

There are many settings for decoders. you are not even scratching the surface. The delay in movement are settings in the decoder as well as many many other functions. Also the instructions list what the sounds are Bell, horn, coup[ler crash etc etc. As stated earlier you are on the surface of knowing DCC. Love your channel though, your sincerity is refreshing.

Some fantastic loco's there Dave.

Very jealous 🙂 lovely gifts 👍

beautiful units

Those look grand together ! So nice .

That decoder may be QSI which are nice decoders for their time and are high quailty

Superb locos you got there, the first E7 is amazing. I know how you feel, my BLI steam loco is just the same, a model, not a toy. You'll have plenty hrs of fun with those.

Nice ones!!👌👌👌

f11 on the GN is rail clack, The NYC has momentum programed into it, you should be able to change a couple of CVs and do the same with the GN. I think its CV 5&6? read the manual and it will tell you which to change, you may be able to change the bell and horn sound as well. Nice Locos , have fun

I liked the sound on the Great Northern E7A a little better than the NYC E7A. The decoder of the NYC unit has something weird with the dynamic volume. It sounds like myself trying to tune my HF ham radio when the bands aren't open to listen or transmit. While the NYC unit's decoder has more sounds, the 'tuning/noise floor' sound mentioned of the volume would drive me crazing. Who knows? This may be adjusted in the CV programing. As far as the Digitrax decoder's whine, this is due to the decoder needing a CV adjustment for the sound throttle notch synchronization. This is why the Great Northern unit makes the whine of a locomotive with a wide-open throttle.

Geez all I ever get in the mail are bills. What am I doing wrong???

Hey Dave, I just feelized that you have so many DCC locomoto's and rolling stock now that I'm surprised you didn't think of turning the bigger inner inner loop into a turnaround for the main line trains to spur off to turn around and go the opposite direction

You’re playing in the big leagues now, pancake motors and Tyco power torques are just not gonna cut it anymore…😂

Lucky guy

I think #5 would be for the sand.

Ok well, I just switched off and was a bit dubious when the title said DCC and sound........ Nice locos btw.. Dave, you are one lucky sob.... ~;0) lol...

Luv E units!

You video intro is now officially outdated. These two new beauties are the perfect excuse to record a new one 😁

Need to get on this freeby train box express somehow ;\

Naughty naughty, very naughty.

👍😁OperateOnOperator

Talking of DCC sound, I have just started to run in a brand new out of the box Rapido E8A. Much to my surprise I hear Johnny Cash singing "City of New Orleans". I kid you not. Pressing a certain function key triggered this. Anybody know if this was Rapido's sense of humour or an employee taking the Michael. Anybody else come across this? Love the P2Ks. Give great bang for the buck.

Question why do ur trains in America and Canada have bells on them?

As well as doing a second level and if you decide to do a second level, I have an idea on how you could do it to connect to your lower level. It's kind of hard to explain so I'd have to draw it on a piece of paper. Take a picture of it and email it to you if that's possible. And if that's the case, is there a possibility? That I could somehow send it to you. Unfortunately I do not do Facebook. I do happen to have Instagram and email for communication through online

When Opening Those boxes You have the Right To Become Train Tarded.

Engineer and brakeman

Early protos are great my first dcc loco is a B and O e 8 a b set with qsi awesome your gonna love it. 😊😊

learned a lot, thanks. can I get your contact...