I would just like to say, I love your videos and they inspired me to do my own reviews of my trains. Thank you very much.

Nice loco. Definitely sounds better with the surround sound. Prototypical experience with it. Good stuff.

Wow, BLI is my favorite. Love the Smoke and great sound! That engine is loaded in every way.

Great video as always

And this whole channel best collection of ho scale on KZfaq best reviews I’ve seen

Puts out a lot of smoke! I like it

Great video!! Yikes what a long wheelbase! What size are your radii? Oh and hey, it was nice seeing you on “What’s Neat”! It’s great to see model railroaders of all ages all sharing ideas, techniques and model reviews!

Impressive model James, those cattle cars sounded really good. The model looked really good, outstanding detail on it. Cant wait to see what else comes and hope to see you do a review of the bli greenbrier when it comes out.

Thats locomotive is a beast even in H.O. Scale

These are so nice.

Cool Beans!

I want one of those but can't afford one. Very nice loco.

Sadly these babies struggled on hills.. but they're so beautiful.

Hahahahaha! The sounds of farm animals in those stock cars though! But what's up with the S-2 barber roller bearing trucks on the cattle car?

You should do a review of the Pennsylvania Railroad decapod

WHOOO!!!

Hey that's the exact train that my Great great grandfather drove before he died

Nice lookin loco, really beautiful model. Too bad they are reusing a lot of their sounds like the whistle and idol sounds from the big boy.

OK, Now we are talking! Does this come with the Paragon 3 that outputs to the rolling thunder or do you need to replace or add something to the engine?

Just curious...is this the ultimate high end...or does it get better/more expensive?

James, the smoke unit went out on my Paragon 2 4-12-2, what ya think,,,, good enough excuse to get this one?😎😎😎 lol

I think the later 4 12 2s used the same tender as the Big Boys and Challengers.

Can you run Broadway limited brand of trains and mth brand within a layout

Weird glitch at 8:40

hola, he visto la mayoria de tus videos muy explicativos y muy bien construidos con detalles ecepcionales, queria consultarte si existe alguna forma o medio de comunicacion directa para ver si puedes mostrarme un tender abierto para ver un decoder paragon 3 como van los cables soy de Chile atento a tu respuesta saludos Raul P. gracias.

Whats the cheapest g scale track u can get what websites?

Excellent Quality, Is There Any Brand That Is Better ?

These locomotives are excellent in every way except for the choice of sound file for the whistle. The hybrid TTT-6 2-10-2 for the UP, that BLI released about nine years ago, had a QSI decoder that did have the correct whistle. I sent BLI a note telling them, about a year prior to their release of the first version of the 4-12-2 three years ago, that their earlier TTT-6 had the correct whistle, and I received an acknowledgement. Very regrettably, the BLI Paragon decoder does not have the correct whistle.

Are these available in Australia. If not how do I contact Paragon models to order. .?

Because i have one and its awesome

I've watched 4 videos of this train and none show the train actually running? Why? It looks great but let's see it at full speed.

I want to collect all of the light & heavy Mikado from BLI

For some reason they didn't synchronize the exhaust with the cylinders on this one. The chuffing is way too fast for the movement.

Do these engines have a name i.e Challenger Mallet?

9:00 big boy whistle?

Those are air pumps (2) on the front of the smoke box. . .

Very nice locomotive. I purchased my first BLI locomotive about ten years ago. It had missing parts and a call to BLI and I had them in my mail box two days later. The quality and outstanding customer support sold me on BLI. I just purchased my fourth one, a USRA Heavy Mikado. It also is a very good runner, great detail, and cab figures but no "foot plate" between the cab and tender. I thought it may be a missing part, but no. There is none shown in the parts diagrams for this locomotive or a place for it to attach. Very disappointed as it leaves a big gap between the locomotive and the tender. Reminds me of the toy trains I had as a kid back in the 40's/50's. All four of the BLI locomotives I have are really good runners and strong.

Why didn't you ghet no. 9000 thats the famous one, and its the soal surviver of the up 4-12-2

THIS IS A RELLY BIG LOCO

This is a 9000 class

Why no mention of the dual air pumps on the smoke box face?

What is the minimum curve radius for it?

Now get a 4-14-4 AA20

Where can I find one of these I can't find them anywhere😢

Its a shame BLI didn't bother to get the three cylinder sound correct - 6 chuffs per wheel revolution instead of eight!

No fireman or engineer figures in the new broadways?? $700 loco but can't put a $2 figure in it? Very poor executive decision. Nice looking and running loco though

Show us how it pivots and how the lock pin works. Then test / document how it performs on various radii. There's not one video of these anywhere on YT that illustrates this, and when you go to a local shop to see one, they're all in sealed boxes and they won't take one out...I don't care about the sound effects or details, it's how it RUNS that counts!

Are the bringing out a bald face version? I thought the 3 cylinders would have more distinctive sound?

Strange that you wouldn't mention the third cylinder detail.

I wonder if one of the 9000 class locomotives exists today?

THAT LOCO GOT NO BUSINESS GOING DOWN SALUDA OR DONNER BEIN' THAT POWERFUL i HAVe Never seEn a 12 drive wheel locomotive😂

So could you

I’m sorry, a UP-4? FOUR? Is there something I’m missing?

these things are 500$

The area between the firebox and the rear truck looks ridiculous with the open area and the extremely VISIBLE spring assembly. For the money, I would expect better detail! The smokebox front looks crooked also ...and NO PEEPS?

youre still coming in a little soft.... but otherwise great vid.

Jerky start, toyish....

It’s just an unarticulated challenger. ^mind blown*