PCM Y6b's

[nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org]

What about the articulation?  Ia it the same a the BLI's?

Kurt S. Kramke

nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org wrote:


> So I got mine yesterday, and put it on the programming track today.

>

> Comments:  Valve gear is not acceptable.  If Proto can put acceptable 

> valve gear on the Y-3s, why can't these folks put it on the Y-6b?  And 

> Broadway on the N&W A, for that matter?

>                     Sound is barely acceptable; the exhaust sound is 

> confusing to say the least.  Other sounds are OK; a nice touch is the 

> splash of water from the injector overflow after the injector shuts off.

>                     Programming is OK.

>                     Power - not acceptable.  My Broadway 1218 will 

> shove the Y-6b right off the test track without slipping a driver (I 

> haven't tested it against my Y-3s).  The Y-6b will not budge the A if 

> the A is not under power.

>                     Tender is heavy all right, but I guess that's 

> because of the big speaker.

>

> Ed King

>