nik_n_dad Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 It isn't Japanese, but we finally got our AC12 cab-forward loco. Nik's birthday is next week, so I'm trying to decide if we're giving this to him then or later..... Link to comment
Martijn Meerts Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 I sure hope it doesn't run on coal, would suck having to run back and forth between the cab and the tender ;) Link to comment
nik_n_dad Posted February 17, 2010 Author Share Posted February 17, 2010 Fortunately they were oil burners. Musta' been a beast to see....6000HP and 123' long. I think there's only one left in the world (on display in CA)- the others were scrapped. Link to comment
andreas Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 Why do you have this already? :angry5: I am still waiting for mine. Not fair. I had to have this one, just too good-looking not to... Link to comment
nik_n_dad Posted February 18, 2010 Author Share Posted February 18, 2010 Yeah, we generally but things that we like, or as Nik puts it, "trains that look cool". This definitely fits. How did we get ours so soon? Intermountain is a few minutes from where I work and the LHS had some delivered a couple of days ago. Intermountain is supposedly testing each and every one locally as they are showing up from the China factory (or so the local story goes). If you're running DCC, you'll find that there's a 10-pin plug....yup, go figure that one out. Haven't gotten the decoder for it yet, but I believe the 8-pin medium plug decoders should work. Link to comment
lbriand_fr Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 It's really cool. If you have more picture (and bigger )... Link to comment
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