Hi Kids,
My Pacific Atlanta and West Point 290 from Trainworld showed up today. TW does a great job of double boxing the locomotives with enough padding to protect the original brown factory shipper - first rate! Ordered it the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and got here (Florida) via UPS today, Monday. It arrived in pristine condition in its factory foam - no loose parts - no damage. Well, one minor issue, the micro red lens of one of the tender lanterns was laying in the bottom of the foam box - no worries, crazy glue fixed it.
Tender: no back up light but the lanterns are extremely bright.
Locomotive: blemish free; the side rods are held on with hex bolts and a wrench is included; nice red ash pan lights; cabin light; headlight; gauge lights; standard railsounds and CAB2 functions; the whistle sounds like a duplicate of the Big Boy and FEF3 - very loud; so far, lots of smoke from the whistle and stack - you can see the resistors thru the fill holes; 2 spare tires; smoke fill funnel; smoke dropper; 2 grease ports for the drive gears; no orange memory module.
There is a mystery: included in the box are 2 long black screws in a bag with black rubber spacers.
The video follows; didn't have smoke turned on; short video (pay no never mind to my finger in the lens):
