Maybe the NKP's will come with gray pilots! 
BTW, way back when I had to paint the fuel tanks gray on my SHS UP F3's because they came incorrectly painted black...
Rusty
So I’m almost worried I will jinks myself here, but my UP unit seems fine other than the gray pilots. I hope that the 2nd run and beyond will be free of issues, you know, for the C&NW unit when it gets made.
Ben
Rusty Traque posted:Maybe the NKP's will come with gray pilots!
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Rusty
Well, then we can arrange a swap.
Hi All. Dave, Can you give us your guess about when the next run of Flyer Chief Union Pacific GP7s will be. Lionel’s shipping schedule doesn’t show any AF UP GP7s in 2018 and the UP version is on backorder everywhere I’ve looked.
Ken
CaseyKen posted:Hi All. Dave, Can you give us your guess about when the next run of Flyer Chief Union Pacific GP7s will be. Lionel’s shipping schedule doesn’t show any AF UP GP7s in 2018 and the UP version is on backorder everywhere I’ve looked.
Ken
Ship date from factory is first week of August. So I would expect end of September or so.
So, the UP GP7 has 'chuff sounds' that are in sync with the engine. Can anyone that has one tell us what they think of this feature?
Ukaflyer posted:So, the UP GP7 has 'chuff sounds' that are in sync with the engine. Can anyone that has one tell us what they think of this feature?
For steamers I find the Flyerchief sounds to be quite inferior to the Legacy steam engine sounds, but I was impressed by the sound on these GP-7's and consider them on par with Legacy diesels.
Dave Olson posted:CaseyKen posted:Hi All. Dave, Can you give us your guess about when the next run of Flyer Chief Union Pacific GP7s will be. Lionel’s shipping schedule doesn’t show any AF UP GP7s in 2018 and the UP version is on backorder everywhere I’ve looked.
Ken
Ship date from factory is first week of August. So I would expect end of September or so.
Dave, thanks for the shipping date info for the UP GP7. I’ll order one as soon as they’re available.
And thanks for the tip, Mark, but, today, they’re now out of stock at N.S., too.
I missed the first release of FlyerChief GP7s and throughout 2018 so much wanted the UP version, compelled in part by the color scheme and also because my first engine, which I’ve owned since I was 6 years old, is a UP (4-8-4 K335). But alas, the new UP Geep was backordered everywhere. By the end of Early fall, I realized there were no UP GP7s on Lionel’s shipping schedule and ordered a Great Northern instead. Since it’s arrival (finally, on Dec. 27th), I have been elated at how much I like this engine. There are some subtle things about the GN version that I really like — the GN paint scheme on the roof, the silver accent on the (pilot) steps, the dark green railing color somehow, for me, minimizes the railing-size issue. I am happier than I ever imagined to have what I consider an s-gauger’s dream engine — for the price.
Ken
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I agree! That's a handsome scheme that flatters the model a lot!
Nice.
Andre
That really a nice looking engine. I have the UP version for nostalgic reasons, it sits on my fireplace mantle in my office. I thing the GN looks better.
I also like the clean look of the layout. With 3 single lever turnout controllers you probably have 1% of the product on your control panel.
Hi Guys, thanks for your nice comments about my GP7. I’m really pushing the envelope here bringing a Great Northern Geep way down south to a Florida setting. But, hey, if reality was what I was shooting for, I wouldn’t have an HO railway on that outer line... it all works for me.
Today, I’m ordering a FC Norfolk Southern Baldwin Switcher for my wife to give me for my birthday in April. I can’t wait to have both of these FlyerChiefs running together on my layout, using the universal remote and/or the App to control them..
Tom, my layout is a work in progress, and I’m taking your point about the clean look to heart, just in time to stop me in my ‘tracks’ from loading the yard up with structures... maybe just a ranch house near the stockyard and a roof over a passenger waiting area for the GP7 to pull a passenger coach up to (a GP7 pulling passengers? Isn’t that some kind of violation of tradition and protocol?).
Ooops, I’m wandering off the “FC GP7 Info” topic of this thread here... I have to say, though, how much I appreciate what we have here with all the helpful advice and expertise on the ogrForum. With this kind of support, coupled with the continuing development of S-gauge products by Lionel (and American Models, etc.), it seems like a great time to be getting back into AF model trains after my decades of neglect.
Ken
You will like the Baldwin. I prefer it to the GP7.
Brendan
