Hello, I wish to ask about the Third Rail B&O P7 that is for reservation. How long would we usually expect to take delivery? And will this engine run on DCS? I would like to go reserve one officially, but am worried about the timeline/price TBD.
Any insight will be appreciated.
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1) At least a year for estimated delivery, assuming enough reservations/orders are placed.
2) Sunset/3rd Rail locomotive models come with ERR TMCC command control. So, yes you could run it with your DCS control set-up, if you have a TMCC Comand Base and the interconnecting cable to your MTH TIU unit. It is all covered in your DCS manual.
3) Just a guess, but the price should be at least $1499.95.
As Hot water has said you will have no problems, I run my T3 and Big six on DCS control and they work great. I to have also ordered a P7e from Sean at Dorothy's trains, He will take good care of you.
They should be a beautiful engine with the Blue paint scheme and silver smoke box front end, the year will go fast.
John
Thank you all for the encouraging words.
I will go ahead and commit to this thing provided it is about a year. This is one of the few engines that it is worth a lifetime to acquire.
Lee,
As Jack and John stated it will be sometime in 2013 if reservations are sufficient.
Typical Sunset experience with B&O power is that most reservations come in within the first few months so production can be started earlier than with some other projects.
I intend to display my 2 rail Westside modernized P-7 at York in October which will also help build reservations. Although my model has the shorter tender as used in the P-7c subclass I may paint my T-3 tender blue to show what a P-7e looks like.
One difference will be that the P-7e will use the tender with rounded water cistern top whereas the T-3 used the squared water cistern.
Davy,
Indeed both styles of welded tenders (rounded and squared coaming) were interchanged between T-3's and P-7's. I should have said the Sunset Models T-3 used the squared water cistern.
Hi rheil, aye I thought so. No problem, I was just sure I had seen T3s with both. I have a picture in a book with one of the B&O's lighter pacifics sporting an 8 wheel tender that has clearly come from a P7. So I suppose its been a hand-me-down from one of the P7s that obtained a 12 wheel tender or a P7 that got scrapped early ??.
Cheers DAVY
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