FL9s Arrive

John

Should you decide to remove the DCC and sound electronics from your FL9's, I may be interested in purchasing the boards from you - contact me off net.

Ed Rappe

I received my New Haven FL9 tonight and it is a home run. Incredible detailing and graphics and, best of all, what a smooth runner and accelerator right out of the box.

The soundset is railsounds 4.0 but the speaker and enclosure are excellent. Diesel throb is wonderful and the loco seems to run at very prototypical speed.

I previously noted, from photos, that the front coupler was hideous. Not so. It is too long, certainly, but much less of a problem child than I thought it would be. Acceptable, for me.

The fellows inside the loco, well, don't look at them and for sure, do not have the passenger see them. Yikes. Perhaps if the entire passenger list is going to be extras in "Night of the Walking Dead" then maybe.

Eliot

To SZ and Scott - I totally understand, and again would like to compliment Sunset on their beautiful models and commitment to the 2R guys.  I guess this was just my first introduction to the 2R DCC/DC world.  I have converted half a dozen MTH and Lionel 3R engines to 2R standard DC and have been able to get back quite a bit of the cost by selling the electronic "guts" on Ebay.  To Keystone Ed - I probably won't get to pulling out the QSI stuff for a few weeks.  I was thinking of keeping it in case I ever change my mind about DCC.  I'll PM you and let you know my plans.  Thanks to all for the comments!

Got mine tonight also. They are very nice, quite different with the truck arrangement. Will try them out tomorrow. Bought two but not sure if I will run them both.

I put one unit on the track. Very nice speed and it looks fabulous with my Kline passenger cars. I know I can activate the smoke via TMCC but I could not find the smoke switch alluded to in the directions.

Never mine. I guess the top switch is for smoke. booklet says it was on the bottom.

My eagerly awaited NH version arrived yeaterday.  Looks great but will need a bit of work to operate. To be clear, I am very greaful that Scott has brought these in but they do need work to make runnable in 2 rail - at least mine does.  Firstly the thrid rail shoe detail hangs too lowon the truck sideframe and shorts across the frogs on every turnout as we have powered frogs on our layout.  The low shoe also causes the engine to rock from side to side when going through turnouts since it is lower than the rail height.  The other issue is the pick-up is of the olde style steam loco version.  One truck for each rail.  I will be installing wipers on the insulated wheels like Atlas, Weaver and MTH does for better pick-up.

Once the 3rd rail shoes are ground down a bit to clear rail height and pick-ups added it should be fine as the engine runs fine on the bench.  I'm guessing that Scott's prototype models were never run through scale turnouts or  crossings.

Thanks 3rd rail for producing such a fine looking model.

J2M

Future runs of Sunset diesels starting with the FP-7 will have all wheel pickup.

Printing error.

Don - looks like a prototypical New Haven unit after a few years in service.  Weather it and you are good to go  

On a serious note, 3rd Rail will correct that for you.  Just contact them directly and you will have your issue resolved.

Just got my replacement Penn Central FL-9. All is well, and another shout out to Scott and his company's wonderful customer service! 

Another shot of the Penn Central FL-9:

To DMASSO:

Yes I have read the posts listed above earlier. I just forget about them this morning when I thought of asking and was wondering who else purchased them and thought that since most of the FL9 models were made in 3 rail I would ask the question on the 3 rail high rail forum heading.

Thank you,

Ed G.