Steam to pull Bud woodside reefers

From a scaleguys perspective who likes real trains, the ten wheeler.  You can also run it with some of the PS2 features with one of the ps2 remotes from a starter set.

I also have a bias toward the ten wheeler.  Either way it will be good looking and a lot of fun, though.   Particularly when you are drinking a Bud while watching it run . . . 

Which PS-2 functions would be available with the starter set remote?

I have that Railking engine. Great runner. It came in the Budwieser freight set with a tank car, reefer and caboose. Its one of the few engines I actually like the PFA announcements on. It has the old oom-pah band playing the Budwieser theme song.

Starter set remote (DCS Remote Commander Set) Functions:

Power up/down, Coupler operation (front or rear separate), Bell, Whistle, Sound on/off, Volume up/down (only about 4 steps including off tho)  Speed up or down in 1 SMPH increments or hold down for fast accel, decel from memory. Just got one over the weekend, it's on the Christmas tree loop now. Kids LOVE it.

It is line of site IR only but that's not bad for $49.95 MSRP (LHS website says $44.95)

I'm dragging a 6 car Christmas consist with a Starter set engine like the above 10 wheeler. Consist is 2 MTH nativity scene Christmas boxcars, MTH Christmas boxcar, MTH Operating Santa boxcar (heavy), Lionel Operating naughty/nice Dumping gondola w coal and presents (heavy), Lionel lighted tender car w presents.

Does the loco stay in the mode it has been assigned and continue onward (say, speed set to 32 mph and volume at level 3, etc.) if it momentarily loses contact with the IR? -for example, if it goes out of sight of the Ir signal for a moment -  through a tunnel or behind an outcropping - does it keep moving, or like remote Thomas when the radio signal gets too far away, grind to a full stop?

Yes, It is running in DCS command mode, It keeps going at the last commanded settings.

Note, the IR does not go to the engine, it goes to the receiver located between the brick and the track electrically. Mine sits on the corner of the TV table middle shelf.

This set replaces the TIU & Remote and DCS works the same as always with the limitation of one engine only.  Signals on the track carry comm to and from the engine and Receiver or TIU. Tunnels make no difference, even if made of chicken wire.

If you have sidings and power off the engines on them, you can run any one at a time. Actually I have not tried but I expect any engines with power will respond so a MU should work as long as all engines face forward. They are all going to get the same command and respond the same.

Now, if you are holding down the whistle button and lose line of sight to the IR receiver, the engine will stop blowing the whistle, that command is not switch on / off, it blows while the button is pushed only.

If you are accelerating and lose contact the engine will stabilise at that speed.

Note that it will go a bit faster before maintaining speed, this is due to the default Accel / Decel setting of 4 in the engine.

Didn't Anhaueser-Busch have their own industrial railroad in St. Louis?  Atlas and

All-Nation (kits) have offered Budweiser reefers...what did the A-B road use for

power...I can't remember road name for sure, but it may be something like "St. Louis

Industrial RR.??"

Yes, Anheuser-Busch did have their own Railroad. Starting 1878 they had The St. Louis Refrigerator Car Company and was Anheuser's first subsidiary that built their own rolling stock. In 1919 they acquired the Manufacturers Railway Co. (MRS) also a subsidiary. It operated from 1940 into the 80's with Alco S2's and later MP15's and SW1500's. Not sure what they used for motive power prior to that but would venture to guess they subcontracted it. There's a couple of pics.

Atlas has produced both the engine and reefer pictured and I will say did a beautiful job as I have both of them.

Milwrd