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Royal Gorge Gorgeous but unfriendly in several ways

Started by Joe Baldwin, April 17, 2013, 07:10:58 PM

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Joe Baldwin

I received the Bachmann Royal Gorge F7 AB with two passgenger cars for Christmas 2012.  Beautiful packaging, as I said, a gorgeous  8) looking unit.  Since the set was not DCC ready, I wanted to return it to Hobby Town but their return policy was to trade for something else.  Should have gotten a teddy bear.

1 - The observation car not only rolls roughly but will not stay coupled with anything else in the set.  Coupler height is the issue, fixing it will be another issue though.   :'( :'( :'( :'(
2- Converted the A unit to Tsunami Sound and all is good there.   :D :D
3 - Installed a Soundtraxx MC1Z102SQ  mobile decoder in the B unit and the train runs about 1-2 seconds stalls and starts again.  Swapped decoder to a P2K and Athearn units and works fine.  Installed NCE decoder and it works fine in the B unit BUT will not speed match well with the Tsunami.   :( :( :(

I've a train room full of Bachmann locomotives and must tell you the quality of this set is well below what I have been accustom to from Bachman.
Joe Daddy