Kato N Scale Big Boy: Go Big or Go Home
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2023
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I heard those things sold out practically as soon as they hit the shelves. Entire shipping boxes of these things vanished in the span of a morning depending on the hobby shop.
All the big boys at my local shop were spoken for months ago long before my shop got them in.
My local shop has many of them, Hiawatha Hobbies. I didn’t pre-order.
Very cool! I have the Athearn version I picked up a couple of years ago, but this Kato version is tempting as well. I'm glad that it can handle 11" radius curves so well. That is good news for everyone with a small layout!
I remember you covering this when it was first announced, and saying you'd preordered it. Glad you've finally got it and it meets expectations.
Awesome! Will be neat to see your DCC upgrade too
I have zero need for a Big Boy….but it’s so cool I’m gonna get one!
Great video and info! I’m a big fan of the Big Boy locomotives and I didn’t know a lot of the stuff you explained about the real one. I’ve seen a few on display and the club I belong has one in HO which I love. Unfortunately my HO layout is going to be way too small to handle one of these but this one you showed is beautiful! Thanks for the great video.
I am looking for a cab forward locomotive. Yes it is a very good looking loco. Great video. Thanks for the adventure.
The Union Pacific was cheap. They would have the cab forward locomotives delivered in New Mexico and Texas to avoid paying sales tax in California. The cab forward were developed to prevent engineers from being suffocated in the king tunnels in California. They are a marvel of Engineering.
Merry Christmas 2023...just got my N-Scale Big Boy today...Thanks mate for the great review...
I just bought one and I love it.Thanks for the video
best and greatest looking steam locomotive on the planet! I own one in 0, H0, N and Z aaand "Lego" :)
Thanks for sharing your opinion and experience with the Big Boy… you have a great way of keeping my attention, even for something I really wasn’t interested in before… now I want to do some research on it
can not wait for mine to arrive, dcc with sound was pre-ordered…..thanks Jimmy
That’s awesome
i really want one
I saw 4014, it was an amazing site rolling down the rails. 🙂
Jimmy awesome steam engine a friend of mine has a big boy G scale
So they make Big boys in N Scale, Yet there still massive!
Really like your presentation and content. Your reviews on the locomotives are excellent. It would be great to see a side by side comparison of tractive effort using a quality dynamometer. Other than that and perhaps checking the weight of the locomotive only... your videos would be a 9 or 10 out of 10!
Finally a decent review of this model. Just way to many Kato haters dumping on this to get a fair look at this version. Thank you for your efforts.
very cool jimmie now i cant wait for the DCC version to come out and with an 18 degree radis turns this loco will be a beast on new fenris railroad
Very nice! We are looking for an HO 4018 at the moment.
I have 4 of the Athearn N Scale Big Boy Locomotives. I do not like the remote button, it messed with the DCC system than traction tires fell off.
I hope the Kato Locomotives have something different or at least they will last longer or easier to install new traction tires.
Thank you for showing the Big Boy.
when you do a video on how to make it DCC please show step by step because I want to know how to put ESU in it I'm getting annoyed because I've been trying to research for about 2 months now and have not found anybody showing how they set it up all they do is talk on how they done it but not showing exactly how they hooked up the decoder for me to understand something it's easy for me to watch and showing the audience step by step with the whole engine apart and how to wire up the decoders that's easier for me to understand how to do this stuff.
I have the Kato big boy in DC. I love it, smoke box color is a bit off. I have the water tender and a UP super dome. I need the excursion set.
wow a modern equipment model as a Big Boy. 2023 era!
Perhaps for pull tests might be an idea to use the method that James Wright does with his HO locos.
Very cool 😎. Can’t wait to see the upgrade. Will you need to put in one chip or two with two motors? Thanks for sharing.
I will be doing just a single decoder. I did a stall test and the decoder can handle it.
Big One!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I need one for my collection!!!
When are they going to be released???
Beautiful model Jimmy! Will you be installing Soundtraxx Tsunami2 Big Steam decoder that has the actual 4014 recordings in it or another decoder? - Jason
Yes I will be doing a next18 plug in the tender. I already checked the stall current and it can handle it.
@@DIYDigitalRailroad awesome! I'll be looking forward to seeing that install.
Yes, there are 8 Big Boys left. 1 is in Pennsylvania and the other 7 are in the West States.
4017 is in Green Bay WI at the National Railroad Museum and WI isn't one of the western 11.
4018 is in Frisco TX at The Museum of American Railroad.
The 4012 is in Scranton, PA at the Steamtown Museum
Great video! You should put a diesel behind it to push it, just like the real one.
What a beautiful beast. Not to my taste but looks really good. I know you waited a long time for this.
you are a rookie you're supposed to put light cars on the back left around it that way
This is one of those locos that I would love to have but don't have the curves to run it on and have absolutely no use for. It sure does look impressive though, doesn't it.
It’s crazy how this model costs as much as the ho one!
Easy way to compare pulling power is to just couple them up to each other at the tender and see who pulls who! Just be mindful of your wheelslip though, I did grimace a little when I saw you burning it up 😬 Traction tyres are not easy or fun to replace!
Saw 4014 today. Sadly the chalk Big Boy has been removed.
Will they ever release the Triplex?
I notice that sometimes the bars on the drive wheels were aligned and sometimes they were out of sync. I am curious if on the prototype if they stay in sync or not.
They would get out of sync due to curves and wheel slippage.
They can go out of sync on this model because of the two completely separate drivetrains. The prototype is similar in that there is no mechanical link between driver sets, only a pressurized system. Most articulated steamer models, certainly all the Mallet types I've experience with (Challenger, Big Boy, Yellowstone, etc), operate with the driver sets mechanically linked in a single system, and thus the driver sets cannot rotate independently without there being some kind of mechanical fault.
Cancelled my Kato for the BLI. No regrets so far
Big chungous!!!!
Too bad they didn't at least make this thing DCC ready.
I definitely wish it was and I initially bought this model hoping it was. I did try to convert it myself and I can totally see why they didn’t. It would have been very difficult to make DCC ready.
Unfortunately, it sounds like the speakers being overloaded. Nice like an engine that.
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I’m just trying to figure out why I don’t care for this as much. I don’t have any pull towards Union Pacific, they were very narrow in when and how they were used, and it’s just “the popular thing,” but that could be partly due to when it was restored and run. Recently? I prefer smaller ones, I suppose, that would have done work around the country, running all kinds of freight, or people.
The reason for the fascination is hiding in plain sight - they're literally big boys! Huge, hulking machines, an engineering marvel. I'm sure the restoration efforts helped but they were popular long before that, always have been.
I don't own a Big Boy myself, but do have a pair of Yellowstones and previously a Challenger, despite being an early Burlington Northern modeler where these brutes make absolutely no sense. They're just awesome to see. I occasionally doublehead my EM-1s at exhibitions and it never fails to draw people in!
Me and my weak wallet will just go home, I guess.
Papa Ben’s in Houston had several on the shelf.
Too bad it doesn’t have smoke like the BLI version has.
@@jmurrell9881 that’s your opinion
@@claytontanner7631 You're absolutely right. That is my opinion. Now clean your plate and go to bed kid.
not a fan of U.P. but nice
I do not understand Kato‘s engineering. This is a very old fashion concept for model locos with 2 motors and individual pickups. Especially in the Big Boy, they have plenty of space for a bigger motor with flywheel and the construction is known from big diesel engines.
Anyway most of the home layouts are too small for BigBoys and Challengers. 😅
I'm curious to know if the decoder Kato's using is anything special, or just a bog standard one designed for a single motor with no additional code. We all know that no two motors are exactly the same, even in identical models from the same run, and Kato is no exception. Unless the decoder is some special unit with dual independently-managed motor outputs, the two driver sets will be impossible to speed match.
Kato's reasoning seems to be that it permits an 11" minimum radius, but the likes of Athearn's Challenger & Big Boy and Bachmann's EM-1 already do this despite the more conventional drivetrain, because they all cheat (just like this model) and allow the rear driver set to pivot.
I'm inclined to say that the individual driver mechanisms are (or will be) used in another model, and it simply comes down to the production efficiency of a "shared platform" as a car manufacturer would call it.
That's kato big boy is a joke......and there video pulling 15 pounds of weight is staged....why ?.. I have one and did a review on all three big boys ..kato at 5.4 oz bli big boy at 8.5 oz and athearn big boy at 7.7 oz......one guy I know went to the n scale nats said it couldn't pull 30 cars let alone 20 with a lot of wheel slippage......draw bar comes apart between the engine and tender....alot of guys that was there at the nats was complaining to kato about these and other issues .....kato was taking notes......said there doing a second run and said it will be a fox ......I didn't bother to waste my money putting DCC with sound in mine..keeped it DC and added rear maker lights and reverse light......if there doing a second run hope they do a complete die cast boiler to make it heavier to get more traction so it would pull better......the only thing this has is a great smooth runner.......ps told kato to take there video down of it pulling 15 pounds of weight....with pulling 15 pounds it should pull 200 cars with ease ....but it doesnt and it's false advertising......
I agree. It should have more weight. But, it pulls 30 cars on my layout without a problem. And it is very smooth and quiet So I'm happy. When I was at the Kato booth, everyone at that time was telling them to make a Santa Fe Northern.