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Kato N Scale Big Boy: Go Big or Go Home

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  • Опубліковано 25 чер 2023
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 73

  • @jimmyseaver3647
    @jimmyseaver3647 Рік тому +20

    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.

    • @fattywithafirearm
      @fattywithafirearm Рік тому +6

      All the big boys at my local shop were spoken for months ago long before my shop got them in.

    • @KatoOnTheTrack1
      @KatoOnTheTrack1 Рік тому +3

      My local shop has many of them, Hiawatha Hobbies. I didn’t pre-order.

  • @StevesTrains
    @StevesTrains Рік тому +18

    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!

  • @StockportJambo
    @StockportJambo Рік тому +6

    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.

  • @NitroStarGT
    @NitroStarGT Рік тому +4

    Awesome! Will be neat to see your DCC upgrade too

  • @pinchy08
    @pinchy08 Місяць тому

    I love this version of the N scale Big Boy the most. Kato took so many steps in the right direction both cosmetically and mechanically. Kato literally pulled out all the stops of what Big Boy 4014 looks like post restoration. Ash pan is gone. And drive wheels are as real as it gets. The duel motor setting is what makes this N scale Big Boy model a pulling champion. It also does much better in a doubleheader with 844. Sorry some of your so many cars in tow had derailed. But this is not a bad model.

  • @RVA1954
    @RVA1954 Рік тому +4

    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.

  • @allenwilson8913
    @allenwilson8913 Рік тому +2

    I have zero need for a Big Boy….but it’s so cool I’m gonna get one!

  • @kenshores9900
    @kenshores9900 Рік тому +2

    I am looking for a cab forward locomotive. Yes it is a very good looking loco. Great video. Thanks for the adventure.

    • @kenshores9900
      @kenshores9900 Рік тому

      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.

  • @personal9146
    @personal9146 Рік тому +1

    So they make Big boys in N Scale, Yet there still massive!

  • @NorthernBandit1
    @NorthernBandit1 7 місяців тому

    Merry Christmas 2023...just got my N-Scale Big Boy today...Thanks mate for the great review...

  • @derailroad
    @derailroad Рік тому

    can not wait for mine to arrive, dcc with sound was pre-ordered…..thanks Jimmy

  • @cheryltysver4819
    @cheryltysver4819 5 місяців тому

    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!

  • @Northcoastrails
    @Northcoastrails Рік тому +1

    Jimmy awesome steam engine a friend of mine has a big boy G scale

  • @TwoRailfans
    @TwoRailfans Рік тому +1

    Very nice! We are looking for an HO 4018 at the moment.

  • @davidf9630
    @davidf9630 Рік тому

    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

  • @gregc4311
    @gregc4311 Рік тому

    I saw 4014, it was an amazing site rolling down the rails. 🙂

  • @ka5kla
    @ka5kla Рік тому

    I just bought one and I love it.Thanks for the video

  • @steveburnham5073
    @steveburnham5073 Рік тому +1

    Yes, there are 8 Big Boys left. 1 is in Pennsylvania and the other 7 are in the West States.

    • @adventuresofabbott4374
      @adventuresofabbott4374 Рік тому +1

      4017 is in Green Bay WI at the National Railroad Museum and WI isn't one of the western 11.

    • @galenvanallen6632
      @galenvanallen6632 Рік тому +1

      4018 is in Frisco TX at The Museum of American Railroad.

    • @steveburnham5073
      @steveburnham5073 10 місяців тому

      The 4012 is in Scranton, PA at the Steamtown Museum

  • @ivoryjohnson4662
    @ivoryjohnson4662 Рік тому +1

    That’s awesome

  • @SFCRambo60
    @SFCRambo60 Рік тому +1

    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.

  • @robertrussell2166
    @robertrussell2166 Рік тому

    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.

  • @fattywithafirearm
    @fattywithafirearm Рік тому +1

    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.

  • @TheNorthwestWind
    @TheNorthwestWind Рік тому +1

    i really want one

  • @newfenrisrailroad621
    @newfenrisrailroad621 Рік тому

    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

  • @TheTrainFreak
    @TheTrainFreak Рік тому +3

    Beautiful model Jimmy! Will you be installing Soundtraxx Tsunami2 Big Steam decoder that has the actual 4014 recordings in it or another decoder? - Jason

    • @DIYDigitalRailroad
      @DIYDigitalRailroad  Рік тому +2

      Yes I will be doing a next18 plug in the tender. I already checked the stall current and it can handle it.

    • @TheTrainFreak
      @TheTrainFreak Рік тому +2

      @@DIYDigitalRailroad awesome! I'll be looking forward to seeing that install.

  • @NICKSSHOP
    @NICKSSHOP Рік тому +1

    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.

  • @AndrewJohnson-ur3lw
    @AndrewJohnson-ur3lw Рік тому +1

    Perhaps for pull tests might be an idea to use the method that James Wright does with his HO locos.

  • @AemJaY
    @AemJaY 10 місяців тому

    best and greatest looking steam locomotive on the planet! I own one in 0, H0, N and Z aaand "Lego" :)

  • @robertdoyen5434
    @robertdoyen5434 Рік тому +1

    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.

    • @DIYDigitalRailroad
      @DIYDigitalRailroad  Рік тому +3

      I will be doing just a single decoder. I did a stall test and the decoder can handle it.

  • @harrywoodell7008
    @harrywoodell7008 Рік тому

    wow a modern equipment model as a Big Boy. 2023 era!

  • @melkitson
    @melkitson Рік тому +1

    What a beautiful beast. Not to my taste but looks really good. I know you waited a long time for this.

  • @cudathehawgjetfixer7520
    @cudathehawgjetfixer7520 10 місяців тому

    I need one for my collection!!!
    When are they going to be released???

  • @milkymoocowmoo
    @milkymoocowmoo Рік тому

    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!

  • @mp48railroading22
    @mp48railroading22 Рік тому

    Great video! You should put a diesel behind it to push it, just like the real one.

  • @FostoriaOhiomodelrailroadclub
    @FostoriaOhiomodelrailroadclub Рік тому +1

    you are a rookie you're supposed to put light cars on the back left around it that way

  • @HumancityJunction
    @HumancityJunction Рік тому +3

    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.

    • @TheTrainFreak
      @TheTrainFreak Рік тому +1

      They would get out of sync due to curves and wheel slippage.

    • @milkymoocowmoo
      @milkymoocowmoo Рік тому +1

      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.

    • @robertleache3450
      @robertleache3450 Рік тому

  • @pathvalleyrailroad9277
    @pathvalleyrailroad9277 Рік тому

    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.

  • @michaelwinslow447
    @michaelwinslow447 29 днів тому

    We have this train but wanted to know if there is a working light on the tender? There’s a bulb. Thanks!

  • @transcon_bnsf51atsf68
    @transcon_bnsf51atsf68 Місяць тому

    I have acquired 2 of these. Waiting for the DCC install. Which one ESU LokSound or Soundtraxx?

  • @detla499
    @detla499 Рік тому

    Saw 4014 today. Sadly the chalk Big Boy has been removed.

  • @Nate_the_Great-4472
    @Nate_the_Great-4472 Рік тому

    It’s crazy how this model costs as much as the ho one!

  • @user-cm3rl1tz2h
    @user-cm3rl1tz2h Рік тому

    Papa Ben’s in Houston had several on the shelf.

  • @denizen9998
    @denizen9998 9 місяців тому +1

    Too bad they didn't at least make this thing DCC ready.

    • @DIYDigitalRailroad
      @DIYDigitalRailroad  9 місяців тому +1

      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.

  • @joanaguayoplanell4912
    @joanaguayoplanell4912 10 місяців тому

    Will they ever release the Triplex?

  • @DietPizza1
    @DietPizza1 Рік тому +1

    Cancelled my Kato for the BLI. No regrets so far

  • @andrewlaverghetta715
    @andrewlaverghetta715 Рік тому +1

    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.

    • @milkymoocowmoo
      @milkymoocowmoo Рік тому

      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!

  • @stevemattana7195
    @stevemattana7195 Рік тому

    Unfortunately, it sounds like the speakers being overloaded. Nice like an engine that.

  • @blueinu26
    @blueinu26 Рік тому

    Big One!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @southern207hobbies
    @southern207hobbies Рік тому +1

    Big chungous!!!!

  • @larrybaughman618
    @larrybaughman618 6 місяців тому

    🤠🖐🚂

  • @TB-ModelRR
    @TB-ModelRR 8 місяців тому

    Me and my weak wallet will just go home, I guess.

  • @claytontanner7631
    @claytontanner7631 Рік тому +1

    Too bad it doesn’t have smoke like the BLI version has.

    • @claytontanner7631
      @claytontanner7631 10 місяців тому +1

      @@jmurrell9881 that’s your opinion

    • @jmurrell9881
      @jmurrell9881 10 місяців тому

      @@claytontanner7631 You're absolutely right. That is my opinion. Now clean your plate and go to bed kid.

  • @railfilm
    @railfilm Рік тому +2

    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. 😅

    • @milkymoocowmoo
      @milkymoocowmoo Рік тому

      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.

  • @cllines604
    @cllines604 Рік тому

    not a fan of U.P. but nice

  • @joepinto509
    @joepinto509 Рік тому +2

    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......

    • @jmurrell9881
      @jmurrell9881 10 місяців тому

      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.