Just spoke with Jonathan from Piko and he was kind enough to share this with me.
Happy Rails!
Ken Bianco Jr.
TrainWorld
It looks like a New Bright toy! I’ll bet it costs a lot more though.
New bright limits colors to 2-3 max per item to reduce costs though, lol
This model looks like a nice quality locomotive for a Xmas tree train.
Ken Bianco said:
Just spoke with Jonathan from Piko and he was kind enough to share this with me.
Happy Rails!
Ken Bianco Jr.
TrainWorld
They must have some really knowledgeable people advising them on product choices. (http://community.logos.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Discussions.Components.Files/28/4011.f_5F00_tongueincheek.gif)(http://community.logos.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Discussions.Components.Files/28/4011.f_5F00_tongueincheek.gif)
More eye-bleach needed urgently.
What a colossal waste of fine plastic.
Having raised the bar with the DB Br64, they now drop it firmly on their foot with this thing.
I can only assume that the ‘advisor’ is Stevie Wonder.
tac
To my eye either the boiler is too large, or the domes are too small or…um…
No, that won’t find a home here. If I do “fall” into one, its getting bashed right away, before ANYONE sees it.
I have a Piko Southern Mogul, runs nice and smooth, does seem a touch small… This would look nice next to Hartland’s “Jupiter” or maybe their “General”
Hi Guys:
The Camelback is kind of neat. I may buy one later if they get blown out through Train World.
This mogul may sell in Europe. I do not see how this mogul will sell in the United States market place.
Norman
PIKO gets the nod for using the cheapest, available, and most welcomed promotion vehicle in the hobby: LSC.
Unfortunately, of the three promotions so far on this site: PIKO New Camelback, Fall News from PIKO, and the PIKO 38217 Santa Fe Mogul-Sneak Peak, the Camelback is the ONLY product capturing any sizeable approval.
All is tantamount to showing a Pontiac Aztec on a Tesla owner’s website promoting it as a trade-in special.
My hopes PIKO doesn’t blow it. They could be what LGB was.
Bob Russell said:
This model looks like a nice quality locomotive for a Xmas tree train.
I agree with that. The photo suggests it looks like a toy.
Yeeerch!
Eeeeech to his own…
'snot for me.
Not when there are GAZILLIONS of American prototypes just HOWLIN’ to be modelled.
tac
ovgrs.org
May sell in Europe???
Well, three UK posters so far have given it the thumbs down.
YUK!!!
HELLO PIKO!
Don’t blow it.
You have the German heritage of craftsmanship – and consumer memories of LGB in Christmas windows.
Have you seen the “Blue Comet” version of the Camelback yet?
I’ll still take one if I can get it cheap, paint is cheaper.
Many stateside would be amazed to learn just how knowledgeable some Brits are about American railroads.
A Gauge 1 railroad-building friend of mine has built a set of seven ‘Empire Builder’ passenger cars to run behind his Aster S2, using the original builder’s drawings from the GNHS, AND managed to put one of the drawings right by deeply researched archival digging into the format of one of the cars as built, rather than as-running. He has even duplicated the tiled mosaic floor of the observation car in the original art-deco style, rather than simulate the replacement floor covering seen in photos of the car as preserved, wherever that might be.
Many of us here with close connections to North America are well up to a learned conversation about US and Canadian railways. Another pal of mine, with the initials NH, models the nineteen-seventies New Haven lines in H0 and has spent around a $100k doing just that.
The local city model railroad club has a thriving set of US-style layouts in H0 and N - any of which would not be out-of-place on the front cover of RM.
So don’t be dissing the Brits, eh?
tac
Vic Smith said:
Have you seen the “Blue Comet” version of the Camelback yet?
I’ll still take one if I can get it cheap, paint is cheaper.
Vic - black is your friend here.
tac
Ottawa Valley GRS
Norman Bourgault said:
Hi Guys:
The Camelback is kind of neat. I may buy one later if they get blown out through Train World.
This mogul may sell in Europe. I do not see how this mogul will sell in the United States market place.
Norman
One needs to be colour blind to consider buying that critter on either side of the Atlantic.
BTW for those who thrive on such http://www.steamlocomotive.com/mogul/ a fairly extensive list of the railroads that used moguls.