Fresh out of the box Frisco BLI SD40-2. I have not changed any of the factory settings. This is as delivered. I could do without the ditch lights and chicken wire radiator grills as the original motors were not equipped with either. Paint is a bit to red...not orange enough. Lettering is a bit off. They should have consulted Athearn and Atlas
At least BLI is consistent with built-in inaccuracy. Their lack of attention to such detail and lack of interest in simply asking just confirms to me that they are Building Limited Interest as far as I am concerned.
For that much $, they could at least paint the hand rails white for us. The Athearn SD-45s also came with red hand rails. It sounds better than the BLI.
Anyone know if the exhaust is suppose to be silver? Went and looked at some pictures and it was hard to tell, they were coated in black grime. Ethan
I'm not even going to start commenting on BLI Frisco locomotive models again! These guys seem to be oblivious to the fact that many resources exist, frisco.org being the best, to obtain the info needed to easily make their models near perfect. Instead they put out an approximation. Boo! K
They modeled the 4114 heavy mike with two-axle tender trucks and no dog house. But, it surely does run and sound great.
Not money well spent. I have yet to tweak the sound but it does sound good right out of the box. And I'm going to try the Paragon 3 sound gimmick. Maybe that will make up for the other fails.
Hi Ethan Some of the later SD40-2's had exhaust silencers instead of a straight stack from the turbo, these silencers were Silver in appearance when new, but like you note, didn't stay that way long. A quick look at page 113 of the Marre/Sommers book shows the top of SD40-2 955. Without the silencer, so no Silver exhaust I don't think.
