Breaking news: I bought a new train. The first time I visited Alamosa I saw one of these SLRG units and fell in love with it. The paint scheme, the SD9043MAC, the whole thing. So I knew as I was building out my fleet I had to have it. This is also my first Kato loco. #modelrailroad #modeltrains - ThreadSky

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zachelliottwx.bsky.social • 33 days ago

Breaking news: I bought a new train. The first time I visited Alamosa I saw one of these SLRG units and fell in love with it. The paint scheme, the SD9043MAC, the whole thing. So I knew as I was building out my fleet I had to have it. This is also my first Kato loco. #modelrailroad #modeltrains

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weatherfox64.bsky.social•29 days ago

Oh hey, nice!

zachelliottwx.bsky.social•29 days ago

Thanks. I love it so far. I'm almost done detailing but it's already been on the tracks and ran and it's a super solid runner and sounds amazing. Very impressed for my first Kato

zachelliottwx.bsky.social•33 days ago

Since this is my first Kato, I have some things to learn. Although detailing looks pretty easy. All the parts are molded plastic in the right colors. When I did my Athearn SD75M I had to paint match and paint a bunch of tiny metal parts. I still would prefer metal over plastic, but hey, i'll take it

zachelliottwx.bsky.social•33 days ago

Other thing i'm not crazy about is how the lights work. This has fiber optic-esque light "tubes" for the ditch lights and headlights/taillights. Means lighting those up with LED will be a bit more challenging if I want to separate the ditch from the headlight for example. But i'll figure it out.

zachelliottwx.bsky.social•33 days ago

I've got a Soundtraxx Econami PNP decoder coming next week that will go in this with an iPhone 8 speaker to make it sound great. Will be my first time messing with Soundtraxx as well so i'm excited about that.

zachelliottwx.bsky.social•29 days ago

Got the decoder installed last night. My speakers still aren't in yet and don't have a tracking number (which is annoying. Thanks eBay seller) but I just pulled a Digitrax unit out and it works fine. Sounds great and the board makes the wiring so much cleaner than trying to wire up a standard chip

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