Broadway Limited Conductor's club exclusive locomotives for 2024

[@johnmalvasio3720]

WOW, thank you for sharing. Just ordered both HO engines with sound. There's no way you could beat that deal. With the free receiver, you're only paying 270 for each Locomotive. I'm just starting out in HO, so this is a great start to my collection.

[@michaelstrains4014]

Well I had told my friend that is a conductor’s club member if it was a challenger I didn’t need to know and now I’m selling excess collection items to fund a sound equipped 3985 lol. Considering how accurate the GS-4 file was I’m excited for what the sounds for 3985 will be like.

[@wolfen216]

I'll admit I thought it was going to be a bad deal but im actually amazed. Youd be a fool to pass it up at that price

[@DGModelworks]

Wow! This is a fantastic deal. Thanks for making this video.

[@Mike__B]

So I started this video with "oooh geee you get to pay money so you can buy 'exclusive' trains...." and by the time the video was over I was saying "Welp there goes that tax refund". I do appreciate this though, this is something I don't think I would have ever came upon.

[@newarktower1787]

Horizon Hobby/Athearn has a club like this and you get a yearly merchandise pack and a bi annual magazine called Transmitter and free 2 day shipping. And you’ll also have a salesperson who you can call up and order Athearn models.The price is 130.00 for a year. The club is called the RC elite loyalty program

[@kylestevens6925]

Oh that thumbnail 😂 what a glorious picture.

[@RodimusPrime]

I was trying to capture the stupid look of most youtubers thumbnails 😂

[@sparky107107]

so can you order some of these for people, par 4 would be nice just for the keep alive

[@Challenger3985Productions]

I am so gonna a buy 3985

[@wiseguysmith6519]

I can't decide if I want to get the stealth version or take my chances with the paragon 4. Smoke isn't a big deal for me. This would be my first BLI loco and have read there have been many issues in the past with the paragon decoders. Any thoughts on the reliably of the p4 compared to the p3?

[@James-Railyard]

That settles it, I’m getting the stealth 4014 and 3985. I’m getting my friend a stealth 3977 and another friend 4019 if he’ll want it.

[@Challenger3985Productions]

Is a conductors club membership worth it?

[@OriginalBongoliath]

Broadway Ltd. doesn't charge sales tax when you purchase from their site if you are outside of Florida.

[@RailfanS1]

I wonder if the club locomotives are going to be complete steals like this every year or if this is to just get the club going. Either way it’s going to work this year. I model modern eastern roads, but for that price I think I’m going to join the club and get one just to pull my double stack train at shows. Hopefully in the future the pricing stays low, I’d love to see a paragon 4 Niagara next year at this price.

[@Mike__B]

Well you can, currently, see what is offered without getting into the club, if that trend continues should be good to go, now the big question... do I want the museum version or the excursion version...

[@mojessedax9089]

Matt, have you still got the MTH ho big Boy the you reviewed around 2022? you didn't like the sound. anyway, have you still got it? Cheers!

[@RodimusPrime]

Sold

[@malcolmwyllie9578]

This is nice. What radius would I want for this unit to run smooth on?

[@RodimusPrime]

Specs say 18 but thats wildly wrong. You really need 22 or larger. 26 or larger if you plan to run walthers 85ft up excursion cars

[@malcolmwyllie9578]

Thanks for the info. 1 more if I may. Where can I get 26 or larger sectionl HO track? Just starting out and want to do it right. @@RodimusPrime

[@RodimusPrime]

I like Kato Unitrack@@malcolmwyllie9578

[@Mike__B]

Are these the only locomotives to be offered? It mentions you need to pre-order by May 30th, so if you join after there's no chance at locos? Or will they just stop offering after May 30th Also is there an inexpensive DCC decoder that'd work with this? I keep reading Paragon DCC is "junk"

[@RodimusPrime]

For now.. yes preorder by May 30th. All things indicate these wont be available through retailers. You can get a non sound decoder for 25 bucks but thats kinda silly to not have sound in this day and age on a steam engine. Any good decoder is going to be at least 100 bucks which takes you right back to the price of what the broadway factory sound is. These units may have an updated sound file, thats something to watch for

[@Mike__B]

@@RodimusPrime Well did my preorder on May 30th at like 8pm, never ordered a DCC loco before, decided if I'm going to pay the extra $100 for dcc+sound might as well do it with a good one. Although looking at page it still seems like you can order them, either way. Need to now start thinking about a DCC controller for my layout.

[@mustachemike802]

If BLI wants to impress me they'll stop with the gimmicks and stroking the HO scalers and get the 2023 N Scale SD70-ACE's and M's distributed which were supposed to have been released almost a year ago!

[@chrisdaniell2990]

Broadway steals hobby dollars from other companies by lowering the price. Smart move.