On Track With Rey Piko BR 78 Steam Loco Product Review Episode #8

Reynaulds.com presents a new KZbin series call "On Track With Rey". "On Track With Rey is a bi-monthly product review series. Rey will pick his favorite new models from the store and do a complete review of the model. These videos will air every other weekend. For this episode, Rey picked the new Piko German BR 78 Tank Locomotive. Watch this incredible model in action, it is a real gem.

[@magnificus8581]

Another cool video! Thank you for sharing this!

[@DominicAmann]

Could you hear all the people yelling "take off the packaging" as you showed off the model with that plastic stuck in the chimney?

[@ReynauldsEuroImports]

My bad Dominic, I was so exciting about opening the model the first time that I totally did not pay attention. Model trains are just so exciting

[@DominicAmann]

@@ReynauldsEuroImports hahaha I just thought it was funny when I caught myself yelling at the screen

[@franciscovergara2902]

Exquisite detail Rey. Guess I'll order one of these. I don't why, but Germanic and Spanish steam engines have some sort of magic around them.

[@lukebarber9511]

How do the Piko version, the Roco version, and the Trix version stack up against each other?

[@andersgullberg]

Hello! No there is no smoke fluid filled up in the smoke generator. The red plastic are to protect smoke generator. You have to buy ESU smoke fluid to fill up.

[@streetcar6896]

Amazing detail and functions!

[@cliffleigh7450]

I have the Fleischmann 78 class which I think is every bit as good - except for the DCC functions.

[@ReynauldsEuroImports]

Cliff the BR 78 from Fleischmann was great in its time but no comparison to the new Piko version. The Fleischmann version was a little out of scale and it was all plastic, this model is mostly metal. The Piko version also has so many hand-applied boiler details and so many DCC functions. Another big difference is the running performance, Fleischmann used those old 3-Pole round motors so the running performance was not that smooth, the PIKO uses a large five-pole can motor with massive flywheels. The Fleischmann was was nice back in the 1980s but models produced today are just so much better.

[@raymondleggs5508]

Can the Whistle be changed?

[@leif-erichansens2635]

Well, the last Prussian developed Stream engine was the T20 Rey, not the T18.

[@ReynauldsEuroImports]

So much for trusting Wikipedia see link en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_T_18

[@leif-erichansens2635]

@@ReynauldsEuroImports Wikipedia isn't always right ;)

[@andersgullberg]

@@leif-erichansens2635 BR 78 are Preussen T18 and was the last locomotive in the traffic before DRG toke over Royal trains.

[@roccoautelitano7330]

I love the great Piko 50602 (Br 78 with smoke and sound) and I really want to buy it but some models have problems with slow speed booting and the sound wasn't synchronized with the movement of the wheels, infact there are 6 bursts of steam per wheel revolution instead of 4.

[@andersgullberg]

Are you sure? It is 4 cylinder on the prototype so it should only give 4 bursts.

[@roccoautelitano7330]

@@andersgullberg I'm sure, I asked Piko why and they said they haven't implemented a technology that synchronizes sound to speed, so at low speeds there are too many bursts of steam, at high too few.