Southern Pacific EMD SD9 Atlas Master N Scale Friday

[@Longshadowsmodeltrees]

Great review John, glad to see you keeping N scale Fridays going. Bob

[@ADPeguero]

I have the BN of these and the sound and performance is really impressive. I got it at a train show from Yankee Dabbler for like $170 or so.

[@1621billw]

Thanks for the review. I kind of like the "Durante Nose" on the loco.

[@CodysTrainz]

The Fact this locomotive uses an ESU Lok Sound 5 Nano Decoder is very cool, I think they have a simular setup on their Diesel Switchers.

[@jp-go7hg]

prime mover sounds so accurate, I want a black widow one!

[@bobpoli3126]

John, the tiny lettering under the cab is EUGENE, probably out of Oregan.

[@keonisan]

Nice review, I wish ESU would select a better horn as the stock one, if I get one of those the horn is the first thing changing.

[@donaldshroyer8633]

You don't mention what decoder is in that version.

[@donwhead]

I believe all the Atlas locos are shipping with ESU decoders.

[@misterbizznizz]

Solid revieuw, thanks. Would it be possible to switch those couplers for MTL ones?

[@tsgmultimedia]

Yes!

[@dirtthunder1638]

The real problem is that Atlas used ESU's E24 connector for the decoder connection. ESU is the only dcc manufacture using it and it's not a NMRA standard. As of now you have only one choice for a plug-n-play decoder that fit it and some new offerings from ScaleTrains.

[@keonisan]

why would you want anything other than ESU though? That's pretty much a no brainer. ESU or nothing.