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AndrewBrincat		#1 Posted : 03 February 2015 00:30:26(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 04/03/2014(UTC) Posts: 11 Location: MALTA, Mosta		Hi all, I'm planning to purchase the 2014 Santa Fe Super Chief 26946 soon. Does anyone have this set? If so can you kindly give me some reviews? :) Would the Big Boy or the Marklin 26495 be a better purchase? Thanks! Andrew


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Brakeman		#2 Posted : 03 February 2015 03:29:32(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 14/04/2006(UTC) Posts: 298 Location: Southern California		Hello, EMD F7 is basically 1960's tooling and construction. It's kind of toyish and represents well the hobby 50 years ago. Alco PA and BigBoy are from early 2000's, being very well detailed with nice running gear. Anyway, it's all about what you like, Juha Originally Posted by: AndrewBrincat Hi all, I'm planning to purchase the 2014 Santa Fe Super Chief 26946 soon. Does anyone have this set? If so can you kindly give me some reviews? :) Would the Big Boy or the Marklin 26495 be a better purchase? Thanks! Andrew
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Wildrose-Wally		#3 Posted : 03 February 2015 06:31:46(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 22/12/2013(UTC) Posts: 563 Location: Sunny Southern Alberta		If I had to choose between the Santa Fe Super Chief and the Montreal Limited, I would get the Montreal Limited. I just like the looks so much better.


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foumaro		#4 Posted : 03 February 2015 08:44:53(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 08/12/2004(UTC) Posts: 4,420 Location: Attiki Athens Greece		I have 37993 Big Boy,26496 Super Chief and 26495 Montreal Limited,i have all the double Alcos.I am collecting mostly USA locomotives and wagons.I was very pleased with their quality but as you can read in another topic in digital thread of the forum the decoder of the 26496 Super Chief after seven mounths suddenly died.I have no answer from marklin's service department but anyway this situation is a very bad message for me and for my opinion about marklin's guality level.I will wait for the sollution of my problem by marklin.

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Alsterstreek		#5 Posted : 03 February 2015 16:02:48(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 16/11/2011(UTC) Posts: 5,669 Location: Hybrid Home		It seems (to be confirmed by Foumaro) that for both, 26496 Super Chief and 26490 Wabash Blue Bird sets, the interior lighting power is provided by the loco pick-up shoe and fed to the passenger train via a plug connection between loco and first car. I read in a German forum that when operating either loco without the train, there is a risk that the plug dangling from the back of the loco might contact the (always powered) rails, which could lead to a damage. This risk does not exist with any "stand-alone" loco model. BTW: I collect exclusively US models, focusing on Santa Fe and thus having many Santa Fe EMD F7 delta or digital versions plus the Santa Fe Alco PA double-unit. In my view, the EMD F7 does not look toyish any more when "reworking" couplers. In the case of the 26496 SC, the EMD F7 A and B units are already close-coupled with a draw bar. If the rear B unit still had a "long-distance" RELEX coupler (Foumaro to confirm again), it could be replaced by a coupler hook (standard Maerklin spare part 216220) which leads to a very nice close-coupling effect on all curve radii. I did this to my "rear B units". Leaves the ugly front coupler of the A unit. Maybe a solution: Another forum member managed to replace the front coupler of the new Maerklin 39620 SOO EMD F7 A-B-B by a prototypical Kadee coupler. Edited by user 04 February 2015 11:58:22(UTC) \| Reason: typo
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witzlerh		#6 Posted : 04 February 2015 00:21:52(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 25/09/2010(UTC) Posts: 417 Location: Sherwood Park, AB, Canada		I have the 26490 Wabash BlueBird set. The power for the car lights do come from the lok but it is run through their powered couplers. There are no plugs. The current draw is sufficient that Marklin installed a relay because the current is too much for the decoder to handle alone. I enjoy the Bluebird set. It looks nice with my VIA Canadian by Rapido.
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H0		#7 Posted : 04 February 2015 08:26:18(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 16/02/2004(UTC) Posts: 15,265 Location: DE-NW		Originally Posted by: witzlerh The current draw is sufficient that Marklin installed a relay because the current is too much for the decoder to handle alone. There are other sets without relay where the current for the couplers comes from the decoder. A repair person told me there is an overload/overcurrent protection on the loco board - but with the wrong parts allowing more current than the decoder output can handle. IIRC he was talking about the Super Chief. Connecting a tin-plate car to the loco can kill the decoder (output) as soon as you turn on the lights - for those locos without relay.
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foumaro		#8 Posted : 04 February 2015 08:49:05(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 08/12/2004(UTC) Posts: 4,420 Location: Attiki Athens Greece		Originally Posted by: Alsterstreek It seems (to be confirmed by Foumaro) that for both, 26496 Super Chief and 26490 Wabash Blue Bird sets, the interior lighting power is provided by the loco pick-up shoe and fed to the passenger train via a plug connection between loco and first car. I read it a German forum that when operating either loco without the train, there is a risk that the plug dangling from the back of the loco might contact the (always powered) rails, which could lead to a damage. This risk does not exist with any "stand-alone" loco model. BTW: I collect exclusively US models, focusing on Santa Fe and thus having many Santa Fe EMD F7 delta or digital versions plus the Santa Fe Alco PA double-unit. In my view, the EMD F7 does not look toyish any more when "reworking" couplers. In the case of the 26496 SC, the EMD F7 A and B units are already close-coupled with a draw bar. If the rear B unit still had a "long-distance" RELEX coupler (Foumaro to confirm again), it could be replaced by a coupler hook (standard Maerklin spare part 216220) which leads to a very nice close-coupling effect on all curve radii. I did this to my "rear B units". Leaves the ugly front coupler of the A unit. Maybe a solution: Another forum member managed to replace the front coupler of the new Maerklin 39620 SOO EMD F7 A-B-B by a prototypical Kadee coupler. Yes the interior lighting for the cars is provided by the loco but this special coupler is faraway from the rails so i think is impossible to have problem.Without this is impossible to have lights unless you put a pick up shoe to the last wagon.This is the way that the 26600 California Zephyr.a similar set working.

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