Inside that, another box, and within that, another box yet. This thing is much heavier than I anticipated. The shipment was around 25kg

The tender and the locomotive are held onto the wooden bases by a pair of machine screws each. Unfortunately, one of the screws ripped free of the locomotive itself. A quick look and I haven't noticed any damage with it being loose in the box. The wood actually looks quick good as a quick display base.

The tender has the coal bed wrapped in its own plastic bag. Some of the (real) coal pieces are expectantly loose and this contains them.

Inside of the tender you will find the ESU 4.0 XL decoder as well as a massive speaker. Under one of the water filling holes on the tender, you will find a small switch that allows you to disable the motor on the locomotive for static testing/displaying.

Behind the smokebox door on the locomotive, you'll find a second switch that allows you to disable the smoke system. The door on the smoke box is actually held shut by the 6 small latches around the perimeter.



I haven't ventured further than this to set this locomotive up yet and will continue to update this thread as I do so.

:(. Not sure what's going on! I've never had shipments get stuck in customs for me before this. The box was huge (bigger / heavier ) than anticipated so maybe that's why they are getting more scrutiny. The weird thing is neither customs offices opened the box....

Had a chance to fire it up quickly and test out all the basic functions. So far everything seems to be functional.

The coupling of the tender and locomotive was a bit of a pain. The end-plate rotates slightly, but not enough to get the small bracket on the tender to fit into the slot of the locomotive. I had to push a bit harder than I was comfortable with but finally got it to go in.

Finding 1 Gauge track where I live is harder than I thought as well. I ended up with some pieces of straight Lionel G scale I found on clearance for $2 a piece. It works well enough -- though the gauge is a bit too wide. I'll need to order some proper track.

The smoke system is great. Generates a tonne of smoke -- I really need to find a better room to operate it in as my train room isn't that well ventilated. The pump motor on the cylinder steam is a bit loud. It isn't as noticeable with the locomotive sounds on, but definitely really noticeable on video. The overall effect is great is though.

The smoke and chuffs is synchronized well with the wheel. Some people had problems with this because of bad alignment of the hall sensor with the axle magnets. Luckily mine didn't need to be adjusted.

Nice video, thanks for posting Tulit. You definitely need more G1 track!

There's one thing you can confirm for me please, I was told that the loco includes Marklin clutch couplers for use with Marklin rolling stock, is this correct?

This is the coupler included

Thanks for posting Tulit. However, that looks nothing like a Marklin G1 coupling!

I sent an email to the dealer I brought my loco from regarding the fact that the parcel hadn't moved for 2 weeks as of today. I don't know if he contacted DHL or not (I haven't had confirmation back), but I see from the DHL tracking info that the loco is now on its way to New Zealand.

Thanks for posting these comparison photos of H0 and 1 gauge BR 01's and the video. It is a giant like the prototype! Smoke and steam looks great and real .

It must feel good when you have not bought that much other items and then bought instead this high quality big steam locomotive. I think this KM1 BR 01 is well worth the money spent!

Cheers,
Janne