As I said on another string mine arrived too. It works great and pulled 20 Gilbert freight cars easily on Gilbert track and switches. 16 cars up the Gilbert trestle set on my layout. 21 cars is all I ever do as the weight pulls the cars off around the corners.
No rubs or scuffs on my UP version. Very well done.
Mark, the manual on page 16 gives you a different way to adjust volume. It doesn't work as written. Your method of holding down the Shift/Announcement key does work. This should be noted to people so I have used red here.
On the PE car the wires are longer to the trucks where they are soldered. Earlier cars had shorter wires and that was part of the problem. With shorter wires it pulled at the solder on every turn.
