Lionel B6sb engines are on the way!

@Paul Kallus posted:

Joe, nice pictures. I have one from an earlier issue, banshee whistle and deep chuffing for a little engine.

Maybe I can come over and see your layout and vice-versa in the coming months.

Sounds good Paul.  Should be able to find some time during the holidays

@Brian DeFazio posted:

Engine also has the slow glow lights with dynamo sound as lights come on

That's a neat feature.  You can also trigger it using the Aux 2 button.  You get the sound affects then the lights turn off.  Press Aux2 again, sound affects and the lights came back on.  I am also impressed with the new chatter feature.  The 7 button use to give dialog from the tower that the track was either clear or not to proceed.  The 7 button now plays some random chatter as if the engineer is talking to others on the main line.  While the engine is running its like a live conversation you are tapping into.  There are several messages that play randomly.  It adds some nice variety when the engine is running.  The emergency stop is still  favorite  of mine and Lionel continues to execute that well.  I never hear any comments on the emergency stop dialog but I have always liked the feature. For those that do not know of that feature, when the engine is moving, press the 5 button (center button).  You will hear  a random emergency which requests the engineer to stop the train, stop the train, and then the engineer will reply that the train is stopped.  I use that feature with the hotbox reefers for a really neat affect.  So you hear about an emergency, you stop the train, and then hotbox does its thing.

Good luck with your new B6sb models!

Tom

Video demo of 5 whistles...

Video of run by...

Video slowly backing up. Check out the firebox glow as well. Nicely done!

Wow, Dave never said it would have a swinging bell. Lol!

Nice demo videos, enjoy the new loco!

Great engine! I have the LIRR version from 2015 and it’s one of my favorites. Creeps and never balks.

Pretty neat having multiple whistle choices.

Enjoy!!!

I just got mine yesterday and, after about 10 minutes running, I have a few questions:

1) how do you select different whistles? I could not find anything in the instructions about that, and

2) the tether presses down on the drawbar, causing it to disconnect sometimes when going through a switch ladder. Is there a way to position it so it doesn't rest on the drawbar?

@DavidR posted:

I just got mine yesterday and, after about 10 minutes running, I have a few questions:

1) how do you select different whistles? I could not find anything in the instructions about that, and

How are you operating it? Universal remote, app, Cab1, or Cab2?

No way to change it on the UR that I am aware of. On the app use the sound menu and adjust the whistle pitch. Cab1 and Cab2 press Aux1 then blow the whistle. Do it again to get to the next whistle and so on.

Nice little switcher, still learning all the bells and whistles

I running my Bethlehem Steel B6 today.  I received it on Thursday.

Thank you for the information, Marty. I now have the whistle sound that sounds correct for my layout.

Anyone else notice that the smoke unit is a spitter? It smokes great but it does get droplets of fluid on the shell. I notice this even when smoke was getting low and it needed a refill.

@DavidR posted:

I just got mine yesterday and, after about 10 minutes running, I have a few questions:

1) how do you select different whistles? I could not find anything in the instructions about that, and

2) the tether presses down on the drawbar, causing it to disconnect sometimes when going through a switch ladder. Is there a way to position it so it doesn't rest on the drawbar?

Push the extra tether back into the tender shell. Mine had a lot of wire coming out. I just gently pushed it back into the tender so there was no slack.

My tether is far enough away that it is not a problem, don't know about the whistle yet

@Dave Olson is there a trim pot on the b6sb hidden somewhere to make it louder?  This is my first legacy steamer.  At maximum volume, the locomotive is still much quieter than all my other locomotives (k-line w/tmcc, lionel w/tmcc, and mth ps3).  I adjusted the volume to max on the Bluetooth app for all the sounds (both master and individual sounds).  I tried raising volume with my tmcc cab1 with the same results.  Couldn't find a manual adjustment on locomotive or tender.

Brian,

I noticed the same thing on the new Legacy FM trainmasters.  No more manual volume control.  I am interested in hearing why Lionel removed this.

Joe

@Joe Fermani posted:

Brian,

I noticed the same thing on the new Legacy FM trainmasters.  No more manual volume control.  I am interested in hearing why Lionel removed this.

Joe

That is a very good question, on my tmcc Lackawanna (same tooling as the legacy), it is hidden under the shell behind the cab.

Mine seems plenty loud actually had to turn it down, used Legacy remote for that. It was smoking real good for a while but no smoke now, plenty of fluid, smoke switch on under cab, set remote on smoke high.

Chuffs but no smoke anymore.

Joe..I did notice it was a spitter when there was smoke