These seem to be showing up at shops online and I did watch a great review of the NPR one on YouTube. I was wondering if anyone else picked this steam engine up yet and your opinion on it.
I’m close to pulling the trigger on the Santa Fe version.
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It’s really very nice. Great whistle and rod action
Just got Polar Express version from Charles Ro. Using blue tooth with an IPAD. It will make some noise.
I just received my Halloween Berkshire from Nassau hobby. Love the sounds and great smoke, operation and fun
@SteveMa posted:I just received my Halloween Berkshire from Nassau hobby. Love the sounds and great smoke, operation and fun
I would love to see a video of it. Especially the sounds!
Good to know, the louder the better for me. I went ahead and placed an order for the Santa Fe version.
You can control the loudness of sound with the Bluetooth app
I received my Santa Fe LC+2.0 Berkshire today and I really like it. The only thing I noticed is that the whistle is not as loud as the other sounds which I thought was odd. I know you can change the whistle sound pitch and volume and I did all that. I did a few resets on it and disabled the Bluetooth and now it's much better.
Not sure if anyone else has had that problem.
@BNSF-Matt posted:I received my Santa Fe LC+2.0 Berkshire today and I really like it. The only thing I noticed is that the whistle is not as loud as the other sounds which I thought was odd. I know you can change the whistle sound pitch and volume and I did all that. I did a few resets on it and disabled the Bluetooth and now it's much better.
Not sure if anyone else has had that problem.
Wow! Nice!!
Our family just received a NKP version as a gift from my dad. He and I saw the real 765 and had a cab ride on its first day of operation back in 1979. The model is very nice. It has great sound. The whistle is adjustable on tone. It sounds very much like the real 765. Runs well with Legacy and bluetooth on my phone. Transformer control is pretty touchy though. I want to try it with a couple different transformers. I would definitely recommend it!
@BNSF-Matt posted:I received my Santa Fe LC+2.0 Berkshire today and I really like it. The only thing I noticed is that the whistle is not as loud as the other sounds which I thought was odd. I know you can change the whistle sound pitch and volume and I did all that. I did a few resets on it and disabled the Bluetooth and now it's much better.
Not sure if anyone else has had that problem.
How did you disable the Bluetooth on the locomotive?
Are the sounds the same in all the 2.0 Berks? Disney, Halloween, and the Polar Express do they have different sound sets, or all the same?
Jim
@Jim Sandman posted:Are the sounds the same in all the 2.0 Berks? Disney, Halloween, and the Polar Express do they have different sound sets, or all the same?
Jim
All themed sets have the appropriate sounds, Halloween has spooky sounds, Polar Express has movie sounds, North Pole has Christmas sounds. The prototype berkshires have the standard steam sounds and you can change the whistle pitch and bell pitch too.
I sort of fell into a Polar Express, that I will pick up later this week. (My LHS ordered it for a customer who stiffed him- any questions as to why the LHS cannot STOCK engines any more?)
I have zero interest in Polar Express. Any way to get and install different crewtalk software, chips whatever??
i really want to hear the disney version if anyone has that one can you play the sounds ? i'd also like the halloween and christmas berks at their full range
the polar sounds amazing i might add
i want one of the fantasy berkshires but i want to see all in action as far as the fantasy ones go
still trying to figure out how to save up 500+ by next summer and lock in an engine without the fear of having to cancel or missing out
i don't want to anger my hobby shop with a cancellation again
I checked Lionel website for the Disney Berks, but they don't have the sound clips like they have had for some of the past LionChief products.
https://www.lionel.com/product...20-berkshire-1932080
I'm interested in hearing it as well - Hopefully several Disney characters can be heard.
Jim
@Jim Sandman posted:I checked Lionel website for the Disney Berks, but they don't have the sound clips like they have had for some of the past LionChief products.
https://www.lionel.com/product...20-berkshire-1932080
I'm interested in hearing it as well - Hopefully several Disney characters can be heard.
Jim
Jim - this one will have generic dialog. Nothing Disney specific. That's all they would allow. 
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