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Am thinking about a preorder from the last catalog. Watched a youtube video from Erics trains. I noticed the steaming whistle only operated if you pressed two softkeys and not from the whistle button. That was the 2015 version. I was thinking there have been more runs of this loco since then. If so, does the steaming whistle still operate the same way? Are these whistles reliable?  Would like to hear your comments on the one you own. Thanks in advance

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Pretty sure they still work that way, and it's a giant PITA.  I can't imagine why they didn't just key it to the whistle.  I know they wanted to vary the intensity with the playable whistle, but they could have left that option and just run it full-blast when you just use the whistle.  Makes it almost non-usable to me.  They even had Lionel's method to copy from, which makes me wonder what they were thinking!

I ran one of these the other night on a friends layout.  Nice looking engine but the smoking whistle is really dumb.   Not worth the extra trouble.    I'm spoiled by the visionline BB.   The soundest on these I also feel is lackluster.  Quiet too.  Just doesn't give you that massive engine feel.   We we're also running a vison challenger at the same time and the MTH BB just kind of got lost in the background  with other trains running at the same time.    Pretty to look at but wasn't slightly impressed. 

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