Bachmann Trains - Super Chief Ready To Run Electric Train Set - N Scale

Nice starter set. OK quality. Has been running daily for over a year.

The media could not be loaded. In 1990 I bought my first N Scale Train, a Bachmann Trains - Super Chief Ready To Run Electric Train Set. Still runs good. This new one is just been updated to new couplers a small circuit board under the hood, and a 24 inch circle of EZ track. Also updated Controller. The circuit board may be related to DCC. The Loco and cars have great detail, and look very niceI bought Two of these sets over the holidays to take advantage of the sales. I was hoping I could run the two Locomotives Back to Back. I expected when putting them on the track in different direction and would run away from each other but was glad to see they ran in the same direction . So I coupled them together and put as many cars on a 34 inch oval could handle, 22 plus the two Loco'sThe video I posted, the first 4 cars and the last caboose car came with the set. So about the first 1/3 of cars have knuckle couplers the the middle third of cars have the older Rapido couplers and the last third is back to the newer knuckle couplers, with a transition car to handle each change of the coupler type.At the end of Video a Derailment happened as the Engineer started slow the Train down. A NTSB investigation determined that as the slowing occurred two Cars in the middle of of the train become unconnected causing the Loco to run into the back of the uncoupled cars. No damage was done to the Front coupler of the Loco or the rear coupler of the Caboose.The uncoupling of the two middle cars were of different manufactures so Coupler incompatibility and excess speed probably was the cause as the couplers unloaded weight from the pull as the train slowed.The Engineer of the Locomotive was reprimanded for speeding and unsafe operation of a Train and assigned to administration duties pending further investigation.Conclusion. On a large layout running these two Locos in the Back to Back configuration one could pull very long Train. I don't have enough cars to test this out though, and my bigger layout is out of commission for renovation work.

Competitive price, fast shipping, brand new set works great, my 4 year old set it up quickly and had it running perfectly, this was an after Christmas Santa gift

the locomotive is great and has no problem handling the load given in this set, plus a few extra car. the problem I have with it is that the included loco and freight cars do not like to couple with each other, while additional cars couple to it without any issue.

As described

Poorly constructed. Couplers DO NOT WORKImpossible to get cars/trains coupleDO NOT BUY UNTIL THERE IS A MORE RELIABLE COUPLING SYSTEM

awesome, great price

Please be aware that this is a minature train set. I didn't see that in the description and had to return it. Probably a nice train if you are in to that kind of thing, but I didn't open it.