This HO scale Pennsylvania RR class H10s from Broadway Limited Imports features the firm’s Paragon2 Digital Command Control sound decoder and synchronized puffing smoke. Watch the HO scale 2-8-0 Consolidation-type steam locomotive as it hauls freight on the Model Railroader staff’s club layout, the Milwaukee, Racine & Troy.
Video: Broadway Limited Imports HO scale PRR H10s 2-8-0
By Angela Cotey | December 2, 2014
| Last updated on February 2, 2021
The Paragon2 series steam locomotive model includes Digital Command Control (DCC), sound, and smoke
This is probably among the top 4 locomotives Broadway has done(K4s, M1 a&b, and J1A are the others with comparable power), an excellent runner and good puller due to the weight. I could have done without the smoke effect as it never looks like anything a coal burner did do, and the other change except for more weight (drip the fan, drop the smoke, more weight is always good), would be to make the front and rear marker lights individually controllable via the DCC board, as the PRR markers were used in very specific ways, and never would both sets be on unless you had a light engine running as an extra or second section, and almost never did these locomotives operate outside the yard without a cabin car attached, so the cabin would carry the rear markers, unless its in front of the engine and the engine is pushing (as in helper service).
Next on the list should be a HO G5S, D16Sb, and N2Sa with the Lima Hamilton LT2500 transfer unit for the diesels.
Cheers!
Kyle F. McGrogan
I am looking for a powered Amtrak Metroliner in n scale. The passenger locomotive! Anyone have ideas?
Patrick, the "Banshee" whistle is quite prototypical for these, and many other PRR engines.
The head light is tilted down? I have had trouble with two Bli steam engines
I would think it would be less were on the side rods,if you put the rubber tire on the driver that has the gear on the axle.
I always enjoy watching your videos of the MR layouts and reviews of the new rolling stock. I have a technical question regarding the playback of the video. Occasionally, the train appears to jerk forward when it is moving, as if a few frames of the video were lost. Is this happening when the video is being edited or transferred to so it can be sent over the internet? My wife and I used to shoot wedding videos of our friend's children 15-20 years ago. At that time we were using Sony Hi8 and Digital 8 movie cameras and using Apple's iMovie and iDVD to edit the event from two separate cameras and finally burn the edited movie to DVD. None of our movies had the jerking effect. I would expect that with today's newer technology that this would not happen. Anyway, I still enjoy watching them. Thanks.
Dana, I liked the way you cut off far enough from the crossing so you wouldn't have it blocked after lifting that car from Montgomery Feeds!
Truly terrible whistle, hope the alternates are better. Yes, Harriman engines please, with 5 chime whistles
Nice looking H10. One of my very earliest memories is of watching an H10 (probably – it might have been an H9) switching hoppers. At 4 or 5 years old, I was supposed to be frightened by the noise! Fascinated would be a better word.
Put me in the No Smoke Wanted category though. Until the manufacturers can put realistic looking smoke — black clouds; not white wisps — in models, I'll do without. Of course, the black clouds would probably include soot which might not be real welcome either. 🙂
Beautiful. I just wish they would make it in N Scale!
Nice loco. A long time coming, but well done – except for smoke, which I feel is not at all realistic (black smoke, anyone?). I do wonder why an expensive steam loco is shipped with shiny leading wheels rather than blackened. The Paragon chip is OK, but not equal to the TCS WOW steam decoder in features and sound quality.
Best piece of PRR steam in HO ever! See Clarence Weaver's S&L Story video for prototypes in action on way freights. A whole railroad can be built around this one engine. Superb!
Love the H-10's, I have three of them, two now in HO and one 7.5" gauge live steamer! Keep the smoke units coming. The ability to turn the smoke on or off keeps everyone happy and besides, the smell of evergreen scented smoke is great around Christmas time!
Nice looking steamer. No offense to the PRR guys but what is really needed by the western modelers is a "Harriman" 2-8-0 of that quality. Are you listening BLI? Maybe if sales of the H10s are good, then BLI will realize that there is a decent market for smaller steam locos. Everybody wants to do Big Boys, 2-6-6-6's, turbines, etc but MOST layouts need switchers and light power for operating sessions.
I have one of these, just had to add it to my roster when i saw it run at my retailer's. Absolutely love this little loco, if you can fit it, do it, you will be glad you did!
Broadway Ltd. have done it again. This engine fits well into the mix of other Pennsy engines on their roster. Unfortunately, they still cling to the idea of adding "smoke" to their otherwise good looking models. Since it is rather hard to duplicate real smoke (not just scaling it down), it would be better to eliminate it entirely. All that being said, seeing this engine in action makes one want to rush right out and get one. Don't know if it would push the modeler to wanting to do the PRR or the NYH&NH.
There are, according to the written revue in the January issue, some additional Pennsy only features to the engine that were not shown in this video. There are marker lights on the pilot deck and the rear of the tender that if turned on, operate like the headlight and backup light, unrealistically coming on whenever the direction is changed. I guess it would be too much to ask that the headlight and backup light be on separate function switches that the operator can turn on or off as the mood strikes.
All that being said, this is a very find model.
December 3rd, 2014.
Generally I give the BLI PRR H10s a thumbs up on most things. However, I do wish that on the next run of these locomotives that they make the marker lights controllable (front/rear and on/off via DCC commands, and that they include an extra No. 4 driver set without the traction tires as they did on the locomotives before the I1Sa's. Generally a better locomotive then the I1Sa's which were poor performers right out of the box (my two have never run yet due to cracked gears from day 1- not discovered during the warranty period due to no model railroad). Also if they could duplicate the drawbars as used on the M1/J1 series of locomotives they would get a better locomotive out of the deal. Next on the list should be the G5S and the L1S…..
Sincerely,
Kyle F. McGrogan