Comments on: The Collective: Review of Star Trek Electric Train Collection

By: Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 26 May 2010 00:52:19 +0000

When I said I’d run an ST train on our clubs modular layout they nearly were rolling on the floor laughing and ask if I would also dress as a Klingon. I thought a better idea than the “collectible”, (even if it weren’t an expensive piece of junk), would be to get a new engine with dcc & sound. For real novelty make it a steam engine. Buy ST decals which I have found from modelers at conventions or on line. Get some freight cars, spray them white ,and put ST decals on the cars too. That idea also didn’t highball either.
Stuart

By: Roy Brownson Jr

Roy Brownson Jr — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 21:17:15 +0000

Can I get the star trek train collection in dcc and sound? If so where?

By: Cyberbeetle

Cyberbeetle — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:12:06 +0000

I like it !
Would like to own one.
But in Germany it is not available.

Greetings,
Henning

By: Stuart

Stuart — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:19:40 +0000

I am both a ST hobbyist and a model RR hobbyist. I like the idea of the ST train set. I have a few questions however. First I notice it is a Bachmann. Does it have a built in DCC decoder, is it DCC ready? Is the B unit powered? Does it have a flywheel? Does it use knuckle couplers or old style horn and hook? Do the cars have metal wheels? Frankly for $210 it should have DCC, with both A& B units powered with flywheels. All wheels should be metal and couplers be knuckle type. Also I think the choice of the F3 Electromotive diesel was the wrong one fro this train. Although I believe that trains with steel wheels will run on steel rails will still be around in the 23rd and 24th centuries, they will not use a diesel engine for power and be of far more advanced design.

By: larry

larry — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:00:50 +0000

All you dummies commenting dont know what your talking about saying its a cheap peice of crap, dont you know this thing will be worth over a thousand dollars soon? and it will be rare cause all you poor peeps cant afford it, thats why i bought 17 sets, and will sell them in a few years and make over 20 grand.
Besides I like it and its a wonderful looking train.

cya poor peeps
larry

By: The Good German

The Good German — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:06:48 +0000

Very nice! Fine Product!

By: Canadianknight

Canadianknight — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:20:52 +0000

#45 – Please don’t tell me to relax. I ain’t stressed. I’m simply pointing out it’s a crap quality train that costs far too much.

By: Neville A. Ross

Neville A. Ross — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:22:33 +0000

#45-It’s a POS, and a POS is a POS, no matter how you try to polish it.

Here’s a better Star Trek trainset idea:

A monorail set (based on the shape of the shuttlecraft from STV: The Final Frontier) bearing the name Nortrak (based on Amtrak, but instead now called North American Rail Corporation). This set would come complete with pylons, lights. the whole shmeer. As for the decals, it would say ‘Nortrak’ and then in smaller script, ‘United Earth Republic Transit Authority’ ending with the United Earth Republic symbol. This set would also contain a sound-effects card that would say out station destinations, and all the other stuff you hear on a train now and would most definitely hear on a train then in that future.

Another train set inspired by/based on/suggested by Star Trek would be a bullet train in the similar colors as mentioned above. Actually. I would love to see a maglev (magnetic levitation) trainset inspired by/based on/suggested by Star Trek, but considering how maglev’s haven’t even been built yet for ordinary transportation, there’s no way a company could make a maglev trainset-it would probably cost a thousand dollars and then some. So, the two types of trainset I’ve mentioned would have to be what we get; both are better than this POS made just to slap ‘Star Trek’ and sell it as merchandise.

By: krikzil

krikzil — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:28:41 +0000

#43– Lordy. It’s only a train. Relax.

By: Seleya

Seleya — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:19:29 +0000

There’s real potential if they get into the scenery. Wormholes, dilithium mines, starship yards, various homeworld captials… whole new vistas of collectibles for third parties to offer. :-)