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Post by MichRR714 on Jul 17, 2020 15:42:33 GMT
I'm digging the Soo Line 4-6-0.. but I'm just not sure that I trust them yet.
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Post by JDaddy on Jul 17, 2020 16:03:32 GMT
Sorry Gary, but the coal load in the tender looks outdated, like a 400e from the 1930’s, is it metal? I wonder of the new one will have a more realistic coal pile, or the same one? I think I know the answer. Coal load on the S1 ? Yeah it may have been blurry, but the coal is separately applied and look looks fantastic on the model.
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Post by JDaddy on Jul 17, 2020 16:04:36 GMT
I think for the price and whistle steam the ten wheeler will be the best bang for the buck. I like the Texas and Pacific one.
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Post by Craignor on Jul 17, 2020 16:09:36 GMT
I think for the price and whistle steam the ten wheeler will be the best bang for the buck. I like the Texas and Pacific one. It must be my old eyes, glad to hear the coal pile looks good.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2020 18:03:03 GMT
I AGREE PAULA, DOLLARS IN THE BANK ARE A GOOD THING!! HOWEVER, CHERYL REALLY LIKES THE PENNSY VERSION OF THE 2-8-8-2 IN THE NEW CATALOG AND I PROMISE I WONT STAND IN HER WAY IF SHE WANTS TO BUY IT!! SHE WAS HOPING FOR A N&W Y6B,(NON WEATHERED). MAYBE NEXT YEAR. Gary.
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Post by JDaddy on Jul 17, 2020 18:19:19 GMT
Gary - Is that Cab roof and boiler really going to be that color green?!
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Post by trainsintheattic on Jul 17, 2020 19:53:58 GMT
It seems I have leapt before looking again. While one of the engines mentioned here is clearly the S1 my grey matter computed S2. The turbine is what I blathered on about.
I have never been completely sold on anyone's 0 gauge S1 due to the reasoning behind any large articulated locos....too big to suit the curves on my layout. Having recently impulse purchased a BigBoy and Challenged proved that my intuition all along has been correct. While they negotiate the layout just fine it has everything to do with the awkward appearance in doing so. I use the analogy of keeping a Cheetah penned in 3' cage.
Oh, how sweet it would be to have the room to watch one gracefully take a wide curve at speed or highball down a 150' straight. Dems da breaks.
Bruce
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Post by josef on Jul 17, 2020 20:11:29 GMT
It seems I have leapt before looking again. While one of the engines mentioned here is clearly the S1 my grey matter computed S2. The turbine is what I blathered on about. I have never been completely sold on anyone's 0 gauge S1 due to the reasoning behind any large articulated locos....too big to suit the curves on my layout. Having recently impulse purchased a BigBoy and Challenged proved that my intuition all along has been correct. While they negotiate the layout just fine it has everything to do with the awkward appearance in doing so. I use the analogy of keeping a Cheetah penned in 3' cage. Oh, how sweet it would be to have the room to watch one gracefully take a wide curve at speed or highball down a 150' straight. Dems da breaks. Bruce I have to agree about big engines. I had a Challenger I sold to help defray cost of a Vision Line BIG BOY. An engine I admired for decades. I should have thought things out because I rarely ran my Challenger because I always had to move things around to run it. The BB was worst in my opinion on my layout coming around curves. Its been over a year since I ran it, rather it sits in a case in our office. Its come to were I appreciate engines with minimum 054 radius and how they look on 072s. But, I'm more a 2-8-0 fan which always look good. I admire big engines and love to see posts on them, but at present at least, I just don't have the layout I desire to accommodate these beasts.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2020 22:34:36 GMT
Gary - Is that Cab roof and boiler really going to be that color green?! I HOPE IT'S JUST THE PHOTO THAT SHOWS THAT COLOR!! KIND OF LOOKS EERIE.
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Post by JDaddy on Jul 17, 2020 23:46:20 GMT
It seems I have leapt before looking again. While one of the engines mentioned here is clearly the S1 my grey matter computed S2. The turbine is what I blathered on about. I have never been completely sold on anyone's 0 gauge S1 due to the reasoning behind any large articulated locos....too big to suit the curves on my layout. Having recently impulse purchased a BigBoy and Challenged proved that my intuition all along has been correct. While they negotiate the layout just fine it has everything to do with the awkward appearance in doing so. I use the analogy of keeping a Cheetah penned in 3' cage. Oh, how sweet it would be to have the room to watch one gracefully take a wide curve at speed or highball down a 150' straight. Dems da breaks. Bruce Bruce - This is the perfect excuse to buy it and possibly run it at a friends house. I have some Atlas passenger cars that never see the light of day. But when a colleague host trains at his house, I have the option of packing these up and running them all night long.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2020 1:19:37 GMT
I AGREE PAULA, DOLLARS IN THE BANK ARE A GOOD THING!! HOWEVER, CHERYL REALLY LIKES THE PENNSY VERSION OF THE 2-8-8-2 IN THE NEW CATALOG AND I PROMISE I WONT STAND IN HER WAY IF SHE WANTS TO BUY IT!! SHE WAS HOPING FOR A N&W Y6B,(NON WEATHERED). MAYBE NEXT YEAR. Gary. Gary what version 2-8-8-2 is Lionel making For this? If N and W built it, is it a Y2, Y3, or what? Just another 2-8-8-2 is a no go for us in N and W. We may consider Virginian. Back to her original point.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2020 1:43:56 GMT
I AGREE PAULA, DOLLARS IN THE BANK ARE A GOOD THING!! HOWEVER, CHERYL REALLY LIKES THE PENNSY VERSION OF THE 2-8-8-2 IN THE NEW CATALOG AND I PROMISE I WONT STAND IN HER WAY IF SHE WANTS TO BUY IT!! SHE WAS HOPING FOR A N&W Y6B,(NON WEATHERED). MAYBE NEXT YEAR. Gary. Gary what version 2-8-8-2 is Lionel making For this? If N and W built it, is it a Y2, Y3, or what? Just another 2-8-8-2 is a no go for us in N and W. We may consider Virginian. Back to her original point. BILL, THE NEW CATALOG PRR VERSION IS A Y3. WE DON'T WANT A N&W Y3. WE WANT AN N&W Y6B. Gary.
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Post by Traindiesel! on Jul 18, 2020 3:36:53 GMT
After looking through the latest catalog, as large as it is, I only found a couple items that interested me. I must have too many trains.
I'm thinking about the BNSF Genset Switcher and maybe a Norfolk Southern Theater Car. I passed on the first issue of these. I'm also thinking about a PRR Super Bass E7B unit to add to my Lionel PRR ABA E7 set from 2008. I'm not sure if the ABA set had a tether between the units or not, so the Super Bass B unit may not work anyway. I'll have to locate them in the garage and take a look.
There are several freight cars I like but I'm not sure I have the stomach for $100 freight cars. But like others have mentioned, because of the past quality issues Lionel has had, a few of which have bit me, I'm hesitant to pre-order. If I wait and miss out, it won't affect the quality or quantity of my collection.
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Post by harborbelt70 on Jul 18, 2020 12:15:01 GMT
I'm also thinking about a PRR Super Bass E7B unit to add to my Lionel PRR ABA E7 set from 2008. I'm not sure if the ABA set had a tether between the units or not, so the Super Bass B unit may not work anyway. I'll have to locate them in the garage and take a look. Brian, while I don’t have those ABA engines I am sure that they did NOT have a tether. In fact I don’t think any Legacy diesel sets from that time had tethers as opposed to being able to be lashed up via the Legacy remote. With AA sets they generally ran as one right out of the box but to add a powered B unit it had to be lashed up. I have a roughly contemporary ALCO PA ABA set with a powered B unit that runs just fine that way. The limitation with mine is that the second A unit has no sound as well as being unpowered but does have smoke, lights and an electrocoupler; the powered B unit has no sound but does have smoke and electrocouplers. Lionel wasn’t consistent about smoke units, however, and the catalog description of the PRR E7 B unit from 2007-8 doesn’t mention it having smoke. That might have been a glitch, however.
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Post by rockymountaineer on Jul 18, 2020 20:00:56 GMT
.... I'm also thinking about a PRR Super Bass E7B unit to add to my Lionel PRR ABA E7 set from 2008. I'm not sure if the ABA set had a tether between the units or not, so the Super Bass B unit may not work anyway. I'll have to locate them in the garage and take a look. .... Brian, I have the original Lionel Century Club II Pennsy shark nose set with B-unit, and there are no tethers. There are different ways to configure the newer Super Bass B-units... I have a ridiculous Great Northern ABBBBA set for my Empire Builder passenger train with multiple SuperBass B-units. You can program them all to the same engine ID, and the horn effect is AMAZING.
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