0-4-0s are in

Can’t wait either!

Looking forward to it.  I have one on order from Muffin’s

Charles Ro is now showing them in stock.  Should be arriving soon.

Trainworld was super fast shipping this one out. Haven’t ran it much yet so still need to see how that goes. M

As for looks the color looks much better than the L1 and the lowered tender is definitely an improvement. The new tooling for the engine is certainly upgraded in detail over the first version from K-Line. The tether isn’t super easy to plug in and seems a bit tight - will have to wait to see how it works on curves.

The size of the engine still seems slightly oversized like the original tooling. They may be the same size but I don’t have that model to do a side by side. I was hoping it would be a bit closer to the MTH model, but overall it seems like a neat small switcher.

My biggest annoyance is that they installed a round Baldwin Philadelphia builder plates rather than the correct oval Altoona versions. Even the original K-line version got that right… IMO total miss on Lionel’s part. Not sure it can be fixed as the plate is somewhat sunken into the boiler casting.

@Alex W posted:

The size of the engine still seems slightly oversized like the original tooling. They may be the same size but I don’t have that model to do a side by side. I was hoping it would be a bit closer to the MTH model, but overall it seems like a neat small switcher.

Smooth-running loco!  Agree that a side-by-side comparison of the current release, the prior K-Line/Lionel version, and an MTH Premier or Weaver Gold A5 would be very instructive.  Thanks for sharing!

Looks like a nice switcher.  Charles ro hit my credit card so I'm expecting mine next week.

I got the US Army #491 version since I had a decent amount of military rolling stock. Despite most of it being semi scale this engine blends right in and looks great at the head of a military train. Love this little thing.