Any signs of the new Legacy Pacifics?

Mine did come in. Haven’t really ran it yet but looks good so far. It does seam like the O ring for the whistle smoke under the steam dome isn’t tight enough to keep it from moving around. There are some scuff marks but it’s all covered with the dome in place

(please excuse my mess in the photos)

This morning’s newsletter from Mr.Muffins has pictures of his custom blue B&O version. Wow. It is really sharp and I bet the guys who ordered it are going to love it.

I didn’t post pictures due to forum rules (although I doubt Steve would care since he still has some for sale).

Thank you - I will post some - these came out spectacular..... I am very pleased with all of them. I think Pat also did a B&O custom run - maybe he could post pictures of it here as well....

FWIW... Our new Atlas O Monon heavyweights that go with the Monon #444 are at Atlas and ship to us this week.

We are doing custom run heavyweights in L&N and MKT, amongst others, to go with these Pacific's.

@CarGuyZM10 posted:

Not yet, but I'm hoping my Asa Packer set comes in with them. I've only seen mention of the stand alone pacifics so far.

These sets are due into Lionel the week of 1/21

@MrMuffin'sTrains posted:

Thank you - I will post some - these came out spectacular..... I am very pleased with all of them. I think Pat also did a B&O custom run - maybe he could post pictures of it here as well....

Holy Baltimore Blue!!! Steve, is that the B&O Blue? Dang(meaning the other D-word), that is beautiful. I can't wait for you to send me my order invoice for sure now. That is so stunning. You make the best custom runs. 👍😊🐻

Does he also do blue in clean liveries?

@MrMuffin'sTrains posted:

FWIW... Our new Atlas O Monon heavyweights that go with the Monon #444 are at Atlas and ship to us this week.

We are doing custom run heavyweights in L&N and MKT, amongst others, to go with these Pacific's.

Awesome! I can't wait to get them.

Should be about a week and a half before I see that beautiful B&O blue Pacific show up at my door(maybe two weeks). I cannot wait to see this in person, that blue is doggone beautiful. I wish I could remember when I was a kid what engine my uncle had that was a stunning blue. I'd ask him but it may take a week getting through some of the train talk. I'd say the Blue Goose, but when I had asked him several years ago about it, he said he didn't have one. So, I'm left with a mystery of what postwar engine he had that was blue. Not unless it was some standard gauge piece, but I think I'd remember something like that.

The only "blue" steam engines I can recall are the Blue Goose (Santa Fe), the Blue Comet (CNJ) and the Royal Blue (B&O).  However, at 71, my recollection isn't always that great.

Chuck

@PRR1950 posted:

The only "blue" steam engines I can recall are the Blue Goose (Santa Fe), the Blue Comet (CNJ) and the Royal Blue (B&O).  However, at 71, my recollection isn't always that great.

Chuck

The P7 President series started out green but later were painted blue. I have a movie made in 1951 that shows both a black and a blue B&O Pacific.

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Pete

Great article, Pete.  Thanks for posting.

@MrMuffin'sTrains posted:

These sets are due into Lionel the week of 1/21

Thank you!

@PRR1950 posted:

The only "blue" steam engines I can recall are the Blue Goose (Santa Fe), the Blue Comet (CNJ) and the Royal Blue (B&O).  However, at 71, my recollection isn't always that great.

Chuck

As long as you get most things right, that's where it counts. I had only ever known the Blue Goose, but didn't know who would have modeled it. That's why I was really confused when my uncle said no. Not knowing if Lionel(or Williams) had modeled anything during what was the postwar hayday and something my uncle would have bought, it left a big question mark floating.

@PRR1950 posted:

The only "blue" steam engines I can recall are the Blue Goose (Santa Fe), the Blue Comet (CNJ) and the Royal Blue (B&O).  However, at 71, my recollection isn't always that great.

Chuck

The Frisco had 3 well-known blue steam engines, the 4500, 4501 and 4502 Meteor northerns. The Wabash also had seven P-1 class Hudsons painted blue.

I received the Great Northern Pacific about two weeks back.  It is beautiful!  Can anyone comment on the smoke features?  Both the stack and whistle worked great out of the box.  Eager not to run it dry (and reading the manual) I added 5 drops to the stack and nothing to the whistle.  Now the stack hardly produces smoke.  Oh woe is me.