Anyone own a Lionel Legacy Southern Pacific 2-6-6-2 Mallet 6-85183 ?

I wouldn’t call this description, from Lionel’s website, “sparse.” Usually, if a marketable feature isn’t mentioned, it’s because the locomotive doesn’t have it.

• LEGACY ® Control System equipped – able to run in LEGACY ® Control mode, in TrainMaster Command Control mode, or in Conventional mode with a standard transformer
• Bluetooth ® Control - Operate with Universal Remote or LionChief App
• Odyssey ® II Speed Control

LEGACY ® RailSounds ® sound system featuring: 

• CrewTalk™ dialog and TowerCom™ announcements, each with different scenarios depending on whether the locomotive is in motion or stopped
• Six official railroad speeds with CrewTalk dialog
• DynaChuff™ synchronized with 32 levels of intensity as the locomotive gains speed
• LEGACY ® "Real-Time Quilling Whistle" control with instant response for realistic signature "quilling" and correctly timed warning signals
• Single hit or continuous bell sounds
• Sequence Control: plays the sound effects of an entire trip, including warning sounds and announcements, based on the movement and speed of the locomotive
• Current speed and fuel dialog, coal-loading sound effects
• IR Transmitter works with LCS SensorTrack™
• Powerful maintenance-free motor with momentum flywheel
• Wireless Tether™ connection between locomotive and tender
• ElectroCoupler™on rear of tender
• Directional lighting including operating headlight and back-up light on rear of tender
• Illuminated classification lights on the front of locomotive
• Traction tires
• Interior illumination in cab
• Die-cast metal locomotive body, pilot, and trucks
• Die-cast metal tender body and trucks
• High level of separately applied metal details
• Separately applied builder's plate
• Synchronized fan-driven smoke unit
• Adjustable smoke output
• Authentically detailed cab interior
• Cab "glass" windows
• Engineer and fireman figures

PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS

• Rail Line: Southern Pacific
• Road Number: 3932
• Gauge: O Gauge
   
• Scale Type: Scale
• Power: Electric
• Engine Type: Steam
• Min Curve: O54
• Dimensions: 26.5"
• Most Recent Catalog: 2018 C1 Big Book

I own the Western Maryland road name and mine does have whistle steam and the ashpan glow feature.   Not sure why they undersell these in the catalog.

Chessie1 posted:

I own the Western Maryland road name and mine does have whistle steam and the ashpan glow feature.   Not sure why they undersell these in the catalog.

Agree. Whistle steam helps people justify the price. Lionel mentions cab figures and traction tires, so why not list more marketable elements?

David,

  The SP mallet has a oil tender not coal so if Lionel did them correctly there should be no ash pan glow. The Western Maryland mallet has a coal tender so it has the ash pan glow.

JohnB

JohnB posted:

David,

  The SP mallet has a oil tender not coal so if Lionel did them correctly there should be no ash pan glow. The Western Maryland mallet has a coal tender so it has the ash pan glow.

JohnB

Yes; glad that some notice - even know - these things. Technically the SP loco should have small white "flickers" from the oil burners in bottom of the firebox, but a yellow/reddish "glow" - certainly not.

(Of course, Lionel did not change the tooling to remove the ash pan detail - something an oil-burner would not have had - no ash. But considering that the entire "SP" version is mostly not SP, this is a nit too small to pick.)

Accurate model? No. Convincing enough to enjoy? Sure.