Originally Posted by ZWPOWER13:
... like the B&M Engine and caboose. I think I will wait for a dealer to break up the set and try to get the engine and caboose
Don't forget, this engine - and matching dummy, and N5C caboose - were also made by Lionel during the MPC days, No. 8654 and 8655. That may be an alternative, if you can find them. Nice to have a dummy, too.
You may not have a command layout, but what I've done a bunch of times is drop a shell from a MPC Geep onto a modern Geep chassis (that has TMCC, Railsounds, electrocouplers, etc.) and it makes for a very nice engine package. It's easy to do.