Has there been a Review of the 6-84115/116 K4 with Long Haul Tender?

Chuck,  I have a Lionel 6-84116 Pennsylvania K-4 #5432 with the long haul tender.  It is a smooth running engine with excellent whistle and bell sounds. There was a previous K-4 review on OGR Forum that has disappeared. (I can no longer find Steve's excellent review video.) 

The K-4 bell, whistle, and pop-off valves are painted, not plated as shown in the catalog or the demo on-line of the product sample.  I notified Lionel Service about the lack of plating. They opened a 6-84116 K-4 and found that the engine was exactly like mine. The are referring it to their product development people I was told.

I run with Atlas O Century track with five #5 double slip switches in the layout.  I had to ask Lionel for longer arm pick-up rollers (like on the tender) to put on the engine. The original center roller spacing would not pass over my Atlas O #5 Double-slip Switch without stopping.  This is not Lionel's fault, but a feature of the Atlas Century track system.  Lionel was very helpful in implementing the solution I discovered.  By adding the longer-arm tender rollers to the K-4, I widened the foot-print spacing by one-half inch. The engine now runs across the Atlas O #5 Double-slip Switch at speed step "10".

I am very pleased with the new K-4 "whistle Steam effect" engine.  I run it pulling a seven car set of Pennsylvania "Liberty Limited" Heavyweight Cars.  For me to be pleased with something takes a lot. The Lionel K-4 is nice addition to the Pennsylvania engines on my "Valley of Bridges" layout.

Forum member sandjam did one:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tfgV0-oO9UU

Thanks for the review and the link. Looks great. I had planned to get one, but got to wondering how they were now that they are out.

Thanks again,

Great looking engine.  Thanks for the review and info.

Some random thoughts:

1. Yes, I know it was done, but how common was it to see the K4s with the coast-to-coast tender?
2. Don't know about anyone else, but the video confirmed it.  Crew talk is just not my thing.  Like the locomotive sounds and whistle, but don't care for the crew chatter.
3. I wonder if Lionel would consider selling the tender separately?  Probably more than a few of us who would like to put it on an I1s or L1s.

George