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If Lionel is Listening: a Lionchief Plus Big Boy

LW Lee WillisOGR Forum Member

I love the new Lionchief Plus system.  Simple, dependable, good control, and you can always run conventional, too.  I like the one-remote/on-loco concept.  

 

While I run mostly scale now, my favorite Lionel loco ever was the Legacy Lionmaster Big Boy: semi scale or not it could mix with scale - it had to be right up next to a scale Big Boy to reveal its non-scaleness, so to speak - and it had acceptable boiler stick out on turns: among scale articulated locos, only the CC2 even comes close.  I wore one LM BB out running it maybe 4000 hours, bought a second on the used market and ran it until it gave serious problems.  I've forgone buying a third because I don't want to inherit someone elses problems.  

 

And you don't make them any more.

 

A Lionchief Plus semi-scale Big Boy - the Lionmaster Big Boy recast as Lionchief Plus - would be the ideal model loco as far as I am concerned.

 

Put it on the market, made to order or whatever, and I will buy three.  I promise!

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POTRZBEPOTRZBEOGR Forum Member

There's no question, the Lionmaster series is popular.  Just take a look at eBay completed items.  I bought a new LM Challenger almost a year ago and decided to try out command control with a Cab 1L.  My first foray into command control.  I love it and have an O31 layout.  I would definitely buy a Lion Chief Plus Big Boy.

LW Lee WillisOGR Forum Member

Rick, I was thinking more in the price range of the last Lionmaster.  $800 - $900.  With this baby I would pay what was required.  Yes, that's about twice what current Lionchief Plus steamers cost, but then you get twice as many drivers!  And frankly, that strikes me as not too much for the top of the line Lionchief in a world where Legacy locos are running up close to $1500 now.

S sinclairOGR Forum Member

If it was LionChief+, conventional, and TMCC I would so be in.  And by TMCC, I mean the basics like the original LionMasters were.  I know it can be done, and if they do it in the $600-800 range I would be buying a couple as well.

 

Why all 3 controls?  Well, I run conventional on the floor loop and the layout I build will be TMCC/Legacy.  By having both LionChief and TMCC, others will be able to drive the BB, like my kids, while I control all my locomotives from one remote.  Because I'm a one remote to control all my trains kind of guy, then I could control the BB when the kids weren't around without having to two fist it.  If Lionel wants to accomplish this by adding to the Legacy system with a LionChief bridge, I will happily pay $200-300 for the device as long as it allows me to control any LioneChief locomotive.

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