LionChief Blue Comet Set - still coming out?

Not sure what you will get for a street price of $295. The other LC Plus Blue Comet was over $375 just for the engine.

Legacy Station shows “Estimated ship date 4TH QTR”, so I guess it’s still being made. I hope the colors will come close to the MPC version. The cars could be cool add ons to the MPC set.

You might want to consider looking at the Lionel LionChief + Blue Comet engine with some Williams Jersey Central passenger cars.

Train world has the engine on sale;

https://www.trainworld.com/man...pacific-w-bluetooth/

as well as matching Williams Passenger cars 4;

https://www.trainworld.com/man...tion-jersey-central/

They have the fathers day sale on as well with free ground shipping in the Continental US right now with the code FD19.

I picked up this combination from them a while back. They also have videos on the website showing the engine and passenger cars.

I had been eyeing this engine for some time from the original time it was shown in the Lionel Catalog it looked pretty sharp in the blue with gold trim. I really liked the Blue in the catalog photos was a bit disappointed with the color when it arrived that it did not look at nice as the catalog images. But I still love the set overall the colors still look great. The passenger cars match the dark blue on the roof of the engine and side # boards. It is a great looking set one of the better color schemes in trains and the LionChief App on the phone is fun to run the train. Good smoke output, nice sounds very nice slow chuffing sounds.  Here are some quick photos sorry could not get more in focus.

That doesn't look like much of a match between the engine and cars. If it's good with you, though, that's all that matters. Note that these Williams cars require O-42 minimum curves, which may be a problem for some LionChief operators, given that the engine can run on O-31 curves.

The Lionel engine is done in a 2 tone blue paint, the main blue on the Engine is a light blue as shown in the photos but the Cab Roof, Number board on the side of the cab and trucks are all a dark blue that is fairly close to that of the dark blue on the passenger cars.  I think if you look at the engine on the Williams passenger cars video at Trainworld at the link I gave it shows an all dark blue engine which was a Williams Engine these have been out of production for some time but matches the Williams Passenger cars better overall. 

I just like the Lionel engine as the LionChief + features and control system are fun to use and the Williams passenger cars are very nicely done, roll freely. I like the other threads on the Blue Comet and colors correct sets etc. But this combination makes a for good price on a complete train set that runs well and looks good. 

I think I might take to run on a garden railway this week will show some photos from the top and outside if I can.

I just got the announcement car for this set, so I would have to say it's still coming out. I haven't got home yet to unbox it, but will share my findings and some pictures later today.

Charles Ro is showing a 10/20 date for this set. Granted that may not be 100 percent accurate but estimates listed on their web site are usually fairly close.

The Lionel item # is 1923070.

It was disappointing to say the least. The car doesn't have the conductor figure like it shows in the catalog, and there are no station announcements.

Trainman2 posted:

It was disappointing to say the least. The car doesn't have the conductor figure like it shows in the catalog, and there are no station announcements.

The catalog seems to indicate the Announcement Car is in with the set and the extra coach is just that.

Of course, Lionel moves in mysterious ways.

Rusty

No announcements?! So what makes it an Announcement Car? That does sound disappointing.

I thought about preordering this one but decided to pass.

I thought I saw a video of the pre production sample of it on Facebook somewhere. 

johnstrains posted:

No announcements?! So what makes it an Announcement Car? That does sound disappointing.

I thought about preordering this one but decided to pass.

 

I was wondering why the price seemed so low for any kind of sounds in it. Yet again I’m glad I’ll never preorder from Lionel.

The Announcement Car with the Conductor figure is in the set.  There is a separate sale coach.  It's pretty clear in the catalog copy.

Jon  

The price is low because the motive power is a starter set 4-4-2 with LionChief... NOT a 4-6-2 with LionChief Plus 2.0.

Jon  

KOOLjock1 posted:

The Announcement Car with the Conductor figure is in the set.  There is a separate sale coach.  It's pretty clear in the catalog copy.

Jon  

It seems pretty clear in the catalog and on line that the separate sale car is called “announcement coach”, and is shown with a figure.

My catalog show a plain coach....

Any news on this? I am considering this set. I bought the RTR Santa Fe Super Chief set last year, very happy with that, this looks like another good RTR set and I see myself moving on this one too.

I believe this set is available now.  Charles ro shows in stock...

Thanks TN! I live in Boston, and Charlie Ro is where I go! But I would love to see a video review out there somewhere before I pull the (inevitable) trigger. 

Train Nut posted:

I believe this set is available now.  Charles ro shows in stock...

Correct. Posted right here on 11/2.

https://ogrforum.com/...-lionel-new-arrivals

Thanks. In all likelihood, I am going to get it. I am mostly Lionchief, have been very happy with the product line, and this would be my first steam engine as I have all diesels so far. I guess I am just waiting for an unboxing video or something to entice. And if this was the Polar Express set, there would be more videos than I could shake a stick at!