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its been roughly a year since i ordered that santa fe dash 8 and that thing is AWESOME and it my favorite engine i own. it must've been popular too because all the stand alone ones are gone. the one i have runs like a dream and i already want another one. hopefully lionel has a conrail or halloween one next year because i may have to get another dash 8.

it would be cool if lionel could do a lioncheif plus 2.0 version in the future

any body else have a good experience with these as i did?

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I absolutely love mine and it runs like a charm. Lionel hit it out of the park with these great value engines. For anyone that owns one of these, a really fun and easy project is to populate the cab with a couple of figures -

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nice

have you tried the VSR voice streaming feature yet

i have played with mine for hours making the silliest and goofiest recordings like an engineer that ate too much Taco Bell and regretted it

@paigetrain posted:

nice

have you tried the VSR voice streaming feature yet

i have played with mine for hours making the silliest and goofiest recordings like an engineer that ate too much Taco Bell and regretted it

Yes I tried that and the  voice command features when I first started using the engine. At first there was some lag issues but I think that was my fault because after continued use everything worked like a charm (and still does).  My nephews also love that feature and really enjoy running the engine with the LionChief app on my phone.  In fact, they enjoy the play value of the app and this engine more than using dcs to run my MTH engines.  If Lionel comes out with a conrail version I’d definitely pick up a second one. Very impressed with its slow speed operation and responsiveness as well.

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