LionChief Plus?

hookfoot posted:

I seem to remember that recently there was some talk about the LionChief Plus engines changing to metal axles and metal gears....does anyone know if any of those have hit the market yet and if so does anyone know the road names and/or item numbers?

Thanks as always

Hookfoot

I bet @Dave Olson would know.

Obviously, Dave will be the best source with the latest but I do recall him posting back in late winter/early spring saying that all future LC+ locos would have the metal parts.

I don't think any of those have hit the streets yet but looking at the Shipping Schedule (always a crap shoot) there are many LC+ locos coming soon. Or so the schedule says. 

The axles have all been metal, but they were hollow metal until now. Lionel is switching to solid metal axles, along with metal gears instead of plastic.

As I recall, the change was supposed to be place for all new LionChief models that are already on their way.