Lionel 2-6-6-2 from 2018 catalog

Kind of strange that the 2 pages dedicated to this engine have no features listed????????????

The SP loco shown in the catalog was never run on the SP,another Fantasy loco.

Mikey

Ryan Kunkle said in the livestream at Trainworld that the 2-6-6-2's will have whistle steam, just like the 2012 run.

How about a photo or a link?  The Lionel website just chokes my iPad into stasis.

The SP had three different 2-6-6-2s.  Lionel may be off the mark, but I bet the most glaring error, SP-wise, is the wheels and couplers.

Actually, a quick email to Ryan may save the day.

If we could get the tender from the C&O George Washington or H7 on this 2-6-6-2 it would be somewhat close to a SP class MM3. Put the large letters on the tender and it looks even better.

of course the pumps need to be added to the side of the locomotive and the domes are different... but it would be somewhat of a good stand in, which may open my wallet.

These are all of the "C&O mallet" tooling that Lionel has used in the past with small alterations in an effort to get them a little closer to the prototype. FWIW Dave/ Ryan also said these will get road specific whistles.

Lionel shows a 4 axle tender in the photo, but they have produced 6 axle Vanderbilt tenders in the past.

Not to mention the Chesapeake & Ohio version of the H7 Articulated which has Legacy and used pretty much the same tender as the George Washington Pacific’s (Can we expect a Legacy version of that in the near future?...).

"The SP loco shown in the catalog was never run on the SP,another Fantasy loco."

"Mikey"

The loco is a USRA Light Mallet; originally an excellent model of that. The NYC, N&W, SP (others? I'm not looking at the catalogue) are not so much "fantasy" as they are "evocative" of other locos that these RR's did indeed have, and is probably the only time these locos will be produced in 3RO. The "purists" will not buy them; the "better than nothing" guys will.

Me - I fall somewhere between the two philosophically, leaning toward the "better than nothing" crew, were I in the market, which I'm not. You'll never see another 3RO SP or NYC 2-6-6-2. The USRA prototype is actually too large for either of these, but, you know, a modeler could further enhance the specifics and reduce the inaccuracies.

Or just sit and wait for a train (literally) that will never come.   

Ditto on the Great Northern.

GN had a 2-6-6-2 but never looked like that.

I don't think Lionel has ever produced a scale GN steam engine however MTH has  done a nice job of putting out GN steam.

Lionel likes to 'slap' a decal on the side without regard to authenticity.  That was OK back in the post war years but with a scale engine, that's 'bending' the rules too far!

Read page 10 in the catalog which Lionel Says covers ALL STEAM ENGINES on pages 12-19. NO MENTION OF WHISTLE STEAM.

It wouldn't be as great without the Steam Whistle.. JMO

I can’t comment on fidelity to any particular prototype, but the Mallett is a terrific engine. I have the NKP Legacy version from the previous release. It is truly one of my favorite engines. It has the look and feel of a big articulated engine, yet operates on somewhat small curves.  

L.I.TRAIN posted:

Read page 10 in the catalog which Lionel Says covers ALL STEAM ENGINES on pages 12-19. NO MENTION OF WHISTLE STEAM.

VintageClassics posted:

It wouldn't be as great without the Steam Whistle.. JMO

In the video Trainworld posted to their Facebook Page from their Facebook Live event on Saturday, Feb 3rd... at roughly 12 minutes into the video, Lionel's Ryan Kunkle mentions the 2-6-6-2's WILL have whistle-steam.  And I recall him also mentioning more definitively in the video that the H10 locomotives will have both whistle-steam and the swinging bell.  In the original Ryan & Dave catalog show, they were a bit more tentative about these features.  But now they're being a bit more definitive when talking about the features. 

David