Lionel Large Scale PRR E6s on battery power

Its coming, and its being done in HO scale as well using batteries for medical devices.  Only a matter of a couple more years before we see it more mainstream in scales smaller than G.  Dead rail is a blessing for garden railways!    Mike the Aspie

If only Lionel would take a true interest in gauge one trains again.  Dust off the tooling for the Atlantic, upgrade the chassis with bearings to keep the gear mesh correct, mount the motor better and put modern sound and smoke in her.  Or go with a 2-8-0 chassis to get one of the PRR H class engines that shared the E6 boiler.  Also, ditch the fragile plastic valve gear and go with metal of some sort.  Lionel was on to something back then, but gave it up to soon.  LGB had yet to do much beyond the Mogul and the White Pass diesel.  An upgraded Atlantic would have been a knock out back then.    

Getting ready to to order some extra class lights for the pilot deck, wondering if I should get a full set of spare rods, espically the valve motion and main rods while the parts dealer has them.  Wish someone would 3d print a full set of rods for this model in metal!  That would fix the fragile problem with this engine.  

Nice job on the layout shelf.  It looks great.

I have several Lionel Large scale diesels and they are great.  One GP 20 was upgraded to TMCC & Railsounds.  It is a hit in the garden RR, especially when kids us the CAB1 to run it.

Thanks for sharing,

Don

I agree that Lionel should bring these locomotives back and upgraded of course! Also ditch the aluminum drivers and wheels then use stainless steel instead.

15 - 20 years ago either CTT or OGR had an article with the designer that worked at Lionel that made the Atlantic's. Seems the boiler was longer and the higher ups wanted it shortened as they feared nobody would buy such a "large" loco.