Lionel Legacy Hiawatha with Matching Passenger cars - Unboxing and Quick Look

absolutely beautiful! saw the set at the Lionel booth at Trainfest and they looked awesome!

@brewcrew posted:

absolutely beautiful! saw the set at the Lionel booth at Trainfest and they looked awesome!

Yeah I was so worried when I ordered it but it has exceeded my expectations!

Lionel legacy Hiawatha with the 18 inch Passenger cars navigated the 048 section of my layout. Does it look great? no, but it works

I just got my Lionel lines version, I only have time to open it, and take pictures.

Ohhh the Lionel Lines version looks STUNNING!!  Good call getting one of those!

Great job on the review, Art!  I think you're the first one on the 'tube with a video on these.  And the ONLY one with a feline co-star so far!

My trouble with passenger trains is I can't just get the engine.  Gotta get all the matching cars to go with it!  The 18 inch cars would clear my corners but I'd need to redesign parts of my elevated line to accomodate the overhang, as I'm counting millimeters when I run 16 inch long cars.  Good call on the type of cars and locomotive, those are the ones I would've chosen as well.

I know I'll be correcting the location and color of the Mars light on my #4. The Mars light should be red and located in the low position. Perhaps this could be an easy fix? @Dave Olson

Engine and car colors look good though!

Anyone purchase the North Pole central (Reindeer Road) version of this set?  I am curious as to how it looks.
I almost purchased, but was waiting to see some real pictures first.

Thanks!

@Dadified posted:

Ohhh the Lionel Lines version looks STUNNING!!  Good call getting one of those!

Great job on the review, Art!  I think you're the first one on the 'tube with a video on these.  And the ONLY one with a feline co-star so far!

My trouble with passenger trains is I can't just get the engine.  Gotta get all the matching cars to go with it!  The 18 inch cars would clear my corners but I'd need to redesign parts of my elevated line to accomodate the overhang, as I'm counting millimeters when I run 16 inch long cars.  Good call on the type of cars and locomotive, those are the ones I would've chosen as well.

I got the Lionel lines 13 inch passenger cars from the vol. 1 catalog that I'm going to use. I may eventually paint orange stripes on them. Unless they come out with 18 inch passenger cars this year for the 125th anniversary that I like better.

I used the "Spirit of the Century" cars to be pulled by the Engine of the Year!

after seeing Art's video; it cost me ALOT of money. I now have a #4 locomotive, the 4 pack cars, and the 3 pack cars on order.

@MartyE posted:

I used the "Spirit of the Century" cars to be pulled by the Engine of the Year!

That makes for a great looking train @MartyE!

@brewcrew posted:

after seeing Art's video; it cost me ALOT of money. I now have a #4 locomotive, the 4 pack cars, and the 3 pack cars on order.

Congrats, it really is a gorgeous set!  I better get my order in soon for those add on cars before they are gone

@ArtsModelTrains posted:

That makes for a great looking train @MartyE!

Thanks.  The Milwaukee paint scheme looks really good!  I really enjoyed your first look at them!

@brewcrew posted:

after seeing Art's video; it cost me ALOT of money. I now have a #4 locomotive, the 4 pack cars, and the 3 pack cars on order.

Art’s video was terrific - he has fantastic production assistants, both two-legged and four-legged. It looks like Lionel did a terrific job with the Hiawatha. I hope you enjoy your new set and post pictures!

@Rider Sandman posted:

Art’s video was terrific - he has fantastic production assistants, both two-legged and four-legged. It looks like Lionel did a terrific job with the Hiawatha. I hope you enjoy your new set and post pictures!

It was a fantastic video and he gained a new subscriber on YT. I watched quite a few of his videos last night and really like how they are put together and enjoyed watching the layout progression as I am about to start my new layout in my recently finished off basement. Look forward to his other videos; one of my new favorite O gauge YouTubers!

@ArtsModelTrains posted:

Congrats, it really is a gorgeous set!  I better get my order in soon for those add on cars before they are gone

Thanks! I remember seeing how gorgeous it was at train fest, but my little guy didn’t give me a ton of time to really look at it before we were off to the operating layouts.

I definitely wanted to wait on the 3 car add on due to the cost already, but I was afraid if I didn’t now, I would be forever kicking myself if I lost out.

@Rider Sandman posted:

Art’s video was terrific - he has fantastic production assistants, both two-legged and four-legged. It looks like Lionel did a terrific job with the Hiawatha. I hope you enjoy your new set and post pictures!

One cool detail I noticed last night was that the passenger cars have different color seats in the different cars!

Also for anyone interested here is a better view of the pop off steam effect from the Hiawatha, triggered using Aux3