Lionel Maine Central GP7 shipping from Lionel

The Maine Central 565 has arrived!  Here are some quick shots. The layout was only built up three weeks ago and is a work in progress. This is my second legacy diesel locomotive and i love how they glide down the tracts. I would like to see other New England Road names in this series fort he legacy GP-7s like Boston and Maine and Providence and Worcester

Short video of Maine Central #565. if you look carefully you will also see a  hunter stalked by Bigfoot and two confused Kanamits capturing a moose.

And a T Rex in the last two seconds upward right side in the forest!

@Leroof posted:

And a T Rex in the last two seconds upward right side in the forest!

That’s right!

The crews of 565 and TM-4 discuss the days' operations while Lionel's Nuclear Reactor provides carbon free power to the Lionel Factory

Looks good! Got a Seaboard one coming from Mr. Muffin.

@Lionel2056 posted:

Looks good! Got a Seaboard one coming from Mr. Muffin.

Great!! Lionel did a great job with the Legacy locomotives. You will be very happy with yours. I am looking forward to adding my Legacy locomotive roster.

BTW, Legacy locomotives can be easily run with a LionChief Universal remote. In fact, I had the TM-4 FM demonstrator and the Maine Central GP-7 running simultaneously on the same loop of track with one Universal remote.

I'm excited! I ordered both road numbers, I was told they wouldn't be any where near shipping until June. Well early is good! I got mine from a shop so time will tell.

In the meantime, Thank you MTH!

My MEC GP7  #562 Shipped from Charles RO yesterday and delivered by Fedex today.

@Chrico posted:

My MEC GP7  #562 Shipped from Charles RO yesterday and delivered by Fedex today.

Congratulations! You will really like it. Did it just arrive at Charles Ro from Lionel or did you just order it this past week? I'm asking because I got mine direct from Lionel almost four weeks ago.

Madockawando:

I purchased the 562 from Charles Ro last August on the BTO program.  

Chris

@Chrico posted:

Madockawando:

I purchased the 562 from Charles Ro last August on the BTO program.  

Chris

Interesting, so it looks like the trade off is:

- Order directly from Lionel, you get it early but pay full retail

- Order from your big dealer, you get a lower price but you may wait a few weeks more.

I have the b&m bluebirds from a few years back. I hope they are as cool as these! I actually ordered the Maine Centrals from a small shop in New Hampshire.

@hiker39 posted:

I have the b&m bluebirds from a few years back. I hope they are as cool as these! I actually ordered the Maine Centrals from a small shop in New Hampshire.

Lionel made Boston and Maine Legacy GPs as well? Man I missed so much. What catalog were they in? But yes, the Maine Central is really nice!

I dont actually know. They are only missing the Bluetooth so it was 6 or 7 years ago at least. I bought from a small shop near me.

Lionel's website says 2013. They are long gone. Another Lionel legacy locomotive to add to my ever growing "Want To Buy" list

They also made two power units and a dummy. I have one and the dummy. It seems the made to order stuff is hard to get your hands on. I wish Lionel had made a Maine Central dummy unit this time...maybe someday. We should be great ful it only took them how many years to make a harvest gold and green gp? Atlas and MTH beat them to it years ago.

Smokey birds

Great video!

You should definitely try to find these MTH f-3's they are from the most recent catalogue. The MTH stuff is going fast! I have a legacy system and MtH won't work unless I run traditional. I found an MTH mobile commander and wired it up to my layout and it operates the MtH engine with it's remote! Inexpensive work around.

The Atlas Maine Central GP7 ( on the right) is a beautiful engine.

Well my Maine Central engines arrived. They are really cool. Although the paint colors are way off. I give Lionel appreciation for trying. The bluetooth feature is sort of neat, The Lionel app works well with them. Including the voice commands.

@hiker39 posted:

Well my Maine Central engines arrived. They are really cool. Although the paint colors are way off. I give Lionel appreciation for trying. The bluetooth feature is sort of neat, The Lionel app works well with them. Including the voice commands.

Wow. Nice engines. I see what you mean, however, about the colors. The MTH Maine Central F-3s I purchased recently with the reverse color scheme have much more accurate colors.

Pat

I have a number of MEC units purchased from MTH over the years.  At least to my eye, MTH nailed the Harvest Gold and Pine Tree Green colors on the GP38s.  Lionel has a history of using artistic license when it comes to paint colors.  Why they can't get it right mystifies me.  

If you google Maine Central GP7 562, you will find some pictures of the real engine in the more yellow color  from the 70's and 80's and not the harvest gold  I do not know if the yellow and green are accurate on the lionel  model.  The Maine Central engines I would see in its heyday at Rigby Yard had the harvest gold and green colors color scheme.   The lionel 562 I have is a pleasing engine to me.

Yes realistically the colors were a bit different. I think airbrushing the roof with pine green would fix it. The most striking color problem is the olive drab green lionel used.

@hiker39 posted:

Well my Maine Central engines arrived. They are really cool. Although the paint colors are way off.

It doesn't appear to be THAT far off.

http://briansolomon.com/tracki...ght/tag/roster-shot/

They do look like the conway scenic colors! I had forgotten all about that! Ultimately they aren't that bad. I purchased MTH's MEC f-3's and was spoiled by the accuracy.

As an owner of one of the Lionel Legacy  MEC GPS,I would say that it’s color is very close to the Conway locomotives. It’s a close enough match to be within the margin of error due to age, paint variation and lighting when the photo was taken.

My MEC 562 GP7 arrived the other day. Colors look good. They match my Atlas MEC wide vision caboose very well.

The only thing is that the horn is mounted in the wrong spot. It should be on top of the short hood roof, same as the B&M unit pictured above. It can be fixed easily though. The nose mounted bell is a bullseye as far as proper location. Good work by Lionel!

So according to the gentleman who manages upkeep of the road we live on, he worked for Guilford/Maine central. The paint newly applied looked very much like the Lionels and as they aged they got covered with dirt, soot and grime and the paint took on a more orange hue ( like the MTH gp's) ultimately all that matters is that we are all enjoying the hobby. I really wasnt trying to be negative in mentioning the colors. I am glad Lionel decided to to finally do Maine Central engines.

@hiker39 posted:

So according to the gentleman who manages upkeep of the road we live on, he worked for Guilford/Maine central. The paint newly applied looked very much like the Lionels and as they aged they got covered with dirt, soot and grime and the paint took on a more orange hue ( like the MTH gp's) ultimately all that matters is that we are all enjoying the hobby. I really wasnt trying to be negative in mentioning the colors. I am glad Lionel decided to to finally do Maine Central engines.

Thank you for the common sense observations!

I bought both the 565 and the 562 from a small shop in NH. Got them about 2 weeks ago. They run great together. The canary yellow color seems a bit on the bright side, but what I'm really wondering is how others like the rail sounds that were programmed in? In particular, the car sounds. To me, that overly loud smash-crash garbage can sound is little more than a wife-waker. I have her used to the drone of a very nice sounding D&H C-642 or CV RS-11 and others that hum around the tracks. Is there any way to turn the extraneous noise off? I tried the iCab with the wifi box, but to no avail. Ditto using CAB1L or the Lionchief App.

I like the green roof but and wanted to paint my MTH GP7. I could never find a green roof geep in all the books and photos with the end rectangle herald. I seen some with the later circle logo only. Also the bottom sill always appeared to be flat black, not green.

I have to wonder if the Lionel green roof is correct?

@SIRT posted:

I have to wonder if the Lionel green roof is correct?

Lionel has been doing so well with color accuracy lately....why would you question it?

Nah, it's not correct, But they grow on you. Just don't park them near an MTH Maine central engine and you won't be able to tell.

@SIRT posted:

I have to wonder if the Lionel green roof is correct?

Here is a picture of unit #566

https://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr0001/mec566a.jpg

Very similar to Lionel's unit.

As I had stated, from the photos I've seen, 565 never had a green top with the the rectangle herald, only when re-painted in later years with the new CIRCLE logo, the top was green.