Wow, I'm pretty excited. I purchased a Lionel standard gauge Hiawatha engine and set of 4 cars off of Ebay last night for what I consider a pretty good price. The seller said it came from the estate of a gentleman who didn't run his trains. My question is this. Does anyone know of any problems associated with this engine and car set. I have the Commadore Vanderbuilt and it runs flawlessly.
thanks in advance,
Harm Andrews
Andrews Shopping Center
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The Hiawatha is mechanically identical to the Vanderbilt. I've had mine for several years and the only problems I have had were generic - a couple of tires fell off (fixed with superglue) and there was a bug in the TMCC board that caused the headlight to shut off at random intervals (finally gave up and wired it directly to the pickup). I rebuilt the smoke unit according to Mike Reagan's online video and that made it smoke better.
Enjoy!
You do know there are TWO variations of the SG Hiawatha engine???
You do know there are TWO variations of the SG Hiawatha engine???
And those are? I confess to being surprised; Lionel didn't make many of these and it seems odd that they would change anything during such a short run.
Ron,
What are the two variations?
They came with and without classification lights.
Thank you, Ron, I did not know that!
Lucky me, mine has them. I had no idea any were made without.
I would guess this may have been one of the items the dealers got shorted on...necessitating another run??? Dunno!!! Everybody here got class lights???
I would guess this may have been one of the items the dealers got shorted on...necessitating another run??? Dunno!!! Everybody here got class lights???
I agree your scenario is more likely. Interesting watching guys open boxes at auction houses to see which one is inside
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Ron is our resident auction house voyeur! 
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