Lionel Steamers Have Arrived!

Cool! Looking forward to the video!

Oh boy! Well don't hold back! Show us some pictures and video! 

 

I kept my older M1a, the deep base on it was way cool, so cool I bought another....

Sean,

 

We want a video !!!!!

 

Alex

Here are some quick pics.

Wow what a beauty, so highly detailed.

 

Thanks for the photos

 

Alex

So Sean, are you saying that the Heavy Mikados have shipped to the dealers ??

Looks great, Sean. That's one BIG tender!

Yes the Mikados have shipped, Nicholas Smith has them in stock now. I had them open one up for me so I could look at them.  They literally received them today. 

HAHA, I know.  I'll try to get one made tomorrow.  As many know I'm building my bench work now so I have to pull out some track and my legacy system first, kind of got caught off guard.  Who knew Lionel would ship something, haha.  The whistle on this is fantastic.  It has a deep haunting sound.  This ones a winner.

Looks good Sean! Thanks for the pics! It appears that they really tightened up the engine and tender gap when I compare it to my M1b.

 

I'll wait patiently for video.

 

Any opinions on the heavy mike?

Sweet looking engine. One of my favorite Pennsy locos.

There's going to be a lot of happy people with the new Heavy Mikes and locomotives arriving!

I can't wait to see the videos!

Have the M1a coal sets shipped or just the engines?  

Congrats, very nice looking, hope you enjoy it!

The hype train is now boarding!

 

Seriously, these engines are ones I'm very excited to see in action.

No sets yet, just the engines but they said there is another big shipment coming next week.

That tender looks almost as long as the M1a.  Very nicely detailed it is.

Interesting... and a pleasant surprise.  The Charles Ro website had the M1a slated for 5/10/2015.  Guess it just proves Lionel really doesn't know what's shipping until they unload boxes in NC and look inside. 

 

David

Beauty....30 1/2" is almost as long as a BB at 32!

 

What are those three red knobs on the left side of the loco near the pumps?

that is some beautiful Pennsy Power

And you can double-head two M1a's with unique road-numbers for about the price you'd pay for a BB. 

 

David

 

Cool loco.  I remember when I bought mine many years ago.  It was my first scale loco.  Last fall I modified mine to have 4 chuffs.  I sounds great.  Can't wait to see videos of yours in action.

Hi Sean: Excellent detail on the tender, Look forward to seeing the action in your video.

Very nice looking engine.

One would think lionel would be more on top of this instead of giving and keeping false shipping info and catching customers off guard with the shipment.  It shows that China is running the show and not NC.     Looks nice can't wait for the video

Have they gotten the dog house light to turn off using Legacy yet?

 

Great looking engine.  Good Luck with it and enjoy.

Apart from one small thing, the font of the numbers on the front keystone, this is really one gorgeous locomotive!  Lionel really did a fantastic job on this one!

 

Looking forward to seeing a video of one in action!

Nice looking engine, good luck with it.

Is this new tooling from the previous release? I was on the fence about this one. I have the earlier release and it is one of my favorites. Awesome sound. Would love to have the Smoke whistle and the quilling whistle and legacy control. This looks to be the same molds as my earlier release. Cant wait to see the video.

The Mikados looked very very good, but I don't know anything about those engines to know if they are accurate or not.  But I thought they looked great.

Not sure about the tooling because I have never seen the original one, but I assume it is and the switches are all on the bottom of the engine.   Also the main stack and whistle smoke use the one single smoke reservoir. design.

       
       


There was a "fix" to correct the tender light issues.

I bought my m1b nib well beyond the warranty limitations and inquired about the tender lighting not working via the cab 2 options.

Lcs sent me a return tag and picked up the rest of the tab, lighting functions now work correctly.

I'd have to dig out my reciept,I think they added a resistor or something to that effect.

I was under the impression there was an oversight/error since the m1b was delivered before the legacy system.

 

Nice!

 

Now I'm going to be wondering when the coal set (I ordered) is coming...  I hope it is not too far behind.

 

Andy

Interesting.  So there is no "aux smoke" switch/unit?  Whistle-steam working off the regular smoke switch setting?

 

I suppose that's OK if it doesn't lessen the effect.  But one of the side benefits of having whistle-steam on the earlier locos was all the switches were moved from underneath the loco to up top (under one of the dome caps).  Much more convenient with that arrangement.  It's a royal nuisance having the switches underneath the loco.  But I guess if a short-cut could be found, they cut the corner to save a few bucks in production costs.    Par for the course nowadays.

 

That being the case, I can't imagine there would be any new tooling involved here -- aside from the whistle-steam hole/piping.  Just Legacy electronics/sounds.

 

David