Hi everyone,
I just saw Lionel's new product review of the New Legacy Berk. Looks like a sweet engine especially with all the detail and different boilers for each road name. They did not say in the video why the whistle steam effect was not incorporated like it was originally advertised. Also, they still have that same stupid New York engineer crewtalk. Please Lionel if you are reading this..... change the crewtalk!!!!!
Opinions are welcome!
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Hi everyone,
They did not say in the video why the whistle steam effect was not incorporated like it was originally advertised.
Opinions are welcome!
Because there is no whistle on the model anyway!
did anyone notice what appears to be a screw missing on the underside of the engine on the left side of the plate holding the programe and smole switches?
did anyone notice what appears to be a screw missing on the underside of the engine on the left side of the plate holding the programe and smole switches?
Yeah I noticed that seems to be on the other side too.
What!!? No steam whistle effect?? 
did anyone notice what appears to be a screw missing on the underside of the engine on the left side of the plate holding the programe and smole switches?
It could be that the extra screw holes are used in other boiler designs. The variation in boilers could also help to explain the lack of whistle steam, as different placement may have proved to be a major production problem.
Would that also explain the lack of any whistle at all?
It could do on at least some of them. In another post it was discussed that many of the Berkshire locomotive whistles were placed out of sight. Yet another potential problem for whistle steam.
In another post it was discussed that many of the Berkshire locomotive whistles were placed out of sight. Yet another potential problem for whistle steam.
Sure don't know about THAT. On a real steam locomotive, you better NOT have the whistle "out of sight", because when you blow boiler pressure steam thru it, the whistle had better be out in the open in order to be heard, plus allow the spent steam to be exhausted into the atmosphere.
On the K-Line original Berks, they simply forgot to mount little cast brass whistles on some of the models, if not ALL of them, and Lionel didn't catch that little detail when they re-produced them.
Maybe the few screws that were lose finnaly fell out? Just saying.
did anyone notice what appears to be a screw missing on the underside of the engine on the left side of the plate holding the programe and smole switches?
It could be that the extra screw holes are used in other boiler designs. The variation in boilers could also help to explain the lack of whistle steam, as different placement may have proved to be a major production problem.
Very true! Good point!
Hmm...that loco does not look 26 1/2" long either!!
Just love how he says Berkshire in the video. I can tell he's not from Massachusetts
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