MTH Premier S-2 Turbine?

All I got from an MTH search was RailKing. Some were RK Imperial which are usually bigger than the traditional O27 models, but still not scale.

 

Here is what I searched MTH on and the results: MTH S-2 Turbine 6200

MTH has not offered a Scale PRR S-2 Turbine.The've offered Railking/Railking Imperial model and the Rugged Rails "Bantam" turbine (Similar in size to the Lionel Post war model).

 

The Railking/RK Imperial is about 80% of full scale and is still a large and imposing locomotive. 

 

Hope this helps.

The story is that the Lionel S2 Turbine was one of the Mike Wolf-Lionel partnership projects before the relationship went south. I believe Lionel owns the tooling outright.  Lionel has released it twice -- once in Conventional, and once again in TMCC and it's doubtful they'd loan out the tooling for a competing product, but you never know. About the only alternative I can think of would be to re-motor a conventional Lionel S2 with a can motor and install a Proto-2 kit.

I suggest that you look for a Sunset/3rd Rail version of the famous PRR S2 Turbine. They are full scale, and are well detailed, for what detail there is, and show up on eBay quite frequently.

Uh Matt, Lionel recently issued the S2 last year on Legacy in both the #6200 as well as the Lionel number 682

I have the ProtoSound equipped one, and it is a nice sized locomotive.  You can tell it's not scale when placed next to the PRR T-1, but it doesn't look bad if you don't know better.  It does go well with my scale K-Line PRR bay window caboose, but does seem small with scale reefers and big when traditional sized stock cars.

I have the 3rd Rail S2, and Harry Henning has the Legacy S2, a nice locomotive.

Hi is this the one your interested in i have one if your interested in it!

Alan

http://www.ebay.com/itm/MTH-TR...;hash=item19f0bbd4d4

 

let me know if your interested and ill post the picture i have one new old stock in the original in the box MTH 6200 6-8-6 turbine engine

 

Alan

Forgot about that one. Hadn't really been following Lionel steam recently.

There are several of the scale Lionel 6-18010 conventional version on the big auction site now. These have no traction tires and have the reputation of being poor pullers. They are, however very pretty.

 

I have the 3rd Rail version, and it is a great puller. As for the 072, keep in mind that is a minimum. The bigger, the better.

Well I guess that answers my question then. 
I didn't think they made a full scale turbine...but I did know about the newer Lionel one. (which im a huge fan of but sadly don't own) 

I'd like to one day get a scale turbine because the very first Lionel post war engine I got (and what really got my started into O-scale (was a post war Lionel 2020 Turbine. So i'd like a scale one to go with it, but not til I get a layout with O-72 curves.