New Lionel Legacy SP AC-9 videos

Looks awesome, thanks for the videos! One question I have is the SP lettering completely white, or is there some silver in it? 

Looking forward to getting mine. 

Surefire posted:

Looks awesome, thanks for the videos! One question I have is the SP lettering completely white, or is there some silver in it? 

Looking forward to getting mine. 

Since it is lettered with the large "SOUTHERN PACIFIC", shouldn't the lettering & numbers be white?

Hot Water posted:

Surefire posted:

Looks awesome, thanks for the videos! One question I have is the SP lettering completely white, or is there some silver in it? 

Looking forward to getting mine. 

Since it is lettered with the large "SOUTHERN PACIFIC", shouldn't the lettering & numbers be white?

I don't know. My AC-12 has a silver hue in it's large SP lettering. Were the AC9's white?

Surefire posted:

Hot Water posted:

Surefire posted:

Looks awesome, thanks for the videos! One question I have is the SP lettering completely white, or is there some silver in it? 

Looking forward to getting mine. 

Since it is lettered with the large "SOUTHERN PACIFIC", shouldn't the lettering & numbers be white?

I don't know. My AC-12 has a silver hue in it's large SP lettering. Were the AC9's white?

I seem to recall that when the SP stopped using the "Southern Pacific Lines" small lettering (1946), which was "SP Lettering Gray", that the large bill-board lettering was simply white. Then, in the early to mid 1950s, towards the end of steam, the cab forwards, and maybe the AC-9s after conversion to oil burning, had no lettering at all on the tender sides.

Looks great Buddy!

Watched them again, and just noticed the green class lights. Wonder why Lionel did THAT, since there is an "X" in the train indicator boxes, i.e. an "Extra Train", thus white class lights would be in order. Is there a way to shut them off?

I saw nothing in the manual about that. Good thing you pointed that our, Jack. I thought it was unusual to make that loco an "Extra train." I dont know how those class lights could be turned off.

Scrapiron Scher posted:

I saw nothing in the manual about that. Good thing you pointed that our, Jack. I thought it was unusual to make that loco an "Extra train." I dont know how those class lights could be turned off.

Hold down the AUX2 key and this opens the lighting menu and turn off the engine marker (class) lights.

Thanks, Marty !!

Very cool!

Yea .... love that whistle steam!

Looks great - thanks for the videos!  I'm glad I ordered one.  It's smoking like crazy - what kind of smoke fluid are you using?

looks great!

I use Mega Steam but I think this loco has been done right. It produces the greatest volume of smoke I have seen yet. A sight to see. The whistle steam is a total blast. Dave Olsen, you done good. Look at the close loco tender connection, too.

Thanks for the videos and reviews.  Put Neil Young's "Helpless" on the shelf.  "Helpless" is heresy with the AC-9 on your roster.  Crank up "Southern Pacific" by Neil Young and Crazy Horse!  Glad I have no. 3800 on order and already have the previous issue 3809 on the roster.  Great locomotive by Lionel!

Probably the best smoking engine since the first 844!  Nice!

WOW!

C'est Bon! C'est Bon! C'est Bon!....

Hal

Looks great! I've also never heard the word "detail" pronounced like you say it 

I come from the Bronx, Mike

My TMCC AC-9 produces less smoke - obviously I have a better fireman.

Had the new AC-9 been an updated/changed oil-burner conversion (properly re-detailed/re-tendered) I would have been mightily tempted, as the AC-9 (real and model) is my favorite articulated of all (USRA 2-6-6-2 is #2), though I'm not the gizmo-loco type.

D500 posted:

My TMCC AC-9 produces less smoke - obviously I have a better fireman.

Had the new AC-9 been an updated/changed oil-burner conversion (properly re-detailed/re-tendered) I would have been mightily tempted, as the AC-9 (real and model) is my favorite articulated of all (USRA 2-6-6-2 is #2), though I'm not the gizmo-loco type.

For what it's worth, Sunset/3rd Rail did the SP AC-9 in both versions (coal burning and oil burning), and the later era oil burner version even has the correct & unusual former UP/former C&O big tender with the Commonwealth tender trucks. Sunset/3rd Rail may still even have one of those models in stock.

SCRAPIRON SHER, WOW, What a beautiful Steam Locomotive, one of the best smokers I have ever seen. This is a Smoking Monster, Really nice...Looks like Lionel has hit a home run with this well made, fun to run Locomotive....Great thread..

This is for Scrapiron Scher,mine arrived today and it did not have a module,did you get a module and smoke fluid.

Thanks

Mikey

mikey posted:

This is for Scrapiron Scher,mine arrived today and it did not have a module,did you get a module and smoke fluid.

Thanks

Mikey

Lionel said no more modules.

Eliot,

        Wow, that whistle looks terrific! Smoke and sound is great too. Good luck with that engine.

JohnB

Mickey,

The posters above are correct. No orange module. The good news is you don't need it. Programming the AC-9 is easy. TAKE out all the foam from under the loco !!

Yes, it looks like Lionel has smoke figured out - the new stuff really puts out the smoke..... 

If you're interested in one of these, we have one left and maybe a few more on the way - we tracked down some extras.

The link to ours is here.