Yes, isn't this extra-special.

BTW John, I have been told the Lionel Camelback is scale.  I don't know this for a fact, and since it is not out yet I don't have one and can't comment.  I know none of those I bought so far were . . .  I would really like Lionel to release some of the smaller Legacy loco bodies, like the Pacific (Southern Crescent), Atlantic, the smaller Berkshire, etc., as LC+.  

A Camelback would be a great pick, and if it's scale, I'd jump on it in a heartbeat.  I'm keeping my eye on their announcements.

I just noticed there is now a separate sub-forum, if that's the right word, for LionChief Plus. Coincidentally, it's only within the past week that I just bought my first LC+ engine, the B&O Pacific, from Trains & Stuff. Matched it up with a Williams B&O 60' Passenger Car set that I picked up from the "For Sale or Trade" sub (sub?) forum.

It looks great, runs great. I can't believe how slow I can get it to go and without having to touch the remote and as a conventional operator I can now, for the first time, wander around my layout and see the action from vantage points other than from the transformers.

Lionel has definitely hit a home run as far as I'm concerned. I wonder what their LC+ sales actually are.

+1

We had a chance to interact and operate the LC+ Loco's at the LCCA Convention in Indy this past summer, and our 5 & 6 y/o's loved em.  They are both familiar with using the Legacy Controller/ CAB2, and so it was an easy transition to using the LC+ controller.  As more locomotives are added to LC+, we will be looking to add one or two, as long as they blend in with our Scale Motive Power.

Maybe some day Lionel will do the Big Boy/ Challenger/ EM-1/ Class A in LC+....  If so, our Daughter will tell Daddy, she want's one.  Ava fancies the Big Articulated Locomotives.

Nice forum addition

When I saw this and gunrunnerjohn pic, I thought it was gonna be: Ask Gunrunnerjohn a question page. I think we need one.  

NOOOO! 

The Lionel photos seem to depict the scale versions of the TMCC/conventional camelbacks from around 2004/05.  I have two from this era and love them.  As long as Lionel does not mold in the railings (a-la new semi-scale Polar Exp) a lionchief version would provide a much better detailed engine to the Lionchief Plus lineup.

Any more sub-forums and we'll end up using the dewey decimal system.

Well, that's better than hexadecimal, I guess. 

Being a programmer Lee, I'd prefer hexadecimal!   I remember trying to find stuff in the Library in those card racks, very confusing.

I remember taking a class on the Dewy system the beginning of my freshman year.  Now it is so easy just to Google.  

Ah yes, old Dewey!  I used to have a bunch of Dewey numbers memorized!  lol

My recent college grad daughters would think I was nuts!  Well, they know I am.

On to LC+  folks may have seen my post about buying an LC+ Pennsy Mike a couple of weeks ago.  I like it!  I hate say it, but it was refreshing to just inbox it, fire it up, and run it, after all the struggles I have had with the DCS.  Oops, did I just say that?  Nothing against the DCS, it's a great system, but I have seen it can have squirrly problems sometimes.  After working all day with squirrly problems, I just want to come home and run a train that looks and sounds better than my old post war trains.

i am looking forward to seeing Lionel expand this line in the future because I think it is a good value for the price.