Pennsy B6 Photos

Here are a couple pictures of mine.  It is a nice looking switcher, but if I'm being perfectly honest it is a little disappointing.  I don't like the fact that it has a plug that connects from the tender to the engine and not the IR connection.  I guess my expectations of it from the catalog were high and my first impression of it out of the box left me a little flat. The whistle is nice, it smokes well, and it has all the legacy features, so there's that.  Hopefully, these pictures will help you decide one way or the other.  I'm not sure I would have ordered it, if I had seen one in person, rather than in the catalogue.  Then again I like Pennsy steam and it is a B6, so maybe I would have anyway!  

Thank you for the great pictures! I believe they put the wire tether so that the engine would not short when it went over switches, since it is tiny.

The tether is a letdown but everything works so well.  It runs so nice.  I'm thinking of adding another.  You need to see a video with a close up showing the wheels moving.  

 

Has a fair amount of detail as well.  

 

Don't miss out, supplies are very low already and certain numbers are already sold out.  This is the best B6 Lionel has done.  I waited for a long time for a Legacy B6 with the can motor instead of the big old pullmor sticking out of the cab.  It smokes like crazy, looks and works great and has a close coupling so you do not even see the tether.  The tether is not a let down as some negative reviews say,  its an enhancement so it never stalls on switches.  B6 Switchers are short and need collectors on the engine and tender so it does not stall.  You will not be disappointed in this one.

Here are some of My PRSL version.  You cannot even see the tether because when its close coupled there is literally only 1/4" of actual tether between tender and engine.  The rest feeds back into tender.

This ones a winner.

 

 

That's what they claim, but I think the tether is there because this is the old K Line tooling and they didn't want to spend the money to modify the mold.

Look at my video on the B-6

Fantastic locomotive.

Not true.  I ran the engine by itself without the tender on my layout and as soon as it hit a switch it stalled.

 

All engines this short need a tether.  IR connection would not work for this size engine.

Normally locomotives with tethers bother me but this one does not.

Why?

1) The tether is retractable so that you do not see a "coiled" python behind the engineer.

2) We do not want to stall

3) Attaching the tether is easy

4) For O-72 layouts there is a close drawbar choice and with the straight line tether it looks more like a prototypical loco/tender attachment than other tethered tenders.

I've jumpered a number of larger engines with tetherless drawbars to fix engine stall on large numbered switches.  Maybe it's not so critical at mainline speeds as the loco skips over the dead spot, but you really do like a switcher to crawl without hesitation.

 

Everything is just about ideal from all accounts so far on this B6...and 2 big blocks of plastic on the drawbar is hardly missed at all.

 

Bruce

K-Line did such nice work above the running boards.  I would love to see a photo of the underside of the boiler casting.  On the Hudson and Berkshires they unwrapped the boiler so it goes straight down from the running boards, curtain- like.

i'm glad i got mine it's a great little engine