Should I Buy the Lionel H7?

Bob. Which version? The newer legacy or the earlier Railsounds 5.0 version?

I am interested in the newest Legacy version.

bob C.

Yes, absolutely. "Too many" is achieved only after you have one of each road number for your favorite road and then you duplicate one.

Gilly

BTW, that is my standard answer when it comes to spending someone else's money on Trains! If your wife gets upset, it's OK to blame me.

Bob,

I had the exact thoughts about purchasing the newer Legacy version H7 as I already had the Joshua Cowen Series version. However after having a conversation with Mike Reagan who indicated there were some additional enhancements (can't think of what they were at the moment) that were not obvious to the obvious (and he should know) I decided to make the investment.  Besides it might be interesting to do a lash up just for grins and giggles.

Larry Brown

Larry Brown

It is the only articulated loco, and one of only two non-diesel, that I have two of the UP model (changed the number of one of them to 3591).  I love 'em.  It looks fantastic with all the applied detailed pipes, tanks, valves, fittings.  They run very well (but so do all other Legacy locos I have), although one of them is rather fussy to set up well on the track.  Below I was double-heading them - something that proved difficult but not impossible to get them to do.  Boiler stick out of 72" curves is rather extreme, but then the H7 is with any big articulated loco.

What is the "sickness"?  Fred

I would think the most significant difference between the JLC version and Legacy version is that the JLC is only 2 cuffs/rev. I upgraded my JLC to 4 cuffs/rev so I decided the expense of buying the Legacy version wasn't worth it.

Ken

The H7 UP is a really nice Engine, however, after running this engine on my layout, I decided that I like my Vision Line UP Challenger much better... It's a hard Decision..

FRED:

The "sickness"is a psychological condition in many of us that entices us and drives us to want to buy a train item, whether it makes sense or not. The sickness is especially most often found in collectors.

Bob C.

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