The Saddle Tank 0-6-0 Locomotive That Lionel Calls "The Docksider Locomotive"

Lionel still uses that engine quite a bit, albeit as a Lionchief. It would be neat to see them offer a command version. Though I guess one could do an ERR install or something.

Anyhow, it is a nice engine.

ERR did have a 0-6-0T board.  One could place it in a boxcar as a "tender".

I got one in SP because the Hardy Street Shops here in Houston had a 0-6-0T.  Built at Hardy.  Not same loco.  But close enough so you could "Believe"!

I did a command upgrade on the Lionel dockside switcher.  The sticking point was electrocouplers with the oddball coupler mounts.  I cobbled one in the rear, but decided the front would be too much more surgery and chickened out.

My dad started out with the Santa Fe model. Well one day it was in forward and the rear light was on and then it stopped, smoke from under the engine insued. Come to find out Lionel said that they wouldn't repair it and my dad had to buy a replacement.

I have 3 of them. I like running them together just to watch them smoke and run.

I have the same Reading model, plus the seasonally themed Transylvania RR and North Pole Central versions. What amazed me was how solid of a locomotive this was for the initial street price, which was frequently less than $100. It's virtually all metal.

That locomotive and MTH's equally solid C-16 Docksider (based on the famous B&O engines) are easily among my favorites and, in my opinion, are among the best four- to six-wheel steamers available in three-rail O gauge.

A command  version is long overdue 

J Daddy posted:

A command  version is long overdue 

AMEN!  I'd buy up a Legacy version, no matter the road.  I love my conventional one.

Glad to hear the rave notices about these two "tank" engines.....I have them relettered as GW (Great Western) "dinkies", which  switched sugar beet gons around NE Colorado, where several of their prototypes still sit outside GW sugar silos and plants along I-76.

The problem that Timothy Lewis' dad had concerning the smoke coming out of the bottom of this locomotive is the overheating of one of the components on the reverse board. I had the same thing happen to one of my Reading 0-6-0s mentioned above. I contacted the Lionel Service Department and the lady there told me it would cost around $60.00 for the labor and $28.00 for a new reverse board and of course the shipping cost to Lionel. I found a store that still had a new locomotive of the same Reading model for about the same cost of having mine repaired. Now my out of service 0-6-0 makes a great paper weight.

Ed G.

John, give the Vision line Genset a look for your coupler that may work for you if you do another.  I also have that locomotive a friend was throwing out because it did not run.   Easy fix.  It is a great running locomotive and it is a very good smoker.

Marty, how does the genset coupler fit in here?  I looked, and it looks like a pretty standard coupler with a standard mount.  I have some like this in my box, but they don't seem they'd fit the 0-6-0 Dockside switcher.  Did I miss something?