What Exciting New Things We Get With Visionline Big Boy !

I would especially like to hear comments about the sound system and get more educated about it.

Bob C.

The smoke is what has me.

I am most excited about the sound and the whistle. I have the JLC Big Boy and it is great except for the incorrect whistle. The VisionLine will have much better sound and a proper whistle. And if anyone doubts how much difference the Dual sounds make just put a JLC Big Boy alongside a VisionLine Challenger. If you can't hear a noticeable difference then sound is not your thing.  

Same here. I really don't like the smoke coming out of all sorts of places, plus with asthma, I don't use the smoke. 

I am very pleased that Lionel is offering these features and such a fine, detailed loco. Again, I just don't see replacing my JLC Big boy with one given any scale Big Boy I have will be mostly a shelf queen.  But I look forward to those features in other, future locos . . . 

It dawns on me that I could well be on the way to financing this loco by selling my mint Legacy Big Boy.The wheels have begun to turn -uh,oh!

Bob C.

Bob, the features you have listed are what appeal to me. Lots of smoke and steam, great sound from 3 speakers and a scale size monster. The coal load thing has little appeal to me, although it's a very clever gimmick. I've ordered one.

Another obvious great feature is the realistic scale looks.

LION is not telling us when they will close out the ordering so there may be limited time to maneuver.

Also do we know what the final price will be? I figured around 2500.00

I think you misunderstood me.  The smoke is what has me wanting one.

An empty wallet,

A smoky basement

and another look from the wife implying "really you need more trains"?

But count me in!

All new things aside, I'm sure going to be pleased with the roadname and number specific CrewTalk/TowerCom dialogue on these engines. Something not heard in awhile from Lionel....

I like the smoke, but my sinuses don’t.  I would be afraid that the fire department would show us after the smoke alarm goes off.

As said above, I look forward to some of those features making it into other engines.

Does anyone know if Lionel will include the inspection lights that these engines were equipped with in real life?  These lights can be scene in pictures of these engines in night time settings.  I believe that there are 4 of them on each side of the engine. 

3 under the running boards and one under the cab.

If included they would make the model really stand out!  Especially if they could make them come on automatically when the model came to a stop.  Or if they could be turned on and off with the remote.

Steve

One of the BEST SUGGESTIONS I have sen so far!!!

Hope someone at Lionel is paying attention to THIS suggestion!

I agree that the inspection lights would be cool.

Thanks Hot Water for your support!  You to John!

Didn't someone include these inspection lights on a model of the NYC Dreyfus Hudson? If so, it shows that it can be done.

Steve

I have the Lionel Dreyfuss Hudson and it does have the lights.  Looks very nice.

oops

bigboy

and how many bigboy threads do we need?

4 = two for the stack, one for the whistle and one for the blowdown.

There are seperate smoke units for each of the two stacks for the unprototypical "alternating stack chuff" feature.

Sunset/3rd Rail has also provided inspection lights on their various NYC Hudson models, and I think their "anniversary series" UP #4023 and #4024 models.

If Lionel is using the same tooling as the Legacy Big Boy, which they have already stated as a fact, then it will have the four inspection lights. I have the Legacy Big Boy and the inspection lights are very cool. I think it is a given this Vision version will have it. Count me in for two road numbers.

would have been nice to work out safety valves popping off; something that happens quite often while running and one of the few prototypical effects which will always produce visible steam (aka smoke).  could have been shared with blowdown effects seeing they would never happen at the same time.

Thanks Ansonnn!

Can someone clarify this for me: The visionline big boy will only have 1 motor? If this is the case, will that mean only one set of drivers will be powered?

Powering two sets of drivers with one motor is nothing new.  It's done all the time.

Rusty

It's a big motor.

As long as my tiny K-Line Big Boy can't out pull the Vision Big Boy I don't care how many motors it has.