LionChief Plus Engines are up!

Will you be shipping the preorder ones soon?

Art

On their way!

Thanks Charlie.

Art

Charlie, I just pre-ordered the Canadian National Hudson.     Thanks!

Interesting, I have 3 of these I run on my layout.   2 with TMCC and one Traditional I upgraded.  The Gray NYC Hudson is very similar to the PW 2046/56.  Great sounds and pulling power.  The Hudson pulls 5 of the K-Line Heavy Weight Passenger cars, and is a constant on the layout.

I paid $164 new for the TRAD, and $284 for the TMCC Hudson back in 2000 and 2001 when they were being blown out.  MSRP was $499 for TMCC at the time.  G

Thanks Ken!

Original word was these locos were due out in March.   I just checked Lionel's shipping list and could not find them on the list.   Am I missing something - perhaps shipping pushed back to fall?   Thanks for any help - Ken.

Ken, they may of come into Lionel. When something disappears from the list it sometimes comes in after that. I will post when I hear

I dont think they ever appeared on the Lionel shipping list.

Has anyone seen these yet??

How does the RS-3  compare to the WBB offering/?

What sells me is the Lionchief and the Trainsounds. My son many times would try to run 2 engines on the same line.                    This feature alone will make it a lot of fun for my son to run without crashing one engine into another.

I just got my GN Mikado!  Nowhere to run it since my layout is in storage but..... I can look!

Nice looking engine. I may have to get that one instead of a Canadian Pacific.

Bob

Very nice loco, thanks for posting the pics.   I already have a LC+ Hudson and Pacific (which I love), looks like I "need" to order the Mikado.

I thought I read somewhere that the Hudson and Pacific were old tooling, and that the Mikado was the only brand new tooling out?  I would buy a Hudson and Pacific in a heartbeat if they were as nicely detailed as this one is.  I was truly impressed with the running gear and molded in detail on the locomotive.  It also has flickering firebox and crew!  I may have to go to my storage locker to get a transformer to fire it up!

John, both the Hudson and Pacific also have the flickering firebox.  I also seem to recall discussion point that the Mike is new or newer, but I cannot confirm.   Comparing the pics above to my actual models, the Mike looks better detailed, or at least the cast-in details are better defined.   The running gear is more complex on the Mike.

I take it these are 'traditional' size correct???? They do look good!

Its definitely "traditional" size.  Not near as big as my larger steamers but then I have RailKing mainly, so it will fit nicely.

The Pacific is based on the postwar 2055 pretty much an exact copy, the Hudson is an improved design based on the postwar 2046.  The Mikado is relatively new design and tooling, having been introduced several years ago.

In my opinion, the Mikado is the best looking of the lot, with the Hudson not too far behind.

Rusty

I agree!  I wasn't really interested in the Lionchief until I saw a picture of the GN's paint scheme and heard it was something called "Lionchief Plus" and also saw the detail on the Mikado.  After that, I figured for $315 I'd give it a try.  It looks really good!  You could tell immediately the detailing molded in was much better than older Lionel engines.  While the boiler front is still "old school" looking, it has a lot of added detail such as the handlebars, bell, whistle, generator, and a GREAT looking set of running gear.   

I got the PRR Mikado and really like it except one little thing.... I am gonna see about if it is possible to add a Reverse Direction Light on the Tender...

Yeah I did notice that.  I might add some marker lights or something too!  A little drilling here and there and a few Evan's LEDs!

I'm convinced and will order a GN Mikado for my first Lion Chief + loco.  Do I need any special training/credentialing? 

I continue to wait for my new ATSF Mikado LionChief + locomotive.  The Great Northern Mikado is a winner and you will have lots of fun with it.

Steve, Lady and Tex

I had one of each of the new Lion-Chief's on backorder and all three arrived in the last 3 weeks.

WOW

Lionel really did a great job. For the $ it is really worth it.

My 10 year old figured it out real fast.

It is really user friendly and loads of fun.

Since we like to have kids over to get them "infected" in the train hobby the kids take to it like video games I really think this is a home run for lionel!!!!!

Can lionel lionchief plus engines be converted to TMCC. If not can/will them run a TMCC/Legacy layout?

You can bet that Blomberg trucks on the Alcos will -assuredly- kill any chance of

me ordering one. Let's be careful about "targets"; there are many outside the bull's

eye who dabble in the off-target sale. Especially with a product line as potentially

value-rich as LionChief.

The Camelback - a great model - will be bought. By non-targeted me. Blomberg RS-3 (and I have a couple of old ones - tough; appealing body shells; if woefully odd in the pilots) - no way.

I guess there is a Blomberg quota - L removed them from the GM&O GP-30 (Yay!) and put them on the Alco RS-3 (Feh!). 

I think the concept of the LC+ is great and a friends ran great when he allowed me to test drive it prior to buying. Unfortunately, my two didn't work out....First Mikado arrived totally DOA. Replacement to #1 arrived and ran beautifully...for about 2 days....after about 2 days, the motor seized up (had been properly lubricated, pulling no more than 5 MTH RK cars etc) then would not run...Sent it back and await the refund to come through on my card. That was my adventure into LC+....probably won't do it again. What a disappointment, I was really impressed (initially at least...) with these and was really looking forward to having one. 

Dennis,

Were you able to do this? If so, please post details as I'd like doing that to mine, too.