Lionel Legacy B-6 Switcher Pulling Vision Line Reefers

Lionel sure is doing they're best to distract you from that narrow guage layout

The whistle sounds good, but why do the chuffs sound like someone beating on a metal garbage can with a pipe?

Man, tell me about it!  Has to be the strangest sounding exhaust I've heard.

I kind of like the whole sound package
Certainly unique ---  let's you know it's on your layout
That smoke is really cool
Thx Eliot

sure is a beauty...but not crazy about the sounds.

Scrapiron,

   Great stuff all around!

PCRR/Dave

I have that loco by K Line, which is very nice, but without all the extra amenities. Yours is a beauty. The whistle sounds almost like a shay, and the chuff at upper volume sounds like a hydraulic press slamming down on a raw sheet of steel!

Don

The chuffing sounds are really very good. I have lots of great chuffing locos.

The basement is now empty and the Fastrack on the tile floor echoes loudly. In addition, the Vision sound reefer was thrumming. I also had the camera close to the loco on the tile floor so there were more echoes.

 

If if there was a lot of scenery absorbing sound or reflecting sound back to the camera microphone, it would have been better. I did not do a good job recording the sound.

 

Cecil B. DeMille 

 

The combination of that engine and car racket requires immediate action. 

 

 

Recorded in Trinidad, perhaps?

Eliot,

 

     Sounds great to me. I think some of these guys need to cut back on the grape Kool Aid. It's effecting their hearing 

 

     Thanks for posting videos again Cecil.

 

JohnB

rtr12,

I do love steel drum music.

The B-6 sounds very good to me.

Recordings with built in camera microphones are not accurate.

The switcher sounds great.

Hmmm...my humor must have been missed here? The B-6 sounds ok to me too, I was just commenting to johnnyspeed's post about the pipes on the metal garbage cans.

 

Suppose I should have ended the above post with a

 

I also like the steel drum music.

That's a beauty!

lol, Apple humor, love it.

 

I kinda like the sound.  Yes, it sounds like it's banging on metal, but other videos don't show it as hard hitting.  Love how tile does that.  But it still sounds very authoritative.

Very nice. Thank you for sharing, I think. Just ordered mine from Trainworld after I swore that I do not need any more engines. Oh well.

Thanks again.

Mark

For a BTO locomotive, there are sure a lot of them available at dealers.

 

Poetry in motion.  We are so fortunate to have products like this that are great in every way.  Thank you, Scher, for posting a beautifully done video.

I am so conflicted.

An intervention is necessary.

When a see a great huffing and chuffing loco spewing smoke like this little beast does, I have absolutely no self control. I went straight to the telephone. Right out of the box this loco was a winner. I didn't even take the time to oil and "fluid" the stack. Just like a little kid with no patience. 

 

I just received three other locos. I got an MTH Triplex, a Lionel Legacy Y6-b, and a Lionel Legacy 4-12-2. The loco on my loop of track is the B-6. I just love this thing.

 

Going to Houston to the Narrow Gauge Convention. More and more, I think these large hi-rail locos are what I love.

 

John, that's only because these dealers ordered "extra's" beyond pre-orders backed with real customer orders.  Some dealers are already sold-out on some of the models.  But I give some of Lionel's dealer network credit for having the guts to gamble on stocking up a few of these jewels for folks who want to order them AFTER they see them.  Lionel doesn't want to take the risk anymore, so it's now up to the dealers to incur the risk.

 

I pre-ordered the Polar RR B6.  And was so pleased with the result, I ordered another model in the Pennsy livery with yellow handrails on the tender.  Had dealers ONLY ordered based on customer pre-orders, I wouldn't have been able to order a second B6.  And from the looks of postings here, many other folks wouldn't have been able to order even one B6 after the fact, if dealers hadn't ordered "extra's".

 

It will be interesting to see how many of these little jewels show up at dealer booths in York this October.

 

David

David,

 

I predict that by York, there will be very few on dealers' displays and those that are there will be $650 +

I'll look around for them at York.

 

RickO,

 

Hysterical !

 

I concede that I am simply conflicted.

 

 

 

Wow, I pick mine up on the 10th of September....Pa 5244...0-6-0 Will have a nice spot on my RR. THANKS for sharinag this Nice Video....Its a WOW...

Just for the record, I would like for Lionel to make a 0-4-0 Legacy Steam Switcher...Happy Railroading.....(You might want to re-think 3 Rail Scale) 

My B-6 is supposed to be delivered this morning thanks to forum sponsor Mario's Trains. Based on all the comments here I can't wait to run it.

Nice looking and sounding engine. I did not preorder one due to finances. The gap between cab and tender is very large, and not necessary, even on O-31 curves. It may have been necessary to make it that large for tether connection, although MTH's older loop design would have solved that.

Paul
The drawbar has two holes with the second providing a super close spacing between loco and tender.

Yep, when you use the second drawbar hole, O72 is the minimum curve, the tender is nice and snug, and they look like they might actually be touching in the curve.  If you have less than O72, don't use the close coupling hole.

 

WOW, I just watched the Video, it's amazing...The sounds are great and it looks like Lionel Darkened the side Rods...Also, the whistle sound is awesome as well as the Smoke unit.  I am anxious to get mine....Eliot, You are the Man....Thank You.

For anyone still sitting on the fence about these, here's a tip.  Model Railroader just sent me a bunch of coupons, one of which is 10% off of most purchases at Trainworld.  The coupon code is CC0826.

 

I used this a few days ago to purchase my B6 at a very good price.  It should be here tomorrow.

 

I placed the order by phone to confirm the coupon would work, and it did!  But the coupon expires September 1, so don't dilly-dally.

 

Chuck

It really is a great little loco. I don't recall paying much less for my original K-line b6 back in 2003.

Considering that these smaller scale locos still have all of the same electronics and almost all of the features of the larger locos (minus a few wheels and a few square inches of boiler casting), the pricing seems pretty reasonable...........or the pricing on the big locos are just super inflated.

However, you choose to view it.