@Lou1985 posted:I'm curious if Lionel left the gearbox alone or added their own back driveable gearbox design to the chassis. The MTH designed gearbox was bullet proof, so I'm hoping Lionel kept it.
Fwiw, In the early days of Legacy. Lionels back drivable gearbox was still achieved via the traditional worm and axle gear setup.
They started using those intermediate gears around 2011.
Maybe the gear reduction helps the Canon perform like a Pittman😉
There have been a few locos in between that have back driveability and no extra gears. I believe the Legacy ESE hudsons and VL Niagra to name a couple.
Hopefully folks will get lucky with these 2 -10-4's