Thanks Michael! The tender that came with this set did not have the whistle, but it is already my son's favorite engine (he has the Polar Express and the John Deere LionChief sets). I still need to do the smoke unit repair ( I really would like to add a switch for this as a 7 year old may be prone to forgetting to add smoke fluid periodically).
I also spent the weekend cleaning up a load of o gauge track, 4 switches, and a decoupling rail that came with the purchase. The track was in rough shape, but by last night we had a loop set up with two switches (operated manually at this point), running on an old Lionel 1033 transformer. The lot we bought also came with a KW transformer that I need to go through next!
