Berkshire President posted:In all fairness, their sound has become very impressive and the smoke output greatly increased....if that matters to you.
Only if its correct, otherwise its just loud. Smoke can be fun, when it works, but I'd take a proper graphite colored smokebox over a hotrod tender anyday. My eyes burn when I look the bright silver on my H10.
HOW DID THEY MANAGE 5 CHUFFS ON THE NEW HUDSON???? Maybe I should by one of the old 2 chuff hudsons and see if a couple of forum members will part with an extra chuff on their new ones LOL!
As to why they can't improve upon what they offered from 2000-2010 or so....let alone EQUAL these models...is up to speculation and debate, most of it bad.
Maybe because many of the design/ tech folks at Lionel at that time are no longer there and the paint shop is colorblind.
Add in being asked to now buy these sight unseen, though, has become almost laughable, IMHO.
True, I really wanted to preorder some VL reefers since the first offering was so good and these are IMO, a "low risk" item. Just couldn't bring myself to do it with recent "rehashes" having issues they didn't have the first time around.
