CAPPilot posted:If you are a die hard MTH/DCS person, then yes MTH needs to make one. However, Lionel has done several production runs and these can be found new or used.
Lionel's scale S2 dwarfs all of the non-scale versions. To me the non-scale engines would look too small pulling scale cars.
And they do! Well maybe except for the semi-scale version MTH released in the late '90s. Attached is a video of my 671rr pulling a set of MTH passenger cars and an REA boxcar. This engine is the one that started my love of trains, the 63 year old smoke unit still works and it's model trains so the mismatch doesn't bother me so much! The 671rr was a re-release of the 671 after the 681 with magnatraction was released. The lack of magnetic material during the Korean war was the issue then. This consist pushes the limits of the 671rr for sure. I am fairly sure I was running this engine at around 16v when I shot this video and I had to ease into that to get it moving even with the 054 curves on this layout.
Another post here talks about the original not being saved. I've often thought, what a shame. But economics being what they are and what the nearly 1,000,000 lbs of steal would have been worth even back then and one can (almost) understand.
Tony
