I can tell you this, as someone who takes a bunch of these locomotive apart, the latest gearbox in Legacy steam is not as good as the MTH gearbox. The TMCC version of the locomotive uses the same bullet proof gearbox that MTH does. When Lionel went to Legacy they made the gearbox needlessly complex so it has more failure points. From a pure reliability/ruggedness standpoint the MTH Premier model or an early 2000s made in Korea TMCC model is better than any Legacy version.
|