I totally agree with all of this
Out of the 6 Lionel engines I bought this year, 5 of them had to get a repair. I had one incident where the technician did not place any of the packing foam in the appropriate places on the engine, I feel as though that was a serious risk to the engineand could have resumed in damage to the engine. I hope Lionel listens to our comments and fixes their quality control issues. Maybe Lionel can hire someone to go monitor the QC in China?