Update!
The Lego Liner has been upgraded to a V2 configuration? What changed? The addition of Lionchief!
Unfortunately no running videos as of yet, but I'll go over the details of this upgrade
To start, our new motor is that of a Lionel Junction starter set 0-4-0, I went with the "Little Steam" version mostly due to the fact that it was the only one I could acquire without buying a whole set off The Bay aside from Christmas ones, which I would've gone with if they were the only ones available, but the plan with this train is for it to be able to be used at shows year round, and a set with Christmas sounds wouldn't entirely work for that. The locomotive needed to be slightly reconstructed to allow the donor engine's board to fit in the cab, and I'm honestly surprised it fits as well as it does. The wire between engine and tender is just the "sound on/off" switch, which unfortunately fell off as I tried to reposition it to find a way to hide it better, thankfully it fell off in the "on" position, so I still have sound. The original Lego couplers I used for the drawbar had to go too, and are replaced with a spare drawbar that I had lying around screwed into where the coupler on the 0-4-0 originally was, with a few spare Lego pieces on the tender serving as the hitch. I had to glue those pieces on for stability but it is what it is. While the upgrade is a virtual success, it turns out the Lionel 0-4-0s have a rather small "pickup zone" for the inner rollers, and it stalls on switches on the outer mainlines of my Club's layout. If I can figure out how, I might pick up one of those old GP-7 trucks with the pickup roller and replace the tender truck with that and find a way to wire that into the 0-4-0's pickups.
