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Norton posted:

Its a cool engine. Mine still works but if it dies its repairable. Just not as easy as some. Replace the K-Line Cruise board with a Cruise M and and add a chuff switch. 

Buy it right and have it upgraded. Cost will still likely be half of a legacy version.

Pete

Hi Pete,

Cruise M is great , But i don't like putting an old fashion reed switch with magnets on the wheels. Or do you mean use a cherry switch ? 

Alex

Alex. I was just using the term generically. I suspect most would pick John's chuff generator as the easiest to implement. Myself, it would depend on whats available. In the past I have made custom axle cams for cherry switches or used optical devices on a driver. Reed switches and magnets are pretty much a last resort. I know its pretty well packed in there so choices are limited. I will cross that bridge when I come to it.

Pete

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Randy_B posted:

That's unfortunate as I have been eyeing these for a while as well. Is it possible Lionel has the tooling for these and we will see them in Legacy sometime?

Although Lionel licensed use of some of K-Line's scale tooling (A5, Pacific, Mikado, Berkshire), to the best of my knowledge Lionel does NOT currently have the 4-6-6T tooling nor the K-Line scale Hudson tooling from which the suburban tank tooling was based.  The sub-tank and hudson tooling remain in control of the company or principal (Sanda-Kan/Kader?) that retook K-Line's tooling when K-Line was liquidated.  That said, the tooling is likely available to any company that is willing to pay the asking price to either use/license or buy it outright.  I agree that the K-Line 4-6-6T (and its Hudson) would be great w/ Lionel Legacy but after all this time I think that Kader might be holding it back in case it ever wants to introduce a detailed scale steam engine to it's Williams by Bachmann line.  It's obviously much more expensive to employ that detailed tooling with quality results in today's manufacturing market.

Love these. Very good models. An example of why K-Line was such a loss when it went belly-up. Mine "runs" fine; I put "runs" in quotes because I haven't run it in years. It's on the keep-it short list. It really deserves a presentable (as in tucked away as much as possible) O-gauge front coupler - a dummy would be fine - as the real one spent half its time running cab-forward. One day I'll do that myself.

"Does it run?"

"It ran when I parked it."

Oh, boy.

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