Lionel Big Boy or Mth?

I am very happy with the new Lionel, detail is great and sound unsurpassed

Well I know you buy something to enjoy it but most visionline engine hold near what you paid for them . I don't know of many mth that have .Also the Lionel has way more features blow down coal load and front speaker and better sound.

I cannot say how the sound is on MTH BB.

But on the lionel vision line BB the sounds are awesome as well as the engine itself. I own some MTH ps-2 steamers and diesels all sound anemic to me.

 as to purchasing a BB tarry not am sure the latest from lionel is getting scarce.

 

if you haven't been to lionels video of the BB watch that video I do believe you will make a choice right after that viewing.

 

remember you need 0-72 minimum curves and 3 1/2" from center rail to wall to clear and also a straight section at least 12" or more to clear anything close to end of the curve as I have a tunnel with a 10 7/8" straight track and the front boiler just barely comes up straight prior to it entering the tunnel bore!

 

hope this helps you decide.

Now if you are talking the newly catalog MTH Big Boy, it will represent 4014 as it will be rebuilt and will run in the future.  It will be an oil burner.  It will also have a quillable, variable intensity steaming (smoking whistle).  An when the 4014 is running MTH will record a new "sound" file of the engine so it model will sound as the running Big Boy.

 

Ron

I would get a MTH big boy because it has more detail then the Lionel Vision Line/JLC big boys. Any of the premier big boys from the 2004 and 2010 time frame are good but I like the ones from 2004-2006 more than I do the ones from 2010. Reason being the sound I like more on the older ones. 

I just watch Erictrains video, I am going to have to stop looking at this forum.  It's costing me too much.

I have order the big boy and the Leipzig Station this week.

I went for the MTH 4014....only 11 months left to pay it down

 

and I lost count of how many and which UP caboooses I bought

 

rat

ironically ratpak, I recently watched a video rails vcr tape of the big boy and on one scene it actually had a yellow caboose!

 

 

Were there any Road of The Big Boys boxcars, in the video

 

rat

 

beta or VHS?

My PS1.0 BB from the MTH Dealer Appreciation package of yore is jes' fine, thank you!    And, such a deal it was.

 

Less is more, IMHO of course. 

 

But TEHO.

 

 

Why would there not be yellow cabooses behind a Big Boy.  The order to paint the cabooses in yellow went out early/mid 1947.  The Big Boys survived into the late 50s.

 

 

I guess a bigger question is would there have been any "red" cabooses behind a Big Boy without exposed after-coolers.  Must edit this to not include 4020 through 4024.

 

Ron

Light hearted question...MTH and Weaver produced a string of UP box cars with Multiple Numbers marked as Road of The Big Boys.

 

 

rat

I think in another thread it was said that a brown caboose with a certain number was the correct caboose behind big boys.

not sure if possibly a certain style of caboose is what they meant. I just noticed in video it had a yellow caboose tacked on.

Based on my reference material all the red cabooses were most probably repainted yellow by 50/51.

 

As I edited my above post a bigger question would be was there any red cabooses behind a Big Boy that did NOT have exposed after-coolers(except 4020 through 4024).

 

Ron

Lionel has the market cornered on these big articulated steam engines.There must be a reason for it.Nick

I prefer this one:

 

http://www.3rdrail.com/found.htm

 

 

The Lionel BB is an awesome machine. Only a brand loyalist would buy any other.

That would be a yes, as the exposed after coolers where removed, starting in 1946, and the various UP cabooses were still "red/brown" through the late 1940s and into the early 1950s (with four digit road numbers).