Lionel Century Club Empire State Express

Yes, it's a Beautiful Set. All of the Century Club Offerings are Great, but, This is the Top of the Line. I have this set also, New in the Box, except, The Engine is in my Display Cabinet.  Wow. Happy Railroading

wow, I saw on the listing that the Hudson was TMCC powered, would a LEGACY remote work? I'm building a layout in my basement and doing a youtube series on it. I was debating whether or not to either buy the LEGACY Pocohantes set, the Commodore Vanderbilt, or the Empire State Express in the future. Im starting small right now and I'm going to get my first bit of benchwork done in the next few weeks. My youtube channel is at the link https://www.youtube.com/channe...enZvSWXHOZpQWdg/feed I would appreciate it if you checked out what I got so far. Thanks 

Dan,

Yes, a Legacy Cab 2 remote will work. The Legacy manual will explain how to get the most out of it. By the way, if you want a Legacy version it's in Lionel's new catalog. Not sure of the price but it has an O72 minimum radius.

Mike 

Excellent engine.  The new Legacy version will top that one. 

Marty,

No doubt! I do not have the real estate for minimum O72 radius curves but if I did, I'd order one.

Mike

Other than having Legacy instead of TMCC, in what way?

I have the Century Club version which was rated for and runs fine on O-54.  I assume its the same tooling?

Love the Empire!!! What do those cars look like????

I made a set from K-line SL cars and custom decals.

Absolutely - though I only have the locomotive (well, 2, actually - one now dressed for

Mercury service) and made up my passenger car deficit with a nice but early MTH Empire

State set ("Franklin Roosevelt" Observation), and later found a K-line (as I recall) "Theodore Roosevelt" Observation.

I am glad to see you refer to the ESE as a "Dreyfuss", as Henry Dreyfuss' company styled

both the better-known (and more common - eventually 11, counting the J1e 5344) gray "Century" Hudson and the ESE version. 

I wasn't considering the new one, really, I wasn't. Really. Please. Oh, gosh.

The CC Empire state express is one of the most beautiful sets ever produced.

It's my favorite set. See pictures and video below

Alex

Beautiful set Alex, which passenger cars is she pulling?

Mike

Hi Mike,

They are Lionel 18 inch aluminum that go with the engine.

Thanks

Alex

I think these are the Lionel Century Club Cars that go with the Engine, 18 inch 7 car Set.

Happy Railroading

Tr18, I mean no dis respect to the locomotive, it is a thing of beauty.  Legacy means a lot to me with the quilling whistle, whistle steam, 4 chuffs per rev, and getting rid of the AC smoke regulator.  The engine Alex has is beautiful.  I feel this new engine will be a hot ticket.  I have the K-Line 21 inch 10 car set but would love to get my hands on the cars Alex has.

Marty

Neither I nor the engine took offense, I was actually asking a serious question.

I have the CC version with all the cars and was just wondering what people thought would be better about this new one. So far it is Legacy, whistle steam and 4 chuffs.

What else could they add?

I don't know, but when you put a new Berkshire beside one of the first issues it looks pretty sweet. We have this engine and set of cars too. Right now the cars are getting hauled around by the green MTH E-8s. They are crowd favorites at our place. 

Beautiful Set

I notice from Alex's video that this engine has two chuffs per rev. Is that fixed or can it be switched to 4 chuffs. I realize that in can be modified for 4 chuffs but just wondering if it was built with this option.

Pete

Maybe that is a much older Lionel ESE Hudson. Lionel didn't really join the "4-chuffs per revolution club" until within the last 4 or 5 years, as I remember.