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Thinking about purchasing this engine as there still a few out there and couple questions on performance

1.) Those whom have purchased any issues quality wise?

2.) States 054 and building layout with a 063 and 54 radius.  As this is a big engine does it in fact run well on those radius’s if you run yours on these respective radius

Any other points are appreciated as asking as I really like this engine but is a big purchase

Thank you

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Got the VL Niagara last October and it is a good runner; out of the box, I had one issue and that was with the vertical hand rails on the back end of the cab - one was broken off at its lower mounting hole - easy fix with epoxy (tried crazy glue but that discolored the surrounding black paint, used Tamiya spray paint to fix that).  One other issue - running it with a CW80 was not enough to get the water effect from the tender but used a ZWL and the tender smoked as designed.

Mine came back from Lionel a few weeks ago after the sound quit. It ran fine but would not produce chuff, whistle, or bell sounds. I tested it a couple nights ago and it performs like new. The Lionel tech gave me a personal 'Thank You' for the detailed description of the problem and what I tested before contacting them. Came back just as it was sent with a new RCMC bd. installed. Thanks Lionel!

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