Charles Ro is shipping SW1
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Mine just arrived by FedEx 5 minutes ago.
Any pictures yet? Does it have the S2 style trucks with removable axles (easier to convert to 2 rail with NWSL wheelsets)?
Thanks.
They just used the mth shell......the motor and drive is same as all recent Lionel switchers.
Anyone getting the Black River & Western set with the SW1?
Truck spacing looks odd
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@naresar posted:If they're like the Lionel heavyweights that I have, the frames are the same between the 2 and 3-axle trucks. So the 2 axle trucks end up being a little to far towards the center.
Yea that's what it looks like. Glad I skipped it.
The picture of the cars on the set box looks way better than what you actually get
@tom21pa posted:
Truck spacing looks odd
To say the least. That doesn't look right.
Lionel has done better 2 axle truck spacing on the older 6- 15577 NYC commuter cars .
And so it goes....
Those trucks on the 4 wheel trucks look weird or is it me? Something is off. I am so glad I did not order it.
Inexcusable. Awful. Should've been would've been a super cool set.
As I have seen other pictures from other buyers, I would not buy it. The cars look terrible.
The truck positioning is certainly all wrong, that looks silly! I have a ton of passenger cars from a variety of manufacturers, none of them look like that! 
The set looks normal on the Lionel site, and it has 4-wheel trucks!
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That is odd. The last car looks OK but the first 2 look awful. That's a shame as Black River and Western is close enough to me where I can hear the whistle's from their engines when the wind is blowing the right way. If it looked right, I would be ordering it.
Tony V
@Norman R posted:Mine just arrived by FedEx 5 minutes ago.
Does yours looks the same as the pictures from above or the catalog?
I think what confuses me more is that Lionel has been doing the heavyweights in 4 wheel truck variants before (in the past 5 years), but they look passable and less bizarre.
(pictured above are the NKP runs from 2018)
What happened here, I dunno.
Pity, since the last coach and the locomotive look perfect, and my friends and I live about 30 minutes away from the railroad...
@Tony_V posted:That is odd. The last car looks OK but the first 2 look awful. That's a shame as Black River and Western is close enough to me where I can hear the whistle's from their engines when the wind is blowing the right way. If it looked right, I would be ordering it.
Tony V
Note that the last car in The Lionel Product picture has 6-wheel trucks. Also, the last car apparently also has six-wheel trucks. What possessed them to put 4-wheel trucks on the other two?
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I live about 5 minutes away, and I do believe some of their coaches do have 4-wheel trucks, but I don't think spread apart as seen in that one photo. Granted they do have quite a bit of rolling stock, some which is not fixed yet. I do believe #503 was recently fixed, but I couldn't tell you what set of trucks it has as it escapes my memory.
*Edit, I think it is #503.*
