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I love the LC+ steamers - have four now and about 400 operating hours among them.  They are close to bulletproof, heavy, and quite powerful.  I have had a pacific and a Hudson each pulling 22-25 scale reefers and a scale caboose up a 2.5% grade with no problems.  

 

I have had no control or operating problems with any steamer, other than this: near the end of battery life, but before the remote will die completely, things will start to go wrong: the train will beep its not getting a signal or the remote will indicate it does not see the loco on both, or the loco may not respond when the remote's button's are pushed.  Anytime I have a problem (so far) fresh batteries fix it.  The batteries last quite a long time, too.  In an oversight, I left three remotes on over and entire weekend, Friday evening to Monday afternoon = maybe 60 hours, and they worked for quite some time the next week.

Originally Posted by Mark Boyce:

Matthew,

thank you for posting the video of your Christmas Layout pointing out the LC+ pulling the the PE cars.  If this is the same video I saw at Christmas time, I mistook it for the PE Berkshire.  While my PE cars are some of the lightest ones I have, any locomotive that can pull ten of them up your steep, tight curves without any trouble is a workhorse, no doubt.  I was thinking of the LC+ NYC Hudson to pull my baby Madison heavyweight consist.  I have an NYC RailKing Hudson, and would like to compare.

thank you again.

Hey Mark, That video was done after Christmas when the trees came down. During Christmas we were using the LionChief Polar Express on the same trackage the PE at one time was pulling 13 coaches around the trackage. The LionChief + NYC Hudson has even more power than the PE LionChief.

For comparison sake the Hiawatha sharing the track in the video is a RailKing Imperial from the 2006 catalog.

Well, I pulled the trigger yesterday on a LionChief Plus!  After an indepth e-mail conversation with Lee Willis, Lee's and Gary's videos, and everyone else's comments, I decided to buy one.  It conveniently happened that I had to make a trip from my home to see my aunt in a senior facility the town of Zelienople, normally a 35 minute drive away in a blizzard.  Well, it so happens that C. T. McCormick's Harware is in Zelie right before I get to my aunt's.  I often stop there to buy Lionel and MTH trains.  Jeff had two LionChief Plus engines, the NYC Hudson and the PRR Mikado.  Well as of a half hour before closing he only had the Hudson.  The price in the store was a lot less than he had on his Web site www.cttrains.com  If I had a larger hobby budget, I may have purchased the Hudson to compare side by side to my MTH Hudson, but with limited funds, and having grown up near the Pennsy, I purchased the Mike for the best price I have seen.  If someone out there is looking for the Hudson, get over there before Jeff sells it.  I recommend him for in store and mail order service.  Also, this visit, he told me about the huge layout he is building with 48 DCS controlled switches.  That's another story.

 

I am very happy so far with the Mike, it looks good, sounds good and runs good.  This comment is taking into account it is a far cry from the high end locomotives, but it is worth a fraction of locomotives like the Vision Line Big Boys; but I will always have to stay in the lower price range.  No matter, I am very pleased.

 

I just took a video on my under construction 4x8 layout with my junky old digital camera.  I will post the video another time, as I don't have time this evening.

 

 

impulsebill posted:

Can you run LionChief Plus on the same track with DCS !

Yes - This video will show all my remotes that I use on my layout. I have 4 main lines, each line is powered by a Lionel Brick / 180 Watt Powerhouse. I do run MTH / RailKing at the same time on the same line. The speed control on both locos will keep them apart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1IqzW9IL7U

Gary - Cheers from The Detroit and Mackinac Railway

 

Last edited by trainroomgary
pine tree junction posted:

I heard after September, or later.

Hi Pine Tree Junction / One of the OGR Sponsors, Train World is showing,  June 30, 2016 (Late)

Has anyone heard why.........   My LHS went out of business, so I am in a holding pattern at the train station, but I did find a new dealer. One in Michigan and the other in northern Ohio, between Toledo and Cleveland.  I did not do a built to order, with Lionel.  Waiting to see if these units work and are reliable.   Magazine or YT review maybe helpful.

Gary

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