The 'Mighty T1'

Fantastic!  

 

Sam, that is truly one remarkably impressive locomotive.  

Nice photos and great story Sam! Enjoy it!

Looks just like mine.   It's a great locomotive, enjoy it.

Hi SAM this is the engine you were telling me about, looks awesome yes and it also looks like a beast. enjoy it.

 

Alex

IF she wouldn't do 120MPH...she needed worked on...was the old rule of

thumb west of Crestline.   You folks need to get the PRRT&HS series on the

PRR TEE starting in Fall 2001.  You want fast steam; this is YOUR chooch...

I kid you not!  And nowhere near as lousy as the the copy cat/ so-called

experts have made them out to be, either.  Best of the lot?  PRR 5500...

probably the fastest steamer built in the USA, possibily the world.  Franklin

rotary "B" poppet gear, and revised valve timing...a hot rod if there ever was

one.  MetroLiner speeds, a generation before the fact!

Hi Sam, congrats on your new loco!  I had my scale T1 Duplex up for sale here a few months ago... but it was one of the few "scale" items I had listed, so I decided to keep it after all.    Not surprised to hear that you feel it needs ERR cruise, but that's to be expected since it (the scale one) was produced around 2000 if I'm not mistaken.  Indeed, it's a real gem, for sure.

 

Enjoy!!!

 

David

Very nice purchase, Sam.  I love the Pennsy T1.  A very interesting and beautiful locomotive.

That's a beautiful engine. It's one of the four Pennsy steam locomotives I really like -- The Streamlined Q1, the Streamlined S1, the S2 Turbine, and the T1 Duplex. While I have the 3rd Rail S2, I'd like to eventually get the other three by MTH. Hopefully MTH will do the S2 in Premier.

Does anyone know what happened to the tooling for this locomotive?

Will Lionel re release it in Legacy?

Im guessing you know MTH has the S2 in the Imperial Rail King line. Not as nice as the premier but the Imperial's are pretty sharp. 

C.sam I believe that the T1 was one of the alleged engines from the big lawsuit. As we don't know what the settlement was they might not be able to use the tooling, however they could re-engineer it if enough people wanted it.

And here's a real one!!!. I took this photo August 12, 1951 on a Ligonier Valley fan trip. The shot was taken at Latrobe, waiting for the departure of the special.  Yes, the T-1s could really fly, but sometimes they had trouble starting a big load, and other times

one of the two engines would suddenly begin slipping.  Lew Schneider

Very nice looking locomotive, but the pics make it look even better!

Very nice!

For some reason I'm thinking the T-1 may have been assembled in Michigan. Thought I recalled seeing them at the Lionel plant during the 2000 LCCA tour. Does anyone else recall this ?

Very familiar with it (I even have the correct Proto-2 sound set in case I upgrade my 3rd Rail) but I've been obsessed with scale-sized models, despite the fact that I'll eventually need a warehouse to build a layout big enough to support them.