The new Lionel Mogul----What are your thoughts

It was my Mogul that we ran on Norm Charbonneau's layout over the weekend that Steam Loco Greg posted about in Superwarp's thread.  Clearly there is excessive play in the center driver.  For now I'll wait for what Lionel has to say about the issue and if there is any solution. 

I will say that it one of the best sounding locos I have!

gunrunnerjohn posted:

If someone has one of these, I'd like to see what's under the hood.  If it doesn't have the RCMC and the flywheel tach, I'd expect what I'm hearing.

When I get to the store on Friday morning "PST"...Ill pop one open to see what's up so we can get to the bottom of that. I will also see if it has poor slow speed operation.

Paul Kallus posted:

Thanks for the explanation, Norton.

Am not trying to be a budinski here, but why would Lionel use a different set of drivers and rods for presumably the same engine produced in the past? And, So I know a little about what I am reading, what is BEMF and RCMC stand for and what do they do?

 

Can't answer why they used different components. Maybe a different factory is making them but the formite who did the swap said the fasteners were different. 

I am getting curious why its taking Lionel so long to determine the cause. Maybe because the fix will not be easy or cheap.

BEMF= Back Electro Motive Force. Same technology used in Electric RR cruise boards.

RCMC= ???? Its the newer Lionel receiver motor driver board all in one.

Pete