(video added) New Lionel Pennsylvania 2-8-2 Mikado! #6-11257

WOW that looks great.

Nick if you can please do a video ,I would like to here

it. I'm picking mine up on friday.

 

THANKS FOR POSTING

ALEX

Nick,

Nice purchase and I really like the PRR. I bet the sound is great too.

I wish Lionel would make the L1 class Mikado... I am waiting ... and waiting... ah nuts...

 

 

Thanks!!!  I will try to make the video asap...i'm pretty anal about making the videos perfect and I edit a lot! lol  Imagine the sound of the k4 but with a bit higher pitched whistle. I like it a lot!

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong....Is the engine missing the builder's plates?  It has that small round indent which is where they usually are, and it looks that way on both sides of the boiler!  Trying to find out before I make a phone call to Lionel.   Thanks!

I should know this, since this is the kind of thing that I usually know (or think that I
know), but did the PRR actually have any USRA Mikes like the Lionel model? I know
that the PRR - like the NYC - had little need for the USRA locos, and designed their own,
for the most part, but they did have some USRA 2-10-2's.

So, PRR fans - is the Lionel loco proper? I hope so, because that Lionel engine is just
gorgeous! And yes, your Baldwin (round) builder's plates are missing.

I could look up the PRR/USRA Mike thing, but, well, I haven't.

BTW, Weaver (I believe - or old Williams) did a very nice brass PRR-design MIke years
ago, available usually at decent prices. Add ERR Cruise, etc, a little Dullcote and
darken the wheels, and there you go. Good gearing, I would think.

Yes, the PRR had USRA Mikes, but it got rid of them pretty quickly.  some ended up on the SL-SF.

So, PRR fans - is the Lionel loco proper? I hope so, because that Lionel engine is just
gorgeous! And yes, your Baldwin (round) builder's plates are missing.

I could look up the PRR/USRA Mike thing, but, well, I haven't.

ys it is. there were 5 of them classes L2's #9628-9632. Unfortunately, that road # has been used before on the Williams BRass version. I wish Toy train co's did their research and prevent duplicate road numbers from other mfg's runs. It allows us hobbyists to buy more product!

This is a USRA Mike, alright, but does anyone know if it's a USRA heavy or light Mike?  I know that MTH has done the Light Mikado once before but I've been anticipating a Heavy Mike for a long time.  So is this just a re-issue of a previous locomotive?  

 

I   was hoping that my prayers were answered.  This one looks to me like the light variation, although the prinicpal difference was that the heavy had a boiler diameter 10" larger than the light had.  Kind of gave it a more rugged,powerful appearance.  Wheel diameter, distance between axles, cab dimensions, even the tender, seemed to be the same for both engines.

 

Paul Fischer

This is a USRA Mike, alright, but does anyone know if it's a USRA heavy or light Mike?  I know that MTH has done the Light Mikado once before but I've been anticipating a Heavy Mike for a long time.  So is this just a re-issue of a previous locomotive?  

Yes. All this is it's the K=line Scale Mike [light USRA] with the Legacy electronics.

http://www.legacykline.com/apps/kl/catalog.html?useraction=road&p_road_name=Pennsylvania&p_oem_sku=K3680-9628CC

Same as Williams/Weaver/ and MTH "Lite Mike" models.

Since no manufacturer in the 3-Rail market has yet produced a USRA heavy mike, the ones pictured from Lionel, or K-Line for that matter, and MTH are all light USRA mikes.

Nick I cant wait to see your review! I would say yes it should have builders plates.

 

This topic comes up every year... as soon as someone makes a heavy Mikado I would buy it immediately. Preferably with whistle steam and moving bell please.

The PRR had 33 light USRA type light Mikados, some went to the MP and the  rest to the SL-SF... Not sure if the head lamps were all at the top of the smoke box or not?

 

 

 

  

Kind of a shame lionel didn't do the high mounted headlight, seeing as its k line tooling anyway.

Per the comments about locos having the same cab numbers, etc.:

Cab/tender/headlight/etc number can be easily removed or painted over (depending
on where they are, colors surrounding, etc.), and re-decaled. I do it all the time.
Decals - both wet and dry transfer - for particular roads or styles are readily available
from Microscale, Woodland Scenics, Rail Graphics.

I sometimes make my own "on the fly" water-slide decals using plain decal paper and dry transfer numbers/letters. This gives you a chance to get it straight and true. You then treat
it like any other water-slide decal.

It is easy, and typically enjoyable. Decals, water, scissors, Solvaset/Microsol, Dullcote...
You don't have to depend on someone else to get what you want. It's called "model
railroading".

Fingernail polish remover will remove most - not all - lettering from a brass/die-cast
loco. Plastic locos and cars are more sensitive to "removers".

If the numbers aren't too thick, brush painting over them with a good acrylic paint will
take care of it. On a black steamer, this plus the new numbers will completely hide the old.
Paint the entire cab panel where the numbers are - don't "dab" at each numeral/letter.
It will look just like you did just that.

As stated here 33 light USRA Mikes were assigned to the Pennsy during the end of WWI leased from Lima.  They were numbered 20006-20038 and Pennsy got rid of them ASAP after the war.  Then when the Pennsy absorbed the Grand Rapids & Indiana (a subsidiary) in 1921 they gained and rostered their 5 USRA Mikes as L2's numbers 9627-9631 (K-Line rendered two of these).  These Mikes lasted into the late 40's.

I have a Lionel mikado Jr. Ex  Pennsylvania #9631 it has TMCC and railsounds 5.0 .It doesn't have the builders plates either coarse it's a low end engine . I only paid $254 for it 6 months ago.
It has a rectangle that sticks out where the builders plates go instead of a circle like the new ones. I just used the builders plates that came with the Micro Scale decals.

I would think though that a engine that costs 7 or 8 hundred would have them.

You can see where they go just above the steam cylinders . I made it an N&W engine and shortened the draw bar an inch,added and painted the tender grab rails and added grab rails to the cab. Good little puller I'd buy another.

David

Everyone, Video has been added to original post!!

 

Mike,

the Weaver "Mike" looks sick!

Nick,

Is this engine scale?  I have a Williams PRR Mike and am looking for a more modern rendering of the Pennsy L1.

 

Norm

Norm,

Yes this is a scale model. 

 

Thanks everyone!!

Really nice engine Nick, great sound as always.

Thanks for posting the video.I'm picking mine up

tomorrow.

 

Nick your layout is so well done and beautiful.

 

THANKS AGAIN ,ALEX

 

great job on the video!

Nick (PghTrainFanatic)...were you able to reach Lionel to confirm whether they forgot to add the builder's plates?  Thanks.  Jim

Great video and layout.  Lionel should hire you to do their promotional videos.

Nick: WOW!!! Thats a great layout and a great video. Thank you for sharing that. I really like that engine, Do you wish it had the whistle steam effect?

Man, that sounds nice! I like your Pittsburgh layout. Hope you get your builder's plates.

 Great video as always Nick! Lionel could use you as part of their promotions dept!

This is strange; as I mentioned in another thread, they did a high-mounted headlight on some other recent Mikados (such as the Great Northern, and I'm fairly sure the GN didn't use high-mounted headlights).

Sweat-I guess we will see this next time we run trains at Patricks. Did they say how long till you get the builder plates? How could they not of had them on the engine. Can't tell me they didn't know thay were missing.