Nice video as usual, i bought one my self, the Lionel B6's are actually old K-line tooling. If you remove the engine shell, you will see the K-line logo stamped underneath the cab floor. And if you look for the the original K line b6 it will look exactly the same
As always Eric... very impressive review... but your comment and usage of the crew talk feature of these engines got me to thinking (painful at best). Maybe we could sweet talk MTH into adding a feature to their control systems that allows us to record our own Crew talk messages to fit our layouts....
you're probably right there... and if they do include the ability to record our own crew talk and charge us for that ability... I expect and demand a royalty... I was my idea after all. lol
Ive always had a love of small engines, growing up with an HO layout of mostly 4 axle EMDs and 060 and 080 steamers. My largest locomotives were a UP 4-8-4 and a ATSF Kodachrome SD40-2 back then.
Great reviews as always! Thanks for explaining the electrical footprint, I have an MTH Premier USRA NKP 0-6-0 and it would always short out on my Atlas switches as it only has pick up rollers on the tender and not the engine itself. Don't understand why they couldn't add them on to the engine when there seems to be room.
Outstanding review Eric! Love the engine sounds! Thanks for the brief history lesson and the explanation of the "electrical footprint" as it applies model railroading!
very nice review eric , I think it is great you go behond and give details of the real life history of the loco.s always nice to learn something each day ,, thanks for sharing
Lionel actually has had the coal filling sound effect on their Legacy steam engines since 2009. It's just the Big Boy took the extra step to have a feature to go with it, but I have many Legacy steamers with the same sound if you wanted to use it, such as the 700E Hudson and the Crescent Limited.
Why doesn't this engine seem to have Dynachuff? It sounds like it is on maximum chuff all the time. Were you riding the train brake in Legacy? It should drift into a softer chuff.
As always Eric, a great video. I so wish I could visit your layout someday. I love how you mix some history into what you review. I love O gauge trains, and while I cannot afford the level you are on, I love your reviews, and I love how you highlights highlights differences between a good model and a great model. Thanks.
Hey man just found your channel n subscribed. Im lookin to get either this engine (0-6-0) or the Legacy H-10 . But i noticed you dont have a review of that one yet... Just sayin id like to see it lol
P.s Ive lived a couple towns over from Strasburg P.A my whole life.... Its pronounced Str as burg, not str ahs burg... like strap or strangle.. strasburg ... :)
This is a great little engine , I have one my self. The only thing I noticed was it seems sometimes the whistle crackles at times, I though something was wrong with mine but after hearing others it seemed some what normal.
I saw one of these in live action when I was a very little kid, had to have been in the early 1950s. It was switching near my grandmother's house in Prospect Park, Pa.
Also, switch engines do not whistle/honk in the yards for sound level reasons. They usually whistle/honk once to announce their presence at the control tower and twice to say they are leaving that yard area to shunt more cars or something like that.
#1670 will be restored, new top speed up to 120mph Will travel up to 90mph and it will be used by the Strasburg railroad, will pull 6 cars, will travel up to 90mph when it runs from Strasburg go Crestline Ohio, and will run from Strasburg to phil idelphia, pa service and it will have a Strasburg logo, and it will have a hafley lighter boiler, and it will do a doublehead with #94 every Martin Luther king day when it run from Strasburg to reading, PA
Now I've commented before how much I hatrd the crew talk, but for the main reason that the voice acting sounds monotone and unauthentic, and after serving some time with a short line railroad at a museum I could practically smell it. Was Lionel reading my comments? because the crew talk on this switcher is exactly the opposite. it's damn good! "Goin' to bean" was especially a nice touch.
assuming someone would let go of the 8976 it would be 1/10 of a million dollars because of age, and I don't think that he has that kind of money just laying around... and the later one would probably be $5,000-$10,000 and I still don't think he has that laying around... I could be very wrong about the prices.
+Squishy1225 I think your numbers may be a little off, I haven’t seen an 8976 on eBay recently but I get the feeling that they go for less than the fabled 700e which seems to go for $2,000 to $5,000. So it would be a fair estimate for an 8976 to go for the same or less due to the fact that it is not as coveted or as well known. The 1989 re-issue is a completely different story though it is not only common but relatively inexpensive coming in at $200 to $400 on da bay.
+PennLineProductions +Squishy1225 Guys, it's just a wish of mine. I don't know if I'd every be able to find one of afford one, but it would be really cool if I could make it happen one day. I'd like to be able to have an original 700e as well...one of these days.
I had an MTH one. I Got for Christmas, but sadly its motor stopped working on the morning of December 26th, and all I did was run it conventionally. I was so upset.
I wish Lionel had chosen to fix the major flaw in the K-Line B6. The tender looks like it is on stilts. Look at photos online of the B6 and drawings in Linn Westcott's Steam Locomotive Cyclopedia. The prototype B6 slope back tender sits 6"~8" lower than the K-Line/Lionel model as do both of Lionel's original B6's. Not too big a job for a DIY project. I will post a description of how to lower it with photos on the O Gauge Forum. Not all that wild about crew talk seems kinda hokey. PRRs Trainphone system (1943~1962) would have been available during the career of the B6 but I have never seen the Trainphone antenna on a B6 loco or tender. Not that I have seen all the PRR B6. If someone knows if they were so equipped I would like to know. Gotta love that whistle though. j
Bought an Atlas-O 0 6 0 USRA Pennsy switcher. Almost a 700 dollar engine with TMCC control and features. Put it on the layout for yard duty and both sides of my running gear came loose. Bent my drive and eccentric rods before I could "hault". 700 dollar switcher top of the line locomotive from Atlas!! Why am I having these problems?
The wired tether could be seen as real connections between the engine and tender. Given Lionel’s genius, it likely would have been better received if they’d put a drop plate to bridge the gap, but that’s usually what MTH does.
Never know that the little 0-6-0 I drove past every day at work was one of two surviving B6s. It's pronounced Hoe-Kessin, Delaware. Thanks for another great video.
+Squishy1225 I'm sure that you are correct about the limited amount of track milage that Eric has, but I'm sure that he had more than enough locomotive power to pull such a train. Take a look at some of his video blogs. He does have an extensive collection of engines on display in and around his layout.
Bill Westbury i know that he has alot of engines but it would still take 10-15 engines to pull... he has over 50 according to the one video blog. as i said before the only problem is that there probably not enough track space.
I think the dialog should be changed, rather than the engineer talking to the yardmaster being that there was no radios back then he should have been talking to the switch foreman
Eric, you say that sometimes you have tours if I understand correctly bringing kids or families in to see the trains? Where exactly are you located in and what state?
#1670 will be restored, new top speed up to 120mph Will travel up to 90mph and it will be used by the Strasburg railroad, will pull 6 cars, will travel up to 90mph when it runs from Strasburg go Crestline Ohio, and will run from Strasburg to phil idelphia, pa service and it will have a Strasburg logo, and it will have a hafley lighter boiler, and it will do a doublehead with #94 every Martin Luther king day when it run from Strasburg to reading, PA
Hopefully one day they'll make more pennsy locos like 7002 and 1223 or maybe the Strasburg Locos but thats just a thought anyway love your vids all of them
I like that you were able to be a little more creative about where you filmed this locomotive Eric. We don't get to see your trains operate in the yard much on regular videos so this one was a treat just for that. It was also great that you spent a good amount of time explaining why Lionel does what it does even if it seems like a step backwards initially. Personally, I don't know if this locomotive would work with a layout I have planned when it would be based off of the Milwaukee Road and the Nickel Plate Road. Does Lionel offer different road numbers or was the B6 made specifically for the Pennsy?
Please identify the Lionel model # and year of manufacture. There’s a number of these out there-Lionel, MTH, K-Line. This one is identified as Lionel but seems like a K-Line with the detail shown. Thanks.
