This train is build-to-order and is a pre-order item. You will be charged the full price at checkout to guarantee delivery of your order.
Estimated Availability: 4th Quarter 2021
The Lehigh Valley's passenger service was still struggling in 1939 and badly in need of a new image. Shortly after introducing a new "streamlined" gas-electric car, the railroad unveiled a stunning new passenger train named for noted industrialist and philanthropist Asa Packer. A compromised and more frugal approach to building a new streamliner, the Lehigh Valley's Sayre shops completed the work designed by noted designer Otto Kuhler (best known to train fans for the Milwaukee Road Hiawathas.) Locomotive #2023 was given minimal new metal work, a dining car was rebuilt into a diner/lounge, and a combine and along with a combine and two coaches all were repainted in a striking black and orange paint scheme. The colors were meant to symbolize coal and flame - the core of the Valley's business and character. The train entered 6-day-a-week service on February 1, 1939 between Newark and Mauch Chunk. The service proved popular and during the 1939 World's Fair, the train even made two daily round trips! Eventually service was extended to Penn Station in New York and Wilkes Barre with connections over the Reading to Philadelphia. The Asa Packer is the perfect model passenger train - both colorful and compact! You get everything you need in one set - a LEGACY 4-6-2 with subtle streamlining and all four cars, including a StationSounds diner. The entire train will comfortably navigate O-54 curves. If you're craving a longer train, mixing in some conventionally-painted Lehigh Valley cars would be completely prototypical for heavy traffic days.
SET INCLUDES:
- LEGACY 4-6-2 USRA Pacific
- 18" Combine
- Two 18" Coaches
- 18" StationSounds Diner
- LEGACY® Control System equipped – able to run in LEGACY® Control mode, in TrainMaster Command Control mode, or in Conventional mode with a standard transformer
- Operate with Universal Remote or Bluetooth® Control via the Lionel LionChief App
- Lionel Voice Control (LVC) - run your locomotive by speaking commands into your phone via LionChief App - available on select items – look for LVC logo
- Odyssey® II Speed Control
- IR Transmitter that works with LCS SensorTrack™
- Powerful maintenance-free motor with momentum flywheel
- Wireless Tether™ connection between locomotive and tender
- ElectroCoupler™ on rear of tender
- Directional lighting including operating headlight and back-up light on rear of tender
- Bicolor illuminated classification lights on the front of locomotive where applicable. Using a Legacy controller, change the color of the classification lights between white or green
- Traction tires
- Interior illumination in cab
- Die-cast metal locomotive body, pilot, and trucks
- Die-cast metal tender body and trucks
- High level of separately applied metal details
- Separately applied builder's plate
- Synchronized fan-driven smoke unit
- Adjustable smoke output
- Authentically detailed cab interior
- Cab "glass" windows
- Engineer and fireman figures
- Whistle Steam
- CrewTalk™ dialog with different scenarios depending on whether the locomotive is in motion or stopped
- TrainSounds that mimic operating dialog when the locomotive is in motion or stopped
- Six official railroad speeds with CrewTalk dialog
- DynaChuff™ synchronized with 32 levels of intensity as the locomotive gains speed
- LEGACY® "Real-Time Quilling Whistle" control with instant response for realistic signature "quilling" and correctly timed warning signals--5 different whistles to choose from for a more customized experience
- Single hit or continuous mechanical bell sounds--5 levels of bell pitching for customized sounds
- Sequence Control: plays the sound effects of an entire trip, including warning sounds and announcements, based on the movement and speed of the locomotive
- Current speed and fuel dialog, coal or oil loading sound effects
- Flicker-free LED lighting
- Die-cast sprung trucks
- Operating couplers with hidden tabs
- Interiors with figures
- Gauge: O Gauge
- Power: Electric
- Engine Type: Steam
- Min Curve: O54
- Dimensions: Length: 98"
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