| Last updated on February 11, 2021
The Lionel product developers must have figured that the firm's expanding line of Christmas trains needed this steamer which is packed with plenty of holiday whimsy.
THIS MODEL IS THE THIRD OUTING for the UK-outline tooling created for the movie-related Hogwarts Express from the Harry Potter book and movie series. The second product was the Shakespeare Express (based on a British excursion train of the same name).
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its a nice train but it looks too much like the hogwarts express train
Nice engine! Something to be said for simplicity, tipical British style
engine, wish Lionel would follow MTH & offer some beautiful
European locomotives in the future.
Ron G., I have this train and it smokes well… in nice synchronized puffs. They are almost perfect smoke rings sometimes.
Hey Bob I don't know if it's prototypical but the Brits have a "Southern" railway too. The green and the logo is not too far off from ours. [Becuse the SRR president liked the green paint job on a trip to England.] It would look good!
how does the smoke unit work on this unit?
Bob,
I think I would 'squirrel it away' for Christmas of 2010, not 2011. I like that you've started to do something additional to the layout.
Keep it up.
JD Mason
I had major doubts about adding this to my North Pole Central layout, which is annually on display at the VAMC where I work. It is up from Thanksgiving until the first workday of January. Then it is back to a freight set and C&O passenger set for the remain 46 weeks.
I read Bob's review, then watched the video, Wow now I must get one for the Christmas layout. No more doubts here, that engine looks good.