Chesapeake & Ohio Empire Builder Ready-To-Run Train Set (Scale LEGACY 2-8-4 Berkshire #2696)
6-30066 | Price: $2,699.99

Looking to get started with the very best? The newest Lionel Empire Builder set features everything you need to get started in top-of-the-line Lionel O Gauge model railroading. With the LEGACY Command Set, a powerful ZW transformer, a huge O-72 FasTrack layout, and two switches, you have all the makings of a sophisticated layout.
Note: This is a two-box set:
6-30066 = BOX #1
6-30067 = BOX #2
Features
- SET INCLUDES:
- Berkshire locomotive, offset hopper, double-door boxcar with end doors, 8,000 gallon tank car, double sheathed wood boxcar, wood-sided caboose, ZW transformer, LEGACY Command Set, two O-72 switches, 22 O-72 curve FasTrack track sections, nine straight FasTrack track sections, one terminal track
- LOCOMOTIVE FEATURES:
- LEGACY Control System equipped
- Odyssey II Speed Control with ON/OFF switch
- LEGACY RailSounds sound system featuring:
-CrewTalk dialog and TowerCom announcements, each with different scenarios depending on whether the locomotive is in motion or stopped
-Five official railroad speeds with CrewTalk dialog
-DynaChuff synchronized chuffing that shifts through 15 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
-Single hit or continuous bell sounds
-Realistic operator-controlled effects, including the water injector
-Independently adjustable volume control-use the Remote Controller to lower the level of background effects such as the whistle at full volume - Dual FatBoy speakers for the ultimate in sound reproduction
- High-torque Pittman® motor with momentum flywheel
- Wireless Tether connection between locomotive and tender
- Directional lighting including operating headlight, back-up light on rear of tender, and front classification lights
- Die-cast metal locomotive body, frame, pilot, and trucks
- Scale front coupler with interchangeable O gauge coupler
- Traction tires
- Synchronized fan-driven smoke unit
- Separately applied metal details including whistle cord
- Accurate separately applied builder's plate
- Illuminated cab interior
- Variable ashpan glow
- Flickering firebox in cab
- Opening cab roof hatch
- Cab window glass
- Engineer and fireman figures
- Die-cast metal tender body and trucks
- Realistic, separately applied coal load
- Individual opening tender water hatches reveal easy-to-access RailSounds controls
- ElectroCoupler on rear of tender
- ROLLING STOCK FEATURES:
- Hidden uncoupling tabs
- Die-cast metal sprung trucks (caboose has die-cast trucks) and operating couplers
- Offset hopper has die-cast metal body, opening hatches, and removable coal load
- Boxcars have opening side doors
- Double-door boxcar has opening end doors
- Die-cast metal caboose has interior illumination
Gauge: Standard O Scale
Dimensions: Layout dimensions: Approx. 124” x 84”
RailLine: Chesapeake & Ohio
Minimum Curve: O-54
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