Highlights
Quality
The lionchief diesel engine and cars are quality made, realistic, and reasonably priced.
Luckily, lionel has track package kits that let you expand into a couple other layouts (like figure 8) easily and relatively economically.
The dual engine motors mean you can pull many more cars than those included with the set.
Families can run legacy trains (with cab-1 or cab-2 controllers) on the same track, at the same time, as this one (with the sup... Read More
Price
) is controlled by a battery-powered remote (three aaa batteries are not included).
Competitiveness
About the controller:as this train is an older design it has the older lionel chief click-y style controller.
Overview
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set, included, many, easy and realistic. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there may be deception involved.
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- Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 69.2% of the reviews are reliable.
- This product had a total of 19 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 8 2022.
Helpful InsightsBETA
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
After ordering the lionel train the 1st time i thought some items were missing not knowing that it was items on both undersides of top and bottom
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The 2nd box i took the whole box apart and all items were inside
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Got it for a kid at christmas
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
After receiving a gift of a u
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
About the controlleras this train is an older design it has the older lionel chief clicky style controller
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It works well but isnt as smooth as the newer nonclicky controllers
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The best toy trains are the electric ones—like this one the lionel 682427 “the patriot” u36b freight lionchief set—that run on electrified track
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It recalls the patriotic color schemes that were applied to many real trains during the usa’s 1976 bicentennial year