Overview of the Lionel Legacy Scale ET44 locomotives

In this video I will be discussing the upcoming Lionel Legacy scale ET44 locomotives that were unveiled today. I will talk about all the variants offered, the features, some of my thoughts, and close out the video with what I will be ordering. Spoiler alert, these are almost vision line models but without a diecast shell, without road specific crewtalk, and without the vision line branding
00:00 - Introduction
00:25 - Slightly retooled ES44s? Not really
01:24 - Versions offered
01:42 - More in depth look at the renders
03:43 - Features of the model
04:30 - Features not yet seen in O Scale
04:53 - 2 powered and a SuperBass per road name
05:25 - What I am buying
05:44 - Video wrap up

[@BritishRail60062]

I welcome these and I plan to have mine battery powered for dead rail use. I am so glad Lionel are going to do these models in O Scale. I have a small UK based O Gauge layout and these will look great on my future planned garden railway. $800 is a good price as well considering the Heljan Class 60's are £750 RRP which is about $900 in USD.

[@MichaelB450]

Further details... Based on the video from the Ryan and Dave show
- The ET44s will be slightly longer than the ES44 models
- The CN version will have the correct walkways with the anti-ice design
- The grills on the ET44s are all etched brass and cast brass
- They are planning to record a real ET44 for the sounds
Have a look at their video to see the pre-production samples they have: ua-cam.com/video/AoDDvGa_gO4/v-deo.html

[@BattleshipOrion]

When you got cookie cutter everything, of course it's gonna look like someone elses.

[@MichaelB450]

Don't think you're using that phrase right, that would suggest Lionel released an HO model that is exactly like Scale Trains. Theirs is an O Scale model with some aspects inspired from Scale Trains model of the ET44.