Lionel up verandah

[ndbprr]

Wait for the MR review. It will say great new loco and praise anything they can find positive with no mention of anything negative and you should buy five or six of them.

[lupo]

thanks ! [tup]
but please keep in touch, those who have 'ïnside" information on any problems! or where to give special attention to when first firing up the engine!
I hope my veranda comes over in good shape and working order, because sending back and forth faulty locomotives from europe to the us is expensive and time consuming, and I allready spend a big part of my 2004 budget by ordering it.

[Anonymous]

A big T H A N K S !

I suspect without this supplemetal addendum no one could succesfully fire this baby up.

[Anonymous]

Here's the Veranda Quick Start:
http://img16.photobucket.com/albums/v47/Hobby/Veranda_QS.jpg

[Anonymous]

Hi cw

Can you post the Quick Start Guide Instructions that came with it?

There' are possibilities that they never made it into every box.

[Anonymous]

Mine seems fine other than having a broken rear coupler on the engine. A Kadee #5 replaced it perfectly. Sounds are good and the power up sequence from diesel to turbine is controlled by the #7 button on your DCC controller. As mentioned above, speed is limited to 25 smph while in diesel mode. I think it's a good locomotive. Slow speed is great but there is a rather abrupt speed jump when advancing the throttle. I haven't tried resetting any CV's except the ID# yet, so maybe that can be eliminated. The problem may be due to my Zepher not being on Lionel's list of recommended DCC controllers.

[AggroJones]

Holy crap! Really? It doesn't matter terribly to me, cause I have no plans attempting to get one. But I still would like to have seen one in person.

[AntonioFP45]

PhillipKeeley,

Can you ask Tony's as to what exactly was wrong with the Verandas they had?

[Anonymous]

There's always the possibility that the Quick Start Quide may not have
been in the box.
There's a written procedure to follow to fire this baby up.
Wonder if it was included in Tony's order??????????

[Anonymous]

I don't know the specifics of the problem yet but when I do I will let you know, I ordered it from Tony's train exchange and they ran me saying that the first one they got for me don't work properly and they sent it back to the distributor, they got a second one and apparently it still didn't work so they said they would cancel my order for the verandah, I mean it look a beautiful loco but if it doesn't work what's the point!

[Anonymous]

I couldn't wait.

According to Lionel Tech Support they are not aware of any problems.

What may be the issue is"out of the box in Diesel mode, DCC mode, the
diesel mode is set for 25MPH'.

For Diesel or Turbo operation one must refer to the quick start guide that
should have been enclosed.

586-949-4100, ext 1360, Deb.

You can also e-mail them at
[e-mail]
I have requested a hard copy print out of the Quick Start Quide for posting.

[Anonymous]

Go right to the top. 586-949-4100. We don'.t need another kato AC4400 rumor.

CORRECTED to AC from CW. Thanks BB.

[AntonioFP45]

PhillipKeeley,

It is surprising news. [:0][B)]

Have you e-mailed Lionel and asked them what are the specific problems? Try it; and share their response with us. [:p][;)]

It stands to reason that Lionel is making efforts to correct reported problems. [4:-)]Manufacturers know that bad news about new products tends to travel fast! [B)]

[lupo]

I hope you are wrong because mine should be in the mail to europe since last monday, and I have still another few weeks ( 2 - 6 ) to wait before it arrives,
and I can check it out.
Do you have any info on what the problem is / was?

[censored] I thought Lionel stood for good old American Craftsmanship. . . .

[xx(] at least it has the somewhat right color for a $400,= lemon [xx(]

[Anonymous]

Hey model railroaders, my model railroad supplier has been in contact with me regarding the new Lionel up verandah, he says that it doesn't work properly and that my order for that is cancelled.
He tells me that several other dealers are also having problems with this loco, it's ok to cancel my order, I wouldn't want to be sent something that doesn't work, so has anybody out there had any feedback about this as well.
I also believe that there are some problems with the Lionel challenger, Lionel crew stop rushing to get these things out into the market before they are fully operational, nobody likes inferior products and what makes it worse is that these items are expensive compared to the likes of Kato and Athearn!!

Come on Lionel get your act together!!