Units were TESTED with conventional transformer and performed great forward, reverse, lights, smoke and sounds. Great set! The 8900 did not come with a whistle as none I have sold have ever had one and not listed on box or instructions.
Cars and Engine are like new! Cars look to never been run (mint) and engine MAYBE a test run before my run for video and testing. Sounds of Steam work great.
I inspected all cars and they look mint.
I ran this several laps so there may be markings on wheels now. I only ran the engine, tender and caboose so you could see that they worked. Smoke is hard to see unless you have a larger monitor. I bench tested and there was a consistent smoke coming from engine.
Units
were TESTED with conventional transformer and performed great forward, reverse,
lights, sounds and smoke. Great set!
These
will be carefully Packed for shipment. Please see my feedback.
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Known as the Famous American Railroad Series (FARR for short), these sets commemorated five of the greatest railroads in American history--The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, the Union Pacific, the Great Northern, the Southern Railway, and the Pennsylvania Railroad. By picking such large, well-known railroads, Lionel covered every geographical region of the country--the Pennsylvania for the East and Midwest, the Southern for the South, the Great Northern for the Upper Midwest and Northwest, and the Santa Fe and Union Pacific for the Great Plains and the West Coast.
Each piece in the FARR series has a special diamond logo on each side, with the number of the set in the series in the middle.
The Santa Fe was selected to be the first of the FARR sets and set the formula for the FARR sets which would last throughout their run. Lionel used the 4-6-4 Hudson to head up the set, an engine type which had been a regular part of Lionel's catalog throughout the 1970s. The engine,6-8900, would be the only 6-drivered steam engine in the FARR series.
Five cars were initially catalogued: A woodside boxcar (7712), refrigerator car (9880), tank car (9321), covered hopper (9322), and a caboose (9323). In late 1979, a sixth car, the 9348 crane car, was added. The first five cars had plastic trucks, but the crane car used a pair of die-cast sprung trucks that were being used with limited-edition rolling stock at the time.
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