Lionel Legacy PRR B6Sb

I recently acquired this Lionel Legacy switcher and modified it for Kadees. While I was at it, I managed to lower the tender's ride height and gave it a bit of weathering. Here's a few clips of it doing some chores around the engine yard.

[@Espiel78]

I believe I see my 1940s childhood house @ 6:08. We then lived across from the Erie switchyard and the beat of these engines is still stuck in my brain.

[@normstrains]

I scratchbuilt the yellow one, the white one is a kit.

[@Espiel78]

@@normstrains , absolutely excellent I’m every respect! Thanks.

[@RWSBaden]

Hi Norm, Your layout is a work of art. Everything looks so realistic and life like. Thank you for sharing videos of your layout. Cheers Rich

[@CalebsTrains]

Absolutely amazing. The most realistic layout I've ever seen.

[@NgaiOlaudah]

Norm, your layout and the weathering and furthermore the attention to detail for this era is simply AMAZING ARTISTRY! Your greatest feat - shared with the amazing detail of the Lionel (Cowan) Legacy engines and cars - is to get me to FORGET or vanish the third rail! I grew up in Baltimore and knew trains out of Philly and all points North, South to DC and West in both steam, diesel elect & electric. Your work is stunning. Thanks. Arthur (Ngai)

[@PghTrainFanatic]

Very nice Norm! I was just thinking of weathering my legacy b6sb. Just finished my q2 recently. Take care

[@PRR5406]

Finest larger scale layout I've ever seen, bar none.

[@dadoodadaa6282]

That test weight car is badass

[@tonyromano6220]

Wow, it is grimy like the PRR was!

[@randallbyrd1973]

Awesome video Very beautiful

[@conductorjohnmthtrains2239]

I’ve got a new one and the tether is busted out of the box ?. Lionel has no parts? They say they have these engines stacked up for repairs. All having same problem. How’s yours ok?. Anyway I subscribed to the channel

[@normstrains]

This is the older one from a few years back. I bought it used off the OGR buy/sell board.

[@conductorjohnmthtrains2239]

@@normstrains nice

[@conductorjohnmthtrains2239]

Just had tether replaced on bran new B6, legacy mode no sounds no lights nothing. Can these B6’s be reset?

[@normstrains]

Not sure! Sorry to hear you’re having trouble...

[@conductorjohnmthtrains2239]

@@normstrains no problem. That’s the way it goes in the train world. I brought it back to dealer out of my hands for now.

[@normstrains]

@@conductorjohnmthtrains2239 good luck!

[@arrow1414]

For the record he died about two years later in August 1967 at 109 years old a few months short of 110.

[@rescuefirecompanytraingard5118]

What was your process for lowering the tender? I'll be doing one and it's my first time trying such a change

[@normstrains]

Check this out, I used this method on a couple of high flyers: ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/topic/3rs-legacy-b6-tender-mods-to-start

[@conductorjohnmthtrains2239]

And I always wondered why you run with no smoke? Then I saw the clip on weathering damage

[@tonyromano6220]

The oil attacks weathering? Too coat of acrylic water based should stop that.....or a lacquer or urethane.

[@Godfryness]

Do you know if the old 89 o6o b6 switcher was considered scale or not?

[@SuperChiefer84]

Wow that's a great looking B6! What is the small car right behind the B6's tender?

[@normstrains]

Tom Bucci Jr. that is a test weight car made by MTH.

[@TallboyDave]

@@normstrains Looks a lot like a shunter's truck, like the Great Western Railway in the UK used; both to ferry shunters around the bigger yards, and to operate the automated signalling systems, when the engine used for the shunting work was a very small one.

[@normstrains]

David Abramczyk I should have put this calibrated dead weight car just in front of the caboose as per standard practice from what I've read. It got moved around the system to scale houses where needed for calibration of weigh scales.

[@michaeldembek308]

How do you put the tender so close to the locomotive even Though the tender has a big drawbar wire connecting the locomotive

[@normstrains]

Michael Dembek can’t remember if I drilled the drawbar out but the tether tucks in ok.

[@zepledfan413]

This could about be real.