Lionel Legacy Boston & Maine No. 801 SW8 locomotive

Lionel Legacy Boston & Maine No. 801 SW8 locomotive

By Hal Miller | March 8, 2022

| Last updated on March 10, 2022


This small switcher packs in tons of prototypical details

Lionel Legacy SW8 locomotive

Lionel has released an SW8 switcher locomotive in its Legacy line. Classic Toy Trains editor Hal Miller gives you a first look at this engine, which is loaded with extra details like a fan-driven smoke unit, operating couplers, unique number boards, a bell, a single smokestack, two horns, and so much more. But how does it run? You’ll hear the how the engine runs when Hal uses Lionel’s Bluetooth-based LionChief app, hear some of the crew talk, and listen to the horns.

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