Lionel Thunder Valley Quarry Mine O-Gauge Electric Train Set

• This set includes, 0-6-0 dockside switcher, explosive cargo boxcar with opening doors, gondola with removable rock load, flatcar with removable steam shovel and more
• Train length is 48.5?, track layout is 40? x 60?
• Transformer controlled forward, neutral and reverse operation
• Die-cast metal locomotive has electronic steam whistle and puffing smoke unit
• Directional lighting with operating headlight and back-up light, interior illumination in cab

This product was ordered for my son who loves trains. It assembled easy and ran immediately upon start up. BUT after a few laps around the track, the engine uncoupled itself (became unattached from the cars it was pulling). This continued to happen every time. Amazon was gracious enough to exchange it for a new one immediately only to find that the new train has the same problem. I now must take the train engine to someone who can fix it.

This product would have received a higher rating but the problem has proved disappointing.

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Christmas came and we set up the train and after connecting the transformer and cars, we started the train.The rear engine coupler disengaged from the cars after traveling less than one revolution of the oval.We tried many times and the failure persisted.We returned the set the Tuesday following Christmas and requested a replacement.When the replacement set arrived we carefully opened the set and removed the locomotive to tried again using the existing track oval and cars.Once again the rear coupler failed to hold the cars connected to the locomotive.

We returned both sets.

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We bought just the dockside locomotive (available as Lionel 6-30124-e), not the whole Thunder Valley set.This is one cool little steam locomotive, and it works exceptionally well!The fact that it doesn't have a separate coal tender makes very nimble, and with front and rear operating couplers, it can pull or push in either direction.It's a great looking little steam engine that has lots of great details...brass bell, brass whistle, lighted cabin with engineer & fireman figures, operating smoke stack, operating horn, forward/neutral/reverse, front and rear directional lights, and metal hand rail.It's loaded for such an inexpensive engine.It's also solidly built with die cast metal body, and is powerful enough to pull the loads of a full size locomotive.This is a very capable, very neat little dockside steamer that has a great sounding horn, and is a lot of fun.It's a great way to get started or expand an existing setup with.Highly recommended!

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This is a very nice Lionel Ready to Run set.The main advantage is that it comes with the (more powerful) CW-80 transformer that is 80 watts and has 2 outputs: 1 for track, 1 for accessories (versus the PowerMax which is only ~30 watts and no dedicated accessory output).

The engine is pretty heavy for it's size and feels very study (I also have the PA Frieght Flyer set that has a bigger, but not as heavy engine).The cars are nice, the spotlight on the working caboose is a nice feature.It also features a headlight and cabin light on the engine, and lighted caboose cabin.

It also includes the standard 036 (36" oval) Fastrack track pieces (8 x curve, 8 x 10" straight with one being the terminal).

You do need to assemble the shovel on the excavator, which is the only additional step for set up.