Today, the lionel v1 2024 catalog came out, and to my surprise, featured in the traditional o gauge section was the return of the 675/ 2025, Over 40 years since its last appeared in a lionel catalog.
You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth, I Was Fixing To Make The Same Comment, Its The Only Train In The Catalog I Want. Some Folks Are Just Foaming At The Mouth On This Catalog, But That One Set And Maybe Another Loco Is All I Want Out Of It And Its Not Coming Till End Of The Year. After Christmas.
Who wants a MADE IN CHINA that won't last when you can go to a local train show and buy the original. I bought a 675 for my son in 1995, and she's still running beautifully. A little oil and grease now and then, maybe replace the brushes every few years and you're good to go.
The new haven road name isnt as bad as you think. The original prewar tooling, with the feedwater heater, multiple compressors, bell off to the side, is meant to evoke a new haven pacific. The lines of the postwar locomotive are still new haven, just with the headlight moved, the feedwater taken off, and a belpaire firebox slapped on.
The 2025 is my first Lionel locomotive which was passed down to me by my father. The set originally came with whistling tender, an orange Babe Ruth boxcar, a black gondola, a red porthole caboose, an oval of O27 track and a transformer. My Dad liked the look of the SP caboose over the porthole caboose and the store swapped it out for him on the spot. All the cars including the swapped out SP caboose have electromagnetic couplers which use a special shoe to draw power to open the coupler with a decoupler track. Since then, I have added a many more engines like the postwar 2020 turbine, and some modern steam engines. I was told Lionel had the engine designed in fascist Italy before the war, and the tooling got heavily modified in the MPC era to the point that it was worn out and no longer usable. This why the engine never returned after the MPC era and as far as I know, Lionel has no plans to make new tooling for it. The most desirable one is the the one with the aluminum smoke stack shown here which only came out in 1947 (same as mine). After 1947, all the smoke stacks were black. It's one of my most reliable and smooth runners and still going strong after many years of operation.
The 2025 was an excellent locomotive. My grandfather believed, as I do, Lionel reached perfection with their motors in 1947 and 1948. Kind of nice your dad got a unique set the way he did. I love hearing about little things like that.
David that was a fantastic review. I really enjoyed it. I happen to have both of those locomotives in my collection. I have not featured my 2025 on my TH-cam channel to date. The #675 Korean War version from 1952 is my favorite out of these two locomotives. Great video!😊
Cool video, thanks for the information! I just picked up a 2035 1469WS set from 1950. It came with a 1/3 jar of smoke pellets, I love how they smell. All the cars were boxed except for the loco, which is missing a boiler front marker, probably from being dropped or falling off a layout. It runs great and I like the fact that it has Magne-traction. .
Very interesting. Lionel used the basic drive-train on a number of locomotives. I have a 2025 and a number of 2026's. The 2026 always had the spoked drivers and they changed all of the steam engines to spokes for MagneTraction and I don't know the reason. Strangely, the Baldwin Disc's were 1/8" larger in diameter than the spoked wheels. I don't care for the 1950 modifications, adding that 4-wheel trailing truck and removing a bit of the drive-rod detail. The only reason that I can think of for adding the four wheel trailing truck, is that it was cheaper to manufacture than the two wheel, with the cast side-frame. Either way, the increase in traction from the nickel-rimmed drivers should have been enough. I don't have any of the later 2026 or 2025/675 locomotives and I doubt that I will every buy one. An excellent review and video, as always.
great news! The Lionel 2025 is coming back for a new set that was shown in the 2024 catalog. I saw it and I immediately said; “I. NEED. IT.” I plan to preorder the set!
Thank you for covering the More Plastic Crap DC version. For a ling while i thought i just hallucinated its existance. I have never seen one at a train show.
Even stranger: the Lionel, LLC Bethlehem Steel Service Station Special included a flatcar load made of the actual tool that created the 675/2025. It will not be made again!
My wife found this engine and a 2026 at a garage sale 36 years ago. Both completely intact for ten dollars each. They still run to this day. Thanks for the info.😎👍!
Today, the lionel v1 2024 catalog came out, and to my surprise, featured in the traditional o gauge section was the return of the 675/ 2025, Over 40 years since its last appeared in a lionel catalog.
You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth, I Was Fixing To Make The Same Comment, Its The Only Train In The Catalog I Want. Some Folks Are Just Foaming At The Mouth On This Catalog, But That One Set And Maybe Another Loco Is All I Want Out Of It And Its Not Coming Till End Of The Year. After Christmas.
You Did Your Homework On This One.
Who wants a MADE IN CHINA that won't last when you can go to a local train show and buy the original. I bought a 675 for my son in 1995, and she's still running beautifully. A little oil and grease now and then, maybe replace the brushes every few years and you're good to go.
The new haven road name isnt as bad as you think. The original prewar tooling, with the feedwater heater, multiple compressors, bell off to the side, is meant to evoke a new haven pacific. The lines of the postwar locomotive are still new haven, just with the headlight moved, the feedwater taken off, and a belpaire firebox slapped on.
The 2025 is my first Lionel locomotive which was passed down to me by my father. The set originally came with whistling tender, an orange Babe Ruth boxcar, a black gondola, a red porthole caboose, an oval of O27 track and a transformer. My Dad liked the look of the SP caboose over the porthole caboose and the store swapped it out for him on the spot. All the cars including the swapped out SP caboose have electromagnetic couplers which use a special shoe to draw power to open the coupler with a decoupler track. Since then, I have added a many more engines like the postwar 2020 turbine, and some modern steam engines. I was told Lionel had the engine designed in fascist Italy before the war, and the tooling got heavily modified in the MPC era to the point that it was worn out and no longer usable. This why the engine never returned after the MPC era and as far as I know, Lionel has no plans to make new tooling for it. The most desirable one is the the one with the aluminum smoke stack shown here which only came out in 1947 (same as mine). After 1947, all the smoke stacks were black. It's one of my most reliable and smooth runners and still going strong after many years of operation.
The 2025 was an excellent locomotive. My grandfather believed, as I do, Lionel reached perfection with their motors in 1947 and 1948. Kind of nice your dad got a unique set the way he did. I love hearing about little things like that.
Lionel reissued its o gauge counterpart the #675 with lioncheif!
Yes, I'm very excited, definitely gonna pick it up!
David that was a fantastic review. I really enjoyed it. I happen to have both of those locomotives in my collection. I have not featured my 2025 on my TH-cam channel to date. The #675 Korean War version from 1952 is my favorite out of these two locomotives. Great video!😊
Thanks for watching
I have the 675 version. Strong puller. Fast runner. One of Lionel's true beasts.
Great history lesson. Thanks.
Nice dude. Stunning looking locomotive.
Thank you
Great review, I just got my 2025 for a steal and it shocked me how detailed the drivers were.
Yeah, I love the Baldwin disk drivers
Cool video, thanks for the information! I just picked up a 2035 1469WS set from 1950. It came with a 1/3 jar of smoke pellets, I love how they smell. All the cars were boxed except for the loco, which is missing a boiler front marker, probably from being dropped or falling off a layout. It runs great and I like the fact that it has Magne-traction. .
Very nice
Great video
Thanks
Very interesting. Lionel used the basic drive-train on a number of locomotives. I have a 2025 and a number of 2026's. The 2026 always had the spoked drivers and they changed all of the steam engines to spokes for MagneTraction and I don't know the reason. Strangely, the Baldwin Disc's were 1/8" larger in diameter than the spoked wheels. I don't care for the 1950 modifications, adding that 4-wheel trailing truck and removing a bit of the drive-rod detail. The only reason that I can think of for adding the four wheel trailing truck, is that it was cheaper to manufacture than the two wheel, with the cast side-frame. Either way, the increase in traction from the nickel-rimmed drivers should have been enough. I don't have any of the later 2026 or 2025/675 locomotives and I doubt that I will every buy one. An excellent review and video, as always.
great news! The Lionel 2025 is coming back for a new set that was shown in the 2024 catalog. I saw it and I immediately said; “I. NEED. IT.” I plan to preorder the set!
Same, very excited about that
Thank you for covering the More Plastic Crap DC version. For a ling while i thought i just hallucinated its existance. I have never seen one at a train show.
“And to add insult to injury, it was labeled for the New Haven Railroad”
I don’t think it came with Baldwin wheels.
Even stranger: the Lionel, LLC Bethlehem Steel Service Station Special included a flatcar load made of the actual tool that created the 675/2025. It will not be made again!
I already wanted to get that set, but this makes me want it even more, very interesting
Wait if every car in existence is gathered up, then maybe the tooling can be put back together.
Wait WHAT
Are the drivers bigger on the 675? Ive been wanting a 2025 for a while now.
@@inscoredbz nope they are the same size, everything between the 675 and 2025 are mechanically identical, the only difference are the road numbers
My wife found this engine and a 2026 at a garage sale 36 years ago. Both completely intact for ten dollars each. They still run to this day. Thanks for the info.😎👍!
That's a great find
I wish you had showed us the locomotive running.
To see this engine run, check out this video th-cam.com/video/dBEipQw81uQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=uglLnxyiGYqyWC3A
This is so interesting
Thank you
Still looking to find one of these in good condition
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Look who decided to show up
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Still have mine from 1946 or '47.
Same here...
I have all 3 engines 675,2025 and the 2035 all are great runners and pullers
Have one of these as well! Just fixed its smoke unit and it runs incredibly well! One of my favs
I have two of them one runs the other needs work both from 1948