Lionel 26333NW - Legacy E8 AB Diesel Set "Norfolk & Western" #3815 and SuperBass B #TBD - Custom Run for MrMuffin'sTrains

• Rail Line: Norfolk & Western
• Gauge: O Gauge 
• Power: Electric
• Engine Type: Diesel
• Min Curve: O36
• Dimensions: Length: 17"
• Most Recent Catalog: 2025 September Digital

Features:

Standard LEGACY Diesel features plus:

• Both units powered!
• LEGACY and Bluetooth control in both locomotives
• Fan-driven smoke in both locomotives
• LEGACY RailSounds in lead E8
• Track IR in lead E8
• Front ElectroCouplers and dummy rear couplers on both locomotives
• Crew figures in lead E8
• Mars, roof or ditch lights where appropriate by roadname
• NEW! Optional fixed front pilot

Overview:

The City of St Louis was innagurated in June 1946 with the Wabash handling the train from St Louis to Kansas City and the UP taking it to points west, including Denver, Cheyenne and through cars to the West Coast. In June 1968 Wabash's successor, the NW, cut all through service and ran it only between Missouri's two largest cities. It was finally anulled in mid-1969 leaving MP as the only road to continue to offer St Louis and Kansas City service, where there had at one time been four. (Rock Island and CB&Q/GM&O being the others). This shot, supposedly by George Drake, shows it approaching Moberly behind N&W E8A 3815 (the former WAB 1015) in February 1969. Consist late in its life is an N&W heavyweight diner, two coaches and a pair of baggage cars.

In 1991, Burlington Northern debuted a pair of extensively rebuilt classic F units for use on its executive trains. BN 1 and 2 were joined a few years later by an E9 and the passenger car fleet was also repainted the matching dark green and cream colors. It was one of the most attractive exectutive trains in America and the paint scheme was even adopted on BN's last big order of freight locomotives, the SD70MAC. The colors didn't last too long with the coming of the BNSF merger in 1995. The locomotives have all since been donated to the Illinois Railway Museum and most of the rolling stock remains part of BNSF's executive fleet. But now you can relive the colorful days of the BN in the 1990s in style as we present the three locomotives and a seven car fleet of aluminum business cars!