Lionel 2427370 - 18" Aluminum Passenger Car "Milwaukee Road" (4-Car) Hiawatha

Product Description

Announced Date:

Jan 2024

Released Date:

Jan 2025

Individually Boxed:

Yes

Rail Line: Milwaukee Road

Gauge: O Gauge 

Power: Electric

Min Curve: O54

Dimensions: Length: 19" each

Most Recent Catalog: 2024 Volume 1 Catalog

Features:

Aluminum body construction

Die-cast sprung trucks

Operating couplers with hidden tabs

Opening doors

Flicker-free LED interior lighting

Complete interiors with figures

Separately applied detail parts

ADDITIONAL STATIONSOUNDS OBSERVATION CAR FEATURES:

Accessible with LEGACY ™ Train Master Control system

Custom recordings featuring multiple characters allow you torecreate an entire rail journey - from departure to arrival at your final destination

Arrival/departure announcements, dining reservation calls and more in-route dialog

"Clickety Clack" sounds in motion

Quillable air horn

Overview:

Built in 1935, Milwaukee's new streamlined Hiawatha passenger trains became an immediate success on the highly competitive Chicago-Twin Cities route. With new, home-built passenger trains to complement the streamlined Atlantics, the Hiawatha's often ran in multiple sections to satisfy demand. As the years went on, Hiawatha service spread to different routes. Much of the original equipment survived with some decrative and structural modification for decades. To accompany the return of our LEGACY Milwaukee Road Class A Atlantics, we're bringing back matching 18" aluminum-bodied passenger cars. These cars, with different details than those last offered in 2006 to better reflect the 1935-42 versions of the Hiawatha, feature aluminum bodies, die-cast trucks, and detailed LED-illuminated interiors with figures. The first aluminum-bodied passenger cars in the Lionel catalog in almost a decade, we think fans of these cars will be very pleased to see their return! We've added our StationSounds diner features to the observation car in the 4 pack so that we can also include the air horn! Though there can only be one "Hiawatha," the Class A's inspired similar streamling efforts on other railroads and we've taken the liberty to offer some "what-if" sister trains on other railroads as well.