The lionel polar express train set is beautiful to watch in action with its puffing smoke stack, its air whistle in the tender and its operational lights. I wanted to include this video below so that you can get a good idea of what the train actually looks like in action. You will have a chance to see many of its features as well as the actual size of the cars. The train in the video is the O-Gauge polar express train, which is the nicer of the 2 models.
Lionel Polar Express Train Set
As you can see, this O-gauge train set is far and away better than the G-gauge set. I have not had a lot of experience with different types of toy trains, but when I did open the box for the first time, I was extremely impressed. You can tell just by looking at the locomotive and cars that they are high quality and very well made.
The set-up was very easy and before I knew it, the train was puffing smoke and chugging around the track like you wouldn’t believe. You should have seen my kids faces when they saw the train around the christmas tree for the first time. It has now become a bit hit and we love to set this train up on special occasions.
Train Set Review
Wow this was worth the hassle to find. We lucked out and got it at retail price and delivered before Christmas. This was my 6 yr old son’s first “real” electric train. What a special train it is. The details are fantastic. Lionel out did themselves! The engine is sooo heavy and very well built. The passenger/observational cars were suprisingly light, but incredibly detailed, quite beautiful! Transformer is powerful, track easy to put together. The characters are to scale and he has placed in the train and they ride around sticking out the end of the cars and in the engine. Smoke stack works perfect. Everything is just great. I guess we have a train enthusiast now. He runs it every day… and is soooo proud of it. He is so careful with it and teaches all his friends all about it. Worth every penny. (lionel polar express train set)
