Lionel HO Mikado - Model Railroader Magazine

 That is what it is, Lionel got the tooling from Model Power, who got it from Mantua.

I see they just used a regular LED left protruding from the headlight casting the way the incandescent bulb did in the old Mantua ones.

They also have the history wrong, the locos for the Nippon Railway that gave the wheel arrangement the Mikado name were build by Baldwin. And weren't the first 2-8-2 wheel arrangement locos built, merely the ones that the Mikado name was first applied to and stuck (except during WWII).

But scale modelers who really care about such things aren;t the target market - at least, I hope after multiple tries, Lionel has figured out that the people who buy BLI, Bachmann, P2K, etc are NOT generally the same people that their products appeal to.

                                        --Randy