Retro 51SKU: LTR-2462

Retro 51 - Tornado Lionel Trains | Roller - Super Chief CT

Name: Retro 51 - Tornado Lionel Trains | Roller - Super Chief CT
Brand: Retro 51
SKU: LTR-2462
Price: 70.00 EUR
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Retro 51 - Tornado Lionel Trains | Roller - Super Chief CT

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Description

The Retro 51 Tornado Super Chief rollerball pen is a striking tribute to the golden era of American railroads. Inspired by the legendary Super Chief locomotive, this collectible pen features a vibrant red, yellow, and silver color scheme, along with etched rivets and metallic panels that capture the authentic look of vintage train design. Created in partnership with Lionel Trains, it brings together classic rail nostalgia and exceptional craftsmanship in one iconic writing instrument.

First introduced in 1936, the Super Chief was known as “The Train of the Stars,” transporting celebrities like Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe in unmatched luxury between Chicago and Los Angeles. This Retro 51 rollerball honors that legacy, with thoughtful details like the engraved RAF-style markings, a smooth twist-action mechanism, and a rollerball refill that glides effortlessly on paper. It’s not just a pen, it’s a journey through time.

Whether you're a train enthusiast, a collector of fine writing instruments, or someone who appreciates design with a story, the Retro 51 Tornado Super Chief offers more than function. It’s a celebration of movement, history, and bold expression, making every word you write a ride worth taking.

Specifications:

- brand: Retro 51
- type: Roller
- color: Red & Silver
- body material: Stainless Steel
- open type: Knurl Twist-Top
- refill: Roller
- trim color: Chrome Trim
- length overall: 122 mm - 5 in.
- grip diameter: 11 mm - 0.43 in.
- weight (overall): 28 grams - 1oz.

Specifications

Brand: Retro 51
Pen Type: Rollerball Pen
Mechanism: Twist

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Kinda Like Steel, But Lighter

So, you want a pen that’s tough enough to handle all of your emotional write-ups at 03:30 GMT, is harder than woodpecker lips, has better corrosion resistance than stainless steel, while weighing significantly less? And you want it to write really well, for a long time, and you want to be able to do your own maintenance on it without breaking the bank?
Well, the Titanium Sentry will not disappoint. The nib unit is compatible with a JoWo #6 nib unit. The Gravitas nibs are very good, with a performance indistinguishable from a #6 European made nib. The fit and finish is excellent, there is no machining residue anywhere. The pen arrived with no scratches or marks of any kind. Don’t worry, it won’t stay that way for long, because life happens. But rest assured, short of gratuitous violence directed at this pen, there’s not much that would damage this pen to the point of unrecoverability.
Dependability, reliability, user serviceability, in a virtually bulletproof titanium shell. What’s not to love?

The Pen of Steel!

This pen is very unapologetic about itself. This pen, to me, is what the definition of the word “gravitas” should look like. This pen is medium large, long enough for a standard cartridge converter, the #6 nib is just the perfect size for this size pen, and the girth is just right. And best of all, it’s made from stainless steel! That pen will survive long enough to allow you to write the Chronicles of the Apocalypse, using Zombie Blood. But seriously, aside from minor scuffs and scratches, this pen, with proper care and cleaning, will be perfectly serviceable in another 100 years.
The Fine nib on my pen is very smooth, and nib unit has excellent ink flow. If you find that the ink flow is too wet, try changing to a “drier” ink, like Pelikan 4001 Königsblau.
Despite the weight of the pen, I find I can write with this pen for longer periods without fatigue. To me, grip diameter, especially a thin grip diameter, causes hand fatigue much more rapidly than writing with a pen that weighs 56 grams. The all that weight is sitting on the web of my hand between thumb and forefinger, right near the center of balance of the pen.
I’m very happy with the look, feel, and performance of this pen. Would definitely buy again!

Almost Perfect!

This pen is nearly perfect!
The fit and finish of my pen is perfect, there are no gaps, chips, burrs, spurs or cowboy boots anywhere on this pen; the Ultem is polished to the point of looking like amber polycarbonate.
The filling mechanism is a vacuum filler system, but it has a secondary ink chamber between the primary ink chamber and the feed, similar to the system that an Italian pen company pioneered about 28 years ago.
The nib and feed are very smooth. I have a Fine nib, and I find the line to vary from Fine to Medium, depending on which ink and paper you use. The nib is relative wet, which makes it perfect for me, because I find Pelikan 4001 Royal Blue to be “dry” enough to cause hard starts and skips with most of my pens, but Gravitas pens seem to thrive on it. So, if you think this pen is too wet, try the Pelikan 4001 Royal Blue ink.
The cap threads…okay, yes, whenever you you force two dissimilar materials together, like an Ultem/plastic cap and metal threads, the softer material is going to wear out sooner. Oftentimes, that’s intentional; you sacrifice the cheaper/easier to replace part, but prolong the life of the more expensive/more difficult to replace part. It should be cheaper to replace a cap than the body of the pen, which is an assembly of various parts, glued together. You can minimize damage from cross threading when capping the pen by rotating the the pen and cap in an uncapping rotation, gently pushing the two parts together, until you feel the threads “snap”. Some pens may require a “double snap”. Then everything should be lined up correctly to allow you to cap the pen without damaging the pen.
On the plus side, the clear material lets you see how the precisely machined lip inside the cap meets the forward edge of the grip section, preventing the nib from drying out very quickly. Had the pen inked up, sitting on my desk, untouched, for over a week, and it started writing as soon as the nib touched paper.
Would definitely buy again if I lost this pen!

There is nothing not to like

Everything from the brand and flow to the color is just perfect.
I am obsessed with the sheen as well as as the base color.

Just perfect, Nothing more to say.

An Amazing Pen

A vacuum filler pen with the ink capacity of an eyedropper filler!
I like pens with large ink reservoirs, because more is better, especially if I'm away from my ink stash. Eyedropper fillers offer the highest ink capacity, but...if you don't have a way to shut off ink flow between reservoir and nib unit, you run into "burping" issues, which can get very messy, especially if you can't see if there's ink in the cap. The solution was either a vac filler, or a "Japanese eyedropper", both of which have a plug attached to a rod that can be screwed into the opening between ink chamber and nib unit, sealing it off. My Opus 88 and Visconti Homo Sapiens have a total ink capacity of around 3.5ml. The Monster G5 has an ink capacity of 7ml. That's like 10 Standard International Short cartridges! That means most casual users might fill their Monster 2-3 times per year. Using a Fine nib, one complete fill lets you write 450 A4 pages, or about 54,000 words. Hopefully, you REALLY LOVE the ink you filled it with, because you'll be looking at that ink for a long, long time!
But not only is the ink capacity huge, the pen itself is pretty amazing, as well. The Kraken filling system, a clever variety of a vac filler system (with an improved shut off valve) that prioritizes ink capacity, is virtually unparalleled in modern pens currently on the market. The Ultem (or clear Acrylic) body of the pen is polished to crystal clarity, the metal is highly corrosion resistant titanium, and the #8 steel nib is smooth as glass.
I'm cheap, and boring, so I do most of my fountain pen writing on plain copier paper, which allows the ink to spread out, letting a Fine nib make a line like a Medium nib. I also like to use Pelikan 4001 Königsblau, because I got a good deal on the 1,000ml bottle of ink from my favorite online seller. The combination of cheap(er) paper and ink pairs really well with the Monster's #8 nib and feed; my Fine nib makes a line comparable to a Japanese Medium nib, while keeping the color richly saturated. Using standard European 5mm quad ruled paper, the nib writes thin enough to be perfectly legible. I do have to write a bit slower, though, because the generous ink flow also means longer drying times, and writing too quickly can cause smearing issue. That's a me-problem, not a pen-problem.
The nib itself is stiff, but very smooth, meeting or exceeding the smoothness of all of my JoWo #6 steel nibs. In my opinion, the combination of nib and feed make this one of the best general purpose pens you can buy, because it will work reliably on a wide variety of paper, and a wide variety of inks. As with all demonstrator type pens, avoid "high maintenance" inks, like permanent/document/waterproof inks (and Baystate Blue), because unless you're a professional writer/author, that ink is going to stay in your pen for at least a month, and your pretty clear tank may become stained permanently.

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