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Appreciate that! I'm gonna be talking about the New york Central Third Rail coming out this friday. Its been really hard just getting photos and information about the electrics just by the nature of them being quite old and there wasn't alot written about them.

I love the new rebuilds alot, i'm quite tempted to get the new heritage locos especially dday one since my great grandfather was one of the troops liberating europe

How do the scalesound speakers compare, ive seen people rave about them. But ive been loving the athearn stuff

@@Reaper1770 i have tried iphone 4 , ESU50348 and Scale Sound speakers. I have 2 Athearn Dash 9s and put a ESU in one and a Scale Sound in the other to compare. Scale Sound had more range, and depth of sound, and sounded just that bit better. I have put them in Alcos, EMD and GE models. A mate has put them in models different to mine and they do sound good. I like that each speaker is unique for each loco model, and really easy to swap over and install. They work well with Tsunami 2, WOW 4 and Lok Sound 4 and 5 but like those other speakers not so with older sound chips. I like good sound and find the sugar cubes are like the old black oval speakers. Having said that I have a Rapido M420 with ESU 5 and sugar cube speakers that sounds good so no need to change. The speakers cost $17 USD plus postage from Scale Sound Systems.

Interesting i've been sound chipping a few locos and always heard good things about the scale sounds system. Might get a few speaker sets for some of my older broadway limited and my new SD70s

Well i bought it from Lombard hobbies and its alot cheaper than buying it from local shops here in australia I would be paying 300usd for my 90mac so i was already hundred bucks ahead even with postage. Buying american trains is rough in australia

Well i worked as an electric train driver for a year and a half. Learnt alot and im now trying to be an electrical engineer. Its a way of me teaching myself about concepts of electrical engineering and well As they say if you can't explain it well, you don't understand it well enough. I'm hoping to post one about the New york central third rail this weekend. So look forward to that :)

Really i've heard most people actually call it Athearn over that way. Hey thanks for that. I geniunely thought that was the inlet. I do wish it was easier to get railroad books over all since they are just so hard to find even on ebay. Im still generally unfamilar with diesel traction since i only worked on electric traction. So things like intake locations are still a bit fuzzy to me. Appreciate the view though. Would you recommend any other books for the U boats? I'll be doing a review on the u50s and just want to get the history right

Oh you're right. I can't believe i didn't spot that. Should have checked the trucks. Thanks for that spot. Still wouldn't mind more CP MLW locos

@@Reaper1770 Hey no worries..I'll look at MLW and Alco stuff all day long keep up the good work 👍

Appreciated. I'm gonna get my new york central video out next and then we get to talk one of my favourite locomotives of all time GG1. Its gonna be a long episode about the GG1 so get ready for that one

Honestly i think that would be a great video and just to compare some diesels overall. Just gotta find a way to measure it consistently. The reason i harped on a bit about the tractive effort is my future plans for my layout is to have relatively high grades. I live near australia's blue mountains and sometimes the track is close to a 2.5 to 3% grade. So i am trying to add a bit of that steepness to my layout but not to that extreme. So my concerns is stalling or slipping while climbing the hill. Its a beautiful model but just a bit let down by the lighting featurs. Ill make sure to atleast add a bit of footage of the loco running from now on. Thanks for watching and supporting the chanel

I have one of these #64 and the number boards do light up it CV24😮

@@Reaper1770 you can always add more weight. the frame is stiff enough, the inner drive trucks will benefit.

I find proto 2000 very good as a starter model, there are areas where they lack suck as modern lighting or easy to fit dcc sound. My biggest issue is more so the body fit in the A units just because i've had issues with the chasis falling out of the shell. The B units are just solid i'm using proto 2000 E7B for my PRR Broadway limited consist

I'll be doing Athearn Gas Turbine as this coming tuesday

@@Reaper1770 I’m still taking baby steps with my PA-1/2 inventory and I prefer to stick with SP gray and scarlet so the Proto 2000’s were an easy fit that can mate up with my FP-7’s and the new PIKO KM4000 since they’re all within a similar era of use. My UP turbine selection is one Athearn RTR Viranda, a Scale Trains Big Blow (first run Rivet counter)and a couple other Athearn RTR UP turbines. The thing I found with turbines is that nearly each unit had different features so it can be a pain in the ass sourcing the unique ones, this month I’m targeting a UP #54 turbine at around $230-$255. Trainz has had some good inventory lately so each month there’s something new to tempt me, lol. Currently I bought a couple used Athearn RTR SP GP-40X’s w/ sound for $330 for the pair so I’m content for the moment, lol. I also love the U50, DD-35, DDA-40X and U50C so I own a couple of U50’s and DDA-40X’s, for some reason I’m able to score good prices on second hand units since who wants to pay $550 for one with sound.

I managed to get this off for a very good price at a second hand store in australia. Generally speaking i find the prices from trainworld or lombard alot cheaper than if i bought it from an australian store unless the shipping is just silly. Ive just bought a couple of locomotives from lombard a set of CP rail sd70 and sd90. And i bought an ep5 from trainworld. I think it'll be an interesting topic to discuss which one is a better store overall. I find the gap between RTR and genesis narrowing these days. My issue is more so with genesis not having my desired features like seperate lighting and metal couplers. If they could do that i'd feel less annoyed by the genesis line up. I don't really care about functioning fans but i do care about lit numberboards and working stratalights

@@Reaper1770 here in the States not many use Lombard but I have in the recent past, they had the best price for the PIKO diesel-hydraulic. eBay can be insane on shipping prices and I wonder what drugs they’re using when they posted the listing.

Yes but not for all models from what i've found. I know the P2K Alco PAs are road specific but i haven't seen any early proto 2000 with the SP light cluster

on the newer ones they come with ditch lights so i'm happy they made that improvement, overall i think as a beginner locomotive it's a pretty solid locomotive especially for a 130 bucks. i'm going to use this as a filler till i get a scaletrains or genesis model and then it'll get moved towards being a trailing. i think it has potential for a kitbash just for how much room there is in the shell.

It sucks though, recently there was a big batch of intermountain kits at a super good price and i was so tempted. Then i remembered how much of a misery of just building the hopper car was. It just made me want to avoid the kits from now on. However bowser and accurail has been super solid and haven't been the equalivent of slamming my head into a wall like this kit was

@@Reaper1770 Walthers make a good model of the cylindrical hopper car and a complete intermountain are good as well. Have many on our Canadian exhibition layout.

I've got the walthers one for a pretty good price and it was simply really good. Im hoping to get some of the rainbow hoppers since i got a CP rail one. Im curious to see if the rapido ones as good as the price suggest. Their locos are solid in terms of features so hopping their wagons are the same

Honestly this is the only athearn that i've had it happen to, either the previous owner had sandpaper for fingers or factory just had a bad day. Saying that i have noticed the white paint in general is more prone to flaking off. Still love my locomotive though and ive got a couple of scale trains tunnel motors on preorder. Thats like the only reason why i haven't bought more of these.

Correction on my SD45T-2 has the flaked white paint

@@Reaper1770 I understand. If you can name the bad instance with these engines, I've probably seen it. First on paint, but they make goofs here and there. Usually in glueing. I've had steps behind cab knocked off, snow plow, horn, you name it. USPS has made me say a few more 4 lettered words than I want to. God help you if you have handrails break with the double stantions. Couldn't find them, not even with athearns help.

Im hoping on my new genesis 90 and 70acu im hoping its close to perfect since i really would hate to send them back to america

@@Reaper1770oh lord, I failed to consider your location when buying North American railroad models. I model the SP and UP (SP is my primary love) and thankfully, there’s a LOT of unique prototypes that make for a good selection of unique models such as the Cab Forwards and Gas Turbine locomotives. I bought one of Scale Trains first run Big Blow unit number 5 but I should’ve went for the version that had the roof mounted air filter but I’m proud of what I have. I’m guessing you live in the UK so this might interest you, PIKO released the SP KM4000 diesel-Hydraulics just over a year ago and if you’re aware of that experiment, they were to a degree, a typical German locomotive and the PIKO release here in the US wasn’t widely known so it was a shock that someone finally produced a nice model and with sound! The shade of SP gray that PIKO uses is not quite correct as it has a more bluish hue to it but it’s within tolerance.

Any time!

Always have a soft spot for a 44 class

I think my biggest grievance with kato is just how expensive they are still. Like for such an old model, its still quite expensive. I think thats my biggest problem with them in general, for some bizarre reason. On ebay kato is priced the same as Athearn genesis. If they were closer in pricing to Athearn RTR, i'd be pretty happy with them. For some reason in nearly 3 decades we haven't really had a defintive SD40 unlike lets say a SD45. I'll still have to try out a proper brass model since these days, its not a bad way to get a good model for a cheaper price if you're willing to put in the work.

Thinking about it i'd love to see scaletrains make an SD40 or a nice athearn genesis sd40

Hey thanks for that. Love your videos too by the way. I got the idea from people doing mustangs and spitfires actually

Oh i know. I know these aren't brand new kit's and these are quite old. Usually i'm comparing them to things such as the earlier proto 2000 sd45s from the same time period which for some reason hasn't really had the second hand mark up in prices. Where i live kato is pretty expensive on ebay, asking almost 240 to 280 aud and for some strange reason priced almost similar to athearn genesis locos. In australia for an extra 20 to 30 bucks you could get a genesis SD40M-2. The kato locos are very good but do fall behind in alot of ways to the proto 2000 as an overall package today. The proto 2000s i have such as the sd7 and the sd45 do have better detail and factory applied grab irons and ladders. Prehaps i was a bit too harsh in the video but overall its like a thing that really bugs me about the CP rail SD40

Hey thank you for the feedback though. I do appreciate it. Though it had made me realise that there isn't alot of SD40s on the market for such a popular model

The locomotives were allocated for a special passenger service for the model train show in goulburn

@@Reaper1770 crazy u know that

Never ran in tea cup though. Still looks good though

Its such a hard balance of too much light and it looks like it was shot in the middle of day

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No it must stay in nsw in a fictional livery. Boooo

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It is nice just a bit of pain to build. Its like building a nice tamiya kit with the instructions of a knock off brand

Thank you so much :))))

Its finally here, i've built it and the video is a bit ranty th-cam.com/video/JLvBh6qLUUE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=6LY21oFJS-lAzXpb

Glad you enjoyed it!

mb for the yap sesh

Hey thanks for letting me know about the PRR port hole thing. I just searched up my E8 on railarchives and it has the portholes clear. I think the proto 2000 are still very good but i think if theres a chance to buy the broadway or the later walthers runs you want for a bit more, i'd recommend them just because its less tedious to fit DCC and sound. The NYC was just a nightmare to fit with sound. Agreed for the price of the rapido, i'm just not seeing the big advantage over a BLI or a P2K

Its good to know i can buy the extra grab irons though but i would love to see athearn do an E series loco like a EA or E6

I find the quality of plastic above airfix and on par with trumpter,takom or meng. While its nothing complicated, my only real critism of this build is a lack of interior detail and that there was a lack of instructions of where the decals go. Now the decal instruction would be helpful across the board as even kits like their coaches lack instructions on where the numbers go. The instructions arent complicated but do lack that detail when it comes to paints aswell so no colour guides to it either