Hi Eric, I am one of the members for the York-Durham Heritage Railway. I was in the real 3612 last weekend and started up the locomotive for the first time this year. She is still going strong!
I actually love the colors of this engine. I myself by more colorful trains and if this was made in S Scale I would for sure buy one! Enjoy your videos Eric!
I love the new locomotive from Vermont awesome with the new gondola and the caboose is very nice don't forget the weathered cars the whole train perfect nice work congrats Victor from New Jersey
Even if it's the wrong shade of green I actually think it looks cool. Great looking model. As long as your happy with the purchase that's all that matters. Thanks for sharing have a great weekend.
You hit it right on the screws! I couldn't agree with you more. Those colors are unique and this could be a sleeper among later day collectibles. I'm getting one this year for that reason. Blessings, Henry.
Eric, That RS-11 has a cool looking paint scheme. I am just getting started in O scale and I bought a my first command engine which is a Lionel Up 4979 sd70mac, but I don’t have the legacy system yet I run it conventional.
The catalog illustration does indeed look darker and greener than your teal example. Funny you should mention weathering it to change its colour because that was exactly what I was thinking when Isaw it. If you decide to try that, Eric, I hope you'll do a video on the process -- washes, dry-brushing, pastels. It should be instructive. Cheers!
Greetings Eric. Ben here from Bowmanville Ontario Canada. I am a member of the York Durham Heritage Railway of Uxbridge Ontario Canada, we have locomotive 3612 that you showed the photo of in your video in our fleet we also have a pair of RS 3s as well. I have been with the organization for 5 years now and will become their youngest locomotive engineer that they have had in 30 years. I am an HO modeller myself. Love the videos great layout.
The yellow @ mint complement each other. Looks refreshing - haa! There's nothing else like it in your fleet. It's just as arbitrary as the fantasy paint schemes.. I'd leave it alone.
I got pics of gp9 never seen before in York .Pa working coil cars for steel plant . I had delivery to Caterpillar really cool see it working it reminded me of your video it had CV green color like on your video here
Grew up in upstate NY and across Lake Chaplain in Vermont saw quite a few super faded VC in patina . kinda what they look like when very old . Looks cool though in a crisp paint job . Anyway nice engine !
Beautiful locomotive!! It’s different, and that’s what makes it very unique. Now you need to add some Rutland Railroad, Concord and Claremont Railroad rolling stock along with your Bangor and Aroostook, and other New England rolling stock.
Eric, I have the SCL version of this locomotive. Unfortunately, I had to pull the RCMC board and send back to lionel for reflashing. The reason for this was because it would intermittently lose its program ID # that I would assign it. A friend of mine had the same issue so I sent mine and his board back to lionel at the same time. Once they were reflashed, I had no more problems. Not saying this locomotive will do that, but if it does then there’s the problem. When I purchased mine, it was still under warranty so the reflashing was at no cost.
I'm thinking the weathering idea would definitely tone down the bright color. If that's not in the cards, the color DOES pop, and would make a conversation piece.
I would say that 50% of all us Lionel buyers are "Impulse" !!! 😃🤣 And being from New England this is how the CV paint would of looked faded in the 1980s after a few sun-bleached years for sure !!
The color of these definitely bothers me, being a native to CV territory and fond of their colors. But I'm generally not in the market for contemporary Lionel products, and stick to 'old school' conventional stuff. So at the end of the day I can forgive Lionel for getting it wrong. I think I'll go the route of repainting an MPC era piece to get some CV power on my roster.
Cool locomotive but I would have been pissed had I ordered this and opened the box to find a teal blue engine. I don’t understand how Lionel gets the colors so wrong. I recently bought the Lionel Rio Grande ski train passenger cars to run with some MTH engines I have and the color is so off I had to order the matching Lionel engines, which I hate, because I figure they will be the only thing to match the passenger cars I got. I can’t see me ordering anything but black steam locomotives from Lionel in the future.
Looks more like teal or aquamarine or some other blue-green color. I can't tell it's green looking at it. It looks more blue to me. Could just be the lighting and video quality combined with editing. It's high-hood, not high-nose.
I recently sold all my command control equipment to focus on running my postwar trains. Will this locomotive operate in conventional mode (just a transformer)? Thank you Eric.
So where in Minnesota is your better half’s parents live because you weren’t to far from where I live in North Dakota next time you are in the area check out the hobby hut in Fargo he doesn’t have a large selection of o gauge but it’s an ok selection for the area
The green color that you show of the CV Deisle, if I remember correctly, that is John deer green and yellow, maybe the reason why lionle did it in a different color's is, I think that maybe John deer did not want lionle using there color's on it and it is only ment for John deer stuff
Hi Eric, I am one of the members for the York-Durham Heritage Railway. I was in the real 3612 last weekend and started up the locomotive for the first time this year. She is still going strong!
I actually love the colors of this engine. I myself by more colorful trains and if this was made in S Scale I would for sure buy one! Enjoy your videos Eric!
I love the new locomotive from Vermont awesome with the new gondola and the caboose is very nice don't forget the weathered cars the whole train perfect nice work congrats Victor from New Jersey
Thanks
Being a Vermonter myself that engine is very accrete to what they were like back then. Nice find.
It shows up on camera as " Aqua Marine". I like that!
The "best" kind of impulse buy! 👏😌
For sure!
Even if it's the wrong shade of green I actually think it looks cool. Great looking model. As long as your happy with the purchase that's all that matters. Thanks for sharing have a great weekend.
The color of the engine is probably more representative of their faded look in the 90s and 2000s when they were sold off to other shortlines
You picked a good one Eric!
I love the sounds of the ALCO!
With or without a touch of weathering it looks good.
Enjoy it.
You hit it right on the screws! I couldn't agree with you more. Those colors are unique and this could be a sleeper among later day collectibles. I'm getting one this year for that reason. Blessings, Henry.
Awesome Alco RS-11 Eric!!!
Eric, That RS-11 has a cool looking paint scheme. I am just getting started in O scale and I bought a my first command engine which is a Lionel Up 4979 sd70mac, but I don’t have the legacy system yet I run it conventional.
I think I’d leave the paint alone! Those colors look great together
Beautiful locomotive and layout. Thanks for sharing.
That’s a really nice locomotive, that has really great details!
At 6:12 I believe those are used to connect the Dynamic brake field loop, which EMD made obsolete in the following years
I like that you showed the TP&W 400. The TP&W is a pretty cool railroad and their GP38s have one of my favorite paint schemes ever.
Right on
The catalog illustration does indeed look darker and greener than your teal example.
Funny you should mention weathering it to change its colour because that was exactly what I was thinking when Isaw it. If you decide to try that, Eric, I hope you'll do a video on the process -- washes, dry-brushing, pastels. It should be instructive.
Cheers!
Greetings Eric. Ben here from Bowmanville Ontario Canada. I am a member of the York Durham Heritage Railway of Uxbridge Ontario Canada, we have locomotive 3612 that you showed the photo of in your video in our fleet we also have a pair of RS 3s as well. I have been with the organization for 5 years now and will become their youngest locomotive engineer that they have had in 30 years. I am an HO modeller myself. Love the videos great layout.
That’s great!
@@Ericstrains That Ben guy..... he might be the youngest engineer - but I qualified before he did ... lol :)
Sweet Locomotive!! I have been to Scales Model Supplies a couple of times and is a pretty neat store. I bought my legacy GP30 Soo #700 from there.
Very cool!
Nice way to remember someplace you never been to before!
The yellow @ mint complement each other. Looks refreshing - haa! There's nothing else like it in your fleet. It's just as arbitrary as the fantasy paint schemes.. I'd leave it alone.
Agreed
If you ever come to Philly, Nicholas Smith in Broomall has a huge 3 rail selection
A nice looking engine pulling very nice rolling stock
I like that engine! Really nice
I love Alco sounds too Henry. The colors are a hit for me. Though not accurate, it's right up there with the wonderful D&H graphics and colors.
I agree!
I would like to add this one to the fleet.
Personally I really like the color it may not be correct but it is definitely different and looks good
I still like the engine despite the green. It's really nice
I got pics of gp9 never seen before in York .Pa working coil cars for steel plant . I had delivery to Caterpillar really cool see it working it reminded me of your video it had CV green color like on your video here
Nice! ;)
I love your channel Eric!
Thanks!
You’re welcome dude!
Grew up in upstate NY and across Lake Chaplain in Vermont saw quite a few super faded VC in patina . kinda what they look like when very old . Looks cool though in a crisp paint job . Anyway nice engine !
They should do a model of the Baldwin RS-4 TC. That would be awsome.
Beautiful locomotive!! It’s different, and that’s what makes it very unique. Now you need to add some Rutland Railroad, Concord and Claremont Railroad rolling stock along with your Bangor and Aroostook, and other New England rolling stock.
Ah yes, Scale Model Supplies. Great hobby shop. I used to go there often when I lived in Minnesota.
Legacy Station is now my main local hobby shop ( I am west of Atlanta about 20 miles)
That's great!
Eric, I have the SCL version of this locomotive. Unfortunately, I had to pull the RCMC board and send back to lionel for reflashing.
The reason for this was because it would intermittently lose its program ID # that I would assign it. A friend of mine had the same issue so I sent mine and his board back to lionel at the same time. Once they were reflashed, I had no more problems. Not saying this locomotive will do that, but if it does then there’s the problem. When I purchased mine, it was still under warranty so the reflashing was at no cost.
You could easily sell tickets for viewing your layout
I would buy an O scale CV GP9 loco if Lionel ever made them.
Looks soooooooo good! 🥹😍
I'm thinking the weathering idea would definitely tone down the bright color. If that's not in the cards, the color DOES pop, and would make a conversation piece.
The Central Vermont RS11 was actually on the Winchester Railroad in northern Virginia picking up loads of sand.
Cool!
@@Ericstrains it is.
Love the look👍
The colors in the picture in the catalog looks more correct.
Nice congrats!
I am an n scale guy but that is gorgeous
Awesome 🚂❤️😎👍👍👍👍
Can you do another video on the RS 11 and your gp9 running together
I have the older NW legacy version it's a cool locomotive
Love the colors👍
Me too!
Looks great
Please do N&W 2300 Jawn Henry steam turbine locomotives
I would say that 50% of all us Lionel buyers are "Impulse" !!! 😃🤣
And being from New England this is how the CV paint would of looked faded in the 1980s after a few sun-bleached years for sure !!
Sometimes errors like in currency end up becoming very valuable
Nice Eric 😃
Thanks! 😁
@@Ericstrains I do like trains 😃
The color of these definitely bothers me, being a native to CV territory and fond of their colors. But I'm generally not in the market for contemporary Lionel products, and stick to 'old school' conventional stuff. So at the end of the day I can forgive Lionel for getting it wrong. I think I'll go the route of repainting an MPC era piece to get some CV power on my roster.
Cool locomotive but I would have been pissed had I ordered this and opened the box to find a teal blue engine. I don’t understand how Lionel gets the colors so wrong. I recently bought the Lionel Rio Grande ski train passenger cars to run with some MTH engines I have and the color is so off I had to order the matching Lionel engines, which I hate, because I figure they will be the only thing to match the passenger cars I got. I can’t see me ordering anything but black steam locomotives from Lionel in the future.
Nice......
Where is your Acela review!!???
What kind of hobbyist doesn’t visit a hobby shop when there on vacation i do it every time
I know right? haha
Looks more like teal or aquamarine or some other blue-green color. I can't tell it's green looking at it. It looks more blue to me. Could just be the lighting and video quality combined with editing. It's high-hood, not high-nose.
Slower is better, makes the trains feel like there's more mass in them, looks more realistic.
been there
I recently sold all my command control equipment to focus on running my postwar trains. Will this locomotive operate in conventional mode (just a transformer)? Thank you Eric.
So where in Minnesota is your better half’s parents live because you weren’t to far from where I live in North Dakota next time you are in the area check out the hobby hut in Fargo he doesn’t have a large selection of o gauge but it’s an ok selection for the area
Will do. Fargo is a couple hours from where they live..I think
Mth release a tp&w 2003
The green color that you show of the CV Deisle, if I remember correctly, that is John deer green and yellow, maybe the reason why lionle did it in a different color's is, I think that maybe John deer did not want lionle using there color's on it and it is only ment for John deer stuff
I thought it was blue
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If you can afford it, why not.
Very smooth low-speed running. I'm tempted to whine "what -- no optional bells or horns?" But I think the supplied versions sound great.
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