This train hits our family pretty close! My Great-Grandfather Lawrence Jacobs was the most senior conductor during the Electroliner's final trip on the NorthShore! He'd been an engineer for many decades for the NorthShore line, and he retired the day the Electroliner did! When they finish rehabbing the interior where it rests at the Illinois museum, the museum has asked our family to be there for the opening ceremony! I have lots of pictures I've inherited from his time as the conductor!
Very nice set with the bogie trucks. Like how your shared the history and got to ride in one of the coaches. It is a shame that MTH is going away next year. Take care. Train Room Gary 🚂
Thanks for the video.I agree that this model does a great job looking and sounding like the real trains. I live in suburban Philadelphia and got to ride these trains when the Red Arrow bought them and repainted them in their colors and called them Liberty Liners. I worked attending college in a store on Rt.30 and rode the liners between 69th street and Villanova. Unfortunately although I own several MTH items I never knew they made this model and the Liberty Liner model. I would have liked to have one to run on my O gage model railroad just to relive the memory of ridding them.
Thank you so much. It was in the catalog, but I don't think they made too many of them. I don't think they are really hot sellers either because they are region specific to Chicagoland.
@@wcmodelrailroad I've been to Chicago many times...my nephew resides in Elk Grove. Love Chicago...and also being a fire buff, their fire department is one of my favorites. I'm also a big die cast collector of fire apparatus as well as others.
Thank you for sharing. Love watching model videos, would love to own one but the wife would kill me, so have to watch others, which is fine. But you spoke about the tethers. It reminds me of other TH-camrs speaking about the problems they had with the Mark Twain Burlington Zephyr. Thanks for sharing a great video, especially the history. I live in the Chicagoland area and go to IRM a few times a year. Always a lot of fun
I like how the natural original sounds were put into this train such as the horn. The original gong sound though is missing as it was pretty similar to the old South Shore Line Pullman-Standard cars. You would there the gong only in the streets of Milwaukee.
@@wcmodelrailroad I also thought the original Electroliners had another set of horns like the old South Shore cars and the regular North Shore cars on addition to the low note horn.
@@wcmodelrailroad You're Welcome! You'd like to capture the actual sounds of the alarm gongs to program in this trainset similar to the old SOUTH SHORE LINE PULLMAN STANDARD CARS that were built 1926-1929.
I'm surprised the South Shore Line didn't have a couple of trainsets like this running between South Bend and Chicago. The traffic volume probably didn't warent it .
A way of connecting two pieces of rolling stock. Instead of being underneath a piece of rolling stock, Jacobs bogies are placed between two carriages. The weight of each carriage is spread across the Jacobs bogie. You are basically removing the coupler and using a Jacobs Bogie to connect the cars together.
This train hits our family pretty close! My Great-Grandfather Lawrence Jacobs was the most senior conductor during the Electroliner's final trip on the NorthShore! He'd been an engineer for many decades for the NorthShore line, and he retired the day the Electroliner did! When they finish rehabbing the interior where it rests at the Illinois museum, the museum has asked our family to be there for the opening ceremony! I have lots of pictures I've inherited from his time as the conductor!
That's a wonderful memory, and thank you for sharing. Very awesome to have a family member who was a conductor / engineer on the Electroliner.
There is one Electroliner set at the Illinois Railroad Museum I sincerely hope they repair it back to operating service
This is a cool set. Thanks for sharing it. Also, thanks for the history lesson too. It is one of my favorites at the Illinois Railway Museum.
Mine too!
@@wcmodelrailroad cool!
Awesome set! Might have to go in for this! The intro music sounds familiar lol.
Thanks Matt, lol, I'm trying out a few different ones for future videos and see what works best.
I own this train, one of my absolute favorite models.
I won't disagree with you there, it's one of the few premier Chicago Subway / Interurban models that MTH did.
@@wcmodelrailroad Even have the K-Line Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee interurbans to go with it.
@@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory I really like those, but they are not command control right only conventional?
@@wcmodelrailroad yeah
Very nice set with the bogie trucks. Like how your shared the history and got to ride in one of the coaches. It is a shame that MTH is going away next year. Take care. Train Room Gary 🚂
Thank you Gary, I'm really sad about the closing as well. Maybe we will get lucky and someone will swoop in and rescue it.
Nice! Love it. Enjoyed the pod cast too
Thank you DJ and thank you for joining us on the podcast.
Thanks for the video.I agree that this model does a great job looking and sounding like the real trains. I live in suburban Philadelphia and got to ride these trains when the Red Arrow bought them and repainted them in their colors and called them Liberty Liners. I worked attending college in a store on Rt.30 and rode the liners between 69th street and Villanova. Unfortunately although I own several MTH items I never knew they made this model and the Liberty Liner model. I would have liked to have one to run on my O gage model railroad just to relive the memory of ridding them.
Fun Fact: these trains were studied by Japanese designers when they made the bullet train.
Really cool information
What a terrific piece. I don't recall this from 2017. Being from a subway city, I'm going to check this out. Love it......thanks for the video.
Thank you so much. It was in the catalog, but I don't think they made too many of them. I don't think they are really hot sellers either because they are region specific to Chicagoland.
@@wcmodelrailroad I've been to Chicago many times...my nephew resides in Elk Grove. Love Chicago...and also being a fire buff, their fire department is one of my favorites.
I'm also a big die cast collector of fire apparatus as well as others.
Very cool. Looks like it's time for another purchase.
Thank you Denny, can't wrong with this one, MTH did a stellar job here.
Great job!!!!!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
This is awesome, its the first time i have seen this model.
MTH did a great job with these. IRM actually has 1 of the 2 still in existence. Thank you for watching!
Beautiful set! I almost bought this one.
Thanks Steven, I decided to pick this up a couple of years ago and I'm glad I did now.
Thank you for sharing. Love watching model videos, would love to own one but the wife would kill me, so have to watch others, which is fine. But you spoke about the tethers. It reminds me of other TH-camrs speaking about the problems they had with the Mark Twain Burlington Zephyr. Thanks for sharing a great video, especially the history. I live in the Chicagoland area and go to IRM a few times a year. Always a lot of fun
James, thank you for watching the channel. I tend to focus on anything related to Chicagoland railroads so please enjoy the videos.
It is almost done
I like how the natural original sounds were put into this train such as the horn. The original gong sound though is missing as it was pretty similar to the old South Shore Line Pullman-Standard cars. You would there the gong only in the streets of Milwaukee.
I agree Albert, MTH did a great job of creating the sounds on this Electroliner. Thank you for watching the channel!
@@wcmodelrailroad I also thought the original Electroliners had another set of horns like the old South Shore cars and the regular North Shore cars on addition to the low note horn.
I meant you'd hear the alarm gongs in Milwaukee's city streets where there seemed to be like a no train horn ordinance except in emergencies.
@@wcmodelrailroad You're Welcome! You'd like to capture the actual sounds of the alarm gongs to program in this trainset similar to the old SOUTH SHORE LINE PULLMAN STANDARD CARS that were built 1926-1929.
Nice set!
Thanks!
I'm surprised the South Shore Line didn't have a couple of trainsets like this running between South Bend and Chicago. The traffic volume probably didn't warent it .
There was certainly a fleet of interurbans that covered the South Shore line, but no electroliners.
@@wcmodelrailroad There just didn't seem to be the traffic potential between South Bend and Chicago like there was between Milwaukee and Chicago.
It would be nice to have a 3rd rail model alongside the tracks. An imaginary 3rd rail.
Thanks for watching and the comment.
What are Jacobs-Bogeys?
A way of connecting two pieces of rolling stock. Instead of being underneath a piece of rolling stock, Jacobs bogies are placed between two carriages. The weight of each carriage is spread across the Jacobs bogie. You are basically removing the coupler and using a Jacobs Bogie to connect the cars together.
What remote do I need to run it