Nathaniel Cruz She was built with a horn because of her home lines of California where the population is very dense, the horn was used as an absolute warning of the training approaching, or at least that’s how I think it.
They had a horn because it would be foggy in some parts of California at some times and they would use the air horn because it was louder then the whistle.
Gorgeous locomotive, I love the daylight paint scheme, and the Gs engines are one of my favorite class of engines. The whistle on this model sounds great, sounds pretty close to the whistle on SP 4449.
All lionel trains have crew talk sounds even the ones I reviewed. I review starter sets and they have crew talk sounds. When you do a short press on the transformer, you get crew talk sounds. But they are optional. As eric said if you don't like them you do not have to use them
Great review Eric, I ran the black GS-2 while I was at Legacy station. That's a ton of pulling power for a steam engine with only one set of Drivers! That's right there with the Challenger. Thanks for sharing and have a great one!
I think it's best to give some background information on the GS-2's for those who don't know what the GS-2's where. The GS-2's were built by Lima Locomotive Works in 1936 with a total of six locomotives built, numbered 4410-4415. When they were built, they handled passenger trains on the Southern Pacific and they were the locomotives chosen to debut the Southern Pacific's premier passenger train, the Coast Daylight, in 1937, but were later replaced by the GS-3 class. Later, in World War 2, they were painted black and silver and transported troops to the pacific. It the 1950's, their side skirting was removed and they were put on the San Jose-San Francisco commuter trains, "Coast Mail" trains and freight service. When the Southern Pacific was making the transition to diesel, the GS-2's were some of the locomotives to go and all were retired and scrapped by 1956.
I like the shot of it going under your trestle. You might have wanted to mention that Lionel messed up the Daylight logo on the fireman's side. It's backwards. I know that bugs a lot of SP fans. Still a beautiful engine though.
Wow • A lot of Railroad History with this GS Series. The railroad designers did a lot of fine paint work into their design. The Prototypical design is done very well with the model. This is what brings fun for us Model Railroaders, to see the details in the model. As the narrator for this video you have, what I call a "Great Radio Voice'. You missed your calling, You should be a Radio DJ, not a computer guy. lol. Cheers from Michigan. & Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Thank you very much for making these reviews! I might not be an O-Scale model railroader, but I happen to like watching the new products from Lionel, Weaver, etc, and seeing what they can do, especially the steam locomotives, for the are starting to get to the point where it's hard to tell the difference between the model and the real deal, especially with the sounds and all the special steam effects. If they'd come down a notch or two in price, I'd love to have an engine like this, and I'd personally just like to play around with one of these Legacy steamers just once in my life.
This thing would look absolutely giant next to my postwar engines. As much as I love the newer engines, they would just look silly on my seasonal layouts. This, the 611, a nice Berkshire, such stunning (and expensive) engines.
very good review Eric, one thing I thought you may like to know is the the stars on the GS locomotives mean something, that told round house crews what type of bearing the engine had, if it was blank it meant a regular bearing, stars meant friction and a circle gear type one, meant roller bearing
AWESOME review as always Eric!!!!! I have to say that is one gorgeous engine, I love the detail on the front pilot! And the whistle is awesome too! I may have to order one of those bad boys! Thanks for the vid bud and have a great one!
Hey Eric, great review as always! I have the 6-11127 GS-4 that Lionel made a couple years ago. I too wanted a streamlined set of Daylight cars to go with it, so I bought an older set of MTH cars as I didn't like the red paint on the streamlining (down by the wheels/trucks) that MTH has used on their later cars; the older ones had the lower streamlining painted black which matches the prototype better, and also IMO looks much better. Good luck with whatever you decide to do!
Because when you just look at it, it does look a lot like a GS4, apart from maybe the single headlight, & possibly smaller size, its not really that much difference in terms of looks. I'm not saying fact, in all honesty i'm no expert on American locos, but I dare say it is possibly due to the looks.
I live in Portland Oregon, there is a 4-8-4 GS-4 Southern Pacific 4449 that is at the Oregon Rail Heritage Foundation. When they blow the whistle I can heard it echoing from my house. It was donated to PDX friends of the SP 4449 in 1958 and they do Holiday Express train rides. You can find more information about this SP 4449 at orhf.org
Eric, great review as always. Giving serious thought to adding this one to my stable. I'm a sucker for whistles and horns (as is my wife...). Maybe after my BigBoy shows up, this will be next. Looking forward to your review of that beauty as well.
the real question is the #4436 GS-4 vs. this #4415 GS-2. One main difference is this model has your standard "maintenance free motor with momentum flywheel", where the #4436 has a high-torque Pittman motor with momentum flywheel. The #4436 also mentions having dual fatboy speakers, according to Lionel's catalogue. It also happens to be $100 less than the model in this video, the #4415, which comes in at $1,300.
Honestly, I prefer the old tmcc gs2 daylight 4410. Maybe because it was my first full scale engine, but also because it has crew specific dialogue, and the whistle is unique to the daylight. It has that sort of higher pitch whistle which is more accurate in my opinion
Nice video & Review!!! I noticed that the bearings on that hopper are squeaky I'm not sure if you know but to fix that you put oil between the Rotating bearing cap and the truck and it fixes it.
don't worry about what other people say the sounds an crew talk are fantastic , I just wish they would of made a GS-4 with the two head lights as well , that's the one I've been waiting for , when was the last one made does anyone know...
Very cool engine. And nice layout! I have a Lionel SP Daylight in HO. It looks pretty good, but it's performance is mediocre, crappy pancake motor and no DCC sound. Has the Mars light though, which is cool.
I love this engine and the big boy ones. do you think it would be cool or awesome if they made trains from European or even our neighbor to the north Canadian locomotives. The one I think would be cool to bye is the Royal Hudson, most well know train throughout Canada. That's just me talking and my opinion. What do you think of the idea?
Okay, you have a GS-2 and a GS-6 but where the hell is the GS-4! They shipped her out already with the Daylight paint scheme and in the American Freedom Train Scheme also! They also released a series of American Freedom Train 21" passenger cars if you wanted to know!
I love that whistle! I've seen whistles on live steam locomotives that don't sound that good.
Nathaniel Cruz She was built with a horn because of her home lines of California where the population is very dense, the horn was used as an absolute warning of the training approaching, or at least that’s how I think it.
They had a horn because it would be foggy in some parts of California at some times and they would use the air horn because it was louder then the whistle.
They use it for other reasons too.
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Gorgeous locomotive, I love the daylight paint scheme, and the Gs engines are one of my favorite class of engines. The whistle on this model sounds great, sounds pretty close to the whistle on SP 4449.
I love the crew talk. It adds a lot of play value and realism to it.
LIONEL sound, the industry standard. Completely blows away anything available in any scale, any manufacturer.
Proto-sound 3.0 also does well
All lionel trains have crew talk sounds even the ones I reviewed. I review starter sets and they have crew talk sounds. When you do a short press on the transformer, you get crew talk sounds. But they are optional. As eric said if you don't like them you do not have to use them
Future Pilot Your right!
Protosound 3.0 master race...
machia0705 knnn
One of the only steam locomotives to have a whistle and a horn on it!
Great review Eric, I ran the black GS-2 while I was at Legacy station. That's a ton of pulling power for a steam engine with only one set of Drivers! That's right there with the Challenger. Thanks for sharing and have a great one!
I think it's best to give some background information on the GS-2's for those who don't know what the GS-2's where. The GS-2's were built by Lima Locomotive Works in 1936 with a total of six locomotives built, numbered 4410-4415. When they were built, they handled passenger trains on the Southern Pacific and they were the locomotives chosen to debut the Southern Pacific's premier passenger train, the Coast Daylight, in 1937, but were later replaced by the GS-3 class. Later, in World War 2, they were painted black and silver and transported troops to the pacific. It the 1950's, their side skirting was removed and they were put on the San Jose-San Francisco commuter trains, "Coast Mail" trains and freight service. When the Southern Pacific was making the transition to diesel, the GS-2's were some of the locomotives to go and all were retired and scrapped by 1956.
The should make this Daylight vision line because it's one of the best looking engine in America.
I like to say the big boy's look better but that's my opinion
wow did you get your wish check out the lionel 2020 catalog
They're here
@@minisoul01 i think the n&w 611 looks best it was built bout an hour from where i live
I love that Southern Pacific 4-8-4 G-2 steam locomotive, because my favorite is the whistle! ❤
So nice, love this livery............
I like the shot of it going under your trestle. You might have wanted to mention that Lionel messed up the Daylight logo on the fireman's side. It's backwards. I know that bugs a lot of SP fans. Still a beautiful engine though.
Wow • A lot of Railroad History with this GS Series. The railroad designers did a lot of fine paint work into their design. The Prototypical design is done very well with the model. This is what brings fun for us Model Railroaders, to see the details in the model. As the narrator for this video you have, what I call a "Great Radio Voice'. You missed your calling, You should be a Radio DJ, not a computer guy. lol. Cheers from Michigan. & Merry Christmas to you and your family.
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Now that's a shot you don't normally take. Good job on the review.
Thank you very much for making these reviews! I might not be an O-Scale model railroader, but I happen to like watching the new products from Lionel, Weaver, etc, and seeing what they can do, especially the steam locomotives, for the are starting to get to the point where it's hard to tell the difference between the model and the real deal, especially with the sounds and all the special steam effects.
If they'd come down a notch or two in price, I'd love to have an engine like this, and I'd personally just like to play around with one of these Legacy steamers just once in my life.
Love the locomotive 🚂 and your channel
I love the whistle.
Good review on a gorgeous engine. Lionel did a great job on it.
This thing would look absolutely giant next to my postwar engines. As much as I love the newer engines, they would just look silly on my seasonal layouts. This, the 611, a nice Berkshire, such stunning (and expensive) engines.
very good review Eric, one thing I thought you may like to know is the the stars on the GS locomotives mean something, that told round house crews what type of bearing the engine had, if it was blank it meant a regular bearing, stars meant friction and a circle gear type one, meant roller bearing
saw the new lionel up big boy form vision line is so cool the coal hopper works it makes the trian look like it's useing coal
Nice engine Eric really impressed with the sounds
GReat
AWESOME review as always Eric!!!!! I have to say that is one gorgeous engine, I love the detail on the front pilot! And the whistle is awesome too! I may have to order one of those bad boys! Thanks for the vid bud and have a great one!
Hey Eric, great review as always! I have the 6-11127 GS-4 that Lionel made a couple years ago. I too wanted a streamlined set of Daylight cars to go with it, so I bought an older set of MTH cars as I didn't like the red paint on the streamlining (down by the wheels/trucks) that MTH has used on their later cars; the older ones had the lower streamlining painted black which matches the prototype better, and also IMO looks much better. Good luck with whatever you decide to do!
I didn't know you have a TH-cam channel. What a fantastic video. Thank so much, I enjoyed every second
My uncle was General Superintendent of Motive Power for SP from 1939 to 1962, It was "General Service". Stanley M Houston.
Art Houston
Great looking engine and the sounds as well , thanks for sharing
Great video Eric love the engine and the whistle and horn too the horn is the same horn as your centipede
No.4449 is the last of it's 4-8-4 GS-2 still in service. As a fact, I know it LIVES in Portland, Oregon, next to OMSI.
No. 4449 is a GS-4.
Why do so many people make that mistake?
Because when you just look at it, it does look a lot like a GS4, apart from maybe the single headlight, & possibly smaller size, its not really that much difference in terms of looks. I'm not saying fact, in all honesty i'm no expert on American locos, but I dare say it is possibly due to the looks.
Well, I get a lot of locomotives confused half the time, so that is why.
@@CentralWestRail not just a single headlight dude gs-4s had all weather cabs not like thr gs-2 or gs-3
Love the sound on that engine.
I live in Portland Oregon, there is a 4-8-4 GS-4 Southern Pacific 4449 that is at the Oregon Rail Heritage Foundation. When they blow the whistle I can heard it echoing from my house. It was donated to PDX friends of the SP 4449 in 1958 and they do Holiday Express train rides. You can find more information about this SP 4449 at orhf.org
well its ok for the gs-2 pulled frieght cars because i think they did when they were painted black and the side skirts were removed
Rail Grone sound on pull out WOW! good sound effect Eric
The GS-2 is absoulutely fantastic! Will you be able to do a review of the unpainted GS-6 as well?
Eric, great review as always. Giving serious thought to adding this one to my stable. I'm a sucker for whistles and horns (as is my wife...). Maybe after my BigBoy shows up, this will be next. Looking forward to your review of that beauty as well.
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Beautiful whistle
Oh god. When I first saw this video, (7 at the time, and I saw it in 2014) I had recorded this on my DSi. There’s this thing that lets you do it.
Love your video Eric! That "Daylight" paint scheme looks great! Happy Holidays and thanks for sharing!
I have an MTH G scale/One gauge GS-2 #4413, best locomotive I’ve ever purchased.
Great Review Eric! I like the fact that it has an awesome 4 lbs. of pulling power! I also like the white stripe wheels with stars....cool!
Fantastic Engine, and I love that Black Widow caboose!
Lionel has recently recataloged the SP GS4, and one is numbered 4449. Have you thought of getting one? I bet this GS2 would look cool with a GS4.
I'm getting this engine with the passenger cars. It costs $1900
If I didn't know this was a Lionel Train I would think it was real because of the whistle
You are very good at what you do on the videos. I like many started with 3 rail.. Now HO, at 69 think I should have done 2 rail O back 5 years ago.
Lionel does offer daylight passenger cars their sp pa's numbers are: 6-35445 and 6-35446
the real question is the #4436 GS-4 vs. this #4415 GS-2. One main difference is this model has your standard "maintenance free motor with momentum flywheel", where the #4436 has a high-torque Pittman motor with momentum flywheel. The #4436 also mentions having dual fatboy speakers, according to Lionel's catalogue. It also happens to be $100 less than the model in this video, the #4415, which comes in at $1,300.
Honestly, I prefer the old tmcc gs2 daylight 4410. Maybe because it was my first full scale engine, but also because it has crew specific dialogue, and the whistle is unique to the daylight. It has that sort of higher pitch whistle which is more accurate in my opinion
When the guy said standby for track orders I had captions on and it translated it to standby for drug orders
These engines had horns as well as whistles because the horn sound carries better through fog than the whistle sound.
One of my favorite engines
did not realize that was 4415 which it appears is a GS2 that however looks so close to the GS-4
This is nice get the Southern Pacific GS-4 x4449
Still the most gorgeous steam locomotive ever IMO
I know right
I really like the creaking of the metal
Crew talks are fun!
I'm thinking about getting a Bachmann version of this but the Daylight that most people are familiar with, otherwise known as the GS4.
Great video! I have that Chessie blue & yellow boxcar
Favorite engine by far!!!
Diesel locomotive: I can’t pull this by myself!
Steam locomotive: Hold my boiler.
The whistle sounds like the real deal.
It's my sister Southern Pacific 4415 and I'm the her brother
Only 6 GS-2s were made for the Southern Pacific, they were retired between 1955 - 1958, and sadly, all of them were scrapped.
Will do a review on one of the 2020 GS models
Lionel made a GS-4 could you do a review on it.
Can you do a review on the Lionel SP 4449?
Nice video & Review!!! I noticed that the bearings on that hopper are squeaky I'm not sure if you know but to fix that you put oil between the Rotating bearing cap and the truck and it fixes it.
Also GS-1 was originally built by Baldwin.
Crew talks make me feel like I'm in the railyard!
You just love that whistle don't you
The GS-2 has a horn too, too bad your not hitting it along w/ the whistle. Great combination.
Sadly it's only one or the other.
Ever heard of Reeds Hobby Shop? Its here in San Deigo, and its pretty cool! You should check it out!
Eric I’m very surprised you haven’t picked up coaches for it! You don’t have to get Lionels you could get MTH
I wonder who does the voice acting for the crew talk. It's the same dude for all engines
This engine should have the whistle steam smoke effect.
GS2's whistle is even better than the GS4's!
I'm planning on getting this train as my first Lionel Legacy Engine. This or the Vision Line #4014 Union Pacific Big Boy.
don't worry about what other people say the sounds an crew talk are fantastic , I just wish they would of made a GS-4 with the two head lights as well , that's the one I've been waiting for , when was the last one made does anyone know...
Great video eric
Southern pacific 4415’s horn sounds like a semi truck horn 11:22
Very cool engine. And nice layout! I have a Lionel SP Daylight in HO. It looks pretty good, but it's performance is mediocre, crappy pancake motor and no DCC sound. Has the Mars light though, which is cool.
That is a grait whistle!!
Great job
on the real restored daylight it has a handcock three chime for accurate sounding
Mr. Siegel, please get the MTH 4449. It's a really cool locomotive.
I'm still waiting for like a full daylight with DMLX 4219 and 8645
nice train
Great video. Shame none of the gs-2 were preserved,it would have made a lot of sense
The sound of the horn is also the sound of a vuvuzela.
Leslie A200. Classic "blat" horn.
Great Video !
Do a review of 4449 GS-2 American Freedom Train
That is cool
Can you upload Lionel legacy southern pacific daylight heavyweight passenger cars ericstrains?
I love this engine and the big boy ones. do you think it would be cool or awesome if they made trains from European or even our neighbor to the north Canadian locomotives. The one I think would be cool to bye is the Royal Hudson, most well know train throughout Canada. That's just me talking and my opinion. What do you think of the idea?
It's a beatiful train indeed, you know where to get it?
Okay, you have a GS-2 and a GS-6 but where the hell is the GS-4! They shipped her out already with the Daylight paint scheme and in the American Freedom Train Scheme also! They also released a series of American Freedom Train 21" passenger cars if you wanted to know!
Amazing video. Thought about adding some matching coaches?
she is cool I like it can you do Santa fe
All The GS-2’s Were Scrapped In 1956
In my opinion the whistle is too echoed and the puffing noise is a bit echoed too
I love this locomotive and I own it but mine is stuck going forward do you think you can make a video to show how to stop a train from going forward