Re: running "long hood forward" or "short hood forward" I recall (probably in the late 70s/early 80s) that Southern also required their road diesels to operate long hood forward for safety purposes. I'm not sure if this applied to all diesels or operating environments (e.g., yard, local switching, mainline) but Southern did have a requirement at one point for running long hood forward (at least as far as memory remains functional!). Great video and very informative - as usual with respect to your videls. Thanks!
LOVE the cab perspective footage Eric, thank you for the wonderful review! I am a hard core Southern N Scale collector, and dabble in O, loving your Southern freight. Thank you so much again, and Happy Almost New Year:)
It's nice to see Lionel getting serious with road name specific details, even right down to the "suicide steps". I may pick one of these up one of these days. Great video Eric!
This was nostalgic.. I used to ride the San Jose/ San Francisco commuter line in the early 1980s, and they had GP9s in the Southern Pacific (Or sometimes Cotton Belt) Slate gray livery with the red ends, and they would pull 6 to 10 Harriman round roofed passenger cars from the early 1920's, also painted slate gray. The insides were kind of grimy, but the ride was always smooth (except around S. San Francisco). Cal Train took it over and replaced it all with shiny double deckers made in Japan, and more streamlined engines with the silver and red dot livery, but I always remember the old passenger coaches with the reversible seats and people playing card games and reading books aboard. Also really nice job weathering all those hoppers. Freight cars should never look new.
Your video was super. Love the train action. Especially when you move the camera with the engine. So smooth video. How did you do that ? Awesome ! Can't wait to share with my Pop !
Thanks for the great review Eric. The history portion was very interesting. I especially like the high mounted bell on the short hood. I have a pair of MTH SD24’s with the high mounted bells. The Nickel Plate Road had a bunch of GP9’s which were bought in 1955 to augment the Bluebirds. They possessed the high mounted bells, twin oscillating headlights and Nathan 5 chimes. There was also had a steam boiler in the front hood that exhausted through a short fat stack on top. The air tanks were mounted on top of the long hood. Just one example of how versatile the GP9’s could be. Thanks again Eric and happy holidays to you and your family.
The that whine of the main generator on the early Gees is great! Lionel really did a great job on the sound. Kind of disappointing that they didn't catch that 5 on the Sublette ring. Makes you wonder about who's inspecting these things and where.. especially when they are even building GP-9's to order. When I worked in IT, I would have been fired for missing a detail like that. Liked the new camera placement going side-by-side under the bridge :-).
I have a Chessie GP-7 , and a CNJ GP-9 , both from the 1970’s , as well as a 1959 Northern Pacific GP-9 . All run well , but my CNJ RS-3 bought in 2014 quit after 2 hours of running time . Lionel better get with it . I may switch to Atlas ‘O’ if this keeps up . I hear QC @ MTH is poor now too . Beautiful looking GP-9 you have .
ericstrains NO! I commented on that video! And said something like "WOW, I'm famous now LOL And of course I thanked you for the shout out! Was that shirt you were wearing the one I gave you? Anyways, thanks again for the shout out bro, that was awesome and I'm glad you like the sign, it looks great where you put it! Have a great one Eric! Oh I also included the address to my model train website, view it with a large or medium device, it doesn't look or work that well with a smart phone: www.billsogaugetrains.com/
I kinda like the typo. you know, once Lionel fixes the typo, you'll have an original. plus, it's a great talking point with future layout visitors. you can ask them to spot the error.... anyway, really enjoyed your review.
Eric, Great vid on the locomotive. It was very informative. After a 4 year absence of work on my layout, I am going to start working on it again. Can you tell me how you made the asphault looking walkway, path, road to the tracks in this video. It looks awfully good.
Yea Eric answered my question on that in a live stream I'm trying to find them online anyway thanks though Sam I like you're videos I hope you are enjoying you CC2
It was small outfit that made little brass O scale kits, like the card. Unfortunately they are no longer in business. There's probably other ones out there though. Someone probably 3D prints them these days.
That horn sounds like kerap. Also the start-up audio sequence was kinda lame- just "click" and then the engine is running, no actual cranking beforehand. Except for the audio they did fine.
It is a preference by the railroads. Older diesels usually started out with high hoods, but some railroads would cut them down or order them with low hoods to increase visibility. Other railroads kept the high hoods like the Southern and N&W because they often ran their diesels with the long hood forward for safety, so therefore it was somewhat pointless to make the short hood low because it was in most cases behind the crew unless it was being used for switching.
Re: running "long hood forward" or "short hood forward" I recall (probably in the late 70s/early 80s) that Southern also required their road diesels to operate long hood forward for safety purposes. I'm not sure if this applied to all diesels or operating environments (e.g., yard, local switching, mainline) but Southern did have a requirement at one point for running long hood forward (at least as far as memory remains functional!). Great video and very informative - as usual with respect to your videls. Thanks!
The weathered cars look great! Lotsa work but looks real.
Great video Eric! Cool consist.
Merry Christmas Eric and Thank You for the childhood memories..........
LOVE the cab perspective footage Eric, thank you for the wonderful review! I am a hard core Southern N Scale collector, and dabble in O, loving your Southern freight. Thank you so much again, and Happy Almost New Year:)
I got a GP9. Its the 1996 NYC 2380 that's equipped with TMCC.
Wow! Looks much better than my PRR units!
Nice GP9 and Merry Christmas Eric!!
great review, i enjoyed watching this video
Hey Eric, GP9 is my favourite locomotive, you could run it during the Open House
Christoher Coish Ii
It's nice to see Lionel getting serious with road name specific details, even right down to the "suicide steps".
I may pick one of these up one of these days.
Great video Eric!
This was nostalgic.. I used to ride the San Jose/ San Francisco commuter line in the early 1980s, and they had GP9s in the Southern Pacific (Or sometimes Cotton Belt) Slate gray livery with the red ends, and they would pull 6 to 10 Harriman round roofed passenger cars from the early 1920's, also painted slate gray. The insides were kind of grimy, but the ride was always smooth (except around S. San Francisco). Cal Train took it over and replaced it all with shiny double deckers made in Japan, and more streamlined engines with the silver and red dot livery, but I always remember the old passenger coaches with the reversible seats and people playing card games and reading books aboard. Also really nice job weathering all those hoppers. Freight cars should never look new.
Your video was super. Love the train action. Especially when you move the camera with the engine. So smooth video. How did you do that ? Awesome ! Can't wait to share with my Pop !
Fun fact: my father built these at EMD.
Cool
Emperor Nafaryus anything anime reminds me of hentai(because of the memes) cough* cough* ur profile pic* cough*
OMG SO SWAG I LOVE EMD!
boi same sd45 all the way
SD 40-T2
Great locomotive and the weathering on your cars is top shelf!!!!!!!
Awesome awesome job wheathering the box cars. So freaking real!
i wish O scale would do CF7s and GP10-1 or GP9u engines
Great review, as always. Lionel is definitely putting out some very nice products as of late.
Awesome diesel locomotive! I love it!
Thanks!
Thanks for the great review Eric. The history portion was very interesting. I especially like the high mounted bell on the short hood. I have a pair of MTH SD24’s with the high mounted bells. The Nickel Plate Road had a bunch of GP9’s which were bought in 1955 to augment the Bluebirds. They possessed the high mounted bells, twin oscillating headlights and Nathan 5 chimes. There was also had a steam boiler in the front hood that exhausted
through a short fat stack on top. The air tanks were mounted on top of the long hood. Just one example of how versatile the GP9’s could be. Thanks again Eric and happy holidays to you and your family.
Nice review and engine Eric. That consist looks very realistic as well.
Hey Eric will you at some point get the visionline GG1???????
Very informative, thank you
The that whine of the main generator on the early Gees is great! Lionel really did a great job on the sound. Kind of disappointing that they didn't catch that 5 on the Sublette ring. Makes you wonder about who's inspecting these things and where.. especially when they are even building GP-9's to order. When I worked in IT, I would have been fired for missing a detail like that. Liked the new camera placement going side-by-side under the bridge :-).
Awesome engine! Fantastic review.
Those cars are beautiful
I have a Chessie GP-7 , and a CNJ GP-9 , both from the 1970’s , as well as a 1959 Northern Pacific GP-9 .
All run well , but my CNJ RS-3 bought in 2014 quit after 2 hours of running time . Lionel better get with it . I may switch to Atlas ‘O’ if this keeps up . I hear QC @ MTH is poor now too .
Beautiful looking GP-9 you have .
The horn is pretty neat.
Wonderful review.
Hey Eric can you review the Blue Comet?
AWESOME review and engine Eric!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for the review bud!
Did you miss the shout out I gave in my last vid?
ericstrains NO! I commented on that video! And said something like "WOW, I'm famous now LOL And of course I thanked you for the shout out! Was that shirt you were wearing the one I gave you? Anyways, thanks again for the shout out bro, that was awesome and I'm glad you like the sign, it looks great where you put it! Have a great one Eric! Oh I also included the address to my model train website, view it with a large or medium device, it doesn't look or work that well with a smart phone: www.billsogaugetrains.com/
Very fine model.
8:54 think think you meant: 'jina
Is this GP9 built from all new tooling?
gr8 vid! well done
Love the pacing shot you got!!! Is it a new one because I don't recall you doing it or anyone else for that matter!! Merry Christmas Eric!!!
I've got a GT GP9
I kinda like the typo. you know, once Lionel fixes the typo, you'll have an original. plus, it's a great talking point with future layout visitors. you can ask them to spot the error.... anyway, really enjoyed your review.
Nice !!!
Do you think you'll do a review on the new MTH SW8 switchers/calves that are slated for 2017?
I find the typo on the Engine's cab to be quite funny.
Would Ever Do a Review of the Norfolk & Western's Jawn Henry Steam Turbine Loco if a New O- Scale Model Comes Out?
Hey Eric, you should do a lash up with your two other Southern gp9's. it would look cool
The ones that CSX has are painted C&O and Chessie system, though.
LOVE IT
Eric, Great vid on the locomotive. It was very informative. After a 4 year absence of work on my layout, I am going to start working on it again. Can you tell me how you made the asphault looking walkway, path, road to the tracks in this video. It looks awfully good.
My great grand father built an F-Unit for UP
Actually, CSX has them and I believe that Union Pacific owns some X-Southern Pacific ones, to.
What's the fastest you have ever run a train on your layout?
Just under Mach 1
ericstrains quite impressive
ericstrains you forgot to say they made a gp9 b until
Wow, ultra realistic locomotive, train and layout! I need to learn more about your system, I love the sounds and the slow scale speed.
I have a southern RS-3 by Lionel
Who makes the gulf Mobil and Ohio box cars?
Weaver Models is gone. Ya can't get these anymore.
Yea Eric answered my question on that in a live stream I'm trying to find them online anyway thanks though Sam I like you're videos I hope you are enjoying you CC2
I was lucky to find a lot of 3 cars on eBay. I'd continue searching there. Yeah I am enjoying the CC2.
hey Eric, do you think you could do the occasional unboxing of locomotives?
8:18 did southern number all of their diesels with cabs with an A at the end? Because I don't think they had GP9Bs!
Yeah they put A's on all of their diesels (except for B-units, those had B's of course)
Eric will you be reviewing the PRR A5 switcher?
I wish lionel would make a legacy west chester railroad number 6499 me and my friend work for them in PA
You should have a giveaway for Christmas
I HAD 1970'S GP9'S-!!! SANTA-FE & C.N.!!!!! POWERED & DUMMIES!!!! NO SOUNDS OR SMOKE BAK DEN!!!!! DJB@NEPA...DJB43...U.S.A.!!!!
BFIMO: Fuel Tank filling
9:46 That’s a 5 I thought it was a S
If u can try to find an f59phi
hey eric, what are your 3 biggest engines?
SOUTHERN bought 24 GP9s.
Can pls tell me where you got the little shopping cart that you put in the brook thank you very much if you can help me frank l vetter
It was small outfit that made little brass O scale kits, like the card. Unfortunately they are no longer in business. There's probably other ones out there though. Someone probably 3D prints them these days.
@@Ericstrains thank you
Thank you very much Eric some guy found them for me in Italy
This was in regard to the shopping carts in Old Gage
Anybody know the price ?? Awesome engine
At the end of the video, Eric says they are going for $549.99.
SmokeStack684 Thank You !! We are in a terrible winter storm ,just got home .
That horn sounds like kerap. Also the start-up audio sequence was kinda lame- just "click" and then the engine is running, no actual cranking beforehand. Except for the audio they did fine.
kwel = cool
Why do some diesels have drop noses and others don't
It is a preference by the railroads. Older diesels usually started out with high hoods, but some railroads would cut them down or order them with low hoods to increase visibility. Other railroads kept the high hoods like the Southern and N&W because they often ran their diesels with the long hood forward for safety, so therefore it was somewhat pointless to make the short hood low because it was in most cases behind the crew unless it was being used for switching.
iamnotgeoff thx for the info man
Running long hood forward is the absolute WORST
But that's how it was done.
6499 is a gp9.
kwel
I HAD 1970'S GP9'S-!!! SANTA-FE & C.N.!!!!! POWERED & DUMMIES!!!! NO SOUNDS OR SMOKE BAK DEN!!!!! DJB@NEPA...DJB43...U.S.A.!!!!