Lionel Pennsylvania H10

A review and running of Lionel's new 3-Rail O-Scale Legacy Pennsylvania 2-8-0 H10 Steam Locomotive. More videos are available on the Eric's Trains KZbin channel and at www.ericstrains.com. Enjoy!

[@bhomas_real]

Apparently the H10 wasn't supposed to have the swinging bell effect. Lionel claimed it was a typo but added it in anyways. I honestly just found out. Great review and I'm looking forward to more.

[@boombox4037]

Well done Lionel another wonderful train

[@vincentvanpaepeghem4844]

Great video Eric! Love the old steam locomotives.

[@yourmusicguru]

Love Consolidations. No clue why.

[@maxnash8450]

My first steam train ride was on a consolidation and I’ve loved the since.

[@JerryDoesThings_1604]

Dixie Hadrian Same. Maybe it’s the fact that it has such a large amount of drivers for its size... idk. Also, like your profile pic (Erwin :DDDD)

[@ricko3242]

Correction needed Eric ** Whistle steam smoke fluid actually gets added to the whistle steam outlet hole.** The whistle detail is removable to make access this opening easier. Good review as usual nontheless.

[@flossietube2065]

Hey Eric, great review as usual! I'm a huge fan of yours, and am a long time subscriber. I've watched all your videos going back for years. And I love how your layout has progressed thru the years. There's one thing I wish to see on your layout. A railroad crossing! With flashing lights and all! And would love to see you make a video on the install. Keep up the good work!

[@Ericstrains]

I'd like to see one too. :)

[@682charlie]

Nice video. Cute little engine lol. Great for small layouts especially.

[@nathanielcruz6675]

It also has that cute whistle. It gives me the chills.

[@seanthornton9969]

It used to not be an expensive hobby unless of course if it was Lionel. I have been in it since 1965 when I got my fist train HO scale and I was seven and I have been purchasing my own stuff for the train set. My Grandfather told me if you want more cars and accessories you got to earn your own money. Which I did working for my grandfather in his sandblasting business until I went into the Navy in 1977. Since then It has gone stupid expensive where you pretty much have to be a millionaire nowadays to have a decent layout even with scratch building stuff yourself.a lot of the price rise is due to the high price of oil which plastic is made from.

[@Ericstrains]

If you're modeling in the more toy-like O-27 type trains, it's not as expensive and is fairly close the same price it's always been...when accounting for inflation. It's only the upper end of the hobby, with the fine scale models and cutting edge features, that gets really expensive. One of these days I'm going to do a video showing the prices from the 50's and the prices from now with inflation adjustments. Should be an interesting video.

[@JoeG-firehousewhiskey]

The bell is a very nice touch

[@allegheny48]

Thanks for the informative video Eric. Lionel did a nice job on the engine and I like that they decided to darken the valve gear which, in my opinion, looks much more prototypical especially for a freight engine. I also like the low sided tender your model has. I do agree with you that Lionel may have recycled an older model as their base for this engine. I am pretty certain that, in real life, the boiler used on the H10 was also used on the E6 Atlantic and the G5 4-6-0's. Thanks again.

[@LarryWGrant-dw6jo]

Great review video Eric! High production value with many new and interesting camera angles. Well done!

[@brodieforsha2696]

Great review 👍

[@josephmueller335]

That's the locomotive I saw in pictures of my town here in Delmar Delaware back in the 1900s

[@TomedysTrains]

Happy St. Patrick's Day Eric! The price is fair for sure on this model based on what features it has. Although the swinging bell feature is not necessary on this locomotive and I wish Lionel knew that. Pennsylvania Railroad steam locomotives from the 20th Century didn't have swinging bells, hence the lack of a bell cord on them, even on this model. If Lionel didn't make the swinging bell on this locomotive, they could've shaved another $50.00 off of the MSRP and the locomotive would've been more prototypical.

[@ricko3242]

The swinging bell is the least of the " non prototypical" issues with this loco. Rather its a feature that helps the purchaser overlook the incorrectly shaped belpaire firebox, too long boiler, too long wheelbase, and of course the silver smokebox is incorrect as well and Lionel could have spent an extra nickle and added glass to the windows. The H10 is actuallly a rerelease of Lionels TMCC H9 ( thus the builders plates) from 2001. The TMCC H9 as well as this Legacy H10 are really a stretched pennsy style boiler over Lionels NYC consolidation chassis. Not bashing the loco, I bought one, added my own windows. Its fun, just not a very accurate model of an H9 or 10, if thats waht your looking for.

[@Blougon]

The H10 had the same whistle steam effect and the swinging bell features just like the 4-6-4 hudson.

[@willhorowitz8806]

I love the PRR and this is a fantastic model, but there are three things I want to acknowledge. First of all Lionel made a marketing mistake. The H10 locomotives were all numbered 7000 and above since they were built for Lines West. Your locomotive is 1288 which is a Lines East number making it an H9. To further prove my point the builders plate says H9. The other thing is the pilot is wrong, they had footboards not a slated pilot. Also I don’t think the bells on PRR locomotives built after 1910 swung. Those built previous were modified with an internal ringer. Other than that it is an awesome model.

[@nathancorcoran5347]

Happy St. Patrick's Day Eric's trains.

[@caverjam]

I love this. Looks real

[@MPT_Productions]

Great video of a great engine! That price is too good for the features on this guys.

[@DjsOgaugeTrains]

Great video! Nice to see some More pennsy on your layout.

[@greggcarpenter1878]

Another nice review ! One thing I did notice, Eric, was that you said to load smoke fluid into the smoke stack for both that and the whistle steam. On my Western Alleghany version that I need to load fluid into both the whistle port and the stack. It is a nice running/sounding model !

[@50BadCrows]

Gregg Carpenter Yes, the same with mine. Even says in the manual that there are two smoke units and they need to be loaded separately as you mention.

[@Chessie1985]

Great review Eric!!!

[@tjprptchable]

Great video and I have been looking forward to getting this engine one day

[@Porschedude8]

Very nice!

[@seargentvader8874]

Not trying to nit pick, the reading company is pronounced RED-ING

[@Ericstrains]

I know.

[@seargentvader8874]

@@Ericstrains once again, not trying to be mean. I'm just this big train enthusiast and for some reason, I always get weird about this stuff. Great review though. You have now got one more sub.

[@Thunderbolt_1000_Siren]

Oh boy as a guy who had 90% of tracks in the area being Ex RDG it always annoys me when people pronounce it wrong.

[@seargentvader8874]

@@Thunderbolt_1000_Siren oh hi. I have been watching your accident videos lately. That are actually pretty good man.

[@Thunderbolt_1000_Siren]

Oh thanks

[@philipperiopel1911]

Excellent review as always Eric.Would be interesting to see you one day at the Delson/St-Constant railway Museum near Montreal.We have a miniature train weekend in August and we have many visitors from the U.S.

[@jamessawyer4625]

Nice job Eric thanks you for the review... O ya your reviews in this months O gauge was very good too....

[@Ericstrains]

Thanks!

[@drewcarll5431]

What a wholesome channel

[@rennethjarrett4580]

If anyone is a train runner and you don't like the flickering lights of your caboose, just add another center rail pick up and wire it in to the other one.

[@primemoverRR]

You know, Eric, I've been watching all of your videos over the past couple of weeks and I have to say they are pretty dangerous. Mainly because I've been modeling HO Scale for over 20 years and your videos are SERIOUSLY making me consider selling all of my HO scale stuff, so I can try to afford to start collecting O scale. Of course, the costs rise exponentially if I were to switch scales! But, thanks for posting such awesome videos. Definitely some of the best model railroading review videos on KZbin.

[@Ericstrains]

Troy Simpkins Thanks!

[@Gordons1888]

My favourite 2-8-0 is the 42xx/52xx

[@JustYourPariah]

Nice video

[@aidenfleming7210]

Nice

[@JimsPlanesandTrains]

This video is not helping me edit my video for tomorrow, but awesome video as always!

[@eastcoastrailproductions5559]

I was so disappointed when you removed it before😂

[@Steven_Williams]

Nice!

[@baileyhilbers738]

Best train ever

[@austinniederjohn9813]

The tender reminds me of the tender that prr 4-4-0 #1223 has

[@mcdaw]

thank you!

[@yankeesandy2545]

Why did you not the set you always say “of it comes in a set get the set” but you did a good review

[@Mnrr6131]

I think we have Lionel and MTHs mascot.

[@mattcastrains416]

Great review. I feel that you should review one of the Lionel HO Scale Sets.

[@lescobrandon3047]

You omitted the PRR H-6.

[@cmcgloughlin]

What is the purpose PRR would have the marker lights on the pilot? Why did they decide to put them there versus the top of boiler? Great video!

[@caverjam]

I want one😊

[@michaelkata2551]

Marker lights crapped out by the end of the video!

[@Ericstrains]

Just because they're not visible on the video doesn't mean they've crapped out. They're working fine.

[@thestarlightalchemist7333]

Too bad I don't have enough money for one of these, nor do I have the tracks. On30, on the other hand... I'd like one of those D&RGW 2-6-0s. (PS, i'd prefer if more lionel pennsy engines had 3 chimes and such, the higher pitched banshee hooters sound odd on engines like this one)

[@ricko3242]

The whistle is accurate for a PRR H10.

[@damonsmith9320]

Just a personal opinion here, for an engine like that, the whistle is too shrill. It needs something like an Ashton 6 inch 3 chime or a Great Northern 5 chime. Still a nice model!

[@K9TheFirst1]

Is there a particular reason why they put the traction tire on the rear-most drive wheel? If it doesn't matter, it would bug me that it's not one the main driver - the wheel that the piston rod actually connects to.

[@ToledoRails]

The one thing about this release that confuses me is the smoke box looking a lot closer to white than a graphite color. Very jarring on an otherwise stunning model.

[@Cfox2000]

I received my weathered model, it was simply stunning! I got it on the tracks and was bummed the motherboard in the tender was totally bad - no LCS, no Coupler, no wireless tether, no sound, I tried it on other engine to no avail. Hoping for a quick turn around though because it looked great! - Thanks for the Video tho Eric!

[@Ericstrains]

Wow, that's crazy. Good luck!

[@Cfox2000]

ericstrains yea... they RMA that same day for an exchange, so I am pleased with that

[@LexusRXGuy]

Can you review the MTH Metra F40ph with the bilevel coaches

[@felixhernandez8564]

Eric your train locomotive Pennsylvania h10 I wish I will get one

[@aidenzurk7726]

I’ve been in a H10 before

[@rhshoe6929]

Eric, if you don’t mind, could you estimate the amount of money you have in your complete layout?

[@stevehoward7030]

Eric, great video as usual. Just to show my ignorance re: the Pennsylvania H10, why does the Builder Plate indicate H9? Thanks!

[@seargentvader8874]

Probably an error

[@aidanmollohan741]

This had been an H9 shell and still contains a lot of details found only on H9s. This was a case of Lionel not wanting to spend money and update the tooling.

[@TheSudrianShow]

7688 is actually an H8 consolidation. NOT a H10

[@eastcoastrailproductions5559]

Nice review Eric, I just Burnt another whole I’m my wallet lol

[@Ericstrains]

HA

[@michaeldembek308]

I have a b6 mth train and it stalls on straight pieces of track ,do you know why? The track is Clean and so are the electric pick up rollers on The train

[@MMID303]

Good video but please pronounce Reading as Redding.

[@JoshuaWilliams-lx1vm]

What’s a good first o scale locomotive to pick up? I got an o guage starter set not knowing the difference between o gauge and o scale.

[@melissastreiff7651]

HO and N are cheaper.

[@jacksmall9448]

Does Lionel still make that engine if so where did you buy it

[@jrcrawford4]

I know this is probably a dumb question, but can you turn off the hyper-accurate crew radio altogether?

[@Ericstrains]

Yes you can

[@anthonysantavicca421]

HE'S ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@SuperChiefer84]

Nice Video Eric! Did you order one of the new N&W J's with whistle steam?

[@Ericstrains]

Yes

[@stevenmichael2845]

I got one and I'm honestly really unhappy with it. Mostly the bright silver smokebox. Should be gunmetal. I'm probably going to repaint it as such at some point. Looks horrible.

[@vickysangani1302]

Eric please tell ne about that lionel makes indian rail roads or not.. and where would i found indian rail roads models.

[@Ericstrains]

Indian, as in the country of India? They don't.

[@vickysangani1302]

@@Ericstrains thank you. But in india, there were no one is made these types of rail roads.

[@warriorstar2517]

Not to nitpick or anything, but the title card looks a bit unfinished. I do love the green, but the font looks quite plain.

[@Ericstrains]

It was a st. patty's day thing.

[@warriorstar2517]

@@Ericstrains The shade of green is perfect! But I think a Celtic style font would have been a little bit more festive. Loved the video, though!

[@ChrisNIN64]

THis is literally nitpicking lol

[@CrewTrain]

Do you get free trains to review?

[@candleflame4355]

What ever happened to your Bp-20, did you sell the engine, have you done anything thing else with it maybe you can use it in a livestream?

[@Ericstrains]

It was a loaner from Weaver. They didn't let keep that one.

[@candleflame4355]

@@Ericstrains what a shame such an amazing model.

[@mr.freeze9752]

Gotta question for ya. I just ordered my first legacy steam locomotive from my local Lionel dealer. My question is when did you order 2-8-0 and when did you finally get it?

[@Ericstrains]

I ordered it when the catalog came out...in early 2018 and it arrived in late 2018.

[@Deadbuck73]

Love these newer engines but I could do without all the jibber jabber of them talking.... it’s kind of like singers at concerts... just shoosh and sing.... lol now... let me say... your choo choos are amazing! I want that caboose too!

[@shanemyoutubeshit]

Ok I HATEEE the banshee whistle, the model makes it appear as if it had a PRR 3 chime, which sounded so much better

[@Ericstrains]

I love the whistle. To each his own.

[@ricko3242]

The banshee whistle is correct for the H10. Search KZbin for audio of the real H10's

[@willhorowitz8806]

PRR 3 chimes were never used on Consolidations.

[@rhettrobinson1361]

This whistle sounds like C&TS OY

[@user-nx7ru2ge8p]

Eric, What's the average price you pay for a simple model train? Not to detailed, not to bland.

[@Ericstrains]

It depends on whether you want the smaller toy-like trains like Lionel made back in the day and still makes today, or if you want fine scale models. A nice O-27 starter set run about $400. I did a review a few weeks ago of one such set.

[@user-nx7ru2ge8p]

@@Ericstrains Thanks.

[@user-nx7ru2ge8p]

@@Ericstrains Thanks.

[@stevebarnes2]

This looks like an older tooling, the way the boiler cladding forms a skirt to hide the mechanism looks awful

[@austina1452]

Steve Barnes the tooling is from 2001 or something like that. That’s why I didn’t get one plus the whistle sucks

[@altspace2259]

Last

[@jameslisle4865]

You are so wrong about the crew talk.