Lionel's Western Maryland Hagerstown Hot Shot Set!

[@MMID303]

Long live the Wild Mary! My great grandfather was an engineer for the WM during the steam era. That red white and black paint scheme (known unofficially as the "circus scheme") was their last before they were fully absorbed into the Chessie System. The other engine has the "speed letter" scheme. They were probably most famous for their "fireball" scheme during the 40s and 50s.

[@JMLoll]

One of my closest friends is a former WM employee. I'm honored to know him.

[@theflintlockhunter5423]

Finally! Diehard WM guy, this is the first thing I ever preordered from Lionel and have been very impressed with the set!

[@tvmrails1517]

Love the two different WM paint schemes on these FAs really cool set!

[@andydrew7777777]

Lionel used to make trains in Hagerstown MD right by my grandmother's house on the north end of town. I have a steam loco with the Hagerstown Lionel tag underneath

[@HotRodRodney25]

i have one also i have 2 but one with Hagerstown md tag lionel was only here for one year in hagerstown md

[@TooManyHobbiesJeremy]

I absolutely love the livery on #304. It's also great that Lionel painted black around the headlight.

[@davidstrainsandlego]

Really cool set. It's pretty neat that the A-A FAs aren't the same livery

[@JMLoll]

The WM only had 4 FAs, and only one of them, 304, was painted in the red white and black.

[@theventuracountyrailfan]

Horn 4 and bell 5 gang rise up!

[@rsconover7957]

OMG! I was so excited when I first saw this set on your community posts, and now you’re finally review it! I’m so happy! 😃

[@waynereed5510]

I live in Hagerstown and collect Western Maryland O gauge trains. Love this set but im not sure i can justify spending that much on a set. I have more of a starter set budget. 😊 Thanks for the video.

[@northpennvalleysteamrailroad]

Love this set! WM FA-2 303 is preserved today!

[@michaelbosko4643]

Hey Eric saw your comment on one of the other videos about a bad cold anyway hope your doing better have a good one

[@kenmunozatmmrrailroad6853]

Those real wood decks are awesome💪🏽

[@rudolphward4375]

Beautiful set... I enjoy watching you unpack all these trains...its sort of like I'm doing it. Looking forward to the next one.

[@Leogar982]

Boxcar looks amazing.

[@UrMomsChauffer]

This is a beautiful set. I like that they have both paint schemes represented in the locos. I would like to see additional A/B units available in these schemes, so you could run them separately. I love the rolling stock in this set. They all look sharp.

[@chefdannydesteli]

Didn’t realize Eric lived so close to me lol. I’m in Marietta and he’s Woodstock GA crazy to think I’ve been subbed this long and never actually knew that

[@johnlamprecht7523]

Thanks so much, Merry Christmas

[@Sullystein]

Nice layout, nice train! Hope build one day!

[@thunderstruck5484]

Always amazed at your awesome layout! New addition to the collection is beautiful! Thanks

[@angelgabriella7974]

And so it begins..... a flat car and trailer here. A Lionel Play World flat car there, that you got a few days ago, and another flat car with trailer, and before you know it, you will be collecting trailers, now you'll have to put in a Mi-Jack to use in your yard, to handle all the trailer traffic that you will be getting. . Maybe your next special run, you could offer a trailer and flat car, along with that, maybe a box car to go along with the engine that you'll be offering An awesome unboxing video. Thank you, Happy Holidays to you and Lisa.

[@stevenfd123]

Great video! Especially liked the view from the camera touring the layout. Great set, Great locos,. Great video. Thank you, Eric.

[@greyfoxtrains3244]

As always, I am enjoying your holiday videos. I appreciate your reviews and your honesty. Above all, you always look for the positive in all your videos. If you have criticisms, you are constructive about. Sometimes the positive outlook on the hobby gets missed. Thank you for that.

[@johnknippenberg-LandmarkYards]

Awesome review! Horn #3 and bell #4 are my likes. Happy new year! 🎉

[@ericwilliams2619]

Extraordinary looking lionel legacy set the freight cars are superb very awesome aereial views of your layout 👍🏻✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️

[@jamesdennis2004]

I'm am so tempted to go get one. Horn 4-5 I'm tied up between those two. And the bell for me is 5 I like that one.

[@kevinmartin9940]

The 100 Ton Hopper as 100% die cast is a pleasant surprise

[@MrStevesTrains]

Man! Call that the Silver Streak! High speed Rails. 👍🏻

[@buecomet831]

Ngl this set is pretty dope from Lionel.

[@amadigidigaula771]

Hi Eric, I preordered this set from England, it recently arrived and yeah that 100T hopper shocked me too- it’s gorgeous. I just couldn’t figure out the trailer extra piece so thanks for that. This was my first set I ever ordered rom Lionel, I’m thrilled with it. I have an earlier FA2 AA set They did for NYC and it has different horns modelled. Cool that they got the unique (I believe) WM ones right.

[@billpope2111]

Neat on board with the smoke.

[@ChazzLyons]

Wow, that is a really cool set!!

[@kennethreese4659]

Nice set. I was born and raised in Hagerstown.

[@HotRodRodney25]

i live outside hagerstown,md

[@pkilznah5353]

Always love your videos brah 🚂🔥🔥🔥🎯

[@Roadrunner4447]

That is a beautiful set congratulations 🎉🎉 🎊

[@Ericstrains]

I think so too!

[@sammyvh11]

Western Maryland rules

[@johnpandolfino8663]

Nice set.....👌👍🦫🇺🇸💰🎉🎶

[@doubleutubefan5]

These have been some really cool sets from Lionel recently. I really think they are hitting their stride in the hobby right now. The Western Maryland area is were I spent my summers growing up. The sand patch, the coal division, and even down into Martinsburg, WV. I think I'll have to pick up this set soon, It would be a nice reminder of those times. I know that personally I have never been more interested in what Lionel has to offer than these past 2 or 3 years. Ever since their big anniversary catalog. So much stuff I wanna buy and unfortunately I'm lagging behind all the sets I want

[@SleeperBBQ]

well, I now know that your display shelves made it home straight. TY

[@dabillsmsc]

Gorgeous set. Love that beast of a boxcar.

[@Cbtrainnut]

Nice video Eric! Whistle 3 for me and bell 5! Happy New year

[@greglivo]

I wanted to choke on the diesel smoke during that last ride-along on the roof!

[@zachwheeler9846]

Very beautiful set. I love how the A units don't match color wise, gives nice contrast, and uniquidy. That car with trailer is very cool as well. Great video Eric!

[@gordonsnell6735]

I like those on board camera shots as well, that's pretty cool 😎😎 You get to see your layout from the camera's view & it went through the tunnel as well, that was cool 😎😎

[@kennethstraub9112]

Eric, at 1:41, it’s a Tofc, or otherwise a trailer on flat car, lmao, not a flat car on trailer, lol. Very nice set and Happy New Year!

[@shafiqshabazz2462]

Day 5 was a home run ! ! !

[@40belowful]

I like the paint scheme of lead unit :)

[@ironriver117]

Nice addition with this set Eric! Horn and bell #1 sounds best to me.

[@henryszubielski8601]

Thanks for the review Eric! I'm a long time Western Maryland fan, but unfortunately do to a relocation was unable to purchase this set. Maybe one day. And it looks great on your layout!

[@AndrewNeilFalconer]

The guys at LIONEL can make the Pullman-Standard 60' box car for a set in only one paint scheme at a time. They could have been gradually producing and releasing them over the past 10 years. There are still more real railroad numbers and schemes to produce. Still waiting for them to make Chicago & North Western 60' boxcars 20 years later.

[@03SilverMustangGT]

Awesome!

[@mr.shadestrains6033]

Very kool 🚂😎👍👍👍

[@garys0scale525]

Nice set!

[@Adamdaj]

Great Video ! As far as choosing my favorite Horn or Bell, I can't decide.

[@brianlohr3412]

great looking set !!!

[@levidarling5107]

I might not be an O scale railroader, but O gauge will always have a place in my heart as I do need this gauge to act as a narrow gauge for my Talyllin locomotives. Still, I love what Lionel does with many of their o scale offerings. Very fun and cute little novel items that bring nostalgia to even those not into o scale. 😊

[@MecFan7470]

Eric the set looks great i feel like it represents freight in the early to late 70. You know whats really unrepresented on your layout as in you have none is maine Central.

[@gordonsnell6735]

Very nice Eric, I have an N&W coal hopper that is like your Western Maryland hopper, it has some weight to it as well & yes the coal load comes out as well, so yeah it's pretty cool 😎😎

[@warriorstar2517]

Horn options are: 1: K5LA 2: Wabco E2 3: Leslie A-200 4: Leslie S-series horn 5: K5LA, but slightly lower pitched

[@Ericstrains]

Thanks for the info!

[@gregorysmith7952]

Sure is a nice set. Thanks for reviewing.

[@jimtschudy6445]

looks nice!!

[@RaysTrains]

This is such a cool set I saw it in Gryzboski’s the other day and I almost pulled the trigger but I stopped myself lol. Gotta save up for those incoming preorders 😂

[@michaelmejia3822]

Hope you’re close to 100% Eric

[@charleshax]

I believe the hopper is an old K-Line tooling

[@Ericstrains]

Could be

[@davidmaust1415]

Great looking WM set, lionel needs to make more diecast cars like K Line did but for a far better $.

[@AndrewNeilFalconer]

Why die-cast zinc based metal. Those freight cars are heavy. 1 locomotive can only pull 6 to 10 heavy metal cars.

[@Bigboy4018]

I like #4 & #1

[@rpscsx]

It's definitely a cool setup sir. You know the trailer train car would be a cool car to do next Eric's train (AW) in. To have a flat car and semi trailer in your railroad. That would be cool

[@mootsym]

It’s wild seeing these trains run at such a fast pace. Looks so crazy lol. Would it be possible to mount that rooftop camera inside a passenger car?, maybe looking out the back of an observation car? Or even out a side window? Would be a cool perspective, if it’s possible.

[@Ericstrains]

Maybe

[@doubleutubefan5]

I want to try this idea

[@achmadzein8465]

Good morning...what if I want to buy a toy like this...thank you. 🙏🏼👍🏼

[@zacharybrosious2293]

We parked next to you at York 😀

[@TrainManIII]

I love the shots from the top of the train! I’ve noticed you doing a lot of those in your videos. What type camera are you using?

[@JMLoll]

I think Horn #5 is my favorite. The real WM FAs had Nathan M5 horns. I think #5 sounds the closest to the M5s

[@Fireball409]

I like horn #1 and bell #3

[@complexgrafix]

Top 5 trains of 2023???

[@DynamicDuo795]

Beautiful set, I wonder what happened to the MTH Premier WM M2 Challenger tooling whether they still own it or sold it off to Lionel. That's one of my bucket list engine's to get.

[@theflintlockhunter5423]

I asked MTH this at York last year, they still have the tooling and at some point it will be released with PS3.

[@Ericstrains]

I don’t think Lionel bought that tooling

[@HotRodRodney25]

i live in hagerstown md i wish they made this in ho

[@MMID303]

Hello neighbor, I'm from Waynesboro and live in Chambersburg now!

[@HotRodRodney25]

@@MMID303 i live in boonsboro outside hagerstown

[@MMID303]

@@HotRodRodney25 cool, I'm very familiar with Boonsboro.

[@Walt1960]

U got a great deal.

[@davidmaust1415]

I think I like horn #3, and agree bell 1 is good

[@bgm1958]

Whistle 1, bell 4

[@SeanBleaking]

Promise I’ll be better at the Live steam

[@ErikVince]

I like horn number 4 And bell ,4

[@bluetraxdax2001]

By talking trains, do you mean Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends? I grew up watching that.

[@P_litzer]

Do you got any NYSW engines?

[@christophercddelrosariocoish]

Horn #2 Bell #4

[@mikadothefox4014]

Hey Eric do you have any great northern locomotive? I recommend getting a sdp40 #325 which still exists and is run by the Minnesota transportation museum Jackson street roundhouse in st paul Minnesota

[@michaelleonard8060]

Number 1 on horn

[@hettro-cv6082]

I am new to this, When do the new Lionel catalog comes out and how do you order trains? From Lionel or a dealer? I really enjoy your videos!

[@Ericstrains]

They put out two catalogs per year. The 2024 volume 1 catalog is about to come out in January. Once it’s out you can pre-order whatever you want through a Lionel dealer like Legacy Station. You usually get a discount for pre-ordering.

[@hettro-cv6082]

Thanks!@@Ericstrains

[@conraillock1299]

Now how do you get the rental car back to the airport??

[@HotRodRodney25]

he probably took it to his local rental place to turn it in

[@Ericstrains]

I take it to a local Avis place that’s near my house.

[@Purchasebird]

I like train

[@HotRodRodney25]

ERIC are you 14 and up 🤣😂

[@Ericstrains]

I hope so

[@CSXtrackworker]

Lionel get's the sound right on their Steam Locomotives but is always lacking on their diesel sounds for the prime movers. Sound garbled and generic. That is not the sound of a 244 block... On the other hand, MTH's steam locomotives lack on the higher quality sounds of the steam locomotives but get's it right on the sound of the diesel's prime movers.

[@Ericstrains]

There’s balance to the universe

[@Northcoastrails]

Nice set 👍

[@Bondmanproductions]

I love how they give you 5 distinct horns, but the bell honestly just sounds like the same bell with different pitches….little lazy….

[@angeloavanti2538]

Pretty set. 4 motors, whoa.

[@charlesmcclure5994]

Great looking set, nice addition to your collection 👍👍

[@Ericstrains]

Thanks 👍

[@kevinsweeney2810]

You haven't reviewed the new lionel Strasburg 90 engine yet Eric

[@Ericstrains]

That’s a longer video that is taking more time to finish

[@kevinsweeney2810]

@@Ericstrains sure is. Have you ever seen a real one like that?

[@theMG174]

Horn #1, Bell #5

[@christsogaugetrains]

Pretty cool Set