I love that whistle! I've seen whistles on live steam locomotives that don't sound that good.
@dominus_vader68424 жыл бұрын
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.
@darriusstrainsthings57364 жыл бұрын
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.
@darriusstrainsthings57364 жыл бұрын
They use it for other reasons too.
@nathancorcoran53473 жыл бұрын
10:44.
@zachwheeler9846 Жыл бұрын
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.
@MCrafter123459 жыл бұрын
I love the crew talk. It adds a lot of play value and realism to it.
@beeking17923 жыл бұрын
One of the only steam locomotives to have a whistle and a horn on it!
@jonnyspeed11 жыл бұрын
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.
@hovermotion11 жыл бұрын
So nice, love this livery............
@bradstrains11 жыл бұрын
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!
@nickystar600video33 жыл бұрын
I love the whistle.
@WTC19737 жыл бұрын
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.
@aidenfleming72105 жыл бұрын
Love the locomotive 🚂 and your channel
@epiksgaming48017 жыл бұрын
The should make this Daylight vision line because it's one of the best looking engine in America.
@minisoul015 жыл бұрын
I like to say the big boy's look better but that's my opinion
@robertooppedisano56194 жыл бұрын
wow did you get your wish check out the lionel 2020 catalog
@adambosman96113 жыл бұрын
They're here
@morgannolen89543 жыл бұрын
@@minisoul01 i think the n&w 611 looks best it was built bout an hour from where i live
@Shipwright191810 жыл бұрын
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.
@machia070510 жыл бұрын
LIONEL sound, the industry standard. Completely blows away anything available in any scale, any manufacturer.
@neargaming205710 жыл бұрын
Proto-sound 3.0 also does well
@aarontighe89389 жыл бұрын
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
@tristanmundis30409 жыл бұрын
Future Pilot Your right!
@IGaveUpSecondsAgo9 жыл бұрын
Protosound 3.0 master race...
@quynhb52407 жыл бұрын
machia0705 knnn
@MrFogmang2711 жыл бұрын
Good review on a gorgeous engine. Lionel did a great job on it.
@trainroomgary11 жыл бұрын
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.
@726berkshire11 жыл бұрын
17:18 Now that's a shot you don't normally take. Good job on the review.
@byates5911 жыл бұрын
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!
@Chessie198511 жыл бұрын
Nice engine Eric really impressed with the sounds
@bobjohnson267210 жыл бұрын
GReat
@marthaisgodd7 ай бұрын
I love that Southern Pacific 4-8-4 G-2 steam locomotive, because my favorite is the whistle! ❤
@bummel1311 жыл бұрын
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!
@llanamejia10 жыл бұрын
I didn't know you have a KZbin channel. What a fantastic video. Thank so much, I enjoyed every second
@train-addict465611 жыл бұрын
Great looking engine and the sounds as well , thanks for sharing
@Mike_Squires11 жыл бұрын
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
@MrNemesis6311 жыл бұрын
Love your video Eric! That "Daylight" paint scheme looks great! Happy Holidays and thanks for sharing!
@BalticFilms14411 жыл бұрын
The GS-2 is absoulutely fantastic! Will you be able to do a review of the unpainted GS-6 as well?
@trainlover994311 жыл бұрын
Great video Eric love the engine and the whistle and horn too the horn is the same horn as your centipede
@fredthompson746511 жыл бұрын
Rail Grone sound on pull out WOW! good sound effect Eric
@mootsym3 жыл бұрын
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.
@lawnmowerdude11 жыл бұрын
Love the sound on that engine.
@kampferking111 жыл бұрын
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
@BearCreekWoodworking11 жыл бұрын
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!
@edobloy4211 жыл бұрын
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.
@markpulkownik22574 жыл бұрын
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@danieldoesdumbstuff Жыл бұрын
Beautiful whistle
@TobyPasman8 жыл бұрын
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.
@arthurhouston311 жыл бұрын
My uncle was General Superintendent of Motive Power for SP from 1939 to 1962, It was "General Service". Stanley M Houston. Art Houston
@Rebecca_The_Dragon8 жыл бұрын
Fantastic Engine, and I love that Black Widow caboose!
@buffalorailfan195710 жыл бұрын
I'm getting this engine with the passenger cars. It costs $1900
@arthurhouston311 жыл бұрын
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.
@TrainsNStuff10 жыл бұрын
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.
@CentralWestRail9 жыл бұрын
No. 4449 is a GS-4.
@IGaveUpSecondsAgo9 жыл бұрын
Why do so many people make that mistake?
@CentralWestRail9 жыл бұрын
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.
@TrainsNStuff9 жыл бұрын
Well, I get a lot of locomotives confused half the time, so that is why.
@jeffdemition23085 жыл бұрын
@@CentralWestRail not just a single headlight dude gs-4s had all weather cabs not like thr gs-2 or gs-3
@scubajoe33213 жыл бұрын
When the guy said standby for track orders I had captions on and it translated it to standby for drug orders
@Per-MichaelJarnberg4 жыл бұрын
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
@minisoul015 жыл бұрын
If I didn't know this was a Lionel Train I would think it was real because of the whistle
@chiconian4911 жыл бұрын
The whistle sounds like the real deal.
@santiagop2311 жыл бұрын
Crew talks are fun!
@blainecountysherrif45424 жыл бұрын
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.
@JeremyDWiley6 жыл бұрын
I really like the creaking of the metal
@SouthernPacific-bu3kv3 жыл бұрын
It's my sister Southern Pacific 4415 and I'm the her brother
@spadesofpaintstudios17197 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite engines
@Trainman042511 жыл бұрын
Great video! I have that Chessie blue & yellow boxcar
@didntseeitcoming31656 жыл бұрын
Favorite engine by far!!!
@Gideon_the_Video_game_railfan Жыл бұрын
Southern pacific 4415’s horn sounds like a semi truck horn 11:22
@ethan05200010 жыл бұрын
Great video eric
@jeffdemition23085 жыл бұрын
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
@mootsym8 жыл бұрын
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.
@railroadguy10010 жыл бұрын
Amazing video. Thought about adding some matching coaches?
@nicksapp887110 жыл бұрын
Lionel does offer daylight passenger cars their sp pa's numbers are: 6-35445 and 6-35446
@Rammstein4510 жыл бұрын
Still the most gorgeous steam locomotive ever IMO
@jparedes1972ify5 жыл бұрын
I know right
@lindsaybryant17588 жыл бұрын
This is nice get the Southern Pacific GS-4 x4449
@bnsf488411 жыл бұрын
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.
@SouthwestAirlines33511 жыл бұрын
Crew talks make me feel like I'm in the railyard!
@ap7062111 жыл бұрын
These engines had horns as well as whistles because the horn sound carries better through fog than the whistle sound.
@FlipFlopandFly9 жыл бұрын
Great Video !
@rozellgabriel629911 жыл бұрын
Great job
@urarakastar69877 жыл бұрын
You just love that whistle don't you
@Thetindallman4 ай бұрын
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
@aaronprewitt3449 ай бұрын
I have an MTH G scale/One gauge GS-2 #4413, best locomotive I’ve ever purchased.
@vectahyper59114 жыл бұрын
Diesel locomotive: I can’t pull this by myself! Steam locomotive: Hold my boiler.
@iplayoldgames_10 жыл бұрын
I'm thinking about getting a Bachmann version of this but the Daylight that most people are familiar with, otherwise known as the GS4.
@nickystar600video33 жыл бұрын
Can you do a review on the Lionel SP 4449?
@TraintechGaming4 жыл бұрын
Will do a review on one of the 2020 GS models
@rhettstrains46814 жыл бұрын
Eric I’m very surprised you haven’t picked up coaches for it! You don’t have to get Lionels you could get MTH
@rafe55567 жыл бұрын
Lionel made a GS-4 could you do a review on it.
@IGaveUpSecondsAgo7 жыл бұрын
I wonder who does the voice acting for the crew talk. It's the same dude for all engines
@SwindellSteamWorks11 жыл бұрын
Mr. Siegel, please get the MTH 4449. It's a really cool locomotive.
@mrdracco93673 жыл бұрын
It's a beatiful train indeed, you know where to get it?
@machia070510 жыл бұрын
The GS-2 has a horn too, too bad your not hitting it along w/ the whistle. Great combination.
@trainlover99438 жыл бұрын
Sadly it's only one or the other.
@nickystar600video32 жыл бұрын
This engine should have the whistle steam smoke effect.
@domsmt8 жыл бұрын
I'm planning on getting this train as my first Lionel Legacy Engine. This or the Vision Line #4014 Union Pacific Big Boy.
@nikerailfanningttm90467 жыл бұрын
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!
@Keasmcxz2 жыл бұрын
Also GS-1 was originally built by Baldwin.
@GeminiJets2610 жыл бұрын
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
@TheDefiantPirate9 жыл бұрын
did not realize that was 4415 which it appears is a GS2 that however looks so close to the GS-4
@thomassweeney43957 жыл бұрын
Can you upload Lionel legacy southern pacific daylight heavyweight passenger cars ericstrains?
@nathanielcruz66752 жыл бұрын
Only 6 GS-2s were made for the Southern Pacific, they were retired between 1955 - 1958, and sadly, all of them were scrapped.
@thestarlightalchemist73336 жыл бұрын
GS2's whistle is even better than the GS4's!
@benjaminokon-uribe92184 жыл бұрын
Ever heard of Reeds Hobby Shop? Its here in San Deigo, and its pretty cool! You should check it out!
@saslovskykoslov6 жыл бұрын
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?
@realdavidii5 жыл бұрын
Me: I want one!! (looks at the prize) Me: Nevermind
@realdavidii5 жыл бұрын
@Doom3d ok
@richardthefox34127 жыл бұрын
Great video. Shame none of the gs-2 were preserved,it would have made a lot of sense
@railroadguy10010 жыл бұрын
By the way, ever thought about adding the GS4 for more fun?
@TheShadeTreeFixitMan11 жыл бұрын
Sweet!
@kieranbricker32789 жыл бұрын
nice train
@linnetteulloa51109 жыл бұрын
That is cool
@vidfreak72711 жыл бұрын
You say it can pull up to 4 lbs.. I saw your video on how to tell how much your engine can pull, but can you make a video showing how much 4 lbs of freight cars would be in the model railroad world?
@4410sp10 жыл бұрын
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...
@Mnrr61314 жыл бұрын
Note: there’s actually a GS-7
@RRIA_America7 жыл бұрын
Hey Eric, I was thinking of your layout and I remembered the narrow gauge layout and I wondered, is o scale narrow gauge S gauge?
@flyaround59537 жыл бұрын
RRIA AMERICA I'm betting its N gauge but not sure.
@RRIA_America7 жыл бұрын
FlyAround5 on another newer video I thing he mentioned it, I believe he said it is ON30 (O Narrow)
@markpulkownik22574 жыл бұрын
@@RRIA_America Ft 5 T
@markpulkownik22574 жыл бұрын
Lulmkenm58. Ft Cree
@totallythomasfan104 жыл бұрын
All The GS-2’s Were Scrapped In 1956
@shadowdemon5535 жыл бұрын
In my opinion the whistle is too echoed and the puffing noise is a bit echoed too