Great layout and running the Southern Pacific Daylight being pulled by the Lima built GS4 streamlined 4-8-4 number 4449 and also the Powhatan Arrow being pulled by the streamlined J Class 4-8-4 number 611 both are my favorite steam locomotives.
Great layout there, having the Southern Pacific Daylight pulled by the GS-4 Lima built 4-8-4 is one of my two favorite steam locomotives. If my Kato N gauge train set were not an Amtrak Superliner, it would by the Southern Pacific Daylight with the GS-4 locomotive as well as the Alco PA2 diesel locomotive & b units. I visited the San Diego Model Railroad museum that I visit there every chance I get when I’m home. There there is an HO of the Daylight as well as an O gauge Daylight, next to a Union Pacific streamlined. The Daylight I like a lot better. I bought a long sleeve denim shirt that has the Daylight logo on the front.
My 9 year old son and I just finished watching your video. We both agreed that It is by far the best and most lifelike set I have ever seen. Nice work!. Where can we see this in person?
The Southern Pacific engineers that operated to GS-2 thru GS-5 Lima built 4-8-4 steam locomotives that pulled the Coast Daylight, Lark, & other Southern Pacific trains liked the air horns better than pulling the whistle cords.
Some of the cars are joined together, they are the articulated cars. The Southern Pacific had them on their Daylights. I have an N scale Kato 10 car Morning Daylight set, some of the cars are joined together such as the triple unit diner-kitchen-coffee shop cars & some of the chair cars(coaches) as well. I also have theGS4 4-8-4 steam locomotive n umber 4449 with the set. That will be my excursion train when I run it in a few months. My other N scale train is the Amtrak Coast Starlight.
@rcgrabbag do you still have this engine? Any issues to report? I am weary of MTH because I bought a set of brand new F units in Santa Fe from them and they were broken straight away, bad supercaps on the board. I bought them brand new, but because i bought them 5 years after release, they were out of warranty....even though they were new..... so I had to pay for the repair also...so yeah... I love the fit and finish of their products. But i dont know if this is a good measure of quality for the brand and I would like to hear your experience with their trains in HO scale.
Hi! Yes I still have this engine (a few versions, actually). One of them had a flywheel that was slipping on the motor shaft. I sent it back to MTH and it came back with a fixed flywheel, but many trim pieces were broken off, like the cab ladders and railings, and other detail parts. Terrible repair service. Generally they are solid products. I have an MTH HO Big Boy from about 8 years ago that still runs like a champ. Sometimes you get a lemon, unfortunately.
I have one of their first run versions, and I feel it has better sound quality than later versions. My earlier version has a nice, deep chuff sound. Not so much on the new version. It sounds like the new version has speakers with smaller magnets or something like that. It's hard to tell the difference in the early vs. late., but the drawbar between loco and tender is different. The early version uses a single pin on the tender, mating to a single hole in the drawbar of the loco. The newer version has a much thicker drawbar assembly, with two pins coming off a short drawbar on the loco, and two holes on a short drawbar coming from the tender. The MTH website might also have some older and new catalogs that give you the different locomotive part numbers (e.g. MTH-80491).
Wow, good to know! I found a dealer appreciation edition with ps3. Its only 449, owner said it was run once by her husband because he wanted to see it go before he passed away. You think its a good buy?
Kato makes them in N gauge, it sells out fast. I looked on line for the Southern Pacific Daylight N scale made by Kato that I’m looking at buying one day along with the GS-4 steam locomotive in the Southern Pacific Daylight colors as well as the Alco PA2 diesel & B units to augment & alternate the locomotives pullingthe Daylight.
I would very much like to have this, but with finding 2 on ebay for $1,000 I am going to buy a bachmann one. I will weather, add engineers, replace headlights and add a tsunami decoder.
Really something special! I would consider myself very lucky to have something like that.
Great layout and running the Southern Pacific Daylight being pulled by the Lima built GS4 streamlined 4-8-4 number 4449 and also the Powhatan Arrow being pulled by the streamlined J Class 4-8-4 number 611 both are my favorite steam locomotives.
Very nice! I had been looking into getting this train for a while and you just made up my mind! Great vid!!
Fabulous layout, great loco!
Great layout there, having the Southern Pacific Daylight pulled by the GS-4 Lima built 4-8-4 is one of my two favorite steam locomotives. If my Kato N gauge train set were not an Amtrak Superliner, it would by the Southern Pacific Daylight with the GS-4 locomotive as well as the Alco PA2 diesel locomotive & b units. I visited the San Diego Model Railroad museum that I visit there every chance I get when I’m home. There there is an HO of the Daylight as well as an O gauge Daylight, next to a Union Pacific streamlined. The Daylight I like a lot better. I bought a long sleeve denim shirt that has the Daylight logo on the front.
Yes they are. The Coast Daylight was one of the first trains to incorporate Jacobs Bogies on some of their cars.
The steam in HO looks more realistic than it does in an O scale version. It looks great.
very nice set i want this one from MTH as well the N&W set
I love it. I have a GS4 Daylight and the five car pack, but nothing compared to this.
Glad you enjoyed it!
know it will take forever and a day, but, someday, I'll buy a set like that. Looks great!
got to admit thats pretty dam cool
Once again AWESOME video.
Why, thank you! I run over at the Logon Southern MRR club in Souderton, PA.
Awesome video. I have an MTH GS4 just like it. They are fantastic engines. Where did you get the cars?
Great video. It is hard to beat MTH for quality. Broadway Limited also pretty good also. Thanks
That’s amazing detail Thanks for the share 🇨🇦🚂🥓👍🏻🔔
this is BEAUTIFUL
Beautiful engine
Very nice, I really like my MTH GS4, fantastic running model. :)
My 9 year old son and I just finished watching your video. We both agreed that It is by far the best and most lifelike set I have ever seen. Nice work!. Where can we see this in person?
You can BUY it on Amazon
I think I got them from wholesale trains when they were released a couple of years ago.
Escelente video.
Muy bien!!!
I look forward to a Southern Pacific cab forward being restored if it ever happened
I heard that mth makes an ho scale sp gs6.
Thank you!
In real life, SP always used the air horn, seldom ever the steam whistle. Made it sound "more modern."
The Southern Pacific engineers that operated to GS-2 thru GS-5 Lima built 4-8-4 steam locomotives that pulled the Coast Daylight, Lark, & other Southern Pacific trains liked the air horns better than pulling the whistle cords.
I really want to buy the locomotive at my local train store but cars seem so rare
What kind of smoke fluid?
Thanks for sharing.
Wonderful
Thank you!
Are some of the passenger cars joined together?
Some of the cars are joined together, they are the articulated cars. The Southern Pacific had them on their Daylights. I have an N scale Kato 10 car Morning Daylight set, some of the cars are joined together such as the triple unit diner-kitchen-coffee shop cars & some of the chair cars(coaches) as well. I also have theGS4 4-8-4 steam locomotive n umber 4449 with the set. That will be my excursion train when I run it in a few months. My other N scale train is the Amtrak Coast Starlight.
How many coaches do you have???😲
Bravo this made my day:))))))
@rcgrabbag do you still have this engine? Any issues to report? I am weary of MTH because I bought a set of brand new F units in Santa Fe from them and they were broken straight away, bad supercaps on the board. I bought them brand new, but because i bought them 5 years after release, they were out of warranty....even though they were new..... so I had to pay for the repair also...so yeah... I love the fit and finish of their products. But i dont know if this is a good measure of quality for the brand and I would like to hear your experience with their trains in HO scale.
Hi! Yes I still have this engine (a few versions, actually). One of them had a flywheel that was slipping on the motor shaft. I sent it back to MTH and it came back with a fixed flywheel, but many trim pieces were broken off, like the cab ladders and railings, and other detail parts. Terrible repair service. Generally they are solid products. I have an MTH HO Big Boy from about 8 years ago that still runs like a champ. Sometimes you get a lemon, unfortunately.
Ill be buying one off ebay. Anything I should look for in particular with this locomotive? Anything that could be a deal breaker on a given example?
I have one of their first run versions, and I feel it has better sound quality than later versions. My earlier version has a nice, deep chuff sound. Not so much on the new version. It sounds like the new version has speakers with smaller magnets or something like that. It's hard to tell the difference in the early vs. late., but the drawbar between loco and tender is different. The early version uses a single pin on the tender, mating to a single hole in the drawbar of the loco. The newer version has a much thicker drawbar assembly, with two pins coming off a short drawbar on the loco, and two holes on a short drawbar coming from the tender. The MTH website might also have some older and new catalogs that give you the different locomotive part numbers (e.g. MTH-80491).
Wow, good to know! I found a dealer appreciation edition with ps3. Its only 449, owner said it was run once by her husband because he wanted to see it go before he passed away. You think its a good buy?
Yes!
I still waiting for bachmann to make n scale em-1
Kato makes them in N gauge, it sells out fast. I looked on line for the Southern Pacific Daylight N scale made by Kato that I’m looking at buying one day along with the GS-4 steam locomotive in the Southern Pacific Daylight colors as well as the Alco PA2 diesel & B units to augment & alternate the locomotives pullingthe Daylight.
Gaps between some of the passenger cars is a bit off. Incredible layout
Can you venture a guess as to why that is?
Is this a Lionel locomotive?0
I had a 4449 train
Broadway limited make the best daylight
I bet these trains are getting harder and harder to find by the minute now that MTH has gone out of business
Yes, some them are sharing bogies.
I would very much like to have this, but with finding 2 on ebay for $1,000 I am going to buy a bachmann one. I will weather, add engineers, replace headlights and add a tsunami decoder.
Good choice, some times HO scale locos can get TO expensive.
Prices have sure come down then. $450 the the GS4 Daylight from MTH now.
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