Went down to the San Diego 3-Railers on May 21st, and had a good day operating my usual manifest freight consist. This time around I decided to make it a GE Demonstrator power day, so I brought down my Lionel GE Demo ES44AC and my Lionel GE Evolution Hybrid. This video came first because it’s been about 5 months since I posted a video this locomotive. Everything ran pretty smoothly all day, except for the coupler occasionally coming open on one of the ACF hopper cars. I fixed the hopper car coupler issue after it happened 2 times on the diamond.
Manifest freight train: Lionel GE Demonstrator ES44AC #2012, MTH Norfolk Southern Center Beam Flat Car, Lionel Producers Grain PS-2CD 4427 Hopper, Lionel Norfolk Southern 65' gondola (X2), Atlas O ACF 33000 gallon tank cars (X2), MTH Railbox 50' Boxcar, MTH W.R. Grace & Company 3-Bay Centerflow Hopper (3 cars down the Santa Fe hopper cars), Lionel Santa Fe 4-Bay Covered Hopper (6-Pack), Lionel BNSF 65' gondola (X2), Lionel Continental ACF 3-Bay Covered Hoppers (X2), MTH Pullman Standard 50' Waffle Boxcar, Lionel Frisco 86’ Hi-cube Boxcars (2-pack), Lionel Ferromex Scale Autorack, Lionel MKT Scale Autorack, MTH Genstar Cement Company PS-2 Hopper Car, Lionel SPFE 57’ Mechanical Reefers (X3), Lionel Global Ethanol 30,000 Gallon tank cars (3-pack), and Lionel GATX 30K gallon Tank Car w/ EOT.
All of the footage is in 1080p60. Some parts will be a bit dark, due to the FPS.
1st clip (00:00): GECX 2012 starts up and rolls out the manifest freight train
2nd to 18th clips (02:21): Manifest freight train rolls by at various points of the layout
19th clip (17:44): GECX 2012 ties down the manifest freight train for the day
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