Went down to the San Diego 3-Railers on April 1st, and had a good day operating my recently received Lionel SP “Kodachrome” SD40T-2 and my Lionel UP Western Pacific Heritage SD70ACe. I didn’t film the SD70ACe, as I want to run it with a 40 car manifest train and my UP ES44. Today was just a break in day for it.
Both engines ran flawlessly all day, no problems to report. I ran the SD40T with 20 of my era specific freight cars in my collection; the 30K gallon tank car at the end isn’t exactly era specific. I mostly ran it so there was an EOT at the end of the train.
Manifest freight train: Lionel Southern Pacific “Kodachrome” SD40T-2 #8530, Atlas O ACF 33000 gallon tank cars (X2), Lionel Santa Fe 4-Bay Covered Hopper (6-Pack), Lionel Continental ACF 3-Bay Covered Hopper, Lionel Producers Grain PS-2CD 4427 Hopper, MTH Masonite Corporation 55' All Door Boxcar, Lionel Frisco 86’ Hi-cube Boxcars (2-pack), MTH Pullman Standard 50' Waffle Boxcar, MTH W.R. Grace & Company 3-Bay Hopper, Lionel SPFE 57’ Mechanical Reefers (X3), MTH Genstar Cement Company PS-2 Hopper Car, 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): SP 8530 starts up and rolls out the manifest freight train
2nd to 20th clips (02:12): Manifest freight train rolls by at various points of the layout
21st clip (14:23): SP 8530 ties down its train and shuts down for the day
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