San Diego 3 Railers MTH Amtrak F40PH action; April 30th, 2022
Went down to the San Diego 3-Railers on April 30th, and had a good day operating my usual Amtrak passenger train and my recently received Legacy Acela set and expansion pack. I decided to put in my 2 Lionel excursion private cars into the train set too. I operated the Amtrak consist at 40 sMPH this time, the last few times I didn’t go above 30. The set operated perfectly throughout the whole day, except near the end. Where the last 2 cars decided to uncouple at the diamond and then the engine rammed into one of them, knocking them both off the track and wedging the coach onto a building. Thankfully very minimal damage was done to both the coach and the engine in that incident.
Also apologies for the high pitched prime mover sounds from the F40, I normally do not operate it above 40 sMPH because of the prime mover sounding like this above ~32 sMPH.
My “Amtrak San Diegan” styled train consists of: MTH Premier Amtrak (Honoring our Veterans) F40PH #90208, Lionel Excursion Private Car 2-pack B (Northern Pacific Dome and Florida East Coast coach), Atlas O Amtrak Horizon Dinette #58100 (Phase V), Atlas O Amtrak Horizon Coach #54522 (Phase V), Atlas O Amtrak Horizon coach (Phase IV) #53510, Lionel Amtrak Amfleet Coach #82568, and Lionel Amtrak Amfleet Control End Car #9646
All of the footage is in 1080p60. Some parts will be a bit dark, due to the FPS.
1st clip (00:00): AMTK 90208 starts up and rolls out, the San Diegan styled train
2nd to 12th clips (01:03): Amtrak San Diegan styled train rolls by on various points of the layout
13th clip (04:39): Amtrak San Diegan styled train makes a station stop at Lesserton
14th to 24th clips (06:37): Amtrak San Diegan styled train rolls by on various points of the layout
25th clip (10:26): AMTK 90208 ties down its train and shuts down for the day
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsFO9QZE40PYuGvuAAlQfchjBUnH-Nl8A
End video song: Diamond Eyes - Stars. https://youtu.be/Fmf-G9fpwto