Went down to the San Diego 3-Railers on July 23rd, and had a good day operating MTH KCS SD70ACe with a coal train; my MTH BNSF ES44AC with a Schnabel train, and my Lionel Acela train (I didn’t film it; I was testing stuff I thread locked). Both of my MTH engines ran perfectly with no issues, although my Acela ran into some issues. One of the tethers I thread locked didn’t hold, but the threads got completely messed up when I took out the screw. It ran mostly fine while filming the Schnabel train, but when I started filming the coal train that 1 tether fell apart. I will be ordering a pair of tethers, both of the ones on the engines failed.
All of the footage is in 1080p60. Some parts will be a bit dark, due to the FPS.
1st clip (00:00): BNSF 6078 starts up and rolls out the Schnabel train
2nd to 21st clips (01:19): Manifest freight train rolls by on various points of the layout
22nd clip (12:23): BNSF 6078 ties down with its train and shuts after a successful move
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