This model really blew my expectations away! When I got mine home I was more than happy with it. Surprisingly it can even run on O-48’s! Great video as always
Nice Shay. We ordered the CASS 3 Truck Shay from Legacy Station. Should be here next Week. We live here in West Virginia and have been to CASS many Times. Heading back in 2024. This new Shay will make us 8 Shays, 1 Heisler, and 1 Climax. That's how much we Love Shays and CASS. HAPPY NEW YEAR to you and enjoy your new Shay.
The model looks really good and it is nice they made it Although I do have the point out. With the sounds they seem to give it the chuff exhaust sounds that typical rod engines give off Shay and other types of geared logging engines do not at all sound like a normal steam locomotive. Their sounds are very different both in terms of exhaust and a lot of times you usually hear the gears more than the exhaust
Very nice Shay, I love the little squatty freight cars its pulling. The whistle also sounds great. Hope you and Lisa feel better soon. Great review Eric!
I don’t know if it was because of my suggestion recently or because of the specific locomotive, but the uphill shots are awesome! Thanks for the content!
Excellent video, I picked up the C&O 4 truck version last Saturday before Christmas Eve from Just Trains of Delaware. Love it and glad to see you made a video of an MTH product since your a die hard Lionel fanatic.
Great review Eric. I originally had a unlettered four truck and a three truck westside on order but I needed a new truck, so it was the truck over the engines
I recently got 2 kittens over the summer. One is named Lucy, who absolutely loves watching my trains. Another named Shay, yes I named her after Shah type steamers, I wish she liked my trains like her sister Lucy does.😂
Well done Eric, That was a very nice train run. Love the scenic rail line and the complete train, made a perfect look for the type of job the train was used for. Awesome.
The WVP&P extended the tank of the 3-truck No. 12 into a 4-truck or Class D Shay in their own shops at Cass. They bought a few parts from Lima but used mostly parts already on hand plus steel shapes and wrapper sheets for the tank. In the 4-truck version, it was a 190-ton machine. It was scrapped long before the mill shut down. I can't imagine why the number was changed. The WM No 6 was built as a Pacific Coast model class C at 160 tons to burn coal, I believe. No 6 was the last Shay to be built by Lima in 1945. There were only a very few 4-truck Shays built or converted. Most had 2 or 3 trucks.
I love Shay’s. Amazing engines. Great video. I was expecting Legacy Station to come out and put it in the cargo area for you. Beautiful engine. I liked the little bit longer than normal camera on the train part of the video.
Beautiful Shay. It reminds me of the one that Lionel came out with in the 90’s. That’ll be the next engine up on my list. Hope you both feel better. Have a very happy New year.🚂🎊🍾
Oh the wonderful sounds of a MtH engine i just love the way they sound whenever there in motion not like Lionel with all that screaching and clanging sounds i like to hear just yhe chuff thats 1 good thing MtH was noted for much better sound moving and the cab chatter sound very very close to my proto 2 stuff..
Nice vid Eric, hope Lisa and you are feeling better. Hogmanay (New Years eve) here in Scotland so a glass of whisky should sort you out. Happy and Prosperous New Year from Scotland. Bill
Awesome! Would be nice if Lionel made a new legacy one thats capable of 0-31 curves. That would be great to see for everyone! If not possible for legacy I’d be happy with a Lionchief Plus 2.0 version.
That engine is awesome really cool looking, every time you show the top view of the train going through the tunnel I’m reminded of The Battle of the Bulge movie when the train transporting a big cannon is going through that tunnel and the German’s had a Tiger Tank parked on the track , awesome scene , I think that’s the right movie, anyway thanks again!
Funny thing about this model is, it has the wrong number it’s supposed to 12 not 14. The model looks identical to WV Pulp & Paper N°12 because, of the later Air tank under the running board and tiny one on top, the tool box on top and to the right of the water tank instead of the left, the later placement of the air break pump near the pistons, the whistle is on the back of the dome instead of the top and the hand rails being wrong. number 14 was a older Design while 12 was newer design of theClass C shay that WV.P&PC° rebuilt into a Class D and it’s shown on the model. I don’t understand why they would have changed the number seems a bit silly to me but hey what do I know
I got MTH 20-3876-1 Cass Scenic 3-Truck Shay Steam Engine from Legacy Station. The tender is shorter but the engine is much longer. I love the yellow lettering and the unusual look. What do you, or anyone else, think of that? Also, I ordered 12 of the matching (as I am told) log cars. I was almost thinking of doubling those to 24 cars, since they have not come in yet. I need a good wood sided caboose, maybe red. I bet that would look awesome on a nice, large layout. If I had tons of $$$ I would order a second, different shay. I hope Lionel or MTH makes Heisler or Climax engines soon. Oh, and I ordered the Triplex super set as well, and will be adding to it from the next catalog
Love the Shay .. am so glad MTH has (in some iteration) survived. Re your Paxlovid (yes, went to med .. Stanford was the worst, MCG Augusta was a close second) but take it short term only. The toxicity profile (neuro, kidney, liver) is pronounced. Plus, do we know if this is an NNRTI or an RTI disrupter. Longer term, you need to mitigate spike protein production (like pieces of glass in your circulatory system). This can be accomplished via Ivermectin 12/24 mg per day for 10 days, 600 mg Quercetin per day for 30 days, K2 (MK-7) 500 mcg daily and lichen based 5,000 Vitamin D3.
Get well soon, man. Am I seeing your camera in the reflection off your sunglasses? I see a little black box on top of your dash, so I'm guessing that it's your camera. If I'm wrong, at least I made a good guess.
Historically we almost got an example of a 4 truck shay locomotive preserved I don’t remember which logging Railroad but sadly it wasn’t enough and the engine was sadly scrapped there are no examples of a four truck Shay that have been preserved to my knowledge
First of all what kind of car was you driving if I may ask, I like the long sunroof, that's pretty cool 😎😎 As far as the shay goes, that's pretty cool & a nice whistle to it as well, interesting consist, besides the 3 logs you had on there, what kind of cars were those?? Interesting caboose you had at the end, never seen one like that, also, I hope y'all feel better
It may just be me but it looked like you were running that Shay quite a bit faster than what they were designed to run. Their average speed was 15 to 18 mi an hour, they were built for torque not for speed as I'm sure you're
Hi Eric: I have several vision line steam engines that are fairly recent additions. What keys on the cab 2 do you hit to have the crew sounds at start up
Excellent presentation. Thank you. In addition to being a "geared" locomotive, it is also "all wheel drive" including the heavy tender full of fuel and water with a drive shaft connecting the two. That is a a lot of geared wheels with a lot of weight on them pulling things along. I have been to Cass many times and also done a longer excursion to the top there.
I have a ps2 4-truck shay and I now have the new 4-truck shay with ps3. My ps2 model has an operating electro-coupler on the front while MTH went a little cheap on us by installing a dummy coupler on the front of the ps3 model. Very disappointed in that but at least the ps3 has whistle steam which is nice.
