A review of the new 3-Rail O-Scale EMD F7A & F7B Diesel Locomotives from Atlas O. More videos on the Eric's Trains RU-vid Channel and at www.ericstrains.com
Growing up as a child I loved seeing Santa Fe diesel go around the Christmas Tree! And there were a couple of Christmas's where I received a Life Like Ready To Run Santa Fe H.O. Scale Set. Great memories!
The Grafton & Upton F7 has been OOS for mechanical issues for years. The railroad had transitioned to MP15s in recent years. The F7 and the Geeps are being stored in the yard until the railroad decides what to do with them.
That extra detailing you reviewed on the B unit is the steam generator. On Santa Fe F units only the B units had steam generators for heating the passenger cars during the winter
Very nice Santa Fe F7s! One way you can tell the difference between an F3 and an F7 is the number of fans on the roof. F3s have four fans, F7s have five fans.
ERIC!!!!! We need more reviews. You have done a ton last year so far like 5 this year. We know you have a lot of engines. You got to get these reviews going though. We want two a week plus bonus footage thank you. Please start getting some amtraks and do a subway too. We need to watch new things !!!!
That rear dummy coupler on the A unit seems like a huge oversight. If these were sold as A-B two packs that were meant to be run together and there was a functional coupler on the back of the B it would make sense. Having a dummy coupler on the end that would be the most likely end to be coupled to something seems counterintuitive.
Kevin Russ I have found that most wives don't give you any budget for their anniversary/birthday/Christmas gifts. So for the next occasion, buy her a matching A and B unit. Tell her you want to spend more time with her, and this will help. But don't worry, you will be spending very little time with her for a very long time.
Another fantastic review Eric! Atlas has done a great job again! I have always been curious, does having an unpowered B unit between powered units cause any problems? Thanks for another great review!
Brilliant, entertaining & informative review. Many thanks. With the chrome plating mirrored sides, Atlas has certainly managed to answer the age old question about why the advance Lionel catalogue depicting the intro of their own F3 models in the 50's showed an apparent black finish. Probably the Lionel pre production models had a mirror finish that merely reflected the background making the sides appear to be black. Question: How has replacing the Lionel couplers on your models with scale fixed couplers worked out? Did you replace any of the rolling stock couplers? What is the minimum radius of the curves on your layout? Did you encounter any problems with the new fixed couplers? Thank you, Tom
Hello Eric, I've been watching your videos for about 2 years now. Love them by the way, I really want to eventually come down to the Atlanta area during the Piedmont pilgrimage one day. I just have a question, do the big articulated steamers from Lionel have big overhang on 072 curves? My father and I are working on a suspended layout at the moment and noticed that one of the curves comes awfully close to the wall. Is there a certain amount of space I'm supposed to have in between the track and wall? Thanks.
Can you Review the Allegheny 2-6-6-6 Locomotive? EDIT: nvm i found a 5 month old vid about it EDIT Again: Can you make a update video of those post war engines in video blog 24 and 31?
How do you like these compared to the Lionel ones because I was thinking about buying those ones you bought too anything I should know before I pull the trigger
Hey Eric! I Really Like You And Your Layout! I Started Watching In Late 2014 Or Late 2015 And I Saw How You Did Open Houses. Do You Still Do Them? If You Do When Is One Going To Happen?
Hey Eric would you know any dealers in O gauge over in Australia because I am really thinking on going to O gauge and mix it in with my already made HO scale layout but I'm also not familiar to shopping on ebay
Can you also run these with a transformer? I can't afford the TMCC remote or the Legacy Control System and I really want one for my birthday coming up.
you know what would be grate is if you added the video you mentioned in the description/as a card/as an annotation so that your viewers don't have search for the video. I contemplated watching the older video you were talking about but then decided not to because I'd have to find a video that would most likely be berried under several months/years worth of videos.
That was a good informational video, and understandable as you are selling them. It was not, however, a good review that told about the bad things in addition to the good. I would like more of a discussion about quality control, as I found several issues with my F-7s from 2015's run. The potholes were not well secured on those, and I had to remove the shells on all the units and properly glue them. Otherwise normal handling will result in them being pushed inside. Changing the batteries, if used on conventional running locos, involves removing the shell, and on the F-7s I bought the antenna wires are not long enough, so it is very easy to pop the antennas off the inside of the roof. Warning in the manual about that would be very helpful. I found the screws retaining the crew ladder steps to be loose, so when the shell were removed the ladders would tend to fall off. I found similar issues with loose screws on the California Zephyr set I purchased. The locomotives and cars of that set were really pretty and detailed, but very fragile and had poor quality control.
NS 4270 and 4271 were built as F7A for the Baltimore and Ohio as 937 and 947 respectively. They were rebuilt by Morrison-Knudsen as F9PH for MARC (937 became MARC 81, 947 became 85). So technically speaking, NS has an A-B-B-A set of F7's