Lionel's Alaska Railroad F7 Passenger Set is Over 18 Feet of Train! 

A few helpful notes: 1. Minimun curve for locomotives: O-31 2. Minimum curve for passenger cars: O-54

The livery, the coaches, the quality... It’s beautiful!

Fun fact Eric: An alaska rr F7A unit 1508 currently still resides in my state of Massachusetts, its stored on the roster of the grafton and upton railroad.. used to run santa trains for them, and it did switching locals on mass central before

That is a really nice set of engines and cars. I love the paint scheme and all the added on details. Some research on the Alaska Railroad shows that their F units had silver painted truck frames until continued use turned them a dirty black. I was surprised that Lionel did not include the flexible end-of-car diaphragms to help close the gap between the passenger cars. You did a fine job populating them which makes all the difference. Thanks for all your efforts and I am looking forward to your new videos in 2023.

I like the detail on this set like the night light or side light between the cars lighting up the area between the cars. Just real nice detail.

Great train Eric! Seeing your layout with trains inspires me to get my own layout.

I remember seeing this in your great train count video and I'm so happy to see it running. Amazing stuff as always, see you in 2023!

Been watching since I was 8 years old and had my first Lionel set. I've taken a few year hiatus but have found myself on your videos again. I forgot how cool these are

I've always loved the horns of the F units.

Definitely a beautiful set and ARR, something you don’t see everyday. Thanks for sharing!

Great video, Eric...I purchased the locomotives, they are phenomenal. What got me was the big snow plows on the front ends. The engines are superb and I always enjoy running them. Thanks for posting!

Bootiful ! greetings from UK ..... A happy healthy peaceful New Year.

Beautiful set Eric!! The prototypical version is even more beautiful. Saw it when I was in Alaska in 2007.

It really is a strikingly beautiful livery, Eric. Thanks for the video.

That would look so good on my holiday setup. Beautiful train....love the strobe lights on the engines. Great film Eric.....thanks.

Thank you for showing this great looking set. Watching it go through the switches was a plus for me. To see the 21inch passenger cars smoothly go through the switches is awsome. I always get educated by looking at your videos and appreciate the talent and time you put into them. My son and I run MTH engines. So we are not able to run any Lionel because the DCCs limitation. Nice to see folks like yourself enjoy and have the passion for quality electric trains. Thanks again John Huntt

Man, that is, without a doubt, one of the best looking train sets I've ever seen. Thanks for sharing. Beauty in motion.

I call this living vicariously through Eric looked fantastic

Nice review! Love the added prototype details on the model as well.

Wow, what a magnificent set.

Beautiful passenger train, love the blue and yellow color combo, looks really sharp, also like the mars lights on the A units. Great review.

Beautiful!

Now we are showing some awesome trains!🎉 I painted my b unit trucks!

Outstanding set Guy! I pre ordered the new DD-35 in Alaska livery as a tribute engine to my sister in law who is Alaska native and Fierce! Use it to pull a family themed excursion train with rolling stock referencing our family . It’s definitely on my list to build out a train like this for the layout for sure . Love Alaska Railroads colors . Way cool Guy thanks for sharing 🙂

This is..One word, Outstanding!, The paint Work on this Diesel Locomotive and the Passenger and Dining Cars are Superb.😉👍💙💛

This is a GREAT SET😁 ❤ Eric's Trains 🚂

Love it, worth every penny spent!

Nice Train! Great video!

Great train set thanks for sharing

Absolutely amazing 🚂🚋🚃🚋🚃🚋😎👍

Stunning, really like that.

Pretty cool, I like the night time shots as well 🙂🙂

Very nice Alaska passenger set Eric!!!

I love this passenger set!

That thing rips!

My friend Rich (which you met Eric) has all these and just about everything Lionel/k-line made in Alaska paint. He used too custom paint "n" scale sets from Kato in this paint scheme and also CP rail multimark.

Awesome thanks for the video!!

The F7’s look awesome with those big plows

Good looking set!

F units are cool as hell in general, but I think the ARR's F7 units are my favorites for three reasons... 1) The blue/yellow paint scheme that feels reminiscent of Santa Fe's blue/yellow scheme, 2) the big snowplows they have, and 3) ARR 1500 was featured in Runaway Train as part of the titular train's consist and served as a cool set piece during the final third of the film.

Very nice train set

Cool. I wrote on the Alaska railroad back in 2012. Ironically, those colors are my favorite colors. Generally speaking I love yellow and navy blue plus they were my high school colors. We rode from anchorage to Denali, and then another time on the same trip. A few days later we went from Denali to Fairbanks combined. We ate three meals on the train lots of sightseeing. It was a very unique experience, and that was only part of the trip.

Nice Movie !! 🚧🚆🚇🚊🚖🚔🚘 🚧

Great video Mr. Eric. I'm sitting here enjoying last hour of my Birthday. I wish I could have gone to up to watch action out on Northeast Corridor down Holmesburg Junction Today, but I had work. Happy New Year!

I'd love to get some ARR passenger cars in Z, this set is gorgeous.

Very good! 🌟

Yeah that’s a beautiful set. Wow.

The lights out shots made me look twice

Great horn with echo. Good speed there toward the end. Very realistic.

I love alaska railroad and I been watching that show since I remembered

We just recently moved and have 2 completely rebuild my layout that's why I'm asking I want to build my main table like yours it looks great and it's all functional

Epic!

Just got the new Santa Fe GP 20 Lionchief 2.0 with the blue and yellow war paint scheme. Looking forward to your review!

Eric, another great video! My only observation is that Lionel made the trucks of the B units black while the A units are silver.

Very nice 👌

Very sharp looking! Need people in the Vista top pronto…lol

WOW !!! Just WOW !!!

Awesome set! For these giant ones a zoomed out shot so we can get a feel for the whole 18' of length would be cool

Beautiful set. I would not have minded seeing the view from the car camera. PATREON EXCLUSIVE?! Lmao

Wow now that is 2 best sets my opinion Lionel made Alaska and NS . Love Jeep at crossing 💪😊 . Alaska looking great with your back drop outstanding layout blinking light 🚨 on top of building night run very cool.

I thought you’ve had this for awhile!

That’s a very long train Eric.

That is nice 👍🙂 Like the bold colors and graphics.....sounds like it could pull you and your car out of a snow bank....if you ever got stuck 😅

The opposite ends of this train are in two different zip codes

Eric - when you compare a set like this to a single Rolex or Omega watch, I think it’s a pretty good deal what you get for your money, and the fact that the premium sets with TLC, will hold their value or likely appreciate. We need to encourage Lionel and the other train manufactures and not bash them like some do. Thanks for another superb vid.

I have the NS f-9 set with the theater car , and the vista doom that look amazing on 096 curves! My only complaints is the spacing between the cars and no observation car (lionel if you’re listening)

What kind of job could allow one to sustain a hobby such as this? I make $54k a year and I can barely afford to model in HO scale 😅

Hola buen dia excelente video muy linda la locomotora te deseo un muy feliz año nuevo abrazo grande😃👍👍👍

Start by saying, an absolutely beautiful train, and I would love to see the "Trains eye view". Those who are "pounding the keyboards declaring Lionel evil"? Those are the people who are "jelly" they want all that but can't buy all that, and it bothers them to see you with all that! Please, please! Enjoy ALL THAT! And have a Merry Christmas, God bless.

It is a beautiful set. One thing that bugs me though is the black truck side frames on the B units. I would paint them silver. But, that's just me. Enjoy the set.

Excellent video too bad I’m ho scale due to lack of space

So many options SD90MAC, DD35A, class A, C-Liner, Es44 in many different liveries and paint schemes. But which one will it be🤔🤔🤔🤔

Very nice, wish they had it in S

Looks great though!

Cool Alaska train. Wayne Howard

Very beautiful set Eric, Just makes me wonder why they put black trucks on the B units and not silver like the A units.

Fantastic, Eric, especially ar night. No real club car?

Sweet 👍👍

Sound doesn't really come through, but I'd bet it sounds deep!

Really should be as I recall and see often is they use the SD70 Mac locomotives.

It would be great for the same consist be available in HO scale!

You got to wonder if you can replace the camera for a better one

You doing a loco count this year

It's a pity they didn't have an observation car for the rear. That would really have finished it off right.

Beautiful. But it would have looked even better if you covered your whole layout in snow. Especially the room with the mountain scenery. The train needs a reason for those snow plows. 😂

With a collection like your how do you pick what to run?

Why didn't Lionel paint the trucks of the "B" units silver like the rest of the train?

I forget from years ago watching you build your layout but I want to build my main layout like your with the turntable how big is width and end to end in that main room and are all your corner loops all 72 curve or is the inside loop 54 curve?

Will you be doing a review on the N&W Class A?

The Alaska railroad locomotives are the best looking

Can you get one in HO.

IM NOT A BIG RU-vid COMMODORE but talk about the price 3000-4000 is ALOT that's the price of my current car lol SO I think it would be cool if u did something budget friendly NOT talking just a stater set but like what's the coolest awesomest most realistic looking train you could build for like under a 1000 not including track and transformer AND maybe one steam train and one Diesel train sorry for making this so long but I do think this would be a really cool video idea.

Why did diesels like the F7 have porthole windows?

These cars are impossible to find now

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Donovan

Lionel isn't evil, someone has to make trains for millionaires. Enjoy them!!!!!! I'll stick to my postwar even if I hit the lottery.

ahem I shall buy every single train before 2022 made by Lionel even if it's 9.6 million dollars bye!

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 NS carriages?

First!!