Very cool video. I am a vintage train guy. I have 1946 675 steam set, a 1948 726 passenger set, and a 1950 671 small freight set. Most of rolling stock is vintage with some PWC freight cars and operating car sets. Most of my operating accessory sets are vintage. Track is o-31 tubular track and modern o-22 switches. My layout is 4 by 8. No room for scale track and locomotives . The vision line is out of league and not with in my budget. Vintage and MPC are affordable and work on O-31 track.I really like your channel as you have a layout witch scale engines and rolling stock. I get to see these scale sets run. Thank you. The neat thing about O gauge is any person can get into the hobby.
I like both, but I lean a little more towards vintage. It's more budget-friendly, better for smaller layouts, and is more serviceable if anything goes wrong.
I spot a Gundam model - it's cool. I only have 1 model (no layout though) & it's the HO scale 46200 - Princess Royal by Tri-ang (now Hornby) but sadly she's missing her front wheels & is also need of an overhaul, as she's also missing her left side rods too. Even though I don't have a layout to use, I know of a place that has some of my fav. Australian trains (even though my fav. fav. train's the 4014 ~ Big Boy) that I might try to see if i can enter the contest with (if they'll left me take a video of them running).
I like modern, but do have some vintage. I do run vintage every now and then. You provide a good comparison of current and past trains. Keep up the good work!
In my opinion,you are by far the most entertaining model railroad RU-vidr I've seen. I greatly appreciate it,needed this vid today. I primarily collect Post war and Mpc,although I like the scale stuff. I just don't have space for the giant curves.
Very cool Chris!! One thing I notice as a non O scale guy (Im HO), it seems the new stuff is much quieter then the vintage. I think thats true across the board, but very noticeable here.
The newer trains are much quieter with their flywheel motors and such. In O Gauge, we often refer to the vintage trains as growlers, especially the Post War F3s. Thanks for watching!
I always get excited to see a new video of yours and was super excited to see the daylight along with all the others here. I still have not gone down to my local train museum, but up here in Portland we have the last surviving daylight which I think is pretty cool! Also love to see the Astray Red Frame in your new videos. Looks to be a PG which was my first PG Gundam to build :) Do you have any other Gundam's in your collection?
Thanks Nigel and that is cool that you live so close to the Daylight. Would be great to see that one in person one day. As for the Gundam, I only have this one and a MG Wing. Looking to build a few more but that is becoming a slippery slope, haha!
@@RBPTrains I totally get where you are coming from for the slippery slope haha! My Gundam collection is far larger then my train, of which I just started collecting. I believe I have more un-built then I do built now😝
I remember seeing a blue comet on I love toy trains that look like vintage but it was more well done. As for the others I never even knew they had models like this in vintage design
Chris, One thing you could've added to make a better comparison is their RRP as appropriate. It may help to put them into perspective. Vision line et al could be considered frightfully expensive today, was the MPC blue comet the same frightfully expensive price in its day? I have some standard and wide gauge and as I'm sure you're aware the 381 3 car intercontinental ("state") set was extremely expensive in its day, although marketed for a different demographic, one that doesn't necessarily exist today. Great video, very enjoyable. I like both, were a probable lean towards modern, just due to their sheer impressiveness as a model. although as I'm wide/standard gauge my thoughts don't really count ;)
Great idea! I am wondering what the original Retail Price was for these sets in the 70s. Need to find out that info so I can run the good old calculator to see what the cost would be today. I like the standard gauge stuff! The history around it fascinates me. Thanks for watching!
Been a vintage fan my whole life. Got myself a 736 and 746, love 'em both. I've had some modern stuff, but it just doesn't have the same charm as the vintage stuff. Gonna be picking up a 700E real soon, the true icon of Lionel in my books.
Both versions are cool, and I would take either one. I have a preference for the MPC version. I used to work in the railroad exhibit at Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, and we had the MPC Blue Comet and Crescent, 3 of each. I took those apart and repaired them countless times. repairing the modern version would be much more difficult. I don't have any of them at home. While watching the video, the image of a miniature O. Winston Link with his camera set up track side popped into my head. Something to remember when my family and I get to build our own layout.
Great video 👍. 📹 👏👏👏. Thanks a lot! Always enjoying seeing those super cool trains👍👍👍 It would also be great if you could do a video about the different product lines of different brands. For example I saw an MTH amtrak set and I was like this is great 👍. But then I saw that it was just a starter set and maybe didn't have all the features of a premium level set. Is Rail king the premium line? Is Lionel legacy the premium line? Is the Vision line the premium line? It's confusing if you're just starting in the hobby. Thanks! All the best and looking forward to your next videos 📹
I find it funny that right now you are doing a comparison of old and new just after I had to make a decision. My father bought a G gauge loco, the LGB BR99 6001, when I was a kid. Unfortunately, he sold it and now that I can finally start building a small garden railroad myself, I wanted to have one. The version with sound, the 2080S, came onto the market in 1974 and at the time cost almost 3 times as much as the version without sound. It was revolutionary as it already had a bell, initially mechanical, whistle and synchronized cylinder sound in 1974! It was produced until 1993 with small changes, e.g. the sound of the bell was later also generated electronically, and the sound was only fundamentally revised with the 1994 model. I deliberately chose an old, analogue version. It's amazing what's possible these days, but the challenge is just getting the microcontroller right, which is what engineers had to do back then to teach a bunch of analog parts to sound like a steam engine, and at the right beat, too. that is worth preserving! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tZf1Mbc6UmQ.html
Hey Chris, I collect and operate primarily conventional postwar, MPC, and LTI Era Marx, Lionel, Williams, and K-line models. Come on man, you know there is no comparison to the modern railsounds sound systems as compared to the horrible, virtually identical sounding MPC sounds. I install railsounds in my engines whenever I can and get the best of both worlds. However, I can't get myself to replace the MPC boards if they are in working order. MPC sounds. It is what it is. I'm embarrassed to demonstrate these to anyone not familiar with model trains, especially since they have already heard my go-to engines with the railsounds first. I have demonstrated the sounds from each Era in successive order and surprised how many people like the postwar steam whistles over the others.
Haha! I couldn't help myself. I would have to agree with the people you mentioned who like the Post War whistles. The sound of a Post War whistle is so much more than a sound. It is a reminder of the past, of the first golden years of O Gauge and brings that nostalgic vibe to the train table. Thanks for watching Dale!
@@RBPTrains while I never have actually had a post war set the starter sets I got which were made around the 1990s and early 2000s were dirt cheap when my parents got them and as a result didn’t have a lot of modern systems in them. Because of this, the only features they had were puffing smoke and whistle sounds. They were supposed to have bell noises as well, but for whatever reason they never worked on any of them. The whistle sounds sounded very similar to the post war whistle sound effects you hear on 1940s and 1950s train sets and because of that I’ve kind of related to some of the postwar era stuff even though I’ve never actually set my hands on one. Personally other than modern stuff the things I would want to get my hands on the most is the O gauge pre-war sets from the 1920s and 30s as well as some of the modern remakes and reproductions of those sets. I Recall that recently Lionel made a remake of the state set as well as a prewar inspired, electric locomotive, freight set, and both of those are something that I would want to get if I had the time and money to run toy trains.
A train is a train to me i like them all but steam is my favorite , I wish i had O gauge but its out of my price range being in australia . HO for me at this time but the N gauge or the Z gauge looks like fun and wont take up to much room might head that way. As for your video RBP they are great keep it up i am a fan and you have some nice trains mate . (HO needs smoke and sounds) and not me going toot toot
1:27 the face I make every time I buy another train I don't really need. 😅😂 *post edit* You were right there was no comp with the whistle battle. Nostalgia wins every time.
Fun video as always. It was fun meeting you by the Trainz area on Friday. Thanks for helping confirm the ability to run the Premier PS-2 0-8-0 I was looking at with the iPhone App. You helped make the sale happen! Can't thank you enough!
You Choose Some Great MPC Sets, I Remember When They Were New, I Got A Job On The Railroad, Working Xtra Gangs And Was Able To Own Them, Dumb Me Sold Them For 500 Bucks And Bought HO Ouch.
Modern collector here for sure. Love me passenger trains, especially those that were powered by steam engines! Can’t wait for the 20th century limited to arrive!!
so far i only have postwar 2025 and a prewar 262e. but i only have a generic loop bc i spent money on prewar shiny thing instead of track. i regret not buying track.
You know I was always against Lionel just because I disliked the triple rail design and how it didn’t look realistic but their trains are really cool and I’ve always found them quite interesting
Just bought the premier Mth blue comet locomotive and tender with The Mth 5 blue comet passenger cars can I run these on Lionel fast track and what would be the best controlling system to purchase please get back to me thank you me and my Son Andrew love the channel !!!
I'm going to say modern and vintage both win. Now and you only run the modern engines do have better sounds and features so I guess that would put them over the vintage ones. I'm still going to stay neutral but I think the modern engines do winds like we as far as features go but if we're talkin about the value and the beauty of them. Both modern and vintage Wynn's they are really all tied up as far as that goes. So that's all I have to say.
The problem for me are engines that do not have speed control. I can't stand engines that speed up and slow down due to track voltage fluctuations. Now this is most obvious with engines with sound. Engines without sound I don't mind so much because it isn't obvious. MPC era sound engines have this problem. Same as Protosound or Locosound MTH engines. Semi scale is okay so long as you have all semi scale running. I don't like seeing semi and scale running together.
I don’t have any, but for me, if I was spending all the time and money, I’d prefer modern with all those wonderful features and sounds. I’d love to be in a position where I can get bored of the modern and want a few older sets just for the heck of it.
Hard to say, I kinda like the vintage stuff for how cute it sounds to me, yet the modern stuff I like because it sounds and looks so cool. I am at loss and can not say that one is better than the other.
New, old, it doesn’t matter. Once you have decent scenery and the trains start running, it magically becomes real. One of my favorite books is “The Runaway Train” where David sets up his 10th birthday present of a Lionel train set but when he starts following it around the house he finds a switch that runs it out on the back porch and then all through 1943 Auburn, AL. and back into the house with the hopper car full of candy dropped by a girl in a five and dime store. And thanks for pronouncing Norfolk correctly.
Can never go wrong with the Blue Comet from any Era 😉 its always fascinating to see how far along technology has come when looking back at older models that were outstanding for there time and how they are today! Nice video idea Chris, love it!
I like my vintage engines for one reason that I look for when buying a locomotive.. that is magna- traction. I have some pretty good grades and I love my magna-traction models. They've survived 70 years of abuse...(I keep the way I get them, they've earned their stripes). One of my best ones is a 2046 that I rescued from a antique store, busted, and missing many parts. After much tinkering, it's very dependable. I wonder how long today's modern electronics will last over time. That being said, I do have a MTH 611 myself, and am very proud of it. Both have their advantages, love them all, remembering that it all started in the mid 60s with a very cheap 027 set that I ran till it died years later. Still have some of those bits.
i have to lean towards modern. I understand, the vintage has so much character and better budget, but the modern is absolutely incredible and extremely detailed.
Excellent video Chris, I like them both. My three kids had a youth pastor who not only looks identical to you but also speaks and entertains with the same passion! I don't think he plays with trains, though. 🤔 Thanks for sharing, Chris!
