MTH Amtrak P42 Genesis 

😭 I will miss these when they’re rotated out of service. The new Chargers don’t give the same excitement

The Genesis is one of my all-time favorite locomotives, right up there with the GG1 and the Big Boy. :D

You’re going to need some bi-level Superliner cars to complete your Texas Eagle. Back to Legacy! 😉

I'm actually going on an Amtrak Vacation in June! I'll be heading from Chicago, IL to Seattle, WA to Los Angeles, CA to New Orleans, LA to Washington DC and back to Chicago.

Enjoy the new product review! Watch the end credits for a bonus teaser shot.

Omg that horn!!! Absolutely amazing

Gotta say my favorite paint schemes are Wave and Phase 2.

I love the Amtrak P42’s

No matter what the scale or manufacturer, the Amtrak Genesis is a wonderful model to have in any collection.

Beautiful above and beyond, definitely will be missed when gone

As a regular user of Amtrak's Amtrak's California Zephyr from Denver to Lincoln, the sounds are spot on.

Great video Eric! MTH did a great job on this locomotive! Thanks for sharing! Have a great and awesome day!

Great video.. first real exposure to O scale. . Awesome

I like the background music. Good choice sounds like something maybe they would play in a lounge car on the real train while traveling across the country.

FINALLY! AMTRAK P42 HAS BEEN CREATED!

This is probably my favorite diesel locomotive I’m not to sure why I just really like it I used to see these a lot as a kid at the train station in 2009 gives a lot of nostalgia anyway great video

Hey, I discovered the quillable horn on this by accident. MTH didn't advertise it, but it is there. If you have the app, you have to double tap (and drag it I think) until the button turns gray, and you can play it like you would on the steam engine. I've had the sound set for a few weeks and didn't know it was there.

That’s a beautiful model

Love the horn on that, sounds awesome.

Beautiful engine. Love how you tell what knife your using.

Incredible layout, I have the proto 2 and love it. Good luck 👍

In 2015 I had an opportunity to ride the Amtrak from Boston to Chicago and I had never been on a train before other than riding the subway which I only did when I lived in Boston one of the crew members insisted that I go check out the observation car I was thoroughly impressed to see how beautiful the scenery was despite how fast we were moving

My favorite locomotive of all time

Good demo & run on this Genesis engine. My first ride on them on Amtrak when in 1995. Hooked up to The F 40 PH from Toronto Canada to Albany, New York. Was that a surprise ride i didn't see it until the cars was turning on a curve! But one problem i have with many of the audio's of the P 42's they all don't sound at all like the prototype! I noticed this several times on the HO scale versions of them (P 42) GE is more mid low pitched with hiss, GM or EMD is more mid range whining sound. GE, ALCO, sound similar. The U Boats, P 30 CH, The 840 / 840 B Dash all have that low pitched hiss sound! Even in semi quiet low pitch when not fully throttled. EMD is higher pitched in that semi quiet mode. This test very well otherwise glad you presented this well worth watching. 👍✅🚆🚅

OMG yes I've been waiting for this

Thanks for review my favorite diesel at last! Great video as always and I can't wait to see your review on the state set next ;) great little tease at the end.

Another fabulous review Eric!!

Nice train . Love the Obs on the rear end.

Great bright sounding horn!

Good looking engine and cars. Thank you for sharing.

Finally!!! You got an Amtrak engine!

Best loco ever

Wat an awesome review as usual and that Genesis is very nice keep up the great work Eric

This is awesome! this in fact inspired me to come up with a new high speed diesel wind electric locomotive called the Genessee

Its Beautiful

Well apart from the fact your train consists of 1970s-era Amtrak cars and that you made your station stop on top of the bridge (hehe, I'll admit, that last one is funny for sure), excellent review Eric! I love the GE Genesis diesel locomotives and the Amtrak Phase V paint scheme like the one you have here is my favorite paint scheme for them. MTH made some nice Premier Line models of them and I'm glad you reviewed one of them here for us to see.

The carriages are so detailed. Felt like I was in San Francisco again

Eric, great looking and sounding engine! Nice consist behind it for the video!

Wow -Really nice engine and passenger car consist,

I love the look.

Looks like the one from American Trainz. Also YOU MENTIONED MY RAILROAD

See now you know this video is special when he can only post it like this every 4 years

I have a non sound equipped locomotive from 2012 and this will be a big upgrade when I buy the engine

I wonder if models of the new CT Rail engines and cars we have going through Connecticut will come out in the future. Took a ride on one the first weekend when it was free down to New Haven. I like the look of them using a freight engine compared to the Amtraks like the engine shown here that also run through the same line.

Man I wish I could get this in a Metro North paint scheme!

My brother is a locomotive engineer for metro north and operates these. He told me the Amtrak units have more horse power.

My fav Amtrak loco

I wish they would make more Amtrak stuff for HO especially the P42s

This particular engine of Amtrak pulls the Bi-Level Superliner cars. Maybe you should get some for it.

Awesome video, Eric!

i'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!!!!

I’ve always wanted to see a p42 in o sclae

Just FYI the real Amtrak Texas Eagle uses Superliners

I have the bad boy with the phase III scheme. But if I remember correctly. The soundset doesn’t match the bodywork in that the unit numbers are off. Still awesome to run alongside my Alco C420 D&H though

Yes!!! We all wanted this. Yesssssssssssssss

This has a nice sounding k5la

hey Eric one of the baggage car has the same road number as the 1206 from unstoppable

Somehow, MTH makes even the simplest detailed locomotives look more detailed than the real thing

Great video Eric!

Very nice Eric!!!

Would love to see a vision line quality model of this loco

I really thought it was semi-scale from the teaser pictures seeing the size of the couplers. Guess the P42s are smaller than I thought.

Hey, Eric! Awesome video!

Lionel should do the Amtrak Amfleet 2 coaches

This would’ve been awesome if Lionel made hey Jawn Henry Turbine that had the horn and the bell on that engine 🤩🤪🚈🚂

Looove your Amtrak Collection, keep making more with Amtrak 😊

I wish I could own this locomotive also thanks for the review

OK seriously why do all the horns on these model sound so good...

Nice Video👍 LIKE 540

The "wave" is called "Phase 5"

Hey Eric. At the end of your video, who makes those green passenger cars that the Amtrak engine is pulling?

The first year that Amtrak was expecting to turn a profit and here comes COVID!!!!! Grrrrrrrr, 11/21/2020

All you need now are some Amfleet coaches....

2:09 this really caught me off guard as a have a ho scale Kato model of p42 150 with sound.

HE DID IT BOYS HE GOT IT

2:19 Fansworth from Connor and Friends

Can you do a video on how to best cleen your layout and roaling stock? Also what is the best way to store locomotives and cars when you are not using them and there out of there boxes?

need this one in the Phase 1 Amtrak anniversary logo

HI Eric- great video great engine - do you know when the amtrak 21 inch heritage fleet passenger cars came out- I cant seem to find them - the product number(2) for those- the Atlas ones are rare but I have found that item - I appreciate any help you can give on this - thanks - Fulvio

Train number 420....nice

The horn kinda sounds like a k5la used on a F40PH

Nice, maybe you can run it with your F40PH. Sadly, where I live Amtrak comes through at the middle of the night but the Genesis is still my favorite engine. I have one by MTH but it’s PS1.

Great Looking Loco ! I have a few of these MTH P42s, one from the last run before this and one from the run before in PS3 .The horn from from the first PS3 Release is the best. But the prime mover sound sets are not that accurate . Believe it or not my P42 with Ps1 has the best GE sound set. Just my personal opinion.....nice review. ( :

Put some freight cars in the train to because Amtrak pulled freight

Nice

Yessssssssssssssss!

Does this locomotive have MTH's new playable diesel horn function? If not I'd love to see you review one with that feature in the future.

If I was getting a p42 it will probably be MN, via, New Jersey Transit, or maybe New Haven.

Amtrak also pulled freight trains to

Have looked hi and low for one..I have a Phase III with black nose, but these are hard to come by

Awesome! Just one question, would Lionel make it’s own version of the P42 Genesis?

The blue line below the red line is bugging me

I'm sure you've mentioned this before somewhere but regarding minimum curves: Is there any engine that your layout can't handle?

What music was playing at the beginning of this video?

What a gorgeous amtrak locomotive, how much she cost?

I have the Railking version of the P42, almost bought the premiere version but didn’t know if it was worth it or not.

Hey Eric. Did you ever thought about having a train station or two be put on the main layout for your passenger trains one day??

When are you gonna get the matching super liners?

Good review. Did you cha get the format of the reviews were you no longer do the up close inspirations? Either way still enjoyed.

One of the chargers of the cascade was destroyed