AWESOME review and engine Eric! MTH has definitely upgraded their sound systems, it sounds great and I love that it is diecast! Thanks for the review bud!
Absolutely charming. Fantastic crew talk. The sound of the motor with is knocking is great--very realistic. A believe they probably recorded a real one. A great MTH production.
wow! good locomotive! Chile (my native country in South America) had many of those locomotives. especially in passenger services, sometimes they transported passengers and merchandise like fish in a boxcar, around the 60s and 70s in the city of Valparaiso. (of some documentaries and photos, and that I have 10 + 3)
Fantastic! Your review is excellent as always. I would never have guessed that it was as capable as you have shown it to be. Now to back track and find the Western Maryland version! Thanks for the post Eric!
Thanks for the great review, I actually picked up one of these today at the Great Midwest Train Show - ended up with the Milwaukee Road 991 - beautiful little engine with fantastic sound
It is a great engine. I have the Santa Fe and love to hear it run. You forgot to mention that it doesn't have smoke because you couldn't fit unit in there anyway. You don't miss it though because it's so much fun to run. Good job.
Great review. I have the Williams/Bachman 44-Ton switcher. It has a plastic shell, however is quite heavy and a powerful puller. The shells are almost identical as far as looks go. My Williams 44 tonner has the old traditional track activated auto couplers. The sound system on the Williams is spot on, however all you get is the diesel engine sounds, horn, and bell and has no volume control. That being said, my switcher was half the cost of the MTH. Your MTH item would be perfect for someone who likes to switch and shunt a lot. I have rarely seen a 44-Ton switcher with less than a crew of two. These are little work horses, however you need a second person to throw switches and couple and uncouple cars while someone is operating the locomotive..
Great review Eric, I like the forty four ton switched, it's a great little loco, but I'm just surprised how fast you got that review done and uploaded from the last one. I also like those new pieces of rolling stock as well. Great. Great video, and keep up the good work on the reviews and layout.
Another great review Eric! What I read in the MTH crossing gate flyer was they went to a railroad in Pennsylvania and recorded the sounds off of the 44 Tonner there. I've thought of getting one but me being a mainly modern guy it wouldn't really fit.
Thanks for an excellent review Eric. I especially enjoyed the history of the engine and its planned weight. MTH pulled out all the stops when they created this fine model. The engineer figure in the cab appears to be a young lady. If so it may be another first for MTH. Also, the pick up rollers would have to come off for 2 rail operation if I am not mistaken. Thanks again, Eric!
I just found my 44 from MTH yesterday while running my layout, apparently my son ran it last year and accidentally derailed it inside one of our tunnels, it actually flew right off the rails and out of the path of the line it came off of. So I didn’t know for a full year it was sitting on its side in one of our tunnels. I thought my son sold it at first, but he forgot he derailed it. Ironically it barley had any dust on it for sitting idle in a tunnel for a full year. I found it by running my UP OCS with the Theater Camera Car at the rear with our 49ER ES44AC hauling it. Of course my son was watching the feed live and yelled to me from across the layout “DAD! I think I found the 44!” And I backed the OCS up into the tunnel, walked over to my son, and sure enough on the IPad was a 44 sitting on its side.
The second guy in the cab is on the OJT program, love those are reviews just wish you did put one of the older ones post-war next to it maybe next time
Turns out, my local electric company used to run 44 toners to move coal hoppers to 2 of our coal power plants. Pretty cool. Sadly (kinda sad, good for the environment), our plants shut down in 2009 and we’re destroyed on or before 2016.
Hey Eric, what ogauge model railroad company would you buy a train set off of, also do you know any website I could buy the BNSF sd70ace freight set or the BNSF es44ac freight set. It's ok if you don't know I'm just wondering what your opinion would be because I'm starting to get more interested into making train layouts. Also I love your videos your my favorite ogauge train RU-vidr I'm super jealous of your layout, thanks
I know of a 44"c" tonner that works at Alliance steel castings near where I go train watching. I forget what the c stands for but it's some modification to help it operate better
Great review but I have one question for you Eric had MTH or Lionel made an O scale Texas train. I only ask because of the restoration of the Texas at the Spencer shops in North Carolina
yeah people would tend to fall to their deaths by slipping on them, they would get sucked under the locomotive, they would either be crippled for life, or die.
Michigan State used a 44 Tonner to switch cars in its power plant until they replaced it with an SW8. The power plant closed, however, when the university decided to stop using coal for power, and the latter locomotive is now for sale. Here is a thread on which pictures of both can be found towards the bottom of the page: railroadfan.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21498&start=20
I know this is a late comment but I believe there's a US airforce base that has its own railroad that carries jet fuel and I believe they operate 44 tonners.
