I picked up a pair of these units, one each in Soo and Burlington Northern, for use as pool power and I was blown away by the detail on display and the sound.
Scaletrains really did an excellent job on these. I was tempted to grab a BN unit myself but am going to wait until they do a run of them with ditchlights.
@@ConrailSteve Ironically enough, I'm in the opposite camp. I wanted a Conrail unit, but since my layout is planned for the early to mid 80s, the Quality scheme with ditch lights isn't a good fit. Shame, since they look excellent.
Now the one unit I really hope we get from Scaletrains so I can move my custom built one to display would be a circa May 2001 CSX ex CR SD40-2 #8888 with the blue cab roof, and maybe the CSX 8392 to join it.
I would look for those in the next run or two. I think Scaletrains has hinted that the next CSX SD40-2s will be the ex Family lines units with ditch lights.
I liked their couplers when they first came out, hold really good and look sharp.. then the pins started falling out of them, and impossible to find on the layout, so I switch all mine to the Kadees right out of the box. detail goes up= price goes up. but really sharp looking models, so can't complain about the price. again scale trains setting the bar for details.
Ill be keeping an eye on the coupler pins to see if I run into any issues in the future. As long as the detail work and features match the increased price I can live with it and Scaletrains has been pretty good at always having a new feature to offer when prices increase. Itll be interesting to see what they do next!
Damn dude... all six at once?! Love the dedication. Absolutely beautiful models - ScaleTrains does not mess around. They're supposed to put out Conrail versions in N scale later this year so my NS versions should have some Conrail buddies to hang out with in a bit. Nice review - makes me excited for the release of the n scale ones.
Had to get all 6, I have been waiting for these since the first run was announced a few years ago. Im sure the N scale ones will be awesome when they come in!
Very awesome models Steve!! I would love these SD40-2S but I'm trying to stay in the mid 80s with Conrail, I wanted some SD 60Is too but just too new, the SD40-2S are my favorite engine of all time, They're going to look great pulling a unit coal train on your layout for sure!!!
Thank you! I understand the need to stay in one era myself aswell, I would love to get a few of the Scaletrains GP30's that are coming out soon but the are all from before my era.
I must have been thinking of a different coupler breaking then as I thought it was a plastic one that broke. Couldn't for the life of me remember RS5T when I recorded this, was having one of those days lol
great vid mate,,,wifey person lady loves your assistants at the unpacking. hows the piggy bank after that purchase ?? in your next vid stevo - show us where you are going to put them mate. seriously tho awesome locos & they look good. so does Terri Hatcher !!!
Thank you! Piggy bank is definitely feeling pretty empty but I did have money saved up for these. More than likely only 2 of these are going to stay out on the layout for now and the rest will be put away to be weathered and customized when time allows. The 2 that are out will be weathered this summer hopefully.
Hiawatha is a great store I have ordered from them a few times. You will enjoy have those 4 units together as they all have variation in logo placement and really look neat!
