Everyone seems to make a big deal about separately applied parts. I have some Stewart Bowser F7s and the basic shape looks accurate and there is almost nothing to break off the body. I love them.
About a month ago, I bought the Walthers GP-15 Conrail version. It has worked perfectly as it runs hours a day on my shelf train. Very quiet motor, pulls three Hornby rail cars effortlessly and provides that perfect quiet white noise that knocks Old Guys out while sitting in the recliner watch baseball in the man cave. So far, it runs up to 12 hours a day almost daily.
I have 3 of these. CSX, NS and BNSF. All of them are solid runners. I also find they are fairly easy to maintain, about as easy as the old blue box locomotives.
Great Train Video! i Liked How You Took The Time To Explain How To Oil The Locomotive. As You Pointed out. The Slow Speed Is Very Good. This is A Very Insightful Video. Oh Yes... i like The Mpdel DeLorean In The Background. lol I Have The Original DeLorean Plus All Three Deloreans Form The Back To The Fuure Movies.
Yeah because Proto is as realiable as the Trainline and costs 9 times as much for choo choo sounds. Proto is for the elitist wealthy folks even their rolling stock costs more than a solid normal Locomotive. Mainline is a good middle ground if you are adamant about noisy, fake DCC sounds. I have 50 year old HO locomotives that still pull more and work far better than the newer stuff but obviously don't look as detailed so the trade off is real ;)
How many commenters below actually realize these are so good because they use Athearn designs? Oops, let the cat outta the bag there. Trainline are good engines with small kid level of detail and make excellent starter gifts as they are reliable enough not to chase away potential hobbyists with weird defects and low quality like the Tyco, Life-Like and Bachmann sets used to do. All have come a long way from the 70's when I was growing up. Except for quite a bit of price gouging the hobby has gotten a bit better numbers wise but we've a long way to go to get them Golden days back, looking forward to new folks!
@@VintageRoadRail I might just return it. Best way to describe it is its half the speed of my other 5 engines. One of them being a Walthers Gp9 thats very quiet.
