Wow, they incorporated the flaws of the real engine into the model... That's damn impressive!

@traingamer2037

3 жыл бұрын

Well you have to incorporate every fine detail if you want to leave an impression.

@brandonburneyt2931

Жыл бұрын

4449s bell

in the start-up sequence, I love how when the Fireman is asked "How's she firing?" he replies "She's in good shape!" with just a hint of pride in his voice. That is a man who loves his engine, for sure.

This is my favorite steam locomotive of all time. And the model looks so beautiful and sleek like the real S1.

@GothRailfan

9 ай бұрын

It's my favorite too!

This design is perfect for alternate modern steampunk world

@mrni6502

3 жыл бұрын

I agree it looks like a steam powered bullet train

@___axg96___63

3 жыл бұрын

@@mrni6502 that was the idea. Back then, it was "the way of the future"

Wow. The Pennsylvania S1 looks really fancy.

@noelnalupa1755

4 жыл бұрын

We are waching a ghost train story. This ericstrains vid has 311 comments.

@Jeisr4207-bc5ui

10 ай бұрын

@@noelnalupa1755That’s cool and all, but who asked?

Amazing how it resembles the prototype not only visually but also in that it has similar drawbacks. Beautiful engine and every time I cross that former PRR line I picture one of these racing across the flatlands.

I wish she was never scrapped. Maybe converted to a 4-4-4-4 but not scrapped...

@jamesgroccia644

4 жыл бұрын

That would make the S1 into a shark-nosed T1.

@NOVARailandWeatherEnthusiast

4 жыл бұрын

James Groccia the T1 was already a sharknose. It’s design helped shape the Baldwin RF-16.

@Terminatorfan1984REAL

4 жыл бұрын

@@NOVARailandWeatherEnthusiast but they are bringing back to the T1 Locomotive in 2030

@henryostman5740

4 жыл бұрын

she needed the wheels to carry the weight, there are wheel weight restrictions on RRs just like on trucks.

"It looks as if it's grinning" -Gene Wilder from the 1976 film "Silver Streak." I almost got a hold of this model but it sold out at my local hobby shop, hopefully MTH will make another model in the foreseeable future. The S-1 is one of my favorite streamlined locomotives along with the F7 Hiawatha Hudson, the Dreyfuss Hudson and the Lehigh Valley John Wilkes

I love the S1, the design is very beautiful and its very a different loco. Thanks for reviewing it Eric

I lived in "Lyma" Ohio for around 1980-85. It wasn't much fun to see the line downgraded to single track. South side of Lima were remnants of the Erie double track main line to Chicago. I wish I could have lived there when Erie was going strong. The Pennsy tenders were incredibly magnificent cars, with the skirting at the bottom and the great logos on the side. I'm a big R. Loewy fan, especially when he goes full-bore with the Art Deco look. By the way my parents visited the World's Fair on their honeymoon. (We lived in New Jersey.) They had a couple of snapshots of the Trylon and Perisphere but none of the S-1, which, looking back, surprises me because my dad was an excellent builder, mechanic, and civil engineer. That display, steaming all day, was certainly a public relations stroke of genius. The Trylon has always been a most curious phenomenon. The form is rarely seen in everyday life, probably because of the impractical limitations on interior space.

A beauty. You are right, great whistle. Very impressed with the chuffing.

WOW! Absolutely loved your video of the MTH 20th Century Limited and always will; such an iconic train, but the S1 takes my breath away too. Thanks for your gr8 videos. :-)

Too bad Pennsy didn't save this locomotive as a static display somewhere on the system. Horseshoe Curve?

@orangeislandsvileplume9276

7 жыл бұрын

it would be awesome if they did that

@finndahuman57

7 жыл бұрын

g bridgman na that a GP7 mabey in Altoona or the Hamburg no never mind

@kiwitrainguy

6 жыл бұрын

They put a K4s there for a few years then replaced it with a GP7. I'm only going on memory, I'd have to check.

@Jones3DModelingClub

5 жыл бұрын

We can save her and any other steam locomotive inside the computer : kzread.info/dash/bejne/ea2puLORmbrcYKw.html

@frederickhurst8813

4 жыл бұрын

s t a n t o n c u r v e

Love all of your train reviews. I never knew there were so many different types of model trains.

Dude. Your videos have totally made me fall in love with trains, both real and replica. Thanks for all of this exposure so such a cool hobby. If only my bank account could keep up to my interests! Cheers .

That is a gorgeous beastly engine but my goodness I was stunned when you mentioned it had less than 50% weight on the drive wheels. I'm not an engineer but even I know that is not a wise move.

Very nice model, that whistle sounds great although the S1 never actually had a whistle it had a Leslie A200 air horn just as a fun fact, but I don't put that against this engine, it's a beautiful set. Great review

Excellent in all aspects of this engine and video, thanks for sharing.

Wow, what a monster; that said , an absolutely BEAUTIFUL AND AWE-INSPIRING one. A land version of such icons as the Hindenburg and Titanic. Thanks for such a great video!

@kiwitrainguy

6 жыл бұрын

"A land version of such icons as the Hindenburg and Titanic." But thankfully not as costly in human lives.

Thank you Eric.............Takes me back to my youth and my Lionel's in the 1960's

whoever dreamed a 6-4-4-6 can pull an elegant train

Outstanding review of this model, thanks for posting.

It was the most streamlined steam locomotive ever made as well as the biggest.

Of note during the Worlds Fair, the miniature narrow gauge engines used at the fair were modified Vulcan locomotives with the iconic bullet nose. These engines now operate at Kennywood Park near Pittsburgh but one of two has been converted to resemble Thomas, unfortunately

The bell on this engine sounds just like 4449's bell.

@HENRYTHEBLUECOMST831FAN

3 жыл бұрын

Yup

@highoctanegames

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly

@SamutheHamu

3 жыл бұрын

I agree maybe 4449’s Bell Is a piece of the S1 duplex.

What a gorgeous set. I was just reading about this locomotive the other day when I fell down a rabbit hole of Wikipedia articles on Pennsylvania steam.

Great review Eric I'm a big fan of your layout and I am a big fan of the Pennsylvania Railroad because of my two grandfathers being engineer's on the PRR

What a beautiful Locomotive - Thanks so much 😎👍

19:14 sounds EXACTLY like Southern Pacific 4449's bell

Nice looking and sounding model! Thanks for sharing!

Really nice looking steam. I think it has the best sound of all the steam engines you have reviewed. Scott

im sooo jealous you have every single train I loved your N&W 611 review

I love the S1! It's such a pretty engine!

@balto5080

9 жыл бұрын

Its almost like norfolk and westerns steamer, but i wonder if this train would work on o-27

@balto5080

9 жыл бұрын

Tailterrier27 ha

@PeaceyPraps

9 жыл бұрын

Tailterrier27 Oh, yeah.

@PeaceyPraps

9 жыл бұрын

Tailterrier27 Not much. (I will.)

@PeaceyPraps

9 жыл бұрын

Tailterrier27 That's really interesting.

Eric, you do a superlative job!

So beautiful!

Good job on the PRR S1 passenger set. I like your other videos on KZread

The whistle of the S1 sounds like it’s ready for battle

I love the protosound with the staggered chuff.

Beautiful review.

Eric, would you ever review a LionChief Plus engine? I heard their Camelback is scale sized I thought it looked pretty neat. I don't think it works with Legacy however.

Love the high speed passenger service shot at 22:35!

Great review, I have the older proto2 version. And I'll agree it's not happy on O72 curves. I've actually had it jump the track while backing down a O72 curve

That is a beautiful set.

Very nice Eric!

You know the T1 Trust should rebuild the S1 and have it run alongside the T1. That could be cool.

@theextremeanimator4721

5 жыл бұрын

They need blueprints

@Kris-qy7hh

4 жыл бұрын

TheExtremeAnimator and money 😂

@wtf-hc3tp

4 жыл бұрын

Oh geez, the S1 is gonna take a longer time to build than the T1.

@archives-webnet

4 жыл бұрын

The number would be 6101, not 6100.

To see brief clips of Pennsy 6100 running in the Chicago area Green Frog Productions has an 8 disc DVD set entitled Vintage Steam Spectacular. Within that set is a disc called The Golden Twilight of Postwar Steam Pt 1. B&W movies show brief scenes of Pennsy 6100 slowly passing the camera of Gene Miller. The cover plate for the front coupler is missing and she is pulling a first class train as she parallels the NYC tracks on her left occupied by the 20th Century Limited which is also on the move. I don't believe the DVD is sold separately. However, the 8 DVD set which includes it as well as parts 2 and 3 is just under $35.00.

I love the whistle and the Bell on that train

I love your channel

Nice engine Eric! I'm waiting on Lionel remake this one along with the t1. 👍

@LePenguin

8 жыл бұрын

+PghTrainFanatic I Know, But i don't know why but when the Y3s were Re-released in 2012, the hooter whistle was changed to a Hancock 3 Chime consistent to UP 844's Whistle

@TheRealEasyA

7 жыл бұрын

Could you imagine a Vision Line version of both the S1 and T1?

This is why I really like Pennsylvania railroad trains a lot.. And I do live in Pennsylvania, but I cannot tell you where I'm at.. I'm gonna say this, "Unknown Location."

@Trainmaster909

7 жыл бұрын

Tonys Amtrak Train Videos do you live around the only PRR. I live by the NEC in Delaware so I love watching the high speed trains and commuters run by.

@keithm5224

6 жыл бұрын

I live in Pittsburgh

@motpagla

6 жыл бұрын

Tonys Amtrak Train Videos A

@Shitphototaker69

6 жыл бұрын

i live in Australia

@Coxmanx

6 жыл бұрын

Tonys Amtrak Train Videos i

The whistle Lionel recorded for this is the same Pennsylvania 3 chime whistle that the Nickel Plate Road 765 wore on her visit to Pennsylvania in 2012. It is originally off of a PRR J

Fantastic!

Another outstanding review Eric, no one does it better than you. I imagine that all the lights are LED?

Very impressive locomotive for sure.

Not to be picky but you have the rpo car on backwards as the hook has to face forward. As a kid my grandfather worked for the Milwaukee Road Copper Country Limited and when allowed to enter the rpo car I would play with the hook. Also MTH forgot to put a handle on the hook,it looks like, as you would have to open the door to operate the hook also. Great train set, I have a T1 as the MR used those.

Eric, Just out of curiosity, how do you go about calculating the pulling power for your engines? A lot of things to consider in that calculation.

Nice review. Regarding the cars, the mail hook on the baggage-RPO is backwards. Also, the coaches actually appear to be sleeping cars, judging both by the interior partitions and by the pairs of small windows above the side windows.

Great stream line design, I always enjoy when you tell the viewers the locomotive history. World fair story very interesting. Like you said, "it is big". MTH designers & engineers do a fantastic job in making their locomotives & passenger cars look and run prototypical. Looks great on your layout. The set price is always the best deal with MTH Premier / RailKing. Well done product review, this is why I stop by. Did you add the figures to the passenger cars? • Cheers from The Detroit & Mackinac Railway

IMPRESSIVE and very, very beautiful and interesting to me 👍

Nice! Finally a high speed shot

Hey Eric could you possibly do a review on the t1 locomotive

Thanks for another excellent review Eric. I especially enjoyed the high speed runbys. I am not sure but the screened opening just ahead of the stacks might be the exhaust for the steam driven air pumps or another front end steam driven appliance. Just curious but is a C&O Allegheny on your steam engine acquisition list?

Sounds like one of the most amazing engines to ride the rails at speed when the actual locomotive was riding on long runs. Great review though

Priceless info about the World's Fair. My parents went there on their honeymoon. Incidentally, as a kid I had a hard time figuring out the "Trylon" and why it wasn't a pyramid. (Wikipedia has the same photo as Erich's,)

Eric, is your S1 a true duplex (on a single frame)? My HO Scale version is and the minimum radius is 48".

Raymond Loewy designed only the "air-smoothed" streamlining for the engine and the tender (as he did when smoothing out the original riveted GG-1 by designing a welded skin). Detailed mechanical design resulted from the collaboration of PRR with several manufacturers, although the duplex design was primarily the result of pressure from Baldwin engineers (a builder with which PRR had close connections). Baldwin engineers had been pushing this concept for several years and wanted an opportunity to try it out in practice. Baldwin had proposed this concept to B&O around 1932-1933, but the road turned down the Baldwin design because of concerns about long rigid wheel base (B&O later built its own duplex 4-4-4-4 at Mount Clare shops in 1937). The S-1 was designed from the beginning with 6-wheel leading and trailing trucks in order to support the enormous boiler required to allow the cylinders to develop 6,500 i.h.p at high speed, an output the PRR had calculated was necessary to accelerate 1,200 tons of passenger stock to 100 mph in acceptable time and distance, and to keep it at that speed over the road. 1938 ARR tests had shown that at least 4,000 d.b.h.p. was required to achieve this result with 1,000 tons. The S-1 ended up with a maximum axle load of 71,000 pounds (versus 67,500 postulated). The engine was built by PRR at its Altoona shops early in 1939. (This information is taken from Brian Reed's essay "Pennsylvania Duplexii," in volume 2 of the book "Locomotives in Profile."

It's a beautiful model, and has a rather striking look to her, but I must know what came over Raymond Loewy to come up with a duplex with 6-wheel pilots taking away what little weight was distributed between the two separate engine units, it's more like double heading E6 class locomotives than a 6-8-6. The T1 was much better balanced though. I thought we learned from the Midland Railway that coupling rods weren't flimsy at high speed, that's what got us off of building the single wheelers.

@Ericstrains

9 жыл бұрын

RockyRailroad Productions Raymond Loewy only designed the streamlined shrouding, he didn't have anything to do with deciding the wheel arrangement.

@RockyRailroadProductions_B0SS

9 жыл бұрын

ericstrains I see, my mistake. Although I'm still curious as to what it's point was. Maybe the rollers at the fairground restricted it somehow?

@allegheny48

9 жыл бұрын

RockyRailroad Productions The 6 wheeled engine and trailing trucks were needed to support the massive weight of the locomotive's overhang which did result in diminishing some of the weight over the drivers but with 84" diameter drivers, 300 lbs steam pressure and that long rigid frame it was bound to be a slippery engine. Once it was up to speed it could run like the wind but it was just too damned big.

@RockyRailroadProductions_B0SS

9 жыл бұрын

allegheny48 If Loewy had shortened it and gotten all the drivers coupled to prevent wheelslip (Like a 4-8-6 perhaps) it could have worked better,

@allegheny48

9 жыл бұрын

RockyRailroad Productions Once again, Loewy was only responsible for the sheet metal styling and had nothing to do with the mechanical design. Unfortunately a lot of ideas look good on paper but don't meet expectations when put to fabrication. All those "what ifs?". Keep in mind that 84" diameter drivers were almost always prone to slippage when starting heavy trains but were essential for high speed operation. See if your local library can get you a copy of Al Staufer's Pennsy Power. You will enjoy reading it. Also, if you subscribe to Classic Trains check the Steam Glory 3 special edition (holiday 2012) for an article entitled Pennsy's T1 reassessed by David Stephenson. I think you will find the article very interesting.

Do you have any plans to or have you seen the Lionel Neil Young Pennsy passenger cars? I'm curious for you thoughts on them.

There are rumors that the S1 along with its successor the T1 broke Mallard's speed record with the highest speeds for both being claimed at around 140 mph.

@Shinyarc

6 жыл бұрын

Alex Crawford Well, with the 5550 T1 being built eventually, we will soon be able to find out

@mattodonnell8

5 жыл бұрын

wikipedia says something about it getting a "speeding ticket" at 156mph IIRC

@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819

5 жыл бұрын

Alex Crawford unfortunately for this loco that's all they are as no one has ever produced any evidence to support these claims, such as timings of runs.

@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819

5 жыл бұрын

Matt O'Donnell if it had surely by now someone would have been able to pull the records and prove that this had occurred. Until then, this remains only a rumour.

@thomastsangthomas1616

4 жыл бұрын

@@mattodonnell8 yeah, they say that The PRR S1 had once hit the speed of 156 mph(249.6 km/h), a tremendous and unbelievable speed of a steam locomotive can archived.

In the Galaxy Railways, the Vega Platoon’s train, the Iron Burger was based on the S1.

@user-gn1zq9nm8q

7 ай бұрын

18:57

Great review Eric, your videos are always enjoyable. Just out of curiosity which of your locomotives has the most pulling power?

@TrainsfanAlex6060

9 жыл бұрын

+gbarnes4401 Definitely his Centipede. It has over 8 pounds of pulling power. I would be surprised if there was any other model ever that pulled more

Is there an O-Gauge PRR T1? If so, pls review it. Thank you!

Fantastic!, i would give anything to find that in N-Scale, but now thats impossible with Concor being virtually paralyzed

They make great stuff! I used to work there.

Nice!!! I want one! 😁

Hey Eric do you think you can get a Pennsy T1 from mth or lionel.

Have you thought of getting Lionel's latest rendition of the Reading T1 4-8-4?

@Trainmaster909

7 жыл бұрын

Toby Pasman your wish is granted

amazing. ....

Nice engine eric

The whistle is hauntingly good

A 36" O gauge locomotive and tender is very impressive. I would love to see it.

I love watching this engine run at 2x

What is the giant yellow diesel on the shelves in the background?

Any idea where I can buy one of these? Trying to collect all of Raymond Loewys' designs

@Jones3DModelingClub

5 жыл бұрын

Ebay. They always reappear for biding or purchases.

You know if this train really did go faster than Millard, it be so much sadder that this was scrapped

Cant wait to see the new T1

I was wondering if that engine would be able to navigate its way on your layout...

Can you tell me if the S1 had the same tender as the T1. I am also trying to get some scale plans of the S1 in H0 or 0 gauge. I have looked on the internet but drawn a blank. Do you or any of your subscribers know where I might find them. Great video thanks.

@kiwitrainguy

6 жыл бұрын

Hi Sam, I have plans of both, jealous? They did have different tenders: The S1 had 250-P-84 and the T1 had 180-P-76 tenders (sometimes referred to as "Coast to Coast" tenders). The first number refers to the water capacity in thousands of gallons, the second number is the height of the tender deck above the rail in inches. The "P" means for passenger service. The actual water capacity was slightly different, the Pennsy just rounded up the numbers. - Dennis

Curious why it has the horn detail but no sound for it.

I feel almost guilty about how much pleasure the sight of this locomotive always gives me. What philistine ordered this work of art to be scrapped?

Why is there no air horn sound on the MTH version of the Pennsy S1? Lionels version had an air horn, and mth's ho gs4 had a air horn.

Coming back to see this video I wonder if for fun they could have put a switch on it for “wheeL slip mode” for a fun view..

OMG THIS CAME OUT ON MY BIRTHDAY

Does the MTH version of the S1 even have the air horn in its list of sounds? I know the Lionel Legacy version does. That was the version I was thinking about getting, but it's a bit tricky to find.

@Ericstrains

9 ай бұрын

I think so.

@GothRailfan

9 ай бұрын

@@Ericstrains Oh cool.

Wait i see a horn on the S1 its at the right front you see it?

The mail car seems to be running backwards. The mail hooks are pointed the wrong direction.

It was so easy for me to fall in love with this engine 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

These are superb models, can you tell me why they stick with the third rail system?

@Ericstrains

7 жыл бұрын

tradition

Good news: I'm about to bring out a song for the PRR since as far as my knowledge goes they never had a theme song. Problem: No free footage of the S1 exists. You allow me to take a bit of footage here into my song video? (I need a reply back either yes or no to be able to follow YT guidelines.)

Eric have you ever thought oc reviewing the lionel o-27 coast guard diesel train set or coca cola set i hear it was popular once, do you lnow alot about it ?