Lionel NYC L2a

I can't decide what I'm more impressed by! The layout, the engine, the quality of the video!!

Thanks for sharing Norm!

Thx man, I am digging my iPhone 8 Plus. The camera is radical. I sort of hate to admit that I've become an Apple fan. The pacing shots were done with my Atlas F7B pushing a flatcar with the phone propped up using 123 blocks. The jitters are from running over my turnouts. Pretty wild that a person can capture, edit, and upload high res video all from a freakin' phone these days...!?!

Jeff T posted:

I can't decide what I'm more impressed by! The layout, the engine, the quality of the video!!

Thanks for sharing Norm!

Ditto, just awesome.

Would like to put some bigger pilot wheels on it. Anyone ever change them on the L2as? What did you use?

Great video NORM. 

Now I gotta get my Mohawk out and run it again.

Thx Laz. Which one do you have? This is the first one that had its own special intro brochure. I think the next one was in a set with RS5 and 4 chuffs.

Beautiful work, as ever.

But--here I thought you'd purified yourself going all PRR, and now foreign stuff is creeping in

Norm Charbonneau posted:

Thx man, I am digging my iPhone 8 Plus. The camera is radical. I sort of hate to admit that I've become an Apple fan. The pacing shots were done with my Atlas F7B pushing a flatcar with the phone propped up using 123 blocks. The jitters are from running over my turnouts. Pretty wild that a person can capture, edit, and upload high res video all from a freakin' phone these days...!?!

And that we, including guys like Roo down under who we have never met, can see it right after you upload it!

Norm,

I use NWSL wheels, their 145 series in the proper scale diameter for the pilots. They will work perfectly on T rail 3 rail track.

Question, I shoot with the I phone 8 plus, but the videos do not translate well directly to OGR. Do you always upload to You Tube? What am I doing wrong?

Ron H

Norm Charbonneau posted:

Thx Laz. Which one do you have? This is the first one that had its own special intro brochure. I think the next one was in a set with RS5 and 4 chuffs.

Hi NORM,

  The Mohawk I have is the same one you have.  Lionel 6-38053, it came with the brochure and the sounds are great.  I should get the super chuffer in it like you have.  It just makes it look so much better.  I'll put mine on the layout and run it a little later today.  Thanks again for the inspiration to get the engine back on the tracks.

John's Chuff Generator is awesome. I found a 5V power supply floating around in this engine's wiring and can't remember what it was used for, so I repurposed it for the CG. On Lionel's site the first gen Berkshires had a similar wiring diagram but I don't think it had that little power supply. Maybe it was for the markers. At one time I had stripped the smoke unit out of this engine along with all the lighting, just keeping the headlight. I put the smoke unit back in after cleaning it up and restored the ashpan glow. The flickering firebox was run off the original Odyssey board so it didn't get put in this time around now that I have Cruise M in it. I believe all the other L2as Lionel built had 4 chuffs and RS5, and probably smoother cruise. So, just hanging a Kadee on it would be far less work.

Ron, I will look into the NWSL wheels. I upload my videos directly to Youtube from my phone or iPad. Sometimes that takes longer than actually collecting footage and stringing the clips together in iMovie.

BobbyD posted:

Norm Charbonneau posted:

Thx man, I am digging my iPhone 8 Plus. The camera is radical. I sort of hate to admit that I've become an Apple fan. The pacing shots were done with my Atlas F7B pushing a flatcar with the phone propped up using 123 blocks. The jitters are from running over my turnouts. Pretty wild that a person can capture, edit, and upload high res video all from a freakin' phone these days...!?!

And that we, including guys like Roo down under who we have never met, can see it right after you upload it!

That's awesome!

Looks great Norm!!! 

I have the RS5 Mohawk, one of my best locomotives. Runs well and smokes great!! 

Hi NORM,

  Yes I just got done running my Mohawk, ran and sounded great.  Yes as you stated the original one had only two chuffs per revolution.  That was the only thing I noticed with it along with the smoke output.  When it was going it did smoke great but starting out was a little anemic.  I do like what you did with the cruise M and I might have to do an upgrade on mine.  Thanks again for a neat video along with getting me thinking on improving this great looking and sounding engine.  Keep up the good work. 

 One of the best engines Lionel has produced. I own 3 of them. Loved the video.

 Norm, what really caught my eye was the caboose. MulletRiver ?

WOW, Norm!  Great video and very timely.  I have the 2005 version (6-11114) and have always appreciated the detail and sounds as well as how well it runs. Since I do not run New York Central much, I  had it listed for sale on the forum but removed it after seeing how much better the detail stands out with the weathering.  Although I may never have the nerve to try weathering for fear of destroying, I now know I would be sorry to have sold such a great engine.

Now I need to find an appropriate caboose.  Love the one in your video.  I am guessing it is from a kit?

Thank you for the photos and videos of your work.  As I mentioned to you when I bumped into you at York, your work is such an inspiration to all of us,  especially those like myself who do not possess your modeling skills.

Happy railroading,

Don

Dave, Don, that is a Mullet River kit with San Juan trucks. 

Don, nice to meet you at York!

Impressive. Was running my Mohawk last night. For some deep psychological reason that is beyond me I can not get myself to weather any rolling stock... Yours look nice.

Way to go Norm