MTH LIRR MU's

I've wondered where you've been. Nice job of piecing it all together.

Thanks Fred.

Well-fitting all these (unexpected extra work) items in between weathering customer cars, thought I would never get done.

Rather boring task. Seems like it took months.

Maybe I should bill MTH $500.00 in labor to correct these?

Great little town you have been putting together!

I’ve been quickly lurking on Sunday. Looks like you just need some trains now to go with it all, LOL!

Hope to see more of you're great modeling on the showcase soon.

S.

Fantastic weathering/detailing! Your work is an inspiration.

There is an Italian phrase I learned on Staten Island, "The fish is rotten at the head." Based on recent MTH catalogs and the failings pointed out here and elsewhere, it would appear that Mike W. has lost interest - at least in American equipment. The European stuff at the back of the catalogs looks wonderful but I certainly have no interest in owning or operating any of it. As Lionel proved long ago, when top management loses interest the organization is doomed to failure.

Thanks RTH.

I also failed to mention that the motor car will not push-pull a SIX car set around 042 curves. So I guess the add-on's are just for looks. I'll use them with the custom Lionel LIRR MU's which contain better electric motor sounds.

I also wonder who Bella Rose was listening to SND 7. LOL! Maybe it was his girlfriend?

Operating Sunday morning I realized the station stop conductor is alone in the car without any background noises or busy commuters. Why bother?                         

I offered to supply LIRR sound support but didn’t receive a reply.

S.

Guess there’s not as many LIRR fans as I thought.

LIRR & Subway posts seem to get buried quickly by the Santa crowd.

"TRAVEL EASY"

"MTH PS-3 PCB’s forced - fit?

What the _ _ _ _?"

Yep, had the exact same problem when I painted the interior and added passengers to the power car. Took me some time to get things put back together along with some frustration and a little force fitting. In the end it all works fine and looks great. By the way when adding passengers to the power car I had to cut them in half length wise so they would fit. Once put together you can't tell the passengers have been butchered.

Very, very, very nice work Steve!!

NICE Steve! We still have sets in stock and just got the HO Con-Cor ones in also with the silver window frames.

SIRT, your MU looks better than mine, albiet with some of the same issues, and of course mine does not run, straight from he box brand new it would abruptly stop and then making whirring noises while stopped, now it just wont start up at all despite lights:

Simply fantastic work as always Steve, the silver window trim is great.

Has the board gotten hot in that confined space while running?

Bellerose is a village on Long Island that is situated between Floral Park and Queens Village. Bellerose has sections in Queens and Nassau Counties. All of these places are on the main line of the Long Island Rail Road.

We all know that Bobby but the MTH sound guy didn't. LOL!   

The Lionel and MTH dialogs are all "very bad voice acting".

I would just like to see a little more imagination and effort put into doing these conductor sounds.

The person at least should familiarize them self with the geographic area and proper town pronunciation to get it right.

Why couldn’t they have added convincing background sounds going on while announcing the station stops?

The accelerating MU motor sounds are not very prominent either. They should sound like 2:39 at the end of this video or an R-1 subway motor.

Cool video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?f...ge&v=-gX1AtT6jzA

This is the best LIRR video – I have the full DVD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?f...ge&v=sZNpVWMj08w

SIRT,  I bought the ALCO's on the Island DVD also.  What did you think of the bell ringin' MP54's?

Sounded real, but I don't recall ever hearing it back in the day. 

The MP-54's were being retired when I was around 13 but I don't recall ever hearing one of them ring a bell.  Same goes for MP-72's.  My guess is that 90% of the film footage on that dvd was silent and the clickety clack and ding ding dings were dubbed.

Steve-

You remember those Atlantic City Birney picks you posted in February?  Did AC ever really run them or was that just poetic license?  Would like to add to my AC collection if prototypical.  Thanx.

Do the MTH LIRR MU sets have any type of conductor announcements or any type of announcements?

The set has announcements for a Hempstead train on the line from manhattan.