Here is a first look at my new EJ&E MTH Premier Transfer Diesel. Received it today. After a quick look it appears that it made it through the shipping process with no damage (always a good start). I will add a more extensive review, pictures and video to this thread Wednesday or Thursday. So far I am very pleased.
Here are my first look / unboxing pictures. My siberian husky Comet is always around to help me.
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Nice photos of a great looking engine. Just informed that my set of powered/dummy is being shipped from Jason's Train Shop. Hope to have them by Friday. Joe
That is one cool looking engine
That's a hot looking engine. Enjoy it. Funny about the dog. As soon as I start an engine my dogs head for the basement. They sit and watch the trains move around. Too funny.
A very unique but great looking loco
Very cool, very prototypical and very historic. Nice!
A great looking center cab diesel and I love the dog. MTH model is of a Lima transfer unit of which only the Pennsy owned. The EJ&E transfer diesels were Baldwins. See photo attached. It is too bad MTH didn't model the Baldwin unit as many roads owned them and some roads had more than one paint job. Pennsy also owned Baldwin center cab transfer diesels.
MTH model is of a Lima transfer unit of which only the Pennsy owned.
I kinda wondered why it had a trainphone antenna.
Fred
IMO, that locomotive is so ugly, it looks great.
Nice addition to your roster.
Cool looking engine, but even cooler looking dog.
Here's a case where my ignorance is bliss. I don't know a Lima from a Baldwin but I know that this will look good with my EJ&E ABA Sharknose and 18 or so EJ&E boxcars plus the EJ&E coil cars. Also have some non-prototypical EJ&E decorated Ore cars and a 70" vista dome passenger car painted in EJ&E Green/orange. Wish MTH would make an EJ&E bobber caboose, tanker, etc. fantasy or not. Joe
Better late than never, here is a video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLvemObKY3E&list=UUCfYyX_1v9Hgp66DlEGzr-w&index=1&feature=plcp
Very happy with these. Only problem out of the box is that one of the pickup rollers was slightly twisted. I just bent it back and it is working fine now. There is a clicking noise coming from the dummy unit but I have not figured out how to fix that yet. I think the sound may be coming from the same pickup roller.
Scott
I know just the place for those nice engines to pull a long one!
Ray Marion
Very unique engines! Very cool!
I lived "down the street" as a kid from the real thing and yes, they were Baldwins and not Lima ..with that distinctive burbling sound..Although Baldwin and Lima merged..I am too lazy to get my reference book down..They looked as if they could pull a battleship as your model does as well. I must say as a Baldwin diesel fan, any model of a Baldwin is better than none and yours especially in an EJE scheme is a keeper. Thanks for sharing it. Who knows? maybe we will get the Sharknose in the same appropriate scheme..as they ran them as well.
Better late than never, here is a video.
Nicely done video. Thank you.
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