I love that whistle! I've seen whistles on live steam locomotives that don't sound that good.

Gorgeous locomotive, I love the daylight paint scheme, and the Gs engines are one of my favorite class of engines. The whistle on this model sounds great, sounds pretty close to the whistle on SP 4449.

One of the only steam locomotives to have a whistle and a horn on it!

I love the crew talk. It adds a lot of play value and realism to it.

Great review Eric, I ran the black GS-2 while I was at Legacy station. That's a ton of pulling power for a steam engine with only one set of Drivers! That's right there with the Challenger. Thanks for sharing and have a great one!

LIONEL sound, the industry standard. Completely blows away anything available in any scale, any manufacturer.

Love your video Eric! That "Daylight" paint scheme looks great! Happy Holidays and thanks for sharing!

Thank you very much for making these reviews! I might not be an O-Scale model railroader, but I happen to like watching the new products from Lionel, Weaver, etc, and seeing what they can do, especially the steam locomotives, for the are starting to get to the point where it's hard to tell the difference between the model and the real deal, especially with the sounds and all the special steam effects. If they'd come down a notch or two in price, I'd love to have an engine like this, and I'd personally just like to play around with one of these Legacy steamers just once in my life.

I didn't know you have a KZfaq channel. What a fantastic video. Thank so much, I enjoyed every second

17:18 Now that's a shot you don't normally take. Good job on the review.

Good review on a gorgeous engine. Lionel did a great job on it.

Love the locomotive 🚂 and your channel

Rail Grone sound on pull out WOW! good sound effect Eric

I love that Southern Pacific 4-8-4 G-2 steam locomotive, because my favorite is the whistle! ❤

Wow • A lot of Railroad History with this GS Series. The railroad designers did a lot of fine paint work into their design. The Prototypical design is done very well with the model. This is what brings fun for us Model Railroaders, to see the details in the model. As the narrator for this video you have, what I call a "Great Radio Voice'. You missed your calling, You should be a Radio DJ, not a computer guy. lol. Cheers from Michigan. & Merry Christmas to you and your family.

Great looking engine and the sounds as well , thanks for sharing

So nice, love this livery............

I like the shot of it going under your trestle. You might have wanted to mention that Lionel messed up the Daylight logo on the fireman's side. It's backwards. I know that bugs a lot of SP fans. Still a beautiful engine though.

Great Review Eric! I like the fact that it has an awesome 4 lbs. of pulling power! I also like the white stripe wheels with stars....cool!

Great video Eric love the engine and the whistle and horn too the horn is the same horn as your centipede

The should make this Daylight vision line because it's one of the best looking engine in America.

very good review Eric, one thing I thought you may like to know is the the stars on the GS locomotives mean something, that told round house crews what type of bearing the engine had, if it was blank it meant a regular bearing, stars meant friction and a circle gear type one, meant roller bearing

Hey Eric, great review as always! I have the 6-11127 GS-4 that Lionel made a couple years ago. I too wanted a streamlined set of Daylight cars to go with it, so I bought an older set of MTH cars as I didn't like the red paint on the streamlining (down by the wheels/trucks) that MTH has used on their later cars; the older ones had the lower streamlining painted black which matches the prototype better, and also IMO looks much better. Good luck with whatever you decide to do!

I think it's best to give some background information on the GS-2's for those who don't know what the GS-2's where. The GS-2's were built by Lima Locomotive Works in 1936 with a total of six locomotives built, numbered 4410-4415. When they were built, they handled passenger trains on the Southern Pacific and they were the locomotives chosen to debut the Southern Pacific's premier passenger train, the Coast Daylight, in 1937, but were later replaced by the GS-3 class. Later, in World War 2, they were painted black and silver and transported troops to the pacific. It the 1950's, their side skirting was removed and they were put on the San Jose-San Francisco commuter trains, "Coast Mail" trains and freight service. When the Southern Pacific was making the transition to diesel, the GS-2's were some of the locomotives to go and all were retired and scrapped by 1956.

Fantastic Engine, and I love that Black Widow caboose!

AWESOME review as always Eric!!!!! I have to say that is one gorgeous engine, I love the detail on the front pilot! And the whistle is awesome too! I may have to order one of those bad boys! Thanks for the vid bud and have a great one!

Nice engine Eric really impressed with the sounds

Eric, great review as always. Giving serious thought to adding this one to my stable. I'm a sucker for whistles and horns (as is my wife...). Maybe after my BigBoy shows up, this will be next. Looking forward to your review of that beauty as well.

Love the sound on that engine.

Beautiful whistle

saw the new lionel up big boy form vision line is so cool the coal hopper works it makes the trian look like it's useing coal

This thing would look absolutely giant next to my postwar engines. As much as I love the newer engines, they would just look silly on my seasonal layouts. This, the 611, a nice Berkshire, such stunning (and expensive) engines.

You are very good at what you do on the videos. I like many started with 3 rail.. Now HO, at 69 think I should have done 2 rail O back 5 years ago.

The GS-2 is absoulutely fantastic! Will you be able to do a review of the unpainted GS-6 as well?

Great video eric

I love the whistle.

Great video! I have that Chessie blue & yellow boxcar

Is there a smoke switch if you want the smoke on or off

Eric, is there a gyralite above the headlight?

are you able to change the whistle sound file?

I love this locomotive and I own it but mine is stuck going forward do you think you can make a video to show how to stop a train from going forward

Lionel has recently recataloged the SP GS4, and one is numbered 4449. Have you thought of getting one? I bet this GS2 would look cool with a GS4.

Is there any lark gs type of locomotive

Crew talks are fun!

Oh god. When I first saw this video, (7 at the time, and I saw it in 2014) I had recorded this on my DSi. There’s this thing that lets you do it.

Can you do a review on the Lionel SP 4449?

One of my favorite engines

I'm thinking about getting a Bachmann version of this but the Daylight that most people are familiar with, otherwise known as the GS4.

Great Video !

I can’t find this engine on the website

Amazing video. Thought about adding some matching coaches?

is here a way, to make it out ton of smoke ?

Favorite engine by far!!!

Lionel made a GS-4 could you do a review on it.

Can you upload the Lionel legacy polar express?

Do you ever run your locomotives at a fast speed?

can you upload MTH daylight heavyweight passenger cars?

Can you download Lionel southern pacific daylight passenger cars?

Great job

I'm looking for an HO 4449 in Pennsylvania. could some1 point me in the right direction

I really like the creaking of the metal

My uncle was General Superintendent of Motive Power for SP from 1939 to 1962, It was "General Service". Stanley M Houston. Art Houston

Nice video & Review!!! I noticed that the bearings on that hopper are squeaky I'm not sure if you know but to fix that you put oil between the Rotating bearing cap and the truck and it fixes it.

are you going to get a gs-4?

do a review on the southern pacific 4449 steam engian

Can you upload Lionel legacy southern pacific daylight heavyweight passenger cars ericstrains?

what kind of camera

well its ok for the gs-2 pulled frieght cars because i think they did when they were painted black and the side skirts were removed

+will it pull a lot of cars

I'm planning on getting this train as my first Lionel Legacy Engine. This or the Vision Line #4014 Union Pacific Big Boy.

Will do a review on one of the 2020 GS models

did not realize that was 4415 which it appears is a GS2 that however looks so close to the GS-4

Lionel does offer daylight passenger cars their sp pa's numbers are: 6-35445 and 6-35446

It's a beatiful train indeed, you know where to get it?

I have an MTH G scale/One gauge GS-2 #4413, best locomotive I’ve ever purchased.

Is it just me or does the whistle piece look backwards

By the way, ever thought about adding the GS4 for more fun?

I wonder who does the voice acting for the crew talk. It's the same dude for all engines

Where is the bell on this loco? I've always wondered.

don't worry about what other people say the sounds an crew talk are fantastic , I just wish they would of made a GS-4 with the two head lights as well , that's the one I've been waiting for , when was the last one made does anyone know...

I live in Portland Oregon, there is a 4-8-4 GS-4 Southern Pacific 4449 that is at the Oregon Rail Heritage Foundation. When they blow the whistle I can heard it echoing from my house. It was donated to PDX friends of the SP 4449 in 1958 and they do Holiday Express train rides. You can find more information about this SP 4449 at orhf.org

You say it can pull up to 4 lbs.. I saw your video on how to tell how much your engine can pull, but can you make a video showing how much 4 lbs of freight cars would be in the model railroad world?

These engines had horns as well as whistles because the horn sound carries better through fog than the whistle sound.

the real question is the #4436 GS-4 vs. this #4415 GS-2. One main difference is this model has your standard "maintenance free motor with momentum flywheel", where the #4436 has a high-torque Pittman motor with momentum flywheel. The #4436 also mentions having dual fatboy speakers, according to Lionel's catalogue. It also happens to be $100 less than the model in this video, the #4415, which comes in at $1,300.

This is nice get the Southern Pacific GS-4 x4449

I'm getting this engine with the passenger cars. It costs $1900

I love this engine and the big boy ones. do you think it would be cool or awesome if they made trains from European or even our neighbor to the north Canadian locomotives. The one I think would be cool to bye is the Royal Hudson, most well know train throughout Canada. That's just me talking and my opinion. What do you think of the idea?

Eric I’m very surprised you haven’t picked up coaches for it! You don’t have to get Lionels you could get MTH

Ever heard of Reeds Hobby Shop? Its here in San Deigo, and its pretty cool! You should check it out!

If I didn't know this was a Lionel Train I would think it was real because of the whistle

I'm still waiting for like a full daylight with DMLX 4219 and 8645

The whistle sounds like the real deal.

You just love that whistle don't you

Wait where can i find a streamlineless gs class train

you thought about getting a GS-4 engine?

Do a review of 4449 GS-2 American Freedom Train

I'm just getting back into model trains again. Was the lionel legacy gs-2 a "made to order" engine? It's very hard to find one new in the box in stock in any store or online. Is it no longer available?

Mr. Siegel, please get the MTH 4449. It's a really cool locomotive.

So it means there is GS-4 and GS-2

Has anyone noticed that the smoke unit fan on this train is kind of loud?