I rode in the cab of the 844 and it was AWESOME!!!!!!

Dear Eric As a teen with a long career in trucking ahead of me, I will follow in your footsteps into the wonderful world of o scale model railroading. P.s. I love the crew sounds they add a layer of realism and authenticity to these models that other scales don’t offer. Pls continue your passion with love and happiness. Sincerely, a loving subscriber and born truck and train fanboy. Roll on Eric!!!

@ericstrains I cant get enough of that whistle. They nailed it SO GOOD. I hope someday Lionel puts this engine on their vision line, I would love to see it with blowdown effects as well as its current steam effects!

I never knew Union Pacific put Lionel Lines on 844's tender!

Eric, a great video review of a great locomotive!!! Thanks for posting!

Eric this review gave me the chills as it brought back memories from 2012. My grandpa ,dad and, me all went out from Chicago to Nebraska to watch this thing it was a great bonding experience so this really got to me

Very nice Eric. A beautiful locomotive and model. It appears from looking at your rolling stock that you have been weathering a lot. Thank you again for your dedication to the hobby.

Thanks for the review Eric. The weathered reefers look great behind the engine. Back in 2013 I met the 844 at the College World Series in Omaha and got to go into the cab which of course was amazing!

Great video, Eric! Love the sounds on this engine!

hi, we've never heard an emergency stop before!! thanks for another great crew talk and engine review

Wow!! The Engine and the Whistle and the bell sounds so Sweet!

what's really cool about that engine is that it was never retired from Union Pacific's roster

yay a upload! it's 4:45 in the morning for me right now and I'm up to see the video right when it comes out! keep making great videos.

My Favorite Wheel Arangement is 2-10-4... Ahhh those beautiful Selkirks

Great review Eric as always!

nicely done eric, and wow for the price but really really nice!!!!!!!!

Great review Eric. Can't wait till the Lionel SD60Es come in

Awesome review! I know that someone probably said it already, but this in a lash up with the challenger would be awesome!

AWESOME review Eric!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Eric, love your videos, would like to see some how tos on repairs and getting older locos running again. Thanks

I strongly agree with you! The "Lionel Lines" tender nameplates are my favorite feature too! ^^

Gorgeous engine Eric!

awesome video Eric. very cool.

Very nice as usual! A doubleheader with your challenger would be sweet too! As UP has done that!

just put my 2024 version on pre order, cant wait for this engine to come in!

Outstanding review. One of your best so far. BFIMO unexpected but cool. I would like the camera to follow the locomotive more and not so much a static camera

Eric- I enjoy your thorough reviews very much. That said, one minor suggestion for you to consider in future. JUST WHILE THE ENGINES ARE STATIONARY and you're reviewing the details with your green pointer, the addition of some supplementary light (eg. a working light on a tripod that painters use) to illuminate the front, sides and rear of the engines would enable the viewer to see the details better. Black die-cast steamers and diesels in dark colours such as Lionel's CN Ten Wheeler, UP FEF 4-8-4, NP Alco PA ABA are three that immediately come to mind where supplentary light would have been helpful. Just a thought.

keep makeing those awsome train videos

LCCA did the same thing with Nickel Plate 765 that they did with UP 844 by relettering it to Lionel Lines and renumbering it to 726, the same number as their postwar Berkshire.

lol first time eric operates a steam engine fast xD

Eric, it looks and sounds as close to the real thing, from my memory of seeing this engine back around 2010! when it stopped for the day in the town, I am from, although it had the UP coloured tender on it by itself when it was here the time I saw it! As well as the drivers box was open in the back of the locomotive engine, and the smoke defecters​ had been a last minute add on, based on what the engineer who was operating it at the time stated to me at that time! Although, I do like the fact that the defecters on this model of the 844 are not wavey as they are on the real locomotive engine! However, all of that aside it is a cool prototypical model replica of the real locomotive engine! Even the whistle sounds extremely close to the real deal! And I thought that I uploaded some of the video of the 844 when it was here then, onto KZfaq, although, I have not been able to find it, in my uploads! It was still a great experience to see the 844 in person, and that they made a model scale version of it as well!

The whistle sounds similar to the real model and to your Vision Line Big Boy but the bell sounds like a diesel here. I am disappointed with the bell. The real 844 bell is one of the best.

the GP 30 is currently at Nevada Railway Museum

I love the whistle and the whistle steam smoke effect

Eric did you know that on one episode of extreme trains the 844 pulled a special passenger train it brings passengers to the rodeo in Cheyenne,Wyoming.

Man I had this model and loved it. Unfortunately I had to sell it years back because of some money troubles. Times to start putting a new roster together.

That’s the beautiful whistle ever

In 2014, the LCCA also dressed NKP 765 as Lionel Lines 726, renumbering and all.

I like how the dispatcher and the engineer are in a panic when the emergency light comes on. It adds to the realism!

You forgot to mention that 844 now has a sister in the SD70Ace No. 8444. It's funny that UP never forgot 844's old number of 8444 and gave it to a SD70Ace and she is almost always paired with the 844.

I love the deep tone whistle

Great video Eric! You should do a Q/A session as one of your Eric's Trains episodes.

Next year for vacation I’m going to ride on the 844😱😱😱😱😱😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

nice one of my favorite locomotive

I got some good news about the 844. It will come to Memphis TN this October.

Hello Eric. I'm curious about the red light on the front of the 844. Does it come on automatically when you slow the engine down, or is there a button you press on the Legacy remote?

An excellent review, Eric! I have the Sunset/3rd Rail FEF-3 in the Overland colors and it is one of my favorite engines. Unfortunately Railsounds 4 lacks the correct whistle. The red safety light on mine only flashes when the engine is run in reverse. Interesting that, when the real 844 got back out on the high iron for some shakedown runs, the red safety light was not yet installed. Eric, any chance of you acquiring an NYC Niagara in the near future?

Great video!

17:00 the beautiful vision line big boy whistle. I would say lol, but it's to great to resist listening to.

@ERIC's TRAINS: Is the "all-weather cab" the reason for NOT needing a "drop plate" in between the Engine & Tender? Should there still be a "drop plate" for a more realistic effect or look?

What is a really good smoke fluid to use? At legacy station is it free shipping?

I first saw UP 844 in the intro and outro of the children’s TV show Shining Time Station

Great looking UNION PACIFIC train!!! Would you do a COMPARE/CONTRAST of the MTH #843 and the LIONEL VISION LINE UNION PACIFIC #844 at some point?

The bell sound is unfortunately completely wrong; that was my only problem with model. Looks like a great engine

@ERIC'S TRAINS - which was the STRONGER & FASTER "NORTHERN Steam Engine" between the: U.P. Northern Type #844 & the "NORTHERN NIAGARA" of the NY CENTRAL?

Fun fact it has its own whistle signal 8 short toots meaning GET OUT OF THE WAY HERE COMES THE 844

There's some kind of majesty about the number 844 I don't know why but still

So what's the idea/history behind the emergency light?

Whats the red light on the real FEF-3 do? Is it an emergency light as well? I always thought it was a MARS light.

Eric you also forgot after Commercial Service, it was then sent for snow melting experiments.

Auscision did a similar thing with a B Class and painted 1 loco (B65) in their special livery and sold 300 HO scale versions of the real thing as a limited edition

Well done!!

Gorgeous model, great review. That engineer in the crew talk sounds strangely like Ed Dickens! (Even tho it’s Rich)

Is the Emergency Light removable?

I have tmr17 on my computer. I downloaded the up fef loco. Got about 6 of them. I been looking to see how they fuel them. Can't find any info.

Think they'll make a Visionline version of this soon?

Yay! The Real FEF3 is back!

Where do you get your tracks from

Hey eric great review i watched you film this on the webcams it was really cool to see sort of a behind the scenes of how you make your videos. Will the open houses be streamed on the webcams by any chance

I’ve gotten to blow the whistle of the 844 and models and videos do not do a justice it is loud and extremely awesome

The 844 is one of my favorite steamers along with 4014 and 3985

Does the 844 steam engine pull passengers?

Eric you need to review the southern 4501

What’re the panels on her sides? And y does she have 2 stacks? She only has 1 set of drivers

The actual engine once doubleheader with SP 4449 on an excursion in Washington around Puget Sound, for a special from Everett to Tacoma. Today, the engine stays n Cheyenne between runs

it would be cool if u could find an FEF-1 #800 model the first 4-8-4 for UP

where can you buy the locomotive? I can't find it on Lionels Store.

I just scored one from eBay couple weeks. Said it was from the "Lionel Vault," It was the 2009 model.

You should review the Lionel alaska railroad set

At 25:17 Mark Was that the emergency brake?

I can't find it on your web site

CAN YOU DO A TRIPLE HEADER WITH 4014, 3985 AND 844

That whistle sounds familiar because its like the whistle from the Vision Line Big Boy.

And that's the northern that i'll be using to pull the lionel trains edition of the city of st.louis passenger train plus with lionel union pacific excursion passenger cars.

Although the engine is very nice, I particularly enjoyed the sound from the vision line refers. I have 3 sound cars ordered, which are apparently on a very slow boat from China

very nice model!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why does the cab light turn off when the train moves?

On the real 844,the tender used to carry coal,but it was said to be too expensive so they converted it to oil

Also When you reviewed Up 843 (Freight Set) About that red light You said It’s only When you’re going in reverse.

My favorite locomotive is the union pacific 844

I didn't know the most popular FEF was 844 in Australia our most popular steam loco is 3801 which is stream lined

When you reviewed the 261 Milwaukee Road about that Mars Light You said it’s only a engine has more Than one Whistle.

what about the red light does it light up or blink

How much is that one

My favorite Train is the union pacific 844

I like it

Could you please do a review on the mth premier Duchesses of Atholl European steam engine, you will love it

This locomotive is being made in large scale by usa trains. I can't wait to pick one up but that is a year away.

The New Union Pacific FEF-3 Northern?

That dispatcher actor sounded like he was actually scared, bravo.