This train hits our family pretty close! My Great-Grandfather Lawrence Jacobs was the most senior conductor during the Electroliner's final trip on the NorthShore! He'd been an engineer for many decades for the NorthShore line, and he retired the day the Electroliner did! When they finish rehabbing the interior where it rests at the Illinois museum, the museum has asked our family to be there for the opening ceremony! I have lots of pictures I've inherited from his time as the conductor!

Thanks for the video.I agree that this model does a great job looking and sounding like the real trains. I live in suburban Philadelphia and got to ride these trains when the Red Arrow bought them and repainted them in their colors and called them Liberty Liners. I worked attending college in a store on Rt.30 and rode the liners between 69th street and Villanova. Unfortunately although I own several MTH items I never knew they made this model and the Liberty Liner model. I would have liked to have one to run on my O gage model railroad just to relive the memory of ridding them.

There is one Electroliner set at the Illinois Railroad Museum I sincerely hope they repair it back to operating service

This is a cool set. Thanks for sharing it. Also, thanks for the history lesson too. It is one of my favorites at the Illinois Railway Museum.

Awesome set! Might have to go in for this! The intro music sounds familiar lol.

What a terrific piece. I don't recall this from 2017. Being from a subway city, I'm going to check this out. Love it......thanks for the video.

Great job!!!!!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Nice! Love it. Enjoyed the pod cast too

Very nice set with the bogie trucks. Like how your shared the history and got to ride in one of the coaches. It is a shame that MTH is going away next year. Take care. Train Room Gary 🚂

I own this train, one of my absolute favorite models.

This is awesome, its the first time i have seen this model.

Very cool. Looks like it's time for another purchase.

Fun Fact: these trains were studied by Japanese designers when they made the bullet train.

Beautiful set! I almost bought this one.

It is almost done

I like how the natural original sounds were put into this train such as the horn. The original gong sound though is missing as it was pretty similar to the old South Shore Line Pullman-Standard cars. You would there the gong only in the streets of Milwaukee.

Nice set!

Thank you for sharing. Love watching model videos, would love to own one but the wife would kill me, so have to watch others, which is fine. But you spoke about the tethers. It reminds me of other KZfaqrs speaking about the problems they had with the Mark Twain Burlington Zephyr. Thanks for sharing a great video, especially the history. I live in the Chicagoland area and go to IRM a few times a year. Always a lot of fun

I'm surprised the South Shore Line didn't have a couple of trainsets like this running between South Bend and Chicago. The traffic volume probably didn't warent it .

It would be nice to have a 3rd rail model alongside the tracks. An imaginary 3rd rail.

What remote do I need to run it

What are Jacobs-Bogeys?