Product Spotlight: Walthers Mainline EMD SD50 Chessie System Locomotive

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In today's video I will be unboxing and running this beautiful Chessie System locomotive by Walthers Mainline. I ran into a few issues while recording making the video go long. I left the fails in the video as they are a good learning experience. So with that in mind I have added chapters to aid in navigating to the parts you maybe most interested in.
0:00 Video Intro
1:45 Looking at the Box
2:45 Unboxing the Locomotive
8:35 Set up the Layout
9:25 Lights and Sound test
11:00 Slow Speed Test
12:10 Backup Light and Couple to the Cars
15:15 Pulling 30 Cars Take 1
18:00 Fail #1 Plastic Wheels
19:00 Pulling 30 Cars Take 2
20:55 Fail #2 Bad Coupler
22:08 Bad Coupler Strikes Again
23:10 Footage running around the Layout

Пікірлер: 28

@ericstewart4822 2 жыл бұрын

Love Chessie System. Love the colors.

@elijahaha2497 2 жыл бұрын

Its always a good day when vintage road and rail uploads👍

@Mia-wz2he 2 жыл бұрын

You got that right

@VintageRoadRail 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! 🚂

@dlae73 2 жыл бұрын

These SD50s are really nice for the price. Thanks for sharing.

@4everdc302 2 жыл бұрын

Yep. Ya gotta pick the Chessie colors everytime🚂🇨🇦🇺🇲🙋

@VintageRoadRail 2 жыл бұрын

Im not usually a fan of yellow, but Chessie Systems made it work. Love the colors!

@runswithwolf7498 2 жыл бұрын

Be awesome if you could find a SCL Loco and cars. Thanks for sharing 👍

@bluehappyscrap 2 жыл бұрын

AWESOME!!!💢💢💢💢💢💢💢💢

@paistefreak18 Жыл бұрын

Damn the old proto 2000 sd50s would pull 80 cars no problem

@VintageRoadRail Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I was a bit let down by its pulling capabilities.

@Yeetus_the_Ink_fella 4 ай бұрын

I have a Norfolk Southern one!

@VintageRoadRail 4 ай бұрын

I have kicked around getting that one as well

@Riogrande6400 9 ай бұрын

I like Walthers mainline locomotives except when the model had ditch lights because they are hard to see since they are very dim. Ditch lights are not the easiest to fix.

@VintageRoadRail 9 ай бұрын

I personally don't have any with ditch lights but I have heard others say the same thing about them being dim.

@Riogrande6400 9 ай бұрын

@@VintageRoadRail I have experience working with ditch lights I do replace them from time to time I just prefer not having to replace them on a new locomotive that has them from a manufacturer that does it half done.

@mstng100mph Жыл бұрын

Really thinking about getting one of these in either a Conrail or Reading and Nothern. Would be my first factory DCC& Sound engine. After you have had it for a bit do you recommend them still?

@VintageRoadRail Жыл бұрын

It's been running and sounds great. I would recommend it. Just don't pay MSRP for it. Should be between 150 and 170 for DCC with sound. MSRP is 209. I had it preorder on trainworld.com. I canceled that as I found it locally for 5 dollars more. Chose to support local.

@mstng100mph Жыл бұрын

@@VintageRoadRail thanks for the info. Yeah $160 on train world is the cheapest i have found. I have no local hobby shop but think I may pick one up now.

@wiseguysmith6519 Жыл бұрын

I got a couple of the Reading and Northern ones, one of which the plow broke off just like yours. Seems they could do a better job attaching it.

@VintageRoadRail Жыл бұрын

The snow plow unfortunately is not attached from the factory you have to attach it yourself. Sadly they don't make that easy either. It doesn't just snap into place, you have to glue it. 🤬

@wiseguysmith6519 Жыл бұрын

@@VintageRoadRail Interesting, I thought I could see where they had the glue for your plow on the front of yours in the video. My one is attached and the other I can tell was attached but broke off because the plow is yellow and the yellow pins from it are broke off in the frame below the anti-climber. Also the horns on that one were loose in the box (thankfully not broken), it must have got thrown around pretty good!

@ReadingAreaRailfan 2 жыл бұрын

I have the Reading and Northern one, there heavy pullers

@VintageRoadRail 2 жыл бұрын

As long as your cars have good, free rolling wheels. 🤣

@CentralJerseyRailfan 2 жыл бұрын

These are nice locomotives to detail up for a project. My biggest gripe with them however is that the shell is an absolute PITA to remove and it presses hard against the chassis

@VintageRoadRail 2 жыл бұрын

I hate when the shell is hard to get off. I always worry that I'm going to break it.

@CentralJerseyRailfan 2 жыл бұрын

@@VintageRoadRail The procedure is simple but you have to really spread the shell apart. Not exactly friendly towards ditch light installers, I installed those on mine and the wires snapped apart due to how tight the space is

@fuzzyworld3 Жыл бұрын

I got a to KCS copy of the SD50. It was really fun (NOT) getting the shell off to install a decoder! Doesn't help that the instructions that came with the model were vague at best!