In 1963 my grandfather bought me a Lionel train set for Christmas. One day when it was raining, I decided to try to set it up. But there wasn't enough room. So I placed everything back as it came and slid the box under my bed. 37 years later, I asked my mom if my train was still there. She said, "yes, it's in the attic." Well, it wasn't in the attic. It wasn't anywhere. She had given it to Goodwill. A BRAND NEW LIONEL TRAIN SET!
That's a terrible 😔 feeling! I never had a train set of any kind, but I remember having a foot locker full of comic books back in 1974. Fantastic Four, Incredible Hulk and so many others! My mother forced me to get rid of them, giving them to my cousin in Wisconsin. With the value of those comics now, I could have had quite a bit of money! I can understand how you feel.
Hmm... I wonder where I have seen that layout before🤔 It had my favorite locomotive on it: a Baldwin DR12/8/1500-2. Or otherwise known as the Baldwin Centipede;)
I live like 200 feet from the railroad tracks. A year ago when the real Big Boy came through my town you could hear that whistle from way far away, almost erie feeling. Then I could see the smoke approaching through the trees. It was really something else.
ill buy your memory from you it must of looked so intimidating and representing an era of pride that no longer exists since america is a shell of its former self
I was lucky enough to see the actual 4014 up close in October of 2019 when it stopped in Tucson, AZ. I knew it would be big, but it is difficult to describe just how immense it is in real life. A true marvel of engineering!
Man!!! Lionel really outdid themselves on the detail and scaling of that monster! Love the startup sequence and that whistle is right on the money. It will send chills down your spine. Seems like that was $2100 well-spent! 😁👍🚂
It’s good to see 2 great train review guys collaborating together. What a nice surprise. Very cool! Just goes to show you that there’s no one superior gauge train. We can all play in the same sandbox together and have fun.
As a child I always dreamed of having a model train set of my own. Unfortunately, my family was never well off and i cant ever seem to find the time to purchase a locomotive or even find the space to lay track. This video gives me joy though, as watching someone else enjoy it though gives me as much joy anyways! Thank you for making these videos
I was just thinking: "Gee, this is weird, because Eric is usually the guy with the new off-the-hop offering from Lionel, so this is new......" and I'll be darned, there's that curving bridge Eric's followers know so well! So, yeah, this is definitely a surprise!
This is a beautiful engine. I was working in elpaso last year and was privalidge to see 4014 run up a 2% grade for a mile was awesome. Thanks for the video.
Thank you so much for keeping my childhood alive and so much inginuity and improvements. Im at the stage of my life where its time to do my own thing. My older cousin had a set that was passed to him from my Grandfather.When my Grandmother passed in 1997 , everything was to go to me. My Greedy,black hearted Aunt threw everything in a dumpster so she said( yeah right. I believe that!). In spite of me she sold it all! Six sheets of Half inch plywood with the layout of the East Syracuse NY to the Minoa NY railyard with the hump that actually functioned most of the time that started in the basement, went up along the stairs to the living room, gradually climbed tothe ceiling in the dining room,circled around. And headed back down to the basement.I was fascinated with the layout and every Christmas Santa (meaning me) would get a new structure or scenery every year. The next season it would be added until Grandpa passed in 1978. Every year until Grandma started showing her dismay and it really started hurting inside we finally decided to pack it up.My Grimy Aunt resembled the wicked witch on the Wizard of Oz in spirit and believe it or not HER LOOKS! HOMELY SEAHAG SHE IS!! If it wasn't against the law,she wouldn't breathe another breath for what she stole from the family. Not only the train set, but the memories we cherished. A few of us have VHS tapes to remember and old reel to reels but she destroyed so much of us. I hope and pray no one else has had their memories stolen from them , but if so I feel for you. Thank you for reminding me about my Grandpa. BTW, my great Uncle worked for NY Central years ago too.
Absolutely outstanding!! As a child back in the 1950s, my Mom and I rode the N&W J Class passenger trains 🚂 between Suffolk Va and Roanoke/ Bedford Va. and you can guess the rest. I was showing my grandson train videos on RUclips and came across this one and was mesmerized with the detail, sights and sounds. Built many layouts for my twin sons back in the 1990s, but this really ignited a wonderful series of memories. Thanks so much for sharing your passion!
Being an American Flyer kid, I was never much of a Lionel fan. (I mean, C'mon with that "magnetraction"....a third rail just ain't right!!!!) That having been said, this BIG BOY model is awesome. Way to go Lionel!
Love your layout and that locomotive. I wish I had the room for a Lionel train layout. As a kid in the 70s I had an American flyer set that I would set up every X Mass on my ping pong table.
Brings back my childhood. Had a really neat and large O gauge layout. Many fine hours out there away from the family drunk. Lost access to it when the family broke up. There was also an amusement railroad on 20 in gage tracks. I was responsible for keeping that thing running. Near Albany, NY if anyone rembers.
Fifty years ago I saw this locomotive in a shop in Bristol England. I regularly visited the shop just to admire this beast. It was a real rarity in the land of OO Hornby. Thanks for this, it's superb.
@2:12 Im absolutely fascinated at the accuracy and detail of the valve gear. Im hoping as the video continues that I will get to see it in motion. If I werent on a pension., I'd buy one just to set on my mantle but I know I cant afford it The sound of the whistle is so rwealistic it brought tears to my eyes (Im an OLD B&O RR man) I notice AT 14 minutes,, this 4014 doesnt have a leaky packing gland on the fireman's side front drivers. LOL (I followed Big Boy all across the states in every video I could find.) THANK YOU THANK YOU!!
This reminds me of my grandfather’s train sets from my early memories of the 1950s. His tracks had 3 rails per section just like that and the engines were huge to me, so I’m guessing his were O scale too. He worked 50 years on the West Point Route. He passed when I was 5, thanks for the memories.
Great review James. I do like O scale because I have a Lionel O gauge Polar Express I was a kid. Great video with a UP Big Boy 4014 and I'm glad you met Eric from Eric's Trains great job.
I purchased a JLC Legacy Big Boy #4024 back on January 30th of 2021 and it is impressive. Although it looks exactly like the Vision Line in detail, it does lack some of the enhancements such as whistle steam/smoke, blow down steam/smoke, individual smoke output for each stack and depleting coal load along with multiple speakers and the quillible whistle. Now Trainworld still has them, I'm tempted to get another.
Had an ever-growing Lionel layout as a kid product of a dad who went shopping the day after Christmas to get deals for the next holiday. My brother and I were in hog heaven but never could get past the THREE RAILS when we saw our first HO layout our neighbor buddy had. Sure would love to have my stuff now; they're worth a ton of dough to collectors!
I’d like to get into O & G scale at some point. Will surely get into that soon> will get that collection started when I have finished my course and started working
@@epiccsx I'd think, start with O scale. That's my plan. Would O scale be safe for backyard running though? And are O scale trains water resistant? Those are two questions I'd need answered before I venture off into O scale trains. I've so far got two ho layouts. One is complete, the other is a work in progress.
@@thunderturbine8860 They are not water resistant. It's very similar to HO Scale. O Scale and HO Scale are made to be close to the prototype and realistic. G Scale is used outdoors a lot because they're not made to be close to the prototype, they're just made to be durable.
@@epiccsx ok. I'll get g scale. Although I have a decent sized house, it's not big enough for a huge O scale train layout. I think I might get a starter O scale set and then I'll expand as much as possible in my house. As I'm in Australia, we don't have basements like American houses do.
Wow. Watching the passenger cars on that bend out of that tunnel, and the way they overhung on the inside, i am amazed the Big Boy could make it around that bend.
Man that’s cool! Our neighbor moved 2 years ago and gave us a Lionel train I didn’t really pay attention to it until I opened it then I started playing with it FYI it’s the Lionel Santa Fe fastfreight steam engine
Im sorry, but im going to have to disagree on some things with you there. For one, look at the drive wheels on this engine, aaand then take a look at the pilot wheels. BUT! I will agree that the quillable whistle is a badass detail!
WOW! What a fantastic engine, & layout. I've been a model trane enthusiast since I was a child. I have hundreds of trains in storage, however. I've yet to find the time to actually build a layout. Love the video and the big boy is certainly amazing.
I stood next to the tracks in Cheyenne WY on May 4, 2019 and watched 4014 leaving Cheyenne westbound. It was followed by two tenders, one black and one yellow, 4-8-4 Northern number 844 followed by two tenders also, a diesel number 8937, and a bunch of passenger cars. I was about 40' away as it went by, and I was surprised by how loud it wasn't. This model might be louder than the real thing. I never thought I would see one of these running.
NO FN WAY a bigboy!! i still have my nat geo love those trains on VHS from when i was a kid i was obsessed w that model it represented america back then i hope to see one in person one day but to see one run in person id pay whatever it costs for the experience oh man
If you’ve never seen the big boy in real life you don’t know how big this engine is. Just one of the drive wheels is over 5 feet tall. So if you can imaging the engine is around 20 feet tall. That doesn’t seem like much but it really is.
Looking good keep up the good work looks like you have a nice time with it . Sandy s. I think the bell are the best. So cook. Have fun thanks for your time and have a great night.choo choo!🐎🐎🐎🐎👠.
In the fifties I had a Lionel set. Trains were cool but those 3 tracks would drive me nuts as to realism. when HO came out... I was hooked. This 4-8-8-4 is cool... real down to rivets and hoses, but those tracks!
Yes, "ACH DU LIEBER, MEIN SCHATZ"!!! WOWIE, WOW WOW! I'm not into model trains, but the "GORGEOUSNESS" of this fabulous engine turns my "LUSTER" way up there! Actually it's hangin' on the floor!!! I greatly love mechanical models like this, which is why I love this engine so much! All the working parts are on the OUTSIDE to marvel at! I'd guess the cost of this train to be at least $1700 + S&H! Wish this review could have been in more detail! Yes, "Senor ERIC" would be the guy to do so! How many man-hours did it take just to assemble this model? What is its pulling power? The special "guest appearance" by that ol' "kadoodlehopper" ERIC HISSELF" was enough to make me loose most of my "bodily functions"!! AND he wasn't the GUEST, but the "BIG KAHUNNA", although the host was a great guy too! Thanks so much for this most wonderful review"! "Gesundheit" und pass da LUTEFISK und veinerschnitzle und saurbraten poleaze!!!!!
Got to love all the big steamers ,l currently are buying a lot of big steam locomotives and lam kind of done on diesels for the moment l have more than l could ever Run ,So now it's Steamers
I wish so bad anyone in my family were into model trains....I plan to have my own layout when I retire but if only I had someone to grow up with. I would be in heaven!! Or maybe I should try and start a community layout
Lionel did a great job with the Big Boy wish they would have run it at a higher speed though. Sadly though the costs associated with this great hobby are getting out of control and it is not really affordable any more for a lot of people especially when a new locomotive (HO) can be well over $100.00 dollars for just a DC version and with cars costing upwards of $25.00 to $30.00 dollars is it any wonder kids would rather sit home and play video games. I was reading an add for code 83 track the other day and for $50.00 I could by 5 pieces of 36 in flex track, when did track get so expensive, good God. I'm just glad I got into the hobby when I was younger and amassed my collection over the past 45 years. Seriously I have not purchased a brand new HO locomotive in years and I have a good job, in fact I work for the RR and make a good living. I also collect Lionel Trains and prefer the older ones to the newer ones, you can work on the easier and don't need an electronics degree. I bought the polar express set and the micro switches on the locomotive are failing and losing contact, the transformer fan crapped out within the first few months, and try to get parts from Lionel, I needed a truck for one of the Polar express cars, not available from lionel Like many parts, oh you'll get a nice parts list but most of the time the parts are unavailable, I had to by a junk car at a show just for the truck. Maybe if Lionel still made their stuff her in America the quality would be better, so yeah I don't buy new Lionel anymore either. Well, that's my rant, still a nice engine though.
No, they didn’t. The direction control box is missing on the right side of the tender. The dual dynamos are missing from the left side of the boiler just in front of the cab. The cab is actually enclosed with doors, not a curtain. And one of the most visible errors are those two red ash pan control wheels, which along with the ash pans, were removed when 4014 was converted to oil. For what they are asking for this locomotive, these are really kind of unforgivable errors.
Ah the 4014, I am lucky enough to live in Cheyenne Wyoming, where she was restored. And I watched her head west on her run to Utah. The ground shook and so did my camera. It was and still is a sight to behold when she goes chugging by. Not quite the same sound as a coal fired steamer but still awesome to the max. My short video of her rolling past me, is on my channel. P.S. I remember a cold wet rainy morning when they fired her up and rolled her out. The first time they blew her whistle that day, sounded wet. They just didn't have enough steam up yet. That takes time, even with a oil fired boiler.
Lionel is getting better all the time.That is an amazing engine. Every scale size is perfect for somebody. For me it's American Flyer Trains. Not too big and not too small. Please demo the Lionel American Flyer Challengers, The 4-6-6-4 is the most beautiful locomotive I have ever seen. Their 4-8-8-4 big boy is nice too, but the Challenger is my favorite. James, you always do an awesome job pointing out the details and running the trains for us. Thank you James and Merry Christmas!
In 1963 my grandfather bought me a Lionel train set for Christmas. One day when it was raining, I decided to try to set it up. But there wasn't enough room. So I placed everything back as it came and slid the box under my bed. 37 years later, I asked my mom if my train was still there. She said, "yes, it's in the attic." Well, it wasn't in the attic. It wasn't anywhere. She had given it to Goodwill. A BRAND NEW LIONEL TRAIN SET!
That's a terrible 😔 feeling! I never had a train set of any kind, but I remember having a foot locker full of comic books back in 1974. Fantastic Four, Incredible Hulk and so many others! My mother forced me to get rid of them, giving them to my cousin in Wisconsin. With the value of those comics now, I could have had quite a bit of money! I can understand how you feel.
Hey that layout looks familiar!
Hmm... I wonder where I have seen that layout before🤔 It had my favorite locomotive on it: a Baldwin DR12/8/1500-2. Or otherwise known as the Baldwin Centipede;)
The layout looks very familiar, a little too familiar.
I love your videos! I've been watching for 6years now
😂🤣😂
I know Eric that's because it's your layout. And it's looking better and better Everytime I see it
I live like 200 feet from the railroad tracks. A year ago when the real Big Boy came through my town you could hear that whistle from way far away, almost erie feeling. Then I could see the smoke approaching through the trees. It was really something else.
ill buy your memory from you it must of looked so intimidating and representing an era of pride that no longer exists since america is a shell of its former self
@@frankgunsteincustoms_6645 very true , sadly
@@frankgunsteincustoms_6645 sometimes going 4wards not the best idea going
@@frankgunsteincustoms_6645 Thanks the Democrats and the immigrants for that!
The whistle moan sounds very authentic. Have been watching videos of the real 4014. When he gets to full chug, the sound is massive. What a beast.
I was lucky enough to see the actual 4014 up close in October of 2019 when it stopped in Tucson, AZ. I knew it would be big, but it is difficult to describe just how immense it is in real life. A true marvel of engineering!
Was it in flagstaff
I dont regret a bit on getting this peace of art. It truly is a masterpiece in my collection.
Lucky.
Man!!! Lionel really outdid themselves on the detail and scaling of that monster! Love the startup sequence and that whistle is right on the money. It will send chills down your spine. Seems like that was $2100 well-spent! 😁👍🚂
Yes they did i agree and i recently bought this almost alike engine and to see it run with your own eyes it'll make you amazed😊😊😊
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It’s good to see 2 great train review guys collaborating together. What a nice surprise. Very cool! Just goes to show you that there’s no one superior gauge train. We can all play in the same sandbox together and have fun.
As soon as I saw the thumbnail I was like what is James doing at Eric’s house.
I know!!!
Same
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Took my grandson to see the real Big Boy last year when it toured America. Very impressive
I got to shake Ed's hand when it was parked for the night in omaha Nebraska
@@harrybabb1769 I had to catch it in Fremont the next day.
As a child I always dreamed of having a model train set of my own. Unfortunately, my family was never well off and i cant ever seem to find the time to purchase a locomotive or even find the space to lay track. This video gives me joy though, as watching someone else enjoy it though gives me as much joy anyways! Thank you for making these videos
Me too I love trains!
Make time in your life for things you love, I'm sure you know life goes quick and it's the little things that make it worth it at the end of the day
What a beast! The smoke and the sound is on another level!
I was just thinking: "Gee, this is weird, because Eric is usually the guy with the new off-the-hop offering from Lionel, so this is new......" and I'll be darned, there's that curving bridge Eric's followers know so well! So, yeah, this is definitely a surprise!
also realized thats Erics layout
Off-the-hop? Do you, perchance, indulge in the vijeos of AvE?
same ikr@@jasquarles
This is a beautiful engine. I was working in elpaso last year and was privalidge to see 4014 run up a 2% grade for a mile was awesome. Thanks for the video.
Just shows how O scale is the perfect scale.
Yup, as they say, "o scale or no scale" lol
too bad it has 3 rails tho
No it’s like 1,000 times the price of ho
@@joshvirsandhu9359why’s that bad
It makes it more realistic 😂
$2200USD per loco is certainly not perfect
This engine is currently on its way to my house. I’m so excited
Thank you so much for keeping my childhood alive and so much inginuity and improvements. Im at the stage of my life where its time to do my own thing. My older cousin had a set that was passed to him from my Grandfather.When my Grandmother passed in 1997 , everything was to go to me. My Greedy,black hearted Aunt threw everything in a dumpster so she said( yeah right. I believe that!). In spite of me she sold it all! Six sheets of Half inch plywood with the layout of the East Syracuse NY to the Minoa NY railyard with the hump that actually functioned most of the time that started in the basement, went up along the stairs to the living room, gradually climbed tothe ceiling in the dining room,circled around. And headed back down to the basement.I was fascinated with the layout and every Christmas Santa (meaning me) would get a new structure or scenery every year. The next season it would be added until Grandpa passed in 1978. Every year until Grandma started showing her dismay and it really started hurting inside we finally decided to pack it up.My Grimy Aunt resembled the wicked witch on the Wizard of Oz in spirit and believe it or not HER LOOKS! HOMELY SEAHAG SHE IS!! If it wasn't against the law,she wouldn't breathe another breath for what she stole from the family. Not only the train set, but the memories we cherished. A few of us have VHS tapes to remember and old reel to reels but she destroyed so much of us. I hope and pray no one else has had their memories stolen from them , but if so I feel for you. Thank you for reminding me about my Grandpa. BTW, my great Uncle worked for NY Central years ago too.
That is an incredible amount of accurate detail for Lionel. It is more like a superdetailed model.
About 70 years ago I had a brief desire to have model trains. Now I can watch them on RUclips and satisfy any latent desires.
Biggest crossover I’ve ever seen on RUclips.
This is the crossover I didn't know 2020 would bring. I was JUST wondering what you were going at Eric's layout.
What you were going?
I have watched Eric's Trains enough to know his layout have fun while you are there!
Absolutely outstanding!!
As a child back in the 1950s, my Mom and I rode the N&W J Class passenger trains 🚂 between Suffolk Va and Roanoke/ Bedford Va. and you can guess the rest.
I was showing my grandson train videos on RUclips and came across this one and was mesmerized with the detail, sights and sounds.
Built many layouts for my twin sons back in the 1990s, but this really ignited a wonderful series of memories.
Thanks so much for sharing your passion!
Being an American Flyer kid, I was never much of a Lionel fan. (I mean, C'mon with that "magnetraction"....a third rail just ain't right!!!!) That having been said, this BIG BOY model is awesome. Way to go Lionel!
I've actually met Eric in the past, really cool dude.
You lucky trucker 🤠
I loved the steam coming from the whistle. But that made me want steam coming from down by the cylinders too.
Literally my exact same thought.
@@gmerc-zu6wz MINE TOO
Love your layout and that locomotive. I wish I had the room for a Lionel train layout.
As a kid in the 70s I had an American flyer set that I would set up every X Mass on my ping pong table.
It’s so crazy I’ve been watching both of you for 7 plus years!
Brings back my childhood. Had a really neat and large O gauge layout. Many fine hours out there away from the family drunk. Lost access to it when the family broke up.
There was also an amusement railroad on 20 in gage tracks. I was responsible for keeping that thing running. Near Albany, NY if anyone rembers.
Awesome to see modelers sharing another modelers layout :) super cool! Beautiful engine. Take care!
The train's smoke stack is what got me! It took me completely off guard that it synchronises with the whistle and movement
Fifty years ago I saw this locomotive in a shop in Bristol England. I regularly visited the shop just to admire this beast. It was a real rarity in the land of OO Hornby. Thanks for this, it's superb.
I just saw the big boy come through Texas and was the coolest thing I have ever seen
@2:12 Im absolutely fascinated at the accuracy and detail of the valve gear. Im hoping as the video continues that I will get to see it in motion.
If I werent on a pension., I'd buy one just to set on my mantle but I know I cant afford it
The sound of the whistle is so rwealistic it brought tears to my eyes (Im an OLD B&O RR man)
I notice AT 14 minutes,, this 4014 doesnt have a leaky packing gland on the fireman's side front drivers. LOL (I followed Big Boy all across the states in every video I could find.)
THANK YOU THANK YOU!!
that layout is from ERIC it is an honor to have made your video there
This reminds me of my grandfather’s train sets from my early memories of the 1950s. His tracks had 3 rails per section just like that and the engines were huge to me, so I’m guessing his were O scale too. He worked 50 years on the West Point Route. He passed when I was 5, thanks for the memories.
That layout and locomotive are gorgeous.
That is a huge tender!😄
THAT IS A BEAUTIFUL COLLECTOR'S STEAM ENGINE LOTS LUCK BUD.....
.......... BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!
Great review James. I do like O scale because I have a Lionel O gauge Polar Express I was a kid. Great video with a UP Big Boy 4014 and I'm glad you met Eric from Eric's Trains great job.
I purchased a JLC Legacy Big Boy #4024 back on January 30th of 2021 and it is impressive. Although it looks exactly like the Vision Line in detail, it does lack some of the enhancements such as whistle steam/smoke, blow down steam/smoke, individual smoke output for each stack and depleting coal load along with multiple speakers and the quillible whistle. Now Trainworld still has them, I'm tempted to get another.
Had an ever-growing Lionel layout as a kid product of a dad who went shopping the day after Christmas to get deals for the next holiday. My brother and I were in hog heaven but never could get past the THREE RAILS when we saw our first HO layout our neighbor buddy had.
Sure would love to have my stuff now; they're worth a ton of dough to collectors!
Awesome video!! Never imagined they'd get the whistle so detailed on any model. Very nice!
All it needs is the stoker arguer from the tender to the loco. Looks great. Thanks for posting......
Now this is what I call collaboration. This is great!
Awesome video love that locomotives and watching and enjoying Big Boy the 4014 is awesome 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🚂👌😎❤️
😀I love the smoke and the rising Coming out of it
Well pretty cool Eric's trains now that's amazing.
I recognized Erics layout , especially the big bridge .Nice Job
In that last shot in the city the moving camera makes it even more real
I didn’t pay attention to who’s video it was, I thought it was Eric’s but then I heard James voice. He got me there
OMG same
Saw full scale 4014 in Wyoming last year. The monster whistle will raise the dead! And the hair on the back of my neck! Intoxicating!!👍👍
Lionel really just makes pure gems every train I have from the even years old still work like they are brand new truly quality
Wow! Wish my Father was alive, as he loved to model railroads. The train sets he toyed with as a boy was from 1920s to 2005.
So glad that you are branching out as far as your reviews. Nice to see some o scale reviews from you.
I’d like to get into O & G scale at some point. Will surely get into that soon> will get that collection started when I have finished my course and started working
Me too. Currently, I do HO Scale, but plan to expand to O Scale
@@epiccsx I'd think, start with O scale. That's my plan. Would O scale be safe for backyard running though? And are O scale trains water resistant? Those are two questions I'd need answered before I venture off into O scale trains. I've so far got two ho layouts. One is complete, the other is a work in progress.
@@thunderturbine8860 They are not water resistant. It's very similar to HO Scale. O Scale and HO Scale are made to be close to the prototype and realistic. G Scale is used outdoors a lot because they're not made to be close to the prototype, they're just made to be durable.
@@epiccsx ok. I'll get g scale. Although I have a decent sized house, it's not big enough for a huge O scale train layout. I think I might get a starter O scale set and then I'll expand as much as possible in my house. As I'm in Australia, we don't have basements like American houses do.
@@epiccsx planning to buy some G scale trains as well at some point, given that O scale aren't water and heat resistant
That’s Eric’s layout, kudos Eric for letting this gentleman display his big boy.
Back in the 80s Lionel moved production to Mexico, and that move turned out to be a disaster. They ended up moving back to Michigan.
Now it's mostly made in China
Wow. Watching the passenger cars on that bend out of that tunnel, and the way they overhung on the inside, i am amazed the Big Boy could make it around that bend.
The review came out great James! Good work as usual.
Man that’s cool! Our neighbor moved 2 years ago and gave us a Lionel train I didn’t really pay attention to it until I opened it then I started playing with it FYI it’s the Lionel Santa Fe fastfreight steam engine
Fantastic layout and Big Boy engine.
the only thing that would make this better if i was made in the USA
That whistle sounds great!
The detail in o scale is so much nicer than ho scale
Im sorry, but im going to have to disagree on some things with you there. For one, look at the drive wheels on this engine, aaand then take a look at the pilot wheels. BUT! I will agree that the quillable whistle is a badass detail!
I not agree at all. This looks like a glossy toy in my opinion. Like most of the lionel stuff !
Despite what you might think, I model ho scale and I think detail looks better and easier to model on a bigger scale
WOW! What a fantastic engine, & layout. I've been a model trane enthusiast since I was a child. I have hundreds of trains in storage, however. I've yet to find the time to actually build a layout. Love the video and the big boy is certainly amazing.
I stood next to the tracks in Cheyenne WY on May 4, 2019 and watched 4014 leaving Cheyenne westbound. It was followed by two tenders, one black and one yellow, 4-8-4 Northern number 844 followed by two tenders also, a diesel number 8937, and a bunch of passenger cars. I was about 40' away as it went by, and I was surprised by how loud it wasn't. This model might be louder than the real thing. I never thought I would see one of these running.
Boy, Lionel has come a LONG way since my trains as a boy in the 50's. Yes, I DO wish I still had them!
This is an awesome set of a locomotive
NO FN WAY a bigboy!! i still have my nat geo love those trains on VHS from when i was a kid i was obsessed w that model it represented america back then i hope to see one in person one day but to see one run in person id pay whatever it costs for the experience oh man
I love the collaboration!!
I enjoyed this! Y'all are fun! Hi Erick 👍💥💯
If you’ve never seen the big boy in real life you don’t know how big this engine is. Just one of the drive wheels is over 5 feet tall. So if you can imaging the engine is around 20 feet tall. That doesn’t seem like much but it really is.
i love steam locomotives and model trains 😍 love from INDIA 😘
Looking good keep up the good work looks like you have a nice time with it .
Sandy s. I think the bell are the best. So cook.
Have fun thanks for your time and have a great night.choo choo!🐎🐎🐎🐎👠.
Great shot of it coming out of the tunnel, very impressive machine!
Congratulations on having such a spectacular model of trains
That box is as big as a rifle case.....that thing is just so awesome. Most places price it above $2K. Not a toy........a serious collector's item.
In the fifties I had a Lionel set. Trains were cool but those 3 tracks would drive me nuts as to realism. when HO came out... I was hooked. This 4-8-8-4 is cool... real down to rivets and hoses, but those tracks!
Yes, "ACH DU LIEBER, MEIN SCHATZ"!!! WOWIE, WOW WOW! I'm not into model trains, but the "GORGEOUSNESS" of this fabulous engine turns my "LUSTER" way up there! Actually it's hangin' on the floor!!! I greatly love mechanical models like this, which is why I love this engine so much! All the working parts are on the OUTSIDE to marvel at! I'd guess the cost of this train to be at least $1700 + S&H! Wish this review could have been in more detail! Yes, "Senor ERIC" would be the guy to do so! How many man-hours did it take just to assemble this model? What is its pulling power? The special "guest appearance" by that ol' "kadoodlehopper" ERIC HISSELF" was enough to make me loose most of my "bodily functions"!! AND he wasn't the GUEST, but the "BIG KAHUNNA", although the host was a great guy too! Thanks so much for this most wonderful review"! "Gesundheit" und pass da LUTEFISK und veinerschnitzle und saurbraten poleaze!!!!!
Got to love all the big steamers ,l currently are buying a lot of big steam locomotives and lam kind of done on diesels for the moment l have more than l could ever Run ,So now it's Steamers
I wish so bad anyone in my family were into model trains....I plan to have my own layout when I retire but if only I had someone to grow up with. I would be in heaven!! Or maybe I should try and start a community layout
thanks for gitting one, i never could
Recognized that layout straightaway. Nice job!
the HO Version of Trix is heavy ,too.Greetings from Germany !
Eris's reviews of the big boys are incredible too. I wish I had room for a layout like that myself.
Lionel did a great job with the Big Boy wish they would have run it at a higher speed though. Sadly though the costs associated with this great hobby are getting out of control and it is not really affordable any more for a lot of people especially when a new locomotive (HO) can be well over $100.00 dollars for just a DC version and with cars costing upwards of $25.00 to $30.00 dollars is it any wonder kids would rather sit home and play video games. I was reading an add for code 83 track the other day and for $50.00 I could by 5 pieces of 36 in flex track, when did track get so expensive, good God. I'm just glad I got into the hobby when I was younger and amassed my collection over the past 45 years. Seriously I have not purchased a brand new HO locomotive in years and I have a good job, in fact I work for the RR and make a good living. I also collect Lionel Trains and prefer the older ones to the newer ones, you can work on the easier and don't need an electronics degree. I bought the polar express set and the micro switches on the locomotive are failing and losing contact, the transformer fan crapped out within the first few months, and try to get parts from Lionel, I needed a truck for one of the Polar express cars, not available from lionel Like many parts, oh you'll get a nice parts list but most of the time the parts are unavailable, I had to by a junk car at a show just for the truck. Maybe if Lionel still made their stuff her in America the quality would be better, so yeah I don't buy new Lionel anymore either. Well, that's my rant, still a nice engine though.
No, they didn’t. The direction control box is missing on the right side of the tender. The dual dynamos are missing from the left side of the boiler just in front of the cab. The cab is actually enclosed with doors, not a curtain. And one of the most visible errors are those two red ash pan control wheels, which along with the ash pans, were removed when 4014 was converted to oil. For what they are asking for this locomotive, these are really kind of unforgivable errors.
Nice review James! I have seen Eric’s Trains videos as well he’s good. That was a funny ending as well lol.😆
Keep it up 👍🏻
Every Big Boy needs a water tender extra for operation
I’m a FLYER GUY But this is a FABULOUS PIECE of equipment!!! Congrats!
This what I love about model Railroading you get your mind Blown at Such Awsomeness.
I love lionels detail! And that whistle is top notch!!
Jlwii2000 you broke into ericstrains layout...😂
Welcome to Atlanta,where the trains play. 😊
This is beyond amazing. I love that train. Thank you for sharing!
This is a great train. I love the look. Thanks for sharing.
Ah the 4014, I am lucky enough to live in Cheyenne Wyoming, where she was restored. And I watched her head west on her run to Utah. The ground shook and so did my camera. It was and still is a sight to behold when she goes chugging by. Not quite the same sound as a coal fired steamer but still awesome to the max. My short video of her rolling past me, is on my channel. P.S. I remember a cold wet rainy morning when they fired her up and rolled her out. The first time they blew her whistle that day, sounded wet. They just didn't have enough steam up yet. That takes time, even with a oil fired boiler.
Name is pretty appropriate. That’s a big boi right there
yep as soon as i saw the layout is erics trains house
Beautiful engine and tender
Lionel is getting better all the time.That is an amazing engine. Every scale size is perfect for somebody. For me it's American Flyer Trains. Not too big and not too small. Please demo the Lionel American Flyer Challengers, The 4-6-6-4 is the most beautiful locomotive I have ever seen. Their 4-8-8-4 big boy is nice too, but the Challenger is my favorite. James, you always do an awesome job pointing out the details and running the trains for us. Thank you James and Merry Christmas!