Lionel F3 locomotives and evaluation review🚂
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
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You have some great stories/memories to go with these fun F3 locos. Nice job making the most of the SP F3 purchase.
I can’t decide which one I like best. It’s too tough to say. My top three would include the NY, SP and oddly, the green Pennsylvania unit. But they’re all cool.
I’m in the same boat. I would say that their all my favorites. F3 diesel are so hard not too love them.
Superior job on the video, I'm a F3 fanatic also. Enjoyed watching!
Thanks for watching, Glad you enjoyed!
Great video, its a shame they used those white implants on the MPC units, either way nice collection 😊👍
Thank you very much. I’m proud to have these in my train room
Born in 1953 my Dad built a a 3 level mountain layout in our basement he started in 1958 with plenty of lumber and painted cement for the mountains. Our Santa Fe passenger set was from 1960. I have read the Santa Fe passenger trainset sold the best. Do you know if Lionel provided passenger trainsets for each of your shown locomotives during the 1950s and 1960s? Did Lionel provide diesel locomative passenger trainsets for most of the rail companies such as Union Pacific that I have also seen on RUclips or just a few? I think the 1950s are my favorite era of rail history of passenger trainsets. I was never a model railroader but havve sure ridden the AMTRAK routes west of St. Louis / Chicago used by some of these rail companies. I am surpised the Texas Special units did not apparently sell better. Thanks for showing these locomotives.
As long as you don't try to sell them as 100% original there's nothing wrong with swapping a good shell onto another chassis to get a runner. Both the PRR and SP were supposed to be dual motor units that would have had a single electrical pickup on both trucks. A single motor unit works really well for light frieght cars, but once you start pulling a set of the metal passenger cars like the SP was intended for you really start to miss that second motor. Great collection though. I have all of those engines in my own collection, though my 2344 is the Post War. That newer version looks incredible though.
There are some powered units that do have the horn in them, so that way I don’t have to worry about using the dummy unit for the horn
There is nothing wrong with swapping good condition original shells onto an F3 chassis. As long as the shell is an original and not a repro or repaint, everything is good. All of the Lionel F3's are on the same chassis, 2333-20, which only differ in the paint, depending on the road name. This goes for the powered and dummy units. Lionel churned out tens of thousands of these chassis. Collectors look at the condition and originality of the shell. The only real difference is that in 1953, they switched the horn to the dummy, by taking out the motors from the powered unit and putting them in the dummy chassis and leaving the horn unit in the now dummy chassis. If I remember correctly, the single motored units have the horn in the powered unit, basically, where the second motor would be.
Love the f3 great informative video.👍👍
Much appreciated my friend
Awesome! I have a MTH NYC F3 set that they model off the Lionel original.
I’ve noticed that in your videos
The green Pennsy F3's are the ONLY F3's Lionel ever made with the white plastic windows - even the maroon version of the same loco has clear plastic windows. Why they used white plastic in this one-and-only F3, to my knowledge is a mystery that's never been solved. All other MPC era F3's, the B&O, Wabash, Rio Grande, Santa Fe, NYC, Southern, Illinois Central, etc., all have clear plastic windows.
Both the green and the red pennsy F3s were made in 1979 and both had dual motors in the powered A uniit ,,,so if you bought it with a single motor you got robbed and its not original ,,,,just to let you know,,,Ken
FYI I meant to say double motor. So it technically is original