I just picked up this same engine at a train show Sunday. It was so cheap I thought it would have issues, but after installing a BCR it fired up and runs fine. Now if I can just find the matching passenger cars (at a reasonable price)... Thanks for the video.
Man, I waited years to get an MTH RailKing Blue Comet. I'd passed on those by Lionel and others as not quite historically accurate enough, at least not to suit me anyway as a Jersey Central fan. NOT to say they don't look good and run good! Anyway, the MTH Comets always seemed to get snapped up QUICK, and before I was able to grab one. No surprise, there's lots of Comet fans out there! Then finally, I was in a right-place-right-time situation and got the MTH Proto-3 RailKing Comet, with eight cars too! (The real Comet usually didn't run with more than five, but what the heck, right?) Very, VERY happy with it! Patience is indeed a virtue! And as Maestro Lou Palumbo says, "Keep searchin'!"
Love the blue comet and the Jersey Central. I grew up in ocean county. Three hours from Jersey City to Atlantic City? The bus from Toms River to AC takes you about two hours these days, and that's about half the distance. Not bad timing for those days.
Three hours was excellent time for going to AC on the Comet. If you wanted to drive there from Jersey City on the predomidently two-lane roads of the time it would have been an all-day trip, assuming you didn't get a flat tire or two. Before the NJ Turnpike was built it took five hours to cross NJ.
I love the art deco appeal of this consist and the sharp contrast between royal blue and the off white stripe along the coaches. I've always wanted a set like this.
On the original Blue Comet the blue was to represent the sea and the buff stripe the sand of what New Jerseyans call "Down the Shore." And Atlantic City is certainly down the Shore!
Great video Sid. I have the blue comet but mine was by Lionel. I bought that version because it had the silhouettes, I personally enjoy silhouettes in the passenger cars.
I found the Proto3 version of this locomotive in a hobby shop about 3 years ago. It is one of the best locomotives in my collection. I have since found 5 of the 7 passenger cars MTH has made. Enjoy yours. It is a great set.
That's a swell deal. I found 6 cars for the Hiawathan from Milwaukee Road in my local hobby shop and bought em same day. I would like to have a Blue Comet
Thanks for this fantastic run of this astounding passenger train, Sid! It seems unbelievable that railroads went outside the box to create such eye capturing and colourful passenger trains in the day, even down to the engine itself. A magnificent tribute to the passenger era of individual railroad passenger service!
Fantastic train. I re=acquired a Lionel Blue Comet and it is a classic. I love running it along on my S gauge with My Flyer-nel Blue Comet and the D&H or American Models ACL passenger set. What a colorful review. The fact they still command premium prices is a testm,ony to its desirability.
The Blue Comet is indeed a beautiful train. When It came out it in Proto-2, I considered getting it, but had other engines on my list that had a higher priority and ended up missing it. Thanks for running this beautiful engine. It was great seeing it run.
One thing that was predictable with the old MTH was a product you missed this year was likely ro re-appear three or four years in the future, so you had to be patient. What the new MTH is going to be like is anyone's guess. At least they haven't gone away completely.
Being a New Jersey guy I love the Blue comet my first O gauge was the polar Express and then I jumped right into the Southern crescent because I love the green color the Blue comet was in the catalog next to it as well as the George Washington those were three premares believe it was 07
I have the engine but no cars yet. I picked it up at the Timonium train meet for about $200. I couldn't believe that was all they wanted. Mine is a 2.0
I traded a puppy to a train store for my set and is one of my favorites I ended up using a piece of hard rubber tubing and slipped it over draw bar connection to keep it going no problem since
Hey Sid. Awesome set. I’m a Jersey Central fan as I grew up in Jersey City not far from the Greenville yards and the Terminal where the Blue Comet’s route began & ended. So cool!
Sweet Blue Comet set Sid. That's an impressively detailed engine and cars and I think that's what catches your eye first. Coincidentally I'm a also a big fan of Blue colored steam engines 😊
Hey Sid! When I saw you list this video as one you were going to premier, I was extremely excited! My dad gave me the same engine and set from MTH. I watched it for hours and dreamed about having it one day. After I got it, I upgraded it to PS3 and it sounds great, but honestly I miss those QSI sounds, I was actually wondering if I could download the old QSI sounds back onto the locomotive and enjoying both the old and new. I agree, the locomotive looks flashy and I can’t believe how cool it looks! Also I had no idea there were 7 cars that came with the set, I have the 5 car set, I’ll be on the lookout for the other two!
Hi Sid, I'm a novice at best and the original owner of this same MTH Blue Comet train. I purchased it new in November 2001 (PROTO-2) from H&R Trains in Pinellas Park, Florida. I wanted to ask you what brand of railroad smoke you prefer. I have a 10 year old bottle of "LGB 50010 Smoke and Cleaning Fluid" but it never has produced much smoke. Is there something better?
I have the 'Westphal' passenger car and have been looking to collect as many of this set as I can but I noticed something while looking around on ePay. Mine has chrome door handles but no chrome spring system (at the wheels) Mine also has the magnet activated disconnect but the ones I've seen on ePay don't. They have also been an inch and a half longer than mine. My concern is a 'size match' so to speak. Maybe mine is a 'traditional' size (0-27) and the 18" are more 1/48 ?
TRAINS What these vague memories drawn through The mind like a restless tremble of fever? What has informed these blurred images? This night train halt in a Pullman sleeper, Sentinel platform lights wreathed by fog, A face white against the moist glass, These moving lips are whispering, as Steam caresses the locomotive's drivers, A wet cement platform glistening empty, As an ancient conductor calls, All-laboard, As a whistle signs to departure's darkness. More steam now in a vast passenger shed, Overhead the engineers' crisscross of iron Like a hallucinogen's etched pattern, the Soot patina of endless departed consists. A baggage cart creaks, languidly pushed, The leather of the stickered trunks and bags, Eased along the polished baggage car floor. A small lighted kiosk way down the platform, "Paper, sir?" and yes, wrapped sandwiches, magazines, candy, and the always cup of coffee. And then the pale long legs of a woman as she Hands herself up through the open Pullman door, Her red coat for an instant offering precious inches. The blind wander of the travel weary, The tossed minute firework of a cigar end, The crash of two couplers’ metallic mate, The violent outbreath of an air-hose release, Why are these fragments so known? And now these thin oriental rugs and hardwood floors, There, metal tracks to carry voltage from room to room, There the locomotive smoke and the haunt of the whistle Runs along the wainscoted walls and marble fireplaces. The passenger cars light the loomed wool and waxed wood, Move through each darkening room with the certainty of time, This twilight caressing the mind, till it reaches level, like A ship rising slowly in a lock. This is not my childhood! Whose memories are these? 20 For they cannot be mine.
I traded a puppy to a train store for my set and is one of my favorites I ended up using a piece of hard rubber tubing and slipped it over draw bar connection to keep it going no problem since
I will also buy trains because I like the color and I agree with you that the blue comet is a very nice looking set.
My first O-scale train. It ran through 7 rooms of our house. It wrote this poem.
I just picked up this same engine at a train show Sunday. It was so cheap I thought it would have issues, but after installing a BCR it fired up and runs fine. Now if I can just find the matching passenger cars (at a reasonable price)... Thanks for the video.
I love all the pacific steam engines. I have the Mth crescent limited and the Lionel Alton and Chicago
Great video Sid and awesome set!
This is one of my favorite passenger trains of all time and I always wanted the MTH version. Maybe I will buy it in HO. Great video!
Man, I waited years to get an MTH RailKing Blue Comet. I'd passed on those by Lionel and others as not quite historically accurate enough, at least not to suit me anyway as a Jersey Central fan.
NOT to say they don't look good and run good!
Anyway, the MTH Comets always seemed to get snapped up QUICK, and before I was able to grab one. No surprise, there's lots of Comet fans out there!
Then finally, I was in a right-place-right-time situation and got the MTH Proto-3 RailKing Comet, with eight cars too! (The real Comet usually didn't run with more than five, but what the heck, right?) Very, VERY happy with it!
Patience is indeed a virtue! And as Maestro Lou Palumbo says, "Keep searchin'!"
Love the blue comet and the Jersey Central. I grew up in ocean county.
Three hours from Jersey City to Atlantic City? The bus from Toms River to AC takes you about two hours these days, and that's about half the distance. Not bad timing for those days.
Three hours was excellent time for going to AC on the Comet. If you wanted to drive there from Jersey City on the predomidently two-lane roads of the time it would have been an all-day trip, assuming you didn't get a flat tire or two.
Before the NJ Turnpike was built it took five hours to cross NJ.
This should be a great video! I will be here!
Very nice
I love the art deco appeal of this consist and the sharp contrast between royal blue and the off white stripe along the coaches. I've always wanted a set like this.
On the original Blue Comet the blue was to represent the sea and the buff stripe the sand of what New Jerseyans call "Down the Shore." And Atlantic City is certainly down the Shore!
Cream!
Great video Sid. I have the blue comet but mine was by Lionel. I bought that version because it had the silhouettes, I personally enjoy silhouettes in the passenger cars.
I found the Proto3 version of this locomotive in a hobby shop about 3 years ago. It is one of the best locomotives in my collection. I have since found 5 of the 7 passenger cars MTH has made. Enjoy yours. It is a great set.
That's a swell deal. I found 6 cars for the Hiawathan from Milwaukee Road in my local hobby shop and bought em same day. I would like to have a Blue Comet
Sid....I admire that train. It's on my list for sure. Thanks for sharing. Your collection is "top shelf" !
Thanks Jim!
I love that train I want to get one❤️👍👍👍👍
Thanks for this fantastic run of this astounding passenger train, Sid! It seems unbelievable that railroads went outside the box to create such eye capturing and colourful passenger trains in the day, even down to the engine itself. A magnificent tribute to the passenger era of individual railroad passenger service!
Fantastic train. I re=acquired a Lionel Blue Comet and it is a classic. I love running it along on my S gauge with My Flyer-nel Blue Comet and the D&H or American Models ACL passenger set. What a colorful review. The fact they still command premium prices is a testm,ony to its desirability.
This should be good! Can’t wIt to see Sid!
The Blue Comet is indeed a beautiful train. When It came out it in Proto-2, I considered getting it, but had other engines on my list that had a higher priority and ended up missing it. Thanks for running this beautiful engine. It was great seeing it run.
One thing that was predictable with the old MTH was a product you missed this year was likely ro re-appear three or four years in the future, so you had to be patient.
What the new MTH is going to be like is anyone's guess. At least they haven't gone away completely.
I love the whistle and bell on this. I wish they could have kept this same sound file and modified it to have DCS control
That’s a beautiful set sid! I love my blue comet
Hell yea what a set!
Being a New Jersey guy I love the Blue comet my first O gauge was the polar Express and then I jumped right into the Southern crescent because I love the green color the Blue comet was in the catalog next to it as well as the George Washington those were three premares believe it was 07
Love the blue comet
I have the engine but no cars yet. I picked it up at the Timonium train meet for about $200. I couldn't believe that was all they wanted. Mine is a 2.0
Do they still have this show? I'm in the area.
Can't wait to have mine returned to me once you have your way with it😈🔥
I traded a puppy to a train store for my set and is one of my favorites I ended up using a piece of hard rubber tubing and slipped it over draw bar connection to keep it going no problem since
I have that set. It’s my favorite of all my collection congratulations!!
I have this set as well. It is one of my favorites!!!
AWSUM VIDEO ❤️👍👍👍👍
Pretty choo choo train.
Love the PS1 Sounds!
Hey Sid. Awesome set. I’m a Jersey Central fan as I grew up in Jersey City not far from the Greenville yards and the Terminal where the Blue Comet’s route began & ended. So cool!
Beautiful. Isn't PS-1 a pain in the rear to run though? Lots of power "cycles" to set parameters?
Not really. They are basically a normal conventional engine. The odd power cycling is for the programming of sound features and or activation of them.
@@SidsTrains Thanks Sid. If I may ask...do you use a "bell button" to do that programming?
Sweet Blue Comet set Sid. That's an impressively detailed engine and cars and I think that's what catches your eye first. Coincidentally I'm a also a big fan of Blue colored steam engines 😊
Hey Sid! When I saw you list this video as one you were going to premier, I was extremely excited! My dad gave me the same engine and set from MTH. I watched it for hours and dreamed about having it one day. After I got it, I upgraded it to PS3 and it sounds great, but honestly I miss those QSI sounds, I was actually wondering if I could download the old QSI sounds back onto the locomotive and enjoying both the old and new. I agree, the locomotive looks flashy and I can’t believe how cool it looks! Also I had no idea there were 7 cars that came with the set, I have the 5 car set, I’ll be on the lookout for the other two!
You can't put the old sounds into PS3. Not the same kind of setup.
@@SidsTrains could I replace the whistle or bell sound files and leave everything else?
Hi Sid, I'm a novice at best and the original owner of this same MTH Blue Comet train. I purchased it new in November 2001 (PROTO-2) from H&R Trains in Pinellas Park, Florida. I wanted to ask you what brand of railroad smoke you prefer. I have a 10 year old bottle of "LGB 50010 Smoke and Cleaning Fluid" but it never has produced much smoke. Is there something better?
I would recommend using MTH protosmoke fluid
@@SidsTrains Thank you very much!
@@SidsTrains Oh... also thanks for the great video!
I have the 'Westphal' passenger car and have been looking to collect as many of this set as I can but I noticed something while looking around on ePay. Mine has chrome door handles but no chrome spring system (at the wheels) Mine also has the magnet activated disconnect but the ones I've seen on ePay don't. They have also been an inch and a half longer than mine.
My concern is a 'size match' so to speak. Maybe mine is a 'traditional' size (0-27) and the 18" are more 1/48 ?
Ah yes, something other than a coal train haha! Good Video Sid!
Thanks Sam. Haha coal is frequently shown by me 😂. Had to show something different lol.
TRAINS
What these vague memories drawn through The mind like a restless tremble of fever? What has informed these blurred images? This night train halt in a Pullman sleeper, Sentinel platform lights wreathed by fog, A face white against the moist glass,
These moving lips are whispering, as Steam caresses the locomotive's drivers,
A wet cement platform glistening empty, As an ancient conductor calls, All-laboard, As a whistle signs to departure's darkness.
More steam now in a vast passenger shed, Overhead the engineers' crisscross of iron
Like a hallucinogen's etched pattern, the
Soot patina of endless departed consists.
A baggage cart creaks, languidly pushed,
The leather of the stickered trunks and bags,
Eased along the polished baggage car floor.
A small lighted kiosk way down the platform, "Paper, sir?" and yes, wrapped sandwiches, magazines, candy, and the always cup of coffee. And then the pale long legs of a woman as she Hands herself up through the open Pullman door, Her red coat for an instant offering precious inches. The blind wander of the travel weary,
The tossed minute firework of a cigar end, The crash of two couplers’ metallic mate, The violent outbreath of an air-hose release, Why are these fragments so known?
And now these thin oriental rugs and hardwood floors,
There, metal tracks to carry voltage from room to room,
There the locomotive smoke and the haunt of the whistle Runs along the wainscoted walls and marble fireplaces.
The passenger cars light the loomed wool and waxed wood, Move through each darkening room with the certainty of time, This twilight caressing the mind, till it reaches level, like
A ship rising slowly in a lock. This is not my childhood! Whose memories are these?
20
For they cannot be mine.
I traded a puppy to a train store for my set and is one of my favorites I ended up using a piece of hard rubber tubing and slipped it over draw bar connection to keep it going no problem since