The Chronicles of Norm #16 - Switching Things Up

I set up a Lionel Legacy PRR Alco S2 with fixed pilots and Kadees and weather a Union NW2 for a pal.

0:00 Intro crawl montage
0:28 Disassembly
1:42 Early Legacy electronics
2:03 Electrocoupler removal
2:55 3D printed pilot fill
4:17 Pilot mods in place with Kadee mount
8:34 Reassembly
9:50 Pilot paint matching
10:47 Layout run test
13:44 Weathering prep with special guest
16:15 Legacy Union NW2
20:04 Union NW2 on the layout
20:42 S2 weathering
24:49 Post weathering cleanup
26:14 Look-over on the layout
31:05 Run montage

[TheTrainboard]

Always liked Norm's use of black yard cinder and grass around his rails vs conventional ballast. It's especially evident in his closeup shots here. Years ago I purchased a 3 gal pail of Brennon's medium ballast but never applied it since I had to change or debug track problems . Now, perhaps I will use cinders in many places, inspired by Norm's magic. Gary

[digitalgridmusic]

Norm I just finished rewatching the other 15 of these in the series, and I refreshed Youtube and there was Episode 16 freshly posted. What are the odds! Great video as always.

[timu]

Although I haven't had a model railroad in over twenty years, I still enjoy watching your videos, Norm. Especially your workbench segments, such as here. I watched with great interest your weathering techniques. I don't think you overdid the oil stain seeps, at least from my side of the camera. I didn't see any over-done effects, for that matter, but a nice even and subtle suggestion of weather. Love your route and always enjoy studying the many details.

[vin]

The interior detailing of your buildings is absolutely amazing. Great job.

[northpennvalleysteamrailroad]

Awesome video Norm! Love the S2 Alco! PRR 👍

[Porschedude]

Excellent work Norm! Thanks loads. 👏😏

[keithneal]

Norm - you have amazing talents. Thanks for the wonderful vlogs and sharing them with us all. All the best.

[luvindemtrains]

Very nice work here man! The scene at the end, in the engine facility, is just SICK! Too much realism to be a model railroad. I'm finishing up a Lionel SW900. I'm not as advanced as you are with 3D printing the coupler gap, so I just used styrene. Thanks for showing some of your weathering application. Maybe next time you could demonstrate how you apply the grime.

[conrailfan]

Nice build Norm!! I had my first ride
on a SW7 New York Central switcher
in 1969 when I was 4 years old,
Don Staley the Conductor was friends
with my Grandfather, it was on the Dow line here in Anderson Indiana!!
Do I see some switching videos
coming??

[henryszubielski]

That is very nice!
Love ALCo switchers.
As always, you did a fabulous job.
Thanks for sharing your adventure!

[quizinovag]

Hey man, just want to say keep up the great work. Big inspiration for me and my modeling of Uk oo gauge, so just goes to show your tips work on a lot of levels. If you could do a showcase/review type thing on that mint S2 class as that looked incredible.

[carterstarlight]

Amazing as always! I Hope one day a Niagara or Milwaukee F7 Baltic run in his layout and he does a video about them in the future!

[boynesstrainworld]

Yo yard looks so realistic. I hope one day to get mine's looking close to that. But then again you have more room than me to play with

[kenmunozatmmrrailroad]

'Love my smoke Norm, however I have to agree with you;- the fluid seems to snot from every crevice of these expensive man-toys.

I thought I was just a bad engineer😂

[axlepwr]

Do you have a video of what your standards are for seting up your freight cars. Trucks, couplers and so on?

[stuartlang]

Do you weather trains for other people or just your own? You're trains are amazing looking.

[fredphillips]

Norm, great job on the S2. Any chance you would sell a 2 sets of the pilot conversion?