I’m back with another train video. Back on my good friend Johnny’s layout with a treat a Lionel Postwar Celebration Series reissue from the 1990s of their Western Pacific F3 #2355 pulling Lionel 15’ in aluminum cars for the California Zephyr from my Lionel California Zephyr set that came with scale ALCO PA Diesels. The original Lionel Western Pacific F3 was in 1952 with the 2345 which is most sotafter of all Lionel’s Postwar F3s and the engines identical to Lionel’s 2343 Santa Fe F3 and the 2344 New York Central F3 which were with the 2345 the pinnacles of Lionel’s F3 diesels, but by 1953 the Western Pacific was reissued giving it a new number 2355. The only differences between the 2345 and 2355 was the A units did not include the simulated grab iron handrails on the nose and the roof louvers like the previous F3s. Even so the Western Pacific F3s are most collectible of the Postwar F3s. In the late 1990s Lionel introduced the Postwar Celebration Series bring back many different accessories, cars, and locomotives from Lionel’s Postwar years. In 1997 Lionel brought back the 2355 this time with the added details of the 2345 with the latest technology at the time. Railsounds II, Electro-Couplers, a added non-powered B-unit, a backup light for the B-Unit, and the biggest of them all was Trainmaster Command Control which gave the 2355 accurate Diesel sounds with Crewtalk. That same year Lionel brought back the Texas Special F3 #2245 with matching passenger cars. The 2355 didn’t get the same treatment as the 2245 did, however, a California Zephyr passenger set was released several years before headed by a pair D&RG ALCO PAs. In fact WP’s EMD F units weren’t strangers to the California Zephyr. During the original Zephyr’s operation Career Western Pacific used the F3’s updated model the F7 to pull the California Zephyr through the Sierras and the Feather River Canyon to San Francisco. There is a complete set of Western Pacific F7s at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum at Portola, California which was once a major place on the Western Pacific. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAoPGIXCrEY

I took the video on Wednesday when I got to Folkston and it’s more than I dreamed to be. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s329FH4xHRE