O scale brass review goes Disco

[SWrailroader]

I have never seen anything like this before. It starts at the 23 sec mark in the video. What's next in this hobby?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zUFzAuuRUs

[up148]

Detracts from the presentation IMHO, but we're old, so maybe this is where the hobby is going to keep hobbiest entheused. Lovely model.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Disco? Not at all.....hard rock near metal riffs and a huge improvement over the usual insipid faux country rubbish that somehow has gotten associated with model train video.

[SWrailroader]

OK, hard rock, but the lighting is Disco IMO.

I have a couple USH NYC H-10s that are near mint and almost as nice and purchased for about $500. Given the proven durability of USH pieces not sure I would consider the SS pieces, maybe P&LE version.

[healey36]

I don't know...a bit of Donna Summer might be terrific.

[up148]

I like the oldies from the 50's and 60's (some 70's). I like some jazz and even classical. Disco had a cool beat and Donna Summer was the queen, but I burned out early. The older music is just timeless for me.

[Pacific Limited]

Disco, you mean as in Travolta and the image of a dance floor, bell bottoms, big collars, Elvis suit and reflecting, glowing, spinning, sparkling disco-balls?, the music is nothing like any disco IMHO. Sounds more like most popular music now, processed for smart phone speakers, dead flat, no life but a wall of noise. Likely production work in AI, and 32 tracks of digital AI generated goodness mixed down in some kid's parent's basement in Iowa.

I passed on. Thumb-scrolled on from that one. Ah, the life of a digital-influencer on social-platforming. If you eat the spoon fed bull being shoved up our rears, this is about the only career opportunity for GenZ left, online as sorority influencers. He needs more click-bait appeal. But give him credit, he is avoiding the dreaded fake AI voice narration and AI generated content. I believe the so-called "disco-shot" is real, no AI overlays.

Nice model, ok video. Its cool. I like it. Ill pass on the music.

[Chris Webster]

Disco? Not at all.....hard rock near metal riffs

I thought it was "thrash metal" but I'm not up to date with music labels.

I have a couple USH NYC H-10s that are near mint and almost as nice and purchased for about $500. Given the proven durability of USH pieces not sure I would consider the SS pieces, maybe P&LE version.

Brasstrains says the USH H10b engines were imported back in 1975, so those models are 51 years old - they've held up very well!

I don't own any 3rd Rail engines because I'm mostly interested in diesels and I just can't get past 3rd Rail's use of spinning drive shafts between the fuel tank and trucks.

I passed on. Thumb-scrolled on from that one.

I only watch hobby videos in the 2X mode and most of them still take too long to watch.

That said, I recently came across this informative review:
Signal Light Productions - 3rd Rail Amtrak Chargers
It's too long, most of the review is about 3-railer problems but I still found it informative. At the 28 minute mark he shows how the models' screens are not screens at all and that interior lighting behind the screens only works in reverse. That was jarring to me because I've been seeing the prototypes often and the lit up screens really stand out at night. He also shows how the sound is wrong and explains why he'll be installing Blunami in his models. That last part made me understand why Blunami is becoming so popular with the 3railers.