So in today's video we're gonna be doing an unboxing of this Walters Mainline
intermodal car. A bit of backstory about this car, a few months ago my dad went on
a trip to Calgary, while he was there he went to a hobby shop called "Trains
and Such" and he bought me this as a gift. Huge thanks to him, it was very very nice.
And he brought it here and I wanted to do a video about it but I didn't get
around, to it until now! So anyways, start off the unboxing. It seems all
very very nice. I have to say the packaging on it is good, I've always
liked Walters especially since they made lifelike for a long time, I mean they did
just discontinue it but they are still making proto so I still have respect for
Walters and I bought trains, I have a locomotive from them which was my first
one back in 2006 that ones never broke down so they're a respectable company I
have to say. Uh... well the back there they've got a bit of an interesting
quote, "built for the long haul Walters mainline cars the locomotives deliver
durable dependable construction at prices you can afford available in a
wide variety of paint schemes Road numbers Walters mainline makes building
a diverse roaster of equipment easy and fun, models under frequent service at
home or club operations sessions without meaning to be stopped".
"Quality, value, variety that's Walters Mainline". Well we'll see. I have to say,
right from the box it looks very good so we'll see.
Wow! look at the detail on this, it's very very nice and I wasn't expecting this I
thought this was gonna be made out of plastic but (Metal clincking) that's metal
very very cool. Um... So anyways, yeah I would assume. This is the kind it's got the hollowed-out
bottom. This is very very interesting kind of scary because I saw a video once
where a guy went train hopping and it was nighttime and he almost jumped into
one of these cars not knowing that that was hollowed out so every time I see
a car that is hollowed, I think of that and think mmh..
But anyways, let's put this thing on the layout and try it out. Also he got me this
cool intermodal car so, I let's take that out of the packaging altar also by oh it's Walters not
Walters mainline though so that just goes right in there like so. and we have
intermodal car. So we've got it all set up on the track, I was gonna run this
with my Athern AC4400 my Canadian Pacific one. But as it turns out that's
missing its rear coupler so I just put on my dad's old Canadian Pacific
locomotive by Bachman, still alive and kicking so let's take her for a test run
I have to say the rolling resistance is very minimal that's not just because of
a grade as you can see it rolls very smooth both
ways. So that's it for today's video I just want to say another thanks to my
dad for getting this for me it was very generous of him. also containerman68 if
you're watching this you're probably gonna see me on your channel in a few
days because I want to build a second intermodal car to go on top of this one
that would kind of a dual stacked one. thanks for watching everybody!