Absolute Nightmare of a Steam Locomotive - Will it Run? 

Great motor the X04! You were really lucky to find what is clearly a brand new one in Canada!! Loco really needs some buffers though!

@SMT Mainline SMT: "Oh shoot, lost a wheel..." Engine: "No problem! 'Tis but a scratch! I'll just keep going..."

In addition to a loose screw you have a lost wheel! Just funnin' with you. Keep the great videos coming. It is very inspirational watching you make engines run again. Thanks!

I'm glad you got that North British Railway H class up and running again. I have some old Tri-Ang rolling stock and I can tell you the flanges on that stuff are much thicker and the rails sit higher than code 100. They were refined to code 100 standard around the late 60s/early 70s. British model trains have been more kitbuilt longer than their American counterparts. In fact, some British model train manufactures still provide some rolling stock kits.

Hello! It was a pleasure to look at - great renovation! The British steam locomotive cannot be confused with something else. 👍

Would suggest getting more Hornby/Tri-ang tracks to expand on the circle layout

Great video as always. The loco looks like a white metal kit built using an adopted tri ang 4 4 0 chassis. I am not an OO gauge modeller, but I am pretty sure that tri ang never made a 4 4 2 chassis. It looks like it only picks up from one set of wheels, so you may want to improve on that.

Now there's a OO with pizza cutters for you ! Nice job!

Best explanation is that a child, or unskilled painter at least, got ahold of it one day and decided to 'improve' the look with fresh paint. Gads, the paint looks like it was slathered on like icing! Good job getting it to run at least.

Nice NBR class H Reid Atlantic, later class C11 LNER. They worked out of Edinburgh and Aberdeen to Glasgow, Carlisle and Newcastle I believe. Nice job! Joachim

The loco is a British kite build, made by a company called south eastern fine cast. It's a model of a Scottish company called north british railway from the 1920s. The kit used parts of a early triang loco,all of the smaller wheels came with kit.

Well look at Mr fancy pants here with his voltmeter and motor rewinding 😂. Seriously though Harrison I honestly don't think there's a broken locomotive short of someone taking the late great Gallagher's Sledgomatic to that you can't bring back from the brink.

If you don't have one, I highly recommend that you pick up a "Gear Puller." NWSL makes a nice one. Super useful for getting worm gears off of a drive shaft and also for pulling wheels off of axles.

Idk why but on the first test run when you took the tender off it seemed a bit aggressive, like you were mad at it or something lol.

paint on the wheels and motor... now that is something new.

I'm amazed how you can fix a not working train

i couldn’t comment last night but now i can, i got excited when i saw this video last night.

SIR, SIR! WE HAVE AN ENGINE THAT NEEDS HELP RIGHT NOW! IT HAS NO ENGINE, NO WHEELS, NO CHASY AND ECT, ONLY THE BOILER AND THE TENDER! Can you fiz it? 5 hours later: SMT comes back with a totally new engine like if it was just out of the box. SMT can fix ANYTHING!

I think what this is is a locomotive kit that was made when triang was still in its early days, looks like someone rewheeled it (Romford?) And is just using a cut down princess chassis

I love these kinds of videos! An almost hopeless case of locomotive neglect and it’s runs AGAIN!! Well, sort of, kinda… More like wobbles again…😅

Can you do a decoder install video on an old Bachmann steam engine?

The class of engine is a Robinson H1 built in the 1910s to 1920s on the gnr they were all scraped in 1950 to 1960

Serenity! You have a runner! W Rusty Lane K9POW in eastern Tennessee

The locomotive looks like a GEM product or George E Mellor product , SMT .

A Reid Atlantic from the Highland Railway (pre-1923 Grouping of railways).

What could be sweeter than restoring to running condition an abused junker loco with a flea market bargain.

I went on a train yesterday and it was so much fun 🎉 Yesterday 4/8/2023

Please what is that small hand held screw diver with the bits in the handle please... Great job restoring your locomotive Awesome...

Hello smt mainline love your videos and also can you get a cfr train? If not it is okay bye!

I think the comment about the loco being dropped may not be too far off. The cab looks to bent downward in the back of the locomotive. This may be more damage than just the front of the locomotive. Hopefully, nothing else was damaged too much such as the frame.

Would be gool if one of those used solinoids instead of a motor.

My bet is that this kit was built by a child or teenager, that only had a basic understanding of kit building, the paint of the motor looks like it was transfer from when the kit was originally painted. All of the other details, such as the painted wheels tells me that the kit was painted when it was fully assembled, which as any model builder will tell you is a big mistake, for the reasons shown in this video. I would also guess that when the model failed to run due to the obvious, the builder just gave up on it.

THEY FORGOT TO TAKE OFF THE SHELL

@9:19... what tool u used to clean up wheels?

Bro yeet the tender

haha that thing has a lean to it's funny nice to see it run oh wheel haha still funny

Hey if I send one of my trains can u fix it for me and send it bk

Paint in motor? Who would do that?

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I don't trust the positioning of the connection side rods. The steam chest (pistons) look weird, as if it is upside down, but I can't find a picture of that locomotive yet so I can't be sure.

Why would someone buy an expensive white metal kit and then paint it so badly??

Theres no Engine you can’t fix.

defiantly a made up design in areas to my knowledge

Hi smt

👍🙂

If I Were you look into the original Paint color whoever painted it should be Hung.

Bad motor

Great video. And it may be a minor thing but, NBR stands for North British Railway, rather than New British Railway. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_British_Railway

I was dying when the wheel fell off

As I watched you work on this, I really wanted you to do the full Monty on it. Strip the paint and completely overhaul and rebuild. Good job getting it going!

SMT - You should certainly now clean the rails on the main line! Your Volt-Ohm-Meter will be very useful. That square black pushbutton switch is to select different ranges of resistance, voltage, & current. The lower ohms range (Omega symbol) will be good for checking continuity, the higher kiloohms & megaohms ranges would be good for checking the resistors used in electronic circuits. The voltage and current will have different ranges, plus selecting AC or DC. You had to correct many errors that the original modeler did when they constructed the locomotive!

Been watching you for a while now. It's refreshing to see someone give love and a bit of care to these old loco's, even imperfect as they are. So many people would just abandon them and leave them to the rubbish pile. Keep doing what you're doing 👍

Really nice restoration on it. It’s crazy that there was paint kinda all over the old motor.

Nice job getting that one back to life. I got an interesting engine it's a battery powered Hot Wheels engine It works though I have no track or cars and I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it but let it sit for now and at $4 I just couldn't pass it up especially being a Diecast Collector

The locomotive is brown and considering the overall state the locomotive was in I think a good name for this locomotive would be the “Big Rolling Turd”.

Wow I'm amazed of the way you can work non working train's

Nice job once again bringing an HO locomotive back to life. 👍

I think it’s a H1 class

It's an early seventies white metal GEM locomotive kit that has been assembled and painted badly. If you search for Worthpoint GEM North British Railway Atlantic Class 1 ( LNER C9/C10 ) 4mm you should see a kit that was for sale with an illustration of the makers well assembled one and a description of the parts included or needed. In the UK hundreds of different types of locomotives were only available as kits and so were produced mainly in the period of the mid fifties to eighties. White Metal kits were cheap to tool up for a manufacturer but difficult to assemble well except for very skilled modellers. I suspect this one had the original chassis ruined by the builder and so tried to use a working Triang 4-4-0 instead. In the rare case where it is built and modified well to correct shortcomings in the design a very powerful and unique locomotive can result. On RU-vid Tony Wright often explains why he only uses these well built kits on his massive layout and so being able to pull scale length trains. However even he will not touch some old sub standard kits.

This is the only LNER C10 Aka C11 (North British Railways I Aka H Class) on your channel a it's the Rarest one

Hey SMT great video, and I want to thank you for getting me into the model railroading hobby. I’ve been watching your videos for about 2 years now, and it’s cool to see the progress on you layout from then to now, keep doing great work.

That thing isn't painted, its glazed like a cake.

The doctor scores again!!!! Well done

This is an old white metal kit of a North British Railway Atlantic on a butchered Tri-ang chassis-possibly by someone like Keyser, who were very popular once upon a time. Tri-ang did make a 4-4-0, but the wheelbase on yours looks shorter, which makes me wonder if this actually uses the chassis out of the M7, with the 4-wheel bogie transposed to the front. The cylinders and rods look like they come off a Princess. Horrible gloopy looking and slightly wonky kitbashes weren’t uncommon in the ‘60s- I’m not sure why, although there was less provision for modellers then. If stripped, cleaned, tidied and repainted though, it could be a presentable little model of a rather handsome prototype.

Pre-Triang brass rail Series 0 (1950), Triang Series 1 (1950 - 1951), Triang Series 2 (1952 - 1958), Triang Series 3 (1958 - 1961) & Triang Super 4 track systems are all Code 250 rail profile height. Triang - Hornby System 6 track is Code 100 rail profile height.

you need a puller to take offworm gears

👍SMT, If you don't use bubblegum and twist ties on a repair, your not fixing it right. LOL! Congrats Harrison, you made it run so good the wheel fell off, it's just like brand new !🤣😂😅👍 People are a little strange painting the whole damn Loco including the motor, just to put it on a Mantel like a Trophy! 🤣🤣🤣Funny Episode I had a good laugh, thank's I needed that, Cheers! 👍

Great 🎉🎉🎉😅

lovley engine, unfortunate it is a nightmeare (both looking and mechanically 😬)

I got my first model train in 1958 and your videos bring back many good memories. You're a genius at resurrecting these old trains. Greetings from Brisbane Australia.

not the fanciest painting...

Definitely painted by a kid

Great video. Its nice to see restoration videos on things other than consoles and computers

SMT Manual British OO/HO Hornby. But also mentioned in the "land of misfit locomotives section," lol Great save Harrison🚂🇨🇦🙋

There was no doubt in my mind that you would get it running again. Great job. From Texas

This loco would have left the factory in an unbuilt condition, it looks to be a white metal kit on a modified Triang chassis, as Triang used injection moulded cellulose acetate plastic, then polystyrene, whereas kit manufacturers would make white metal bodies designed for existing chassis’s, often designing them for fitting on Triang drive systems. Triang never made any 4-4-2 Atlantic locos, so this is likely using the driven part of the 4-4-0 L1 chassis with custom bogies fitted, hope this helps you learn a little more about that model :)

very early triang/hornby seeing as a cast body also very early hornby coupling (1960s) , it would have been in great western green livery (GWR) not brown thats a calidonian rail livery , hope this helps ....

A long vid on good and bad UK locomotive kits and how to assemble them : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-a1DGQsXapFk.html The vid title is wrong. What Tony Wright is aiming to achieve with good, but expensive, kits : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-e2ilfHYqKZQ.html

Funny hearing the little footsteps🤣🤣🤣

Just one thing, NBR stands for "North British Railway", which was based in Scotland. :)

Hi smt I have a Chattanooga locomotive 0-8-0 it needs a lot of work it works but it needs tires and a smokebox store and some side rod parts I wish to get it working again I am new in the hobby

Hi smt mainline remember that coment i sent you welp i have to tell you something i live in phillipines im in heritage homes and i live in a laundry if you a one laundry shop says laundrys choice its close to a white house tho😊

Mainline,I have a question HOW DO YOU AFFORD THIS

I'm pretty sure this is a Tri-Ang "Princess Elizabeth" chassis with the front set of driving wheels cut off. I found a video on RU-vid (not one of mine) here about servicing this locomotive: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aeJzHVcNb4w.html The body seems to be a GEM Whitemetal kit of a North British "Class H" (later called the LNER Class C11). GEM kits are no longer available. Your model being "Aberdonian" represents the first of the class number 868. Some info on the Class H is available here on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBR_H_class Hope this helps! Really interested in older model railway items so this is great.

good job , thx for resumen 👍

Good lord…imagine how nice that would look stripped and repainted 😊

You should buy prewar lionel train rough ones restore them

Smt can you do a video of showing all your british train?

When the wheel fell off it got me good 🤣😂😂😂😂😂

botched express

When he tried to run it with the tender then he got fed up and just threw it.

Check on the Internet is That The Real Paint job ?

Its finally happened! Yay!

Great save👍

Did he get to fix the wheel back on at the end of the video?

Hi smt and I'm in Montreal qb .🙂

You need a remagnetiser for the magnet.

That was good but it's Nice shot

TryAng 030 s are a nightmare

From tree ornament to rail riding 😮