Another Trip To Larkspur Line Train Store - Looking for Vintage Items & Haul 

It feels much better to shop locally rather than online in my opinion. With all the cabooses you get, I'm starting to wonder how big your collection is!

Mahalo for taking us to the train store. Always a pleasure

I was here yesterday and it was a great hobby store

Could spend hours in that place. Cool finds as always

I have a challenge for you, try finding z scale trains in any hobby store

Glad to see hobby stores staying open and people going to them smt and model trains are getting me thru quarantine

Special project... lots of track... rail joiners... new layout? Garden layout? Helix? Layout around the pool? Can’t wait. The best feature of Lark Spur, two items exactly the same, different prices.

Love seeing this style of content My nearest train store is an hour drive so I don't go very often

Just saying, Harrison, you need to steer clear of train shops for awhile, unless you really need something for an ongoing project. 😲 With everything you have on your plate, you're going to need coffee running through your veins to stay on track. You're calendar is full of projects through at least 2030. 🤣 Just kidding - - have fun, and stay, forever young! Thanks for sharing. 👍 👍 👍

Athearn did make their own factory-painted CP multi-mark SD40-2 during the blue box era. One way to tell if you have one of the very early 1980's SD40-2 shells is the first few runs had flat front and rear pilots with no "step-out" for the handrails where they curve in the middle. Yours is more recent, at least the shell is; it has the newer pilots.

Looks like a neat town with a “walkable downtown” that everyone wants these days

SMT, The apparent DCC decoder is actualy a capacitor, It's a way to get dc locomotives running on dcc layouts. Normally, putting a dc engine on a strict dcc layout would blow it out, so they added that in.

Turns out that high hood existed, honestly I love these videos due to the Australian exchange rate is equivalent to Canadian one so I can see what’s the good deals over there.

Idea for the Lima, have its in a siding like it's had a boiler failure. That hole looks perfect for a failed boiler. The condition of it even adds to it, like it's a locomotive that's just been ran until it died

Not long ago I thought: "SMT needs a place to put the wagons and some locomotives, without them being scattered throughout the layout, I was thinking in a large rail yard, when I saw the turntable, I automatically remembered the rail yard with a roundhouse ... And now, with the long stretches of track you bought, I think I know what you are going to do... "Everything is coming together"

The prices for rail joiners is very good dang. I haven't gotten to hobby store yet . I'd love to go here I did see their ebay at lark spur. Awesome finds there man wow. That line 0-4-0 I almost bought one just like it at a flea market it was going for 5 or 10 I think . I should have bought it . but again very good finds. Nice laptop background .

Looks like you found some rare finds. Nice video!

SMT: **walks into Larkspur** Store Owners: “FREE ADVERTISING!!”

Interesting haul. I have a bobber in the Burlington Route paint scheme.

Can’t wait to see that sd40 back out on the mainline!

Greetings SMT! I love seeing model shops open even during rough times like these. Could you make a video showing how or you could explain to me in a reply to do the wiring to the switch on the edge of your table where you can turn on the power for dc or dcc? Thanks!

I just picked up a via rail tempo set from Rapido today. It was quite pricey but I would definitely say its worth the money. I tested it and the cars will work on a 22" radius curve just fine. You should snag one.

Amazing store!!!

Allow me to shed some,light. That CP NS unit is real. There were a batch of SD40-2 units that NS sold off (they were former Southern Units) to various lines, CP being one. CP used these units and later converted them into booster units. I'd say it'd be worth picking that unit up SMT ;)

With all the baby Ruth boxcars you should make a baby Ruth plant lol. When is the next update on the “Mammoth project”. I really enjoy watching videos on it

when SMT got that cp sd40 i was actually glad because that's a really nice locomotive and I would love to see him fix it up.

In April 2016, CP ended it's attempt to merge with NS. Maybe someone decided to imagine what the combo's engine paint scheme would be?

Great haul!

Hey SMT that CP/Norfolk Southern SD40-2 at the beginning is actually real, it was sold By Norfolk Southern to CP in 1992.

Awesome video liked 🚄🚂👍

I have that same royal blue caboose they can be pretty rare they also came out with a steamer in that scheme that they sold with the caboose

Great video! I wonder what’s going on with that “DCC” locomotive

Those used stretches of track are great for making abandoned spur lines.

By the Looks Of it that should Be Your #1 Place to shop for trains.

Morning, the first part of your video walking to the shop/store the stone buildings look remarkabley like westyorkshire... its uncanny. Haha. Would love to visit Canada one day!!! And the train store!! Great channel. Keep it up.keep safe. Cheers Grant.

SMT ...curtindo muito aqui do Brasil. ..Gostaria que por aqui tivessem lojas assim como aí. ..faça mais vídeos assim Parabéns pelo vídeo. .like!

I love bobber cabooses. Nice Video SMT.

I love the project idea. P.S you spilled the beans in a livestream

Wooooooooooooo! more videos, and a train store visit!

And I really enjoy your RU-vid video’s and my pa is a very big fan of all types of trains

That lima southern pacific is very rare! Good find!

I’m a member of a railroad club so I get parts for free if they have it!. I really love your videos too!

Back before Bowser brought them out those Tyco cabooses made for decent PRR N-8 (IIRC) with a little plastic surgery to cut out and swap the cupola to the center of the roof. Also if you can find the old Lifelike steam crane the cab and boom can be removed, the rivets shaved off with some windows filled and the sharp corners filled and rounded with putty it can be mounted to the slightly modified Bachman bobber chassis for a pretty decent Burro crane.

I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS !!!!👍LIKE

I know I’m late and someone probably did the research before me but that cp/nf gp is authentic to the prototype. Pretty neat didn’t know those existed.

SMT those Canadian Pacific sd40-2 locomotives are former Norfolk Southern units. They were former Southern actually and NS I believe still has one or two going around. NS sold a few to CP and CP did repaint the. Into the dual flags scheme. Eventually they were sold off to where I have no clue

Hi there SMT! The odd CP rail loco you saw in the display case was a real locomotive at some point. Here's a pic of it way back in 2001: www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=22936. Locomotives like this one where bought from railroads like UP, NS, and many others in a time of power shortage. This locomotive I believe still serves NS under the new road number of 3254.

I may be only 12 and live in Massachusetts but that won’t stop me from going to larkspur’s when I’m older

That looks really cool

I watched your videos on that Runaway Train consist you made, and I thought you'd want to know that I looked on Wikipedia, and I read that the two trailing units, the two gp7's (or at least they said about the one that's the fourth engine #1801( renumbered #1804) were used in the movie Under Siege 2 with Steven Seagal

I think that sd 40-2 has a rail command board in it. This was a control system that MTH did that was NOT compatible with DCC.

I think I'll go to my favorite hobby shop soon

Soy de bcs, ojalá y por acá estubiera una tienda como esa por acá Increíble todo lo que hay!! Manden todo para acá!! Jajajajajajaja

That little red break them I used to have one like it

Man only if I lived in that town!!

I love you videos keep it going

Nice Haul! You did good on the Royal Blue and the switcher. You should have bought the Exon tank car and the Purina is a nice car, I have one. Looks like the decoder on the Canadian Pacific was an add on?

nice

Whoa SMT is like a god where ever he is there is a hobby shop (plz teach me your ways)

Like the SD40-2, and that 0-8-0 boiler front was a steal! I agree with David. Seems like, well, you are buying just to buy! You have so much stuff already, and most of it is incredibly similar. Maybe you should start letting go of a few things like *cough cough* F UNITS *cough cough* However I saw the same Athearn 0-4-2 shell next to the $5 0-4-0 you bought at 3:40.You passed over it again! xD THAT IS RARE!!! Get it!!!

Project... 🤔 hmmm *imagines a maple syrup themed railway*

Yay!!,my favorite type of videos,don't know why?

Larkspur looks good

I just picked up a $10 USD Tyco royal blue locomotive that has the smoke unit and tyco smoke! It did not run so I took it apart but I don’t know enough about tyco motors to fix it so I took it to my local hobby shop and he said if he could fix it that he would charge me $10 USD and if he could not fix it, it would be free! So if your around Norwalk Ohio go to Rob’s hobbies!!! And now I guess I need to find the caboose for it. Edit never mind the armature is toasted so guess it will be a display piece and is the royal blue still running?

Nice trains

am looking for that Apple boxcar, chicken coop car & Frosted Flaked gondola those Desire St trolley cars came with a SF cable car & are copies of the Bachmann but distributed by Reader's Digest Magazine! so those are common as dirt! the Royal Blue caboose goes with a matching steam loco

The 0-4-0 you got is different compared to the other ones you have. The ones you got are tender 0-4-0 this one is a 0-4-0 tank engine

There’s a model store in tillsonburg Ontario Too bad it’s only for curb side pickup

I just wanna guess on your project......is it an HO scale garden railway? Like an outdoor HO scale layout? Because ive never seen anybody do that before and ive always thought that would be cool!

Those little bobber cabooses where used in logging railroads.

Happy july 4th smt mainline have a good day today

Very cool I like the bobber caboos I youse to have one that was CP it's so small lol

CP rail did have a black SD40-2 3254 ex Norfolk Southern SD40-2

those dummy trolley cars were part of a set, not sold by a major company. i forget the brand, but it is HO scale and kinda cool

This is the Perfect way to Spend Money.

Smt Norfolk Southern sold CP rail some high hood SD40-2s that were im storage most got the pac man paint

Awesome finds. I'm guessing you are working on a garden railroad.

your post office should have a box from riverside, NJ

Man what I would do to have a place like this near me :(

nice vid SMT mainline

Pre-DCC electronics. Might be a pulse style decoder or CTC-80 system.

In am gonna catch you live stream tomorrow for sure

Yes

The SD 40 look like someone did a DCC install

I have the same lima steam loco from the train show and mine wasn't working. Person that sell the loco said that the wheels needed to be clean and as I try to clean the wheels I try to run it, but it doesn't work. It wouldn't move at all. Idk what they done to it, but I'll try to fix it, but I also don't know what the problem is to my loco. Great Video btw.

Cool SMT

Far shot idea, but it might also be right. What if that one life like white diesel loco you got before, was one of the prototypes for when they first started producing them? Such as how rapido or everyone else shows a white unpainted model of the train with gold ish on smaller details when they make pre orders and such.

It looked like a former ns unit that hasn't had it's ns logo removed I've seen those up in going through northern Wisconsin

Cool

like the little black engine. Hope you can get it to run. also what's a decoder?

0:03 Nice parking

Don’t try making a model train out of maple syrup

I wonder if the Canadian pacific sd40-2 has sound. Btw I owned a tyco babe Ruth reefer car.

6:01 that caboose is called a bobber

Hey smt those cp rail ex norfolk southern locomotives are real locomotives they were around in the 1980s 90s

I want to see that CP sd40-2 get restored also when are you going to finish the davy crocket locomotive.

This is How you Shop NOT Online. This Will Always Be The Way I Will Shop at Train shops And Train shows The Only way I do it.

Cool hair

12:05 decoders stretches as far as the 1960s

I found one baby Ruth box car in my train stores second hand section