Disgusting Dual-Pancake Locomotive from eBay - Will it Run? 

You could probably send Harrison a destroyed loco, with only a speck of it remaining, and he’d manage to repair it. Amazing work as usual.

The patina on that locomotive would make a great diorama of an old siding with overgrown foliage.

For a moment there I was afraid one of the motors had the same problem as one of my old Bachmann pancake motors! It ignited itself and burned out in the most literal sense.

I like it 👍 looks like a rusty old locomotive that’s been sitting in the train yard for many years 😎

It even has realistic smoke effects! Truly one of the most high quality locomotives ever featured on this channel. :P

This creature deserves the name Guy Fawkes!

DUEL pancake motors eh? As in the title. If you can stop the motors fighting each other you might then have a DUAL drive locomotive. LOL. Agree with you about the Athearn alternative. Even in Australia, the blue box Athearns were such good value it amazed me that people sometimes paid extra for the pancake and traction tyre alternatives. Even saving a few bucks for those inferior designd seems false economy in the long term. Just looked at your Life Like Tea Kettle repair. A much superior video than todays Sams Train approah to one he just posted. Could not get it running but his fans are paying over $100 for it on a well known auction site.

I’ll bet someone took two Tyco/Mantua EMD F7s and cut off and combined the front halves (which would explain the incorrect Bloomberg-M/B truck side frames) together, then found an Alco FA body shell to put on it. At least this way, it gives you all-wheel electrical pickup and all the wheels are driven. 😊

The " stunts ' remark gave me a good , thank you . Crazy little engine that you got going .Good work .

Hey Man! Been A While Since I've Checked Out Your Channel, Man It's Grown A lot, Super Duper Proud Of You, keep it up! God bless

13:06 I think Hornby need to introduce this locomotive into their range and make it their “Smokey Joe” 😂

I look forward to watching you work you magic with those half wrecked locomotives. You do great work. Even at my age I've learned a great deal from watching your repair videos.

Outstanding work as always Harrison.

the train whisperer, another successful repair....weathering looks great on it too.

Very fun video, and still learning from your ability to bring a recked locomotive back to life!!!!!

Well done Harrison 👍 you never fail to amaze me with your repair skills

I would name this locomotive the Smoking Alco! Excellent job getting the ole girl running again.

12:54 MULTI TRACK DRIFTING!

Very amazing Restoration on this alco fa diesel harrison even it had alittle smoke show earlier with the insulation while running it. A model power fa on a bachmann chassis. Very unusual.

I like the look of it, It looks like it's a ghost engine that has been left in a junkyard for years.

I've done the double pancake setup on quite a few engines and they always end up working, running flawlessly. Great pulling power especially for brass wheels. I never cut one in half for whatever reason they did but it seems to work lol. Definitely would have purple bathed that unit and repainted it completely. Great video!

Great work. Shall we call this a rebuilt model of FA2-DM. Assign it to excursion or switching duties.

That was pretty great watching you put back the train together.

I'm amazed, Brother... couldn' take my eyes off your work. She's goin' around with power, pullin' freight. One thing... treat 'er right, this beauty needs a paint job. Looks like an old sixties yard switcher with mud-covered livery. Put some lipstick on 'er.

Every video thumbnail I see I always think “it most likely will run” Then scroll past . Then I think “but what if it doesn’t” Then click the video

free smoke effects 🤣 You are a magician!

I've been known to weather a little heavy,but lol.. It's a Mad Max Alco. It's new name. Rachet chapter of the SMT manual.

Nice job 👍🏻 That nasty thing looks a little bit like the F-Unit from "Runaway Train" 😎

Dang maybe why it burned the wires, it was working a little too well. Lol! Good job SMT! I’m a new subscriber by the way! I am throughly impressed by your repair and working skills on model trains. You could probably fix an infinite amount of engines maybe one that only with the shell and a broken motor. It was pretty interesting seeing to work on the FA-1 unit. I used to have a small Bachman set but I gave it away after most of the engines stopped working when I was 6 or 7 years younger. I had and 2-6-0 switcher steam locomotive and it stopped working after a while and didn’t know what went on with it so I threw it away and didn’t know how to fix it. But I should have looked at a tutorial on how to fix these things.

pretty cool. glad u got it working :)

That’s a nice locomotive and good job working on it

Be careful letting out the magic smoke!

Very nice video. Thanks for posting this.

me and my fellas already wanting another “well folks”

I liked the video .loved the rachet comment you were stuntin thanks made my day bro great content Im hooked

Luv the Marlboro Man mention.

I love FA1 locomotive in HO scale. Good job in fix you locomotive.

Wouldn't be a proper Alco without a cloud of smoke 😂

"BABE, GET UP SMT POSTED A NEW VIDEO!"

The weathering looks cool , makes it look old

It looks like me on Monday mornings😂

Use it as the lead locomotive for a haunted train during a Halloween live stream!

Looks like something you'd see in a yard

Looks like an old locomotive

Awesome vidya. As always. Not a bad hauler for $10!

Have you ever considered doing a playlist or video series regarding maintenence & repair of older model locomotives/ common ones people might find as non runners or in shops? Asking as i recently got a older Bachmann Mikado, but having issues finding documentation for it, and dont want to just start disassembly to try and get to bearings and gears. Just a idea i think would be interesting/helpful, even if its basic videos on common motors or something.

Didn't realize these things were so simple inside.

Nice set up. Might be the best ten bucks you’ve spent in a while! I think I’d leave it “steampunk style” as it is!

wow even a smoke unit

SMTmain line wat that redes thing u use too clean the metal wheels wit

The smoking was a near transformation into a fire engine!

Well, now you know where the smell comes from, this loco needs periodic smoke breaks. Ha! That was awesome. Two motors, stunt work, smoke, dirt, solder, hot glue, just awesome.

Hey Harrison, are you gonna spruce up the paint a little bit

He got the FA to perform awesomely! Well done! I wonder though if there was any ALCO FA that rode on EMD Blomberg trucks? In my limited knowledge I don’t know of any. I guess it could have been possible if old FTs were traded in but it doesn’t seem likely.

MULTI TRACK DRIFTING!

Awesome! Another Frankenstein Loco!!!

That moment when you see trains you bid on but didn't win on eBay.

It looks like someone tried to make it look like one of the engines from “ Runaway Train” with John Voight and Rebecca De Morney .

i love your stuff but today´s line about marlboro country´s flavour is very very great! nice one, still loughing about. i have two neighbors "flavouring" complete neighborhood...

Five bucks says that the motors were reversed from each other with one getting less power then the other.

The 0-4-0 that sits on a set of rails like it's on "static display", what it's story? I have one identical to it that the motor burned out in. Just curious if that happened to yours too?

I'm willing to bet that the original owner had it for some time, and it stopped working, so they weathered it like that and had it in their scrap yard.

I like that nasty petina look of the train. Gives it that railkill look (roadkill but for trains).. Cheers!

Something out of the film Runaway Train.

You should give some of your locos nicknames, as you said this one smelled funny, you should call it "stinky" and write on the bottom of it with a marker.

Must be a Penn Central…

13:03 is so funny i love your video's 😂😂

Have not watched video yet but i bet you get it running

Incredible. It would be amazing to see the shell all cleaned up too.. I am wondering now scientifically if anyone has ever 3D printed their locomotive body?

A Frankenstein loco!!

what is the orange tool you're using to clean with?

i'd call this the one the marllbro smoker engine.

I don't know if it will work but I think I would tary putting it on an Arthurn powered fram .....

13:00 It's an Alco, *of course* it's gonna smoke

What is a pancake drive??

Help Harrison save it with aloha

That is quite a rat rod. I think you got your $10 worth out of that.

Ay,did you see the meteor shower last night?

Hellraiser locomotive

Cute though

Nice vid but they took two locos and cut the motor sections off and combined the two. A rather neat idea. Guess I'd prefer my Athearns and Atlas and PROTO 1000 s!!! Hard to beat a PROTO 1000!!! I may be a little prejudiced. HA HA

12:55 ten eighty dog slide

Paint it Canadian, they did run FPAs current paint looks like a dog had an accident on it!

Hi again Harrison I sorry i couldn't comment sooner but I actually have a locomotive with a pancake motor. It is a life like locomotive in the war bonnet. i bought it at a train show and it can't do any low speed. Also i heard that your grandmother likes English trains and you want to know more about them. there is a british youtube channel i watch called sams trains and if you want to learn more about british trains he's the guy. And every year he makes a video an talks about his top 5 best and worst model trains. Your pal jacob

What was the current On this smoke'n beast😈

I like your vidoes

Looks like someone's dog buried it!

Wow you're trains gofast what scale are using 🚝🚂 OR🚀s

The odd ball locomotives always seem to be the most interesting and fun. The dual motors is really interesting/odd. Nice work.

When the frame was spiced, I bet that they used two Bachmann F9A rear halves to make the frame. This would explain the pancake motors.

Man right out of the box the locomotive looked pretty cool , the rusty weathered appearance makes it look like it would be a great industrial yard loco such as a steel mill unit or it could even sit idle on a siding with a bunch of scrap and a run down structure , the possibilities are absolutely endless for that beauty.

Wow!! Nice save there, SMT! And it even does stunts and has a smoke unit. Plenty of room in there for a sound decoder as well. It looks like someone did a Frankenstein with 2 F-7s. That's an Alco, which would have different trucks; those are EMD style. The stripes on the front look like BN.

When you pulled that thing open and the Frankenstein was laid bare for all to see... I really did not expect this thing to come back to life, much less come back to life with a vengeance. Well done.

Those stripes on the front mean Burlington Northern.

Another great restoration, SMT! I agree with you, that wiring was a mess, and what caused the smoke? I was afraid one motor had burned out.

611 PLEEAASSEE!!!!

It’s amazing how you can have something that is basically not running and get it up and going I always love watching your videos When I saw the engine smoking I thought that it was going to blow up 😂 keep up the great work

kinda looks like it was in mud

That's really not a bad looking locomotive! 🙂

hey smt on my way to my job program i pass a yard in york pa and i se some sort of shunter loco no it's not a normal switcher its a bigger one not sure waht type it is but one day i want to get a pic of to see if you know what kind of loco it is so i know what it is