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I really enjoy watching and listening to your videos, Ron. You do good work without getting all crazy with wild modifications and stuff. You keep things fairly simple and relaxed, which is how I like my hobby. Life is difficult enough without complicated hobbies. Nice job restoring the loco and adding the handrails. Again, simple is good. Athearn locos are fine for this hobby. No ultra detailed, ultra prototypical, noisy dcc models are necessary for a calm hobby. Keep it up, buddy, you are “on the right track!”

Wow, excellent job. Very tedious but well worth the effort

you should make a channel for that hot rod motor you are building. good to see another Train lover that is into hotrods

BTW, love your old Chevy K20! in my favorite color scheme too!

Great to see how to do handrails. Now I know what parts to order, getting US parts in the UK is difficult so I have to get it right.

You did it again! You’re definitely the “Handrail Man”: I’ve seen a (superb) job like this just once: on your UP GP7. Congratulations, once again, for your enviable skills - patience included! And give my compliments to your skinny assistant…🤣 Take care my friend!

Nice work.👍

Hello on, thanks a lot from Sweden. Kenneth

I'm blown away. Great video.

I would buy that gp7, nice job.

Fantastic hand rails! A good eye, steady hands, and patience..you got 'em Ron! 👍👍

You the man great job on the handrail

Really digging this channel!! Subscribed

Ron, You say you are not motivated to make chains for the passthru Wow You are so diligent and motivated on that tedious work Don’t sell yourself short I am very impressed I struggled all the way along with you😢

Always in the Market for Milwaukee Road stuff, so Yeah there is a market for these.

Great work!

I’d buy it! Nice job👌

Well done

Great video!!

Ron what about making a wooden jig with all the holes for the staunchions to fit into with lines to show them vertically and with layered sections to help bend the wire where needed.. it would be much easier surely.... ?? one for left and one for right etc... then you could solder them in place without doig any damage to the plastic of the model etc... or even use just a dab of glue and they are set.. etc... several ideas... I guess it comes down to how many of these you do and how often you do them.... a great dual eppisode.

Nice work! I know people that solder the stanchions to hand rails once they're aligned. I did that, then found a dot of super glue does the trick. Makes it a really solid assembly.

Also needs the Air Tanks on the frame. Great revival of a classic Blue Box, whit some nice upgrades to the drivetrain!

Real nice mint!

I used brass wire to replace the plastic stanchions on my Stewart Hobbies Pennsy U-25b and it was worth the effort.Ut has an Atheran drive similar to your Milwaukee Road Geep.

These handrails are awesome. I will start to build them also. Great idea! Thanks for sharing.

Hey Ron! Two great videos. This is the second time I have seen your “ Handrail “ work. Amazing!! Watching your videos all the way through is the way to go. You or we get all the important facts and details to inspire us to do these projects. BTW I would be interested in a purchase of one of your “ Movie Star “ locomotives. 33%er here.

Glad to see you doing steel hand rails! Eyeballing is great! I used old plastic railings to figure measurements.

Awesome job man! Looks great. Between restoring and modifying diecast, I would love to do this everyday.

Just recently found your channel and now I'm binge watching right after I subscribed. Really good content!

Kudos on the handrail work. I have a SE Athearn SD40-2 GATX pairs. Dummy I put the rails on. Leads not done yet. A year&1/2 later😋🤪

NICE JOB

what a sharp looking engine

YOU ARE SO RIGHT ABOUT THE FRUSTRATION LEVEL , i just did a BN SDP-40 and had to scratch build some handrails as i lost one and being in the UK they are unobtainium unless you get them from the states as postage and taxes kill it .. i'm even trying to figure out how to make my own stantions consistently , if you have a way to do them a video would be good

Great job. The hand rails look great!

I see you've got a few more to put hand railings on. I tried putting some on an old Tyco red, white & blue presidential model that didn't turn out too well. I soldered the railings instead of gluing. I need to practice my skills to do this task properly. W Rusty Lane K9POW in eastern Tennessee

Great video Ron! Thanks for doing what you do.

Wonderful videography. You and SMT are now favorite RU-vidrs this month. Keep up the good work. I did have a smoke inbetween parts 1 & 2.

A Z bender for RC plane Servo horn links would be perfect for that 1st bend

Great job on those handrails!

Love how you describe doing the bends ... It's funny. Great handrails. I did same wasn't sure on size ended up with 3 sizes. Lucky the biggest size was right 1. Used other to make the pieces that for mounting top of rail. Have small jewelry vice. Use that to make top ends little flat. Then folded them around with little solder to keep them in place. I like silver solder. Works fantastic! Love vids keep it up being funny.

The Black and Orange paint is great for Halloween! YIKES…I may try doing some handrails. But, more than likely I will take your advice, and remain frustrated free. lol Beautiful job!!

I would love to buy a locomotive,im just getting into model railroading down here in New Zealand,im learned heaps from you

Great job figuring out RU-vid! It worked brother

But I model N scale, NO WAY! I’m already half blind 😂 Great Job & Thanks! Ron

Thank you so much for this great video I been to do handrails for my ho rio grande sd70ace 1989 by mth and they are hard to fine for a sd70ace I might just be able to make them I really appreciate this video

Great video. I learned a lot about correct micro-soldering/welding techniques. Also enjoy your other scale model reclamation projects. This is a cool channel.

Watching you build those handrails reminds me of why I love F units! LOL. I noticed some scuffing on the cab of your Geep. I'm pretty sure those Athearn Geep shells have removable cabs. You could take it off and give it a fresh coat of flat black.

hey ron. yeah pretty sure you could sell them on ebay you do a really great job...now whether you make a profit based on the time you spend on the refurbished product that I am not sure about but do enjoy your videos.

Everything looks good so far. There are three detail parts that goes with the model. They are brake cylinders, swing hangers for the trucks, and the air tanks for down near the fuel tank if you choose to add them. These parts were included in the standard Ble box kits.

Great pair of videos!! Thanks for the tutorial on grab irons!! The grab irons looked company manufactured when you were done? Good to know A-Line makes the stanchions. My one Athearn loco as a kid was a GP9 Milwaukee Road just like that one. I think it’s a good idea to try the re-sell market on eBay.give it a whirl. Take care and all the best. Happy Halloween! 👻

Awesome results Ron! You are becoming quite the talented builder and modeler! I can’t say enough on how clean your work is coming out! I haven’t been as active lately, just too much going on but when I get some downtime I like to watch the videos as always. Weather I’m working on someone’s engine or touching up a paint job, you videos remind me that we all start somewhere and to not take certain things for granted! I have some stuff I’d like to donate to the channel. I just need to get into the post office whenever I can to send them out to you. I believe you can fix them and perhaps try a hand at repainting or decal work! Surely your up for it! Of corse they will be appreciated by someone like you! There is a lot of original documentation with them, no original boxes sadly! I hope you can use them, And I look forward to sending them soon so they can belong to a person who can bring them back to life! I see you are running a bit low on space, so I was a little weary as to weather or not to give them to you.. weather you keep them or not, it’s always the gesture that matters! Excellent video as always Ron! Take good care!

The loco looks great! I’m sure you could get some good money for it on eBay, but if it were mine I think I would hang on to it.

Looks great 👍🏻 Like all your tips and humor 😅 I really wanted to see you put Chains between the railings 🤯 I😅

It looks great!

Really impressed with your railings! That loco looks great in my opinion! And yea id maybe buy some CMT power!

WOW those are great !🎉🎉 thanks for this vid ,. Saved

Where Ron reveals it all. Nice. Didn't you solder the last railing rebuild???

I pick up hand rails packs at train shows in the past. So I did not need to buy the parts and I have bought the wire from Ace and bought piano wire.

right on good job

I used Christmas ornament wire.

You have a nice collection of locomotives I’m looking for a NY and Atlantic locomotive due to the fact it runs not far from my house but so far to no avail

I’d love to see the outtakes of this. I’d be cussing like crazy.

Those steel wires are a pain, much easier with brass or bronze wire. Great work on the locomotive overall!

I usually use athearn hand rails as a pattern when i make my own hand rails my the job much easier.

Send any of them old athearn locomotives you want to disappear. I could use bout 1000 more.😊

What’s your hourly rate? Whatever… great job. Your a master. Thank you. Now… have I got the patients… ? hmmmm 🤔🤔

what is that hand tool called you use that can drill holes with your hand. if that makes sense? lol