@@hycube_dunnage bro my writing looks like chicken scratch. its horrible lol random question but do u cursive write or do they no llonger tecah that in school?
as i am Australian these Australian locos are real i have been inside the cab of one when i was younger and they are amazing you have some great locomotives i have also been watching you for 2 or so years good job for 60 k!
This was good set of viewer mail Harrison. I hope you open up some more, I had sent you a package a couple months ago so I hope you get to it too. Have fun Harrison. Earl (Corey Widmeyer)
The first engine is I think sold by Life-Like (Model Power also sold this but with a different tender). The engine is actually German I think and first made by Playart. LL added the American style tender. The MP one I have has a plastic motor cradle that is loose and I thought maybe super glue would fix it. Roco Spirit of 1776 C424 was sold in the US by AHM. A few small bits are shared with the FA and Shark sold by Model Power, but the drive is all it's own beast. BN caboose is an Athearn Santa Fe Dockside is Life-Like Kato Budd is a good score. BHP hopper is Life-Like, old Varney tooling I agree, a Life-Like set, engine is their standard GP38-2 and I do not believe any of those went to Australia
What a awesome haul here! That was Very generous of them for sending this to you. I really like that model power/roco alco c430 there. Btw Harrison say hello to nerf cat for me.
Very cool stuff Harrison@SMT Mainline! Learned something neat about that Athearn BN caboose from Jason@Train Freak. You may notice the letter P on the sides and on the cupola, that means it's what's called a "pool" caboose. These cabeese can run on other Railroads without having to be switched out for the host Railroad's own equipment. I actually have the same caboose as well. Also you can still find replacement trucks for the Life-Like hopper on Ebay or Kadee also makes a talgo style truck equipped with knuckle couplers should you decide to go that route.
@@SMTMainline no problem! If memory serves, Union Pacific and Southern Pacific also used pool cabeese during that era. I've seen models of the UP version, but can't recall seeing an SP model. It's possible that more roads also used pool cabeese as well.
We been having a lot of problems with are club layout, I did video's on the problems I am hoping you watch a few video's, I see you have open some boxes, when are you going to open that weird box? with your family? I also got a note they said , my locomotive was shorting the layout.
I have some older equipment that i don't use that much anymore. Do you accept O gauge? *The equipment does have a full set of track, a transformer, and power supply as well as a 2-4-0 steam engine, tender, gondola, boxcar, and caboose
@@SMTMainline He does like crazy train mama im coming home mr crowley no more tears and some others. He is also kinda like a former a band member from the band black sabbath.
@@bbtrainproductions1225 I know that other do that. it's just always seen idk. also I noticed that a lot of people get irritated when they put first and second Etc. like one already put first and when I put my comment in I didn't see anybody else's and then RU-vid acted weird and loaded a whole bunch of views when I just got notification that it was online.
@@mercuryoak2 it irritates me because they generally NEVER post anything about the video, just the word first or second. And you are right, nobody cares.
RSO = Robert Stigwood Organization made HO locomotives for AHM?en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSO_Records#/media/File:RSO_Records.jpg Also, it aint a 0-4-0, the AAR diesel/electric classification would be 0-B-). Anyway, good luck!
RSO or "A-Test" were certification for RF compliance in their country of origin. For whatever reason AHM never branded these locomotives so they're usually sold used as being made by RSO.
I can elaborate. I actually just inherited one from my late grandfather. He was a good man. He had a well sized model railway that took up an entire room in his house. However, he only had one loco, an AHM c424. I inherited it from him when he passed away.
American Locomotive Company Century FourTwentyFour Diesel Electric Locomotive. ALCO C-424, possibly AHM, but Model Power and others also used the body. 💙 T.E.N.
Hey that AHM c424 looks familiar (looks over to my AHM c424) I have an AHM c424. My grandfather passed away in 2017. After he passed away, I and my parents drove up to Greeneville, TN to help clean up his house and make funeral arrangements. Just last year, my grandmother gifted me his old AHM spirit of 76 train set.
My wife and I watched this video, and as teachers, we must say, you have a real talent. Yes you’re good at fixing trains, but there’s something about how genuine you are about receiving fan mail and reading the letters on air. Obviously you have a large young following and you’re a role model to so many. PS I’ll take the Goobers if you don’t want them. Lol. Great video as always!
I was glad that you got the parcel and hope the BN caboose doesn't keep have too much trouble with derailing. Hope you find a good place to hang the Hiawatha pic. best regards Kaden Langdon Christopher's son
14:59 Is a Model Power Plymouth. These were made much larger for the HO scale train market and are out of scale. Relative to other HO scale engines these are way out of proportion. The real ones were small industrial switchers, usually 25 to 35 tons.
I use to have a AT&SF exactly like that, seemed like a little tank, would run great when other stuff was fighting me. One of the things that made me wish I'd kept my train stuff. I had the same red white & blue loco as well, that one seemed very temperamental, and was a loud runner.
I have one of those Playarts with a stripped gear. I tried messing around with it to convert it to band drive, and if I kept at it I probably could’ve gotten to go, but the shell was in horrible shape, so I moved on to other things.
Ok I was thinking maybe my 60 year old backside was having a senior moment with the BN and Seaboard System locos and I some how missed their unboxing. Looks like you had a similar issue with the BHP hopper I did with the Revell resto.looks like the trucks you had were off a longer car that had the trucks set back further hence the longer coupler shafts.
Nice unboxing, Harrison. I was hoping someone would get the Fragile reference as we near the holiday season, and seeing it written on the parcel. Anyhow, the N scale RDC is a Rail Diesel Car. Starting in 1949, RDCs were built by the Budd Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They were primarily used singly for rural passenger service, but sometimes with multiple units set up with different interior seating/baggage configurations. Via Rail in Canada still has two RDC-2s in use. Also of interest, the Budd Company collaborated on the Burlington Zephyr, and New York Central Railroad set a speed record in 1966 with an RDC. So much history, check out this link. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd_Rail_Diesel_Car Thanks for sharing. 👍👍👍
The Australian national loco was in operation in australia in the 80/90’s and were Australia’s country wide freight service and use to pull the famous Ghan loco but Australian National went out of business when pacific national was introduced and each state started making there own freight services so they don’t run any more and those models are quite common in aus if you want to find more I would recommend Australian modeller they sell all Australian trains and carriages
To be more precise, Australian National never had GP38s. This Life-Like loco is a factory repaint in the livery. They are cheap, but they run okay, and I've even seen one on a layout at a show that was DCC chipped!
@@theaustraliantrainspotter The Australian National CK class (ex Victorian T class) was the closest full-size loco in appearance to these Life~Like Australian National GP38.
Thanks for sharing. It was hard to tell since I know EMD was making diesels there at one time, sharing some designs with their north American counterparts.
ooooo very nice man very nice. the Burlington caboose just by looking at it is made by Mantua or Athearn. if it is all metal I have one just like it but it's in a Pennsylvania paint scheme and it's my man it was known as the Mantua heavyweight metal series back when model power owned Mantua. a very good and heavy caboose. it came with knuckle couplers wheels that are plastic but the metal axles and a metal body. the Seaboard switcher locomotive I could just see the date code April 10th 2018 date code is 4-10-18. The lifelike 0-4-0 dockside looks to be February something 2004. the Transformers box car would have stickers and some type of generator type thing mine is missing it as well. mine is missing a lot of parts like the gondola actually has a radar/rocket thing. it also came with Decepticons and Autobots as figures. the stuff I have for the Transformers is missing parts and stickers.
@@SMTMainline it could also be October 18th 2004 as well but I know my athearn diesel says similar date I'd have to look since it's packed away but it's not a blue box however I did get it in a train set that I bought years ago. I could be wrong too but that's what it looks like on the date code it's a small printed number lifelike did the same thing.
I have a loco which seems to be near identical if not exactly the same as that Pensy 2-6-0. It's... a piece of junk. At least, in the condition I found it in. It's very cheaply made- mine is branded PlayArt, but I get the feeling that it must have been offered under more than one brand since the model sent to you doesn't say PlayArt on the bottom. I don't run mine, it has a split gear which I tried to fix and didn't really have success with. It is very simple inside, though. It has a can motor. One of my good friends has an N scale layout he's working on getting back in service again, and his locomotives haven't been used in years, so I've been helping him out by tuning them up and cleaning the wheels. One of the things I worked on was his Kato RDC- I found it very easy to work on once I understood how everything fits together. It didn't really *need* any work, it was running okay, but I wanted to check up on it. I decided it could use new lubricant- the performance didn't change much but long term I think it will be beneficial for the mechanism. His Kato F40s are incredibly smooth runners... they definitely made/make good stuff.
You have some really awesome viewers. Very incredible items. Looking forward to when you have time to service/repair all that you received. Quite the haul. Where the steam locomotives are my favorites I have to admit the N Scale engine you received is incredibly amazing. Would be cool to see it pulling some rolling stock behind it. Thank you for sharing. 😊
I have that exact same PRR steam engine, it barely works and makes a really bad clicking noise when it does, definitely gonna have to open mine up and see what’s broken
Does anyone know if there’s any recommended book to help learn some of this stuff? I recently got a 1982 Marklin display board and a few engines plus a few O gauge Lionel’s and yesterday i got a box of HO engines some older and one DCC one so I’m all over the place and would like to learn as much as possible. Thanks! Also a marklin z scale suitcase train
The ATSF 0-4-0 is a B&O Class C-16, the famous "Dockside" or "Little Joe" "The C-16 class switchers were the last 0-4-0 steam locomotives built for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. They were assigned to the Baltimore, Maryland "Pratt Street Line" along the Inner Harbor, and to the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania waterfront trackage. Initially constructed as saddle tank engines, nos. 96 and 99 were given tenders in later years. After the saddle tank was removed in 1926 they were then given the classification of "C-16A" (Nos. 97 and 98 remained unchanged.) The diminutive size and short wheelbase were required to handle the tight curves of these lines. No. 99 was scrapped in 1944. No. 97 was renumbered 897 in 1950 and scrapped in 1951. No. 98 was renumbered 898 in 1950 and also scrapped in 1951. Nicknamed "Little Joe" by railroad workers, they became famous to several generations of model railroad enthusiasts through construction of HO, S & O scale models of the "Dockside" switcher. Arguably one of the best known of all steam locomotive models for half a century, versions of the C-16 have been offered by Varney, Rivarossi, Gem, Life-Like, Pacific Fast Mail, MTH and others" Be interesting to see if you could collect one from each manufacturer. "oscalekings.org/WP/ed-bommer-bo-c-16-0-4-0-t-1951-dockside-switcher/
I always enjoy your videos. I thought I’d add a few pieces of info. The BN caboose is an Athearn wide vision caboose. The BMS coal hopper is definitely a Life Like model. Lastly the Spirit of 76 locomotive looks to be a Alco C425 or a C430.
Well done mate, I believe the Australian locomotives and those carriages are from the life like rail chargers set. I have one too but different locomotive. I have the GM class which I think maybe the vr equivalent to the F9 locomotives
@@AirportAviation380 yeah mate, I have 2 of them, both work but 1 needs a shell, was exposed to sun through a window in a antique shop for a while before I got it and melted it. They are hard to find but last for ever
@@AirportAviation380 the bull nose GM/F9 unit. To your other reply, I didn’t think of it being possible for them to melt via sun but we learn something new each day
Super. I love seeing things from the old school days, where one powered axle had to suffice for both switching duties and mainline freight trains. 💙 T.E.N.
P.S. I've even owned an all gear drive, flywheel equipped, super running locomotive chassis that only had the inside axle of each six wheel truck driven. Very strange, but it has operated for over forty years, and still runs great. I wish that I could find a brand name, but nothing. Looks like a Lionel HO six axle version of the Lionel GP-9 chassis supplied by Athearn. I put a heavy metal Baldwin BP-20 Passenger Sharknose body on it and it will pull nine streamlined passenger cars, but any more cars requires adding the B unit. 💙 T.E.N.
Nice unboxing video. The Budd car is an RDC4, a rare version only owned by a few railroads. I remember seeing one at the Boston & Maine shops that was used as a parts source back in the 60s.
They would have been used for mail carrying and sorting in one end and baggage at the other. Could also carry small amounts of freight called LCL (less than car load). Probably in a train with other passenger carrying Budds.
Hello SMT - The Amtrak F unit is painted in the first Amtrak color scheme - known as " Phase One ". Many of Amtrak's passenger cars were still painted in the original color schemes of the private railroads when Phase One was being applied to the locomotives. That means you can authentically run the F unit with your Tyco Santa Fe passenger cars! The Burlington Northern also took many years to repaint locomotives & cars from the predecessor railroads, so you can put the BN caboose on the end of a freight that is pulled by a Great Northern, Burlington Route, Northern Pacific, Spokane Portland & Seattle, or Frisco locomotive!
You've been on a hunt for that Australian loco and finally got it, I been after the Iowa Interstate Railroad Rock Isalnd heritage unit for 3 years and finally got it :)
@@SMTMainline Oh I know lol I'm in Ontario Canada any British locomotive is rare and hard to find here but when you find it at a good price you jump at it lol
