Here's a list of locomotive ID's 1. AHM GP18 (road name unknown), minus shell. 2. Life-Like F40PH - Amtrak - Correct loco ID. 3. Life-Like GP38-2 (Hi-Nose) - ATSF (Santa Fe) Warbonnet scheme. 4. Life-Like GP38-2 - ATSF (Santa Fe) Warbonnet scheme. 5. Tyco/Mantua - GP20 - CB&Q (Burlington) 6. AHM FM C-Liner - LN - possible broken front truck on the ears that fit into the frame. 7. Life-Like GP38-2 - Chessie System unit. 8. Bachmann U36B - ATSF (Santa Fe) Warbonnet scheme. 9. Bachmann F9 - ATSF (Santa Fe) Warbonnet scheme. 10. Tyco/Mantua F7a - ATSF (Santa Fe) Warbonnet scheme. 11. Tyco/Mantua F7a - ATSF (Santa Fe) standard freight scheme. 12. Tyco/Mantua F7a - ATSF (Santa Fe) Warbonnet scheme. 13. Tyco/Mantua F7a - ATSF (Santa Fe) Yellow Warbonnet scheme - Rare 14. Tyco/Mantua F7b - ATSF (Santa Fe) Warbonnet scheme - Dummy unit. Common for the era. 15. AHM FM C-Liner - BN - You maybe correct about its operational status. Possible dummy unit conversion??? 16. Tyco/Mantua C430 - Custom painted in PRR. Note: The Penn Central had Alco C430's, but the were former NYC heritage, and these units last through early Conrail. Also, it's unusual to see handrails on former Tyco C430 locos. 17. Tyco/Mantua C430 Spirit of '76 scheme - Rough shape, but the decals are decent. It would be a worthy drive candidate for restoration, and the handrails are a plus. I hope this helps you on your Ebay purchase, and I hope to see these units on a future repair videos. 73's de KD8MNG (Cass Telles)
The GP18 was a Reading, based on the green side panel. I just damaged my frame while I was doing the restoration. It’s sad, as I had the loco since I was 15. Maybe I need to send the upper body in to help out this restoration.
The Pennsylvania engine is an Alco Century 430. PRR never had any. All 10 that went to Penn Central and eventually ConRail came over from the New York Central. The paint is wrong too. PRR never had those stripes on its diesels.
I would say you have quite a few parts locomotives in that lot, Harrison. Take the 1776 locomotive -- use the handrails for a similar TYCO that needs them. Turn the chrome Santa Fe into a dummy if it isn't already and run it with your other chrome Santa Fe F units. Also need to get a jump on fine tuning all of those locomotives you keep putting on the "get to in the future" cart. Thanks for sharing. 👍👍👍
I he cloud put another dive frame and can motor in it. that was a nice unit one time. ALCO I like a lot. See my big ALCO on P. Waco. ALCO C855 A-B-A set.
This video made me feel good about tomorrow because there's a train show in Syracuse New York first time going to a train show in a year and a half since they were all closed last year this was a nice little refresher.
High hood life like is a GP38-2 high hood, thing to keep in mind, if it has 2 big fans at the back and none right behind the cab, it's a GP38. If it's got 2 little fans right behind the he can and 2 little fans on the back, it's a GP9
Wow I love to see your positive comments and attitude.. your good at what you do.. me personally I love ho trains however I’m more of a modern kind of guy and love the modern freight trains
The next to last engine is a tyco alco c430 century series. I have 2 one in Chessie System and one in Santa fe. Never saw one in Pennsylvania. Pennsy ran alco century series. I have a c424 and a c425 both atlas in Pennsylvania.
Those Tyco F Units are from the mid-70's. Mantua Tyco locomotives were made with the MU-1 drive from 1952 until 1959, and then it was replaced with the MU-2 drive from 1959 all the way to 1974. In 1975, Tyco began phasing out the MU-2 drive in favor of the new (and inferior!) Power Torque drive. However, a few of their locomotives (including the F units, 0-4-0 Switchers, and 4-6-2 Pacifics) continued to have 5 pole motors with worm gear drives up until the late 70's/early 80's. By 1983, all locomotives would have the Power Torque drive until 1988 when Mehano started making locomotives for Tyco. Tyco sold both Power Torque locomotives and Mehano-built locomotives until 1993, until they switched solely to Mehano-built locomotives, and ended train production after 1993.
I re watched that part with the C Liner Harrison and I guess my eyes were playing tricks on me and making me think it had electrical pickups on it my bad!
@@SMTMainline yeah that would have been nice. By the way, I did stumble onto the UP F40PH while I was cruising Ebay yesterday, it's part of a fairly sizable lot, but the locomotive at least looks pretty good, couldn't see any damage in the photo.
You know you're gettin old, when they are selling your old toys on Ebay. They look about the same shape I left them too, except the life like Santa Fe. 10 year old me wanted to see what 100 was like and briefly became a model airplane enthusiast. My dad didn't buy me anymore engines.
That's not a Presidential Seal one, there would be a gold ring around the center with "The President of the United States" lettered around it. Came with a full set of handrails though, put 'em on a prettier unit. The FP40 piqued my interest, though a cheesy Life-like, they have potential. When they came out in the 80s, Proto Power put out a nice reworked power unit for it. I have the Walther's one, it was a gift. I actually found a picture of its prototype, numbers and all, pictured the month I graduated high school. Nice haul...
make sure you know how to service them, they are finicky sometimes and may require a rebuild to run good. mine required new wires, entire cleaning of the motor, and i sadly had to disconnect the smoke unit so i didn’t catch the engine on fire
@@colbeausabre8842 True and they also bought The EMD GP30 without the dynamic brake. The dynamic brake blister is there on New York Central GP30 units but it's blanked out and no fan is on the roof where a dynamic brake fan would be. They didn't call New York Central " The Water Level Route " for nothing. They had the best route from New York to Chicago.
I am getting back into model trains and I’m usually going to go for older engines in need of repair, you’ve helped me with your video of the lifelike pancake motor GP40 because I had a broken one. These videos are super helpful and I love your content.
@@SMTMainline It was a good runner and had decent speed for a passenger engine that was brand new in ho scale circa 1981 or thereabout but was somewhat top heavy due to the massive zinc weight and it's placement. This one had a tendency towards flying off the track at full speed on 18" radius curves.
The AHM/Bachmann chassis with motor and drive can be converted to DCC as it's isolated from the frame. You could replace the motor too! It's shell is a GP18 high nose. The Amtrak is an EMD F40PH not the FP45 (which is a 6-axle model) that came out earlier. The Santa Fe #3560 is a high nose GP38 in Warbonnet scheme (There was never a Warbonnet of a GP38 as Santa Fe only painted the most exclusive units). So its a fantasy scheme. The standard nose GP38 #3500 falls the same pattern as #3560. The CB & Q 'Burlington Route' appears to be a EMD GP9M or GP20 modified version (chopped nose). Bachmann U33 or U36B. Again ATSF never painted them in Warbonnet. #307 is a F7A (between the port holes there are only 4 louvers). Love the Santa Fe #4015 freight scheme. PRR #7152 appears to be an Alco Century Series, possibly a C420.
That Santa Fe with the "unusual" paint scheme? That's called the "warbonnet" scheme. Santa Fe used silver with a red warbonnet for passenger service (and some freight), while the blue with the yellow warbonnet was used for freight service. Now, if you ever get ahold of a Southern Pacific loco in the "Black Widow" paint scheme - you've got a winner there....
It's unusual because the only F-units that wore the blue and yellow warbonnet were one F7A, six repainted F9As, and some B units here and there. It's especially unusual on this model because the logo should be blue (do not confuse the blue and yellow warbonnet F9s with the bluebonnet F7s in the mixed-service pool. That was the standard warbonnet with the red repainted blue). Bear in mind that the yellowbonnet F7s (again, not to be confused with this paint scheme. Yellowbonnets were the standard warbonnet but without the red layer applied) were in the Amtrak lease pool, so not all passenger units wore the standard warbonnet. ATSF had a mixed-service class of F7s in warbonnet paint which were relegated entirely to freight service by 1971, which is why it seems like some units in dedicated freight service wore the scheme.
@@SMTMainline Be careful. I' know several people who took to their hobby as a means of earning a livelihood and they all said that running a business ruined the hobby for them.
I thought there was going to be a third layer! That Spirit of 76' is interesting. It's a shame the motor is in bad shape because the body looks good with all the rails. That box will make a lot of video footage repairing trains!
The rare version of the bicentennial locomotive has the words "Seal of the president of the United States" in gold around the eagle logo. I have around 100 bicentennial locomotives and only One with that seal. its kind of rare.
Repaint the High Hood GP38-2 either to Southern Tuxedo scheme or NS Black(no Horsehead). Southern was the only American railroad to order the HH version of GP38-2.
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That Burlington Northern dummy might have a light bulb in it. I could see two wires for the cab window. I have Sharknose dummy locomotive with a light in it.
I find very interesting that this type of model trains that are more on the cheap side usually do not exist in europe, is a market issue or model train fans here are too picky?.
@@SMTMainline Yes but somehow this stuff does not arrive into second hand markets I think that it is because does not sells well here, you hardly see kleinbahns, lima and piko hobby lines on flea markets.
I was wondering when we would get an Ebay locomotive mega lot video from you again Harrison, pretty sweet haul! Man that Life-Like Amtrak F40PH brings back memories, sure wish I knew then what I know now! By the way, if you're looking to add to your Life-Like F40PH fleet, there's Burlington Northern and Union Pacific versions of this locomotive (Life-Like might have offered more schemes for their F40PHs, but these two are the ones I'm familiar with), I had the BN version when I was a kid which sadly ended being destroyed due to my immaturity back then. The red and silver Santa Fe units are GP38s, the freight bonnet F unit for the most part is prototypically accurate with the exception of the lettering font. I am curious about the BN C Liner though, from the look of the video, it appeared to have electrical pickups for possibly lighting which would be highly unusual for a dummy locomotive.
I do, just less often. High end locomotives are great from a realism standpoint but in most cases I enjoy working on these cheap as chips locomotives just as much.
Wow that's a huge lot Amtrak lifelike is dated 1997 the next one is 2004 the Chessie system is from 1995 it seems according to the date codes on the bottom. The Spirit of 76 as I recall had an official presidential seal that was a copyrighted item and Tyco had to recall a lot of their locomotives but some of them did slip through it would have the presidential United States seal versus just an eagle with stars around it. Those Tyco Mantua Drive systems watch out for the plastic Wheels they may have splits in them I know because I had a Tyco mantua gp20 that I was trying to get resurrected which was impossible because the motor wiring was missing also the gears were stripped and the plastic wheels that had the Traction tires were cracked. It's a common thing with those same with the Mantua play cars that have metal axles the plastic Wheels crack. Not bad of a lot however because you can have a lot of spare parts on hand. I have that same Amtrak locomotive just mine is from 2005 same number too.
I've seen a lot of your unboxing videos, how do you track all your inventory? Do you repair a significant portion of the non-runners or just part them?
