You should have picked up some of the rolling stock. All of the freight cars I saw had Kadee couplers and they all had replacement high quality metal wheels! Very high quality freight cars.
That Santa Fe locomotive was made by Hobbytown of Boston. They made the best drives back in the 50s and 60s. I'm working on one of their Rs3 kits at the moment.
The market is flooded with this kinda stuff. I think the high detail modern models are lowing the value of brass and scratch built stuff which 20 years ago would have been the best you could get.
Oh my gosh what a store, I'd sure go crazy in there with all that second hand used items for sale, LOVE THEM ROLLN STOCK, ID A BUY AT LEAST A DOZEN OF THEM NICE LOOKN FRIEGHT CARS, GRAIN HOPPERS OF DIFFERENT LENTHS, FLATCARS, AND THAT CONTAINER FLATCAR, and some of them long curved switches, ECT, THATS JUS AMAZING!!!!👍👌✌️😉. JUS AWESOME. 100%!!!!!!
I went to a model railroad open house an hour away from me and I can say it was great! I got a F45 in BN scheme, a SP Black widow f7a and B unit, a trinity car and a passenger car for $35! Edit: oh it looks like we both got the BN F45 6615 in the same day!
Once you have that Hobbytown Santa Fe RSD-5 fixed up, it'll be one of your strongest pullers and last for probably the rest of your life! These have been in production for 70 years now (you can still buy the kit new from them for $105), and it still has one of the most accurate RS type bodies ever made.
The BN is a F45 It's essentially a SD45 with a cowl style body shell. The passenger version is called a FP45 and it has a longer frame to handle the large water tank at the rear. The water is heated to give the passenger cars its hot water for the bathrooms.
As far as I know the water is heated to be turned into steam to connect to the passenger cars from the steam era so the cars are heated in the cold days.
This is one store i would love to come too. Now that model boat needs a Johnson :) lol . Oh thats so cool vintage Dcc. Not sure if you knew this I read up a while back that back in 1980s they had a form of dcc but it was way different then what you see out there now. Very cool finds!
The Santa Fe engine is an old die-cast Hobby Town of Boston HO white metal kit. The PULL like a scalded mule! VERY NICE FIND! With a little work, it'll be a smooth running and reliable engine for nearly... FOREVER! Just give it a good internal cleaning and lube job and you'll be happy. They are quite a pain to assemble, but that one looks well done. Old bluebox handrails should take care of the broken parts for you.
Awesome video Harrison, wish there was a store like this in my area! Love the BN F45 and as far as the Santa Fe Alco goes, I did a little research and it appears to either be an RSC-2 or an RSD-5, I'm leaning towards and RSD-5 because of the cab. If you want to put lights in the F45, there's a really cool LED conversion kit for these old blue box locomotives on Ebay!
P, WACO I am looking for 2 Athearn f7B DCC SMT Can give my information he should have my phone number and address. We do not have a train store in Bakersfield any more 20 years now; my train club is all DCC I have alot of videos on you tube P'.Waco. I have prepaid card also Bakersfeild California
5:43 This is an Austrian ÖBB class 1141 - a ROCO product. Definitely high end. Even a bit painful to see it lying openly in that box with its frail pantographs unprotected.
@@SMTMainline It's not that bad I've only did one on video though. Learned alot thats for sure. In my opinion your followers would benefit from it. Good talking to you brother.
The BN unit is an F45, which had full cowls so crews could be able to keep out of the weather. Now, the Santa Fe unit is an ALCO RSD5. As you build a parts pool, you might have a Diamond in the rough.
Great rewards from your visit; must be super cool to come across treasure in these random boxes. Just some maintenance and they’ll be good for decades 😻🇨🇦🍁
Sweet. Just a tip, but I tend to solder the left and right rail pickups straight to the trucks and a bunch of the loose connection points in the blue box mechanisms. Also, if you're going to be doing work like adding lights to the locomotive I would really suggest you get adjustable temperature soldering iron. The big older Sears irons are great for track but put too much heat out for delicate work like LEDs and locomotive lighting.
Nice finds! It’s especially nice to get an Athearn Blue Box with DCC. The decoders alone cost a minimum of USD $15-20. And there’s a chance the BN engine has a working headlight in DCC. It’s funny I see this today, as I bought two with DCC at a show this past Saturday (one Athearn and one P2K that needs gears) for $35 each.
Nice catch! It's not often a pile like that yields 'Out-The-Box' runners. Nice brass loco, the Santa Fe one. As an aside, I noticed a ruler in one of the boxes there and it's the first one of that kind of ruler I've ever seen that matches one I have that I was given about 45 years ago! So they still make them, or did! Sorry to stray from the point, the trains, but I just had to mention the coincidence. Cheers for posting. Keep Well there. Cheers!
I live in Ohio. I NEED to get to this train store at some point in my life. Event though it is in a complete different country, I don't care. Those were some awesome finds Harrison, thanks for sharing!
No one by me sells old stuff like this and I'm in tears as you have access to all those Coca cola rolling stock I've been tearing my hair out to find lol. If there's a way I could forward you the cash to grab some of those up I'm totally willing to send it. Milwaukee Road and Coke stuff is my collectable treats lol I also am building up a lot of Southern Pacific stuff mostly the Day light pieces. Man I need to move to Canada your Hobby stores really know what to add to their shelves besides new stuff lol. Great video!
Ooooh! I need to go down to Larkspur and see if that blood-orange (ÖBB calls the colour 'Blutorange') Roco ÖBB electric (looks to be a class 1041 or 1141) is still there!
Train store. Locomotives, freight cars and passengers. HO and N scale. Nice layout. I gonna buy N scale trains. Locomotives DC and DCC with sound. Freight cars and passengers.
$100+ is fair on the brass engine, the two Proto units I think that's high on. The Atlas FP7 also that would be high on But I have a tub here with a couple Proto GP7/9 whatever that have DCC that I picked up for like $20 at a show. They're in various stages of disrepair. DCC can be tough because the decoders become obsolete so fast now, I can't even get more of the type I was using in some of my engines because the company discontinued them and with the chip shortage the replacements have been slow to show up.
Hi Harrison, I don't know why, but I luv your store visits, would like to go sometime myself. Used to go to all the stores we had all over LA when we had like 20 of them! Back when. Now I have ambulatory issues. (ugg) I was super pleased when I saw you picked up the Hobbytown Drive RSD5 Santa Fe Engine. I look forward to you entering that shell and see the mechanism; errrr Coffee Grinder. I worked on these when I was a kid, and I know from that that they are NOT DCC friendly. So the prior owner put in some work, had some skill, to do that. When you open the trucks and remove the shell you'll some precise all metal gear towers and other drive parts. And prolly a Pitman motor. The engines only picked up on one side of each truck, and the way they were built had some potential shorting issues. If the prior owner upgraded, that will be interesting to see! Again, so glad you grabbed that one, I did have several engines like that years ago. And they will drag a full yard of cars! PS: Skip the Brass track no matter what the price. The nickel silver is so much better. Because nickel silver oxidation on track conducts electricity, whereas the brass oxidation does not. Also hope you will figure out whatever box this is that P. Waco is so concerned about, dumass or no, esp. if it has that CRC 2-26 in it. (see his thread, where he kept resp. to me instead of you) cheers my man!
Can't wait to see that old Alco RSD hit the workbench. I lucked into a few N scale locomotives in an eBay lot that "didn't run" and ended up having old Lenz DCC decoders in them.
Living in Texas we have aboutttttt…..ten stores in the entire state, and that’s 12 hours each direction still being in the state so, virtually no train stores and 5 have closed between austin and San Antonio in the last decade and they were the only ones. It gets frustrating to wait for train shows or online I like to see what I’m buying
Those are super rare and expensive, live steam is where you are using actual steam to power the loco. Smoke fluid is just a small coil burning oil. I have a couple myself however the coils tend to burn out or damage the plastic so you've gotta be careful.
@@SMTMainline ohhh yea I forgot live steam is different from model trains that produce smoke. What I tried to say is will you get a steam locomotive that produces smoke?
Hi Harrison, I really enjoy your videos. Just wondering if you can tell me why my locos stop in the middle of the turnouts. I have Atlas #4 switches. Would love to see a video on how to connect this. Thank you and keep your videos coming.. .Frank
Do you come across many grand trunk Western locomotives? Not the flooded Walters main line gp9 but anything else? I can't find any😏 and nobody seems to want to get rid of the ones they do have. Thanks man another awesome video for sure
I bet I know what the 15-inch radius curves are going to used for! There is really only one type of train that can use them...hint (it runs down the middle of the street).
bachman still makes that little steam engine and on there website they still have parts listed you can order to fix them my step son has the same one and dropped it had to order some parts to fix it was pretty cheap actually like 10 bucks to fix it
