Vintage Ho Engines Mail Unboxing - Can't Believe Someone Would Send These! 

Harrison...glad you approve!!!! That Olympic paint scheme was the one SP created for the 1984 Olympics here in Los Angeles. And the yellow SW1500? That was going to get decals for the Quail Valley, I just never got to finish it. And I'm surprised they ran - they haven't run in several years. And you are more than welcome!!!!

Box cutters like that and a drywall knife perfect for foam scenery shaping.

Oh yes! Another unboxing video! These and the antique store videos are my favorite because you never know what you’re gonna get!

The “quail valley r.r.” engine has two bells.

Your wonderful video is a beauty way to go! The Quail 4-6-2 Mehano Pacific can run even better after you clean the wheels/contacts. If you notice, the tender also has pick-ups. I have a Canadian National 4-6-2 of the same-and what I did with it was this: The tender has a "back-up" light or directional light. When you open up the tender shell, you can locate the left and right-side pick-up wires for that light and solder wires to them, long enough to reach the locomotive motor. Attach those wires to the motor and you have now increased electrical pick-up connectivity for your locomotive. MINT! From three wheels per side, you've increased it to five wheels per side for connectivity. Again, wonderful videos... I'm close to being 52 years old but am very entertained and quite informed on the electrics of locomotives. Yes, I am also a faithful watcher of "Sams Trains" of which I have crossed-informed information between you and him with great dedication of my appreciation in learning of how you two fellows have taught me how to maintain locomotives. Harrison, thank you. Your passion has increased my motivation to get my trains back on track. Your efforts are a gift in my eyes. Thank you! John Kamloops, BC

SD40-2T is an SP "tunnel" loco. The Espee ran through a lot of tunnels and snow sheds. Air intakes, at their normal upper body location, drew in exhaust laden air in the tunnels. The air intake was lowered to allow cooler, "cleaner" air to be brought into the engine compartment.

Cool haul of locomotives the sp locomotive works for me. Thanks for the video.

Thanks for letting me know how to ballast the track and do everything, Now I have a amazing layout because of you. thanks Harrison.

Brilliant, yes, that's the word for this unboxing video, Harrison. Very Continental usage of the word. 👍 Those switchers belong in the yard prepping freight car manifests for the Mainline. Now you have a couple more steam locomotives to run in the livestreams. See, you don't need to buy anymore locomotives, they magically appear in the PO Box. Thanks for sharing. 👍 👍 👍

The southern pacific SD40T-2 is actually just a standard SD40-2, still cool though!!

You must have the largest collection of old ho engines!

Very nice box you got sent very generous

Harrison that’s an incredible gifts you got and very lucky also very generous of him to give you the locomotives and I feel happy for you for the gifts and I hope you have a very awesome day Harrison and you are always an awesome friend from the beginning ever since you found Me on RU-vid and have an awesome day again

Talking about mehano. When you went up to larkspur with ottawa model rail fan and nick the train nerd I bought that mehano steam engine the 2 6 0 in the same box a few days ago and the b&0 by athearn. Other from that great video.

You should paint up one of those SW1500s into a Canadiana paint scheme. Very nice pieces. Thanks Mr. Bruce!

Harrison, you get some of the best items in the mail.

Man that's a cool lot of locomotives! Like you I think Athearn's blue box locomotives are some of the most rugged engines ever made! Only Athearn switcher I have is a Burlington Northern SW1200 that I bought at an antique store in West Plains, MO! The cool thing was that the previous owner had tricked it out with a beacon and spark arrestors on the stacks! Pretty darn good runner too!

It's Christmas day every time I watch this channel.

That Olympic SP SD40-2 is a fairly rare Athearn model. The real locomotive was a straight SD40 which Kato made, but they never offered one in that scheme. SP never rostered any real SD40-2s, all of their Dash-2 units were tunnel motors. Nice haul...

The sd40t-2 looks really nice

I’m glad you were happy. Congrats

That camel back is awesome, epic video

God you are lucky for that C&O Hubbard. Great engines, crazy expensive for what they are. Enjoy it!

Athearn blue box are some of the best models made in my opinion.

Your the best, i love vintage train.

Cool video I hope all of them work the steam trains look really cool

Harrison... your hair is on FLEEK!

I just finished to add DCC to my IHC camelback, very cool and good runner locomotive! What I didn't know is Mehano having the exact same model. Cool unboxing, congrats!

So cool

Nice Video SMT. Love Those Switchers. And Man.... Isn't That A Nice C&O RR Engine.

The reason there’s a T in the SD40T-2 is because it has a tunnel motor, which means the air intakes were moved to the bottom of the carbody, so it’s easier to get air inside of tunnels.

Yay! I love that SD40T in the thumbnail. When I saw it, I said *yes*

Awesome locos. Mehano is one of my faves. And some nice athearn's. Love the Olympics loco! It's pretty neat most of them are custom roads. Very unique. And they seem to have been well taken care of!

Your lucky being gifted these locos and they all work which is good

I wanna steal Harrison’s P.O. Box because he gets so much stuff on the daily.

Awesome finds!

EMD SD40-2 SP Olympic 7347 in ho scale the real sized model was a EMD SD40R which was wrecked/scraped 8/85 at Westminster, Colorado while on the Burlington Northern rail lines. Athearn made it as a EMD SD40-2 unit during the time period that Southern Pacific was promoting the Olympics in 1984.

The SP unit is supposed to be a SD40R, an in house rebuild of the standard SD40's. But Athearn didn't offer it at the time so they just used an SD40-2 chassis, you can tell its not a Tunnel Motor by the lack of the radiator intakes on the rear of the locomotive.

Dude that southern pacific 1984 Olympics emd sd40-2 or a sd38-2 looks magnificent! Those switcher remind me of those Lake Erie franklin and Clariton rr sw1500s and mp15dcs. It also does remind me of that one mlw m420 at the oil creek and Titusville railroad in Titusville pa.

The black and yellow engine I put up on e bay years ago. INRR is the Indiana Northern Railroad that I still model today. It was one of my first.

FYI...the SD40T-2 was created for the SP for use on the north/south runs up through Tehachapi and all the tunnels between here and up north. They were lovingly referred to as "tunnel motors". I bought that model in 1984, when Athearn released them. And yes - you pronounced Quail correctly.

Thank you

How awesome is that. You have amazing viewers

There is a RU-vid video, " IRM's CB&Q 9911A overtakes a stack train going to Galesburg ", where the E5 is passing a freight on a double track. The freight has 3 diesels; the lead unit is a Tunnel Motor.

From what I understand that Olympic SP SD-40T is contraband locomotive. Athearn did not get permission to use the Olympic logo and had to pull them from the store shelves. I’m not entirely sure how true that is. They’re pretty common (as in you can find them on eBay all the time). I went ahead and added both the powered and unpowered to my collection years ago. Whatever the case may be they’re really nice and unique examples of an Athearn Blue Box locomotive.

Hey smt mainline great trains someone sent you i loved that camelback and the sp centennial locomotive keep up the good work on videos

Wow That's A Nice Haul. Nice Video SMT.

The C&ORR locomotive looks really cool

That SP is unique. 🙂

Wow, I just an Southern Pacific 1984 olympics train today!

Nice locomotives!!!

Buddy be careful with that box opener! A finger can be lost in a second! Take your time with that blade!

I saw a cool back trailer truck and trailer in Massachusetts today and I live in Massachusetts

Man! Now i am jealous! I want those locos so bad!

Smt after seeing this video of the black Athern blue box switcher I must say that I have one Just like that it was given to me years ago by a friend who loved model railroading (May he rest in peace). I'm sure it's over 30 years old because of the use it's had. It's Missing all it's rails we had it cleaned out as it was filled with cat hair (which the previous friend had lots).And we fixed a gear on it and replaced the missing part it had which is the steps on the trucks. I still have that locomotive to this day and all I can say is that thing is bulletproof it had sat a couple years and all it needed was oil and that little engine pulls a surprising amount of cars by itself! mine is painted the Southern Pacific paint scheme!

We need more Athearn trains

Your camel back the pc one has a unique smoke unit. All you do is go to the front and there is a screw there and you unscrew it add smoke fluid and it smokes

I was planning to send that same olympic loco along with a few others. Guess I'll send something else. :)

Amazing Gift ... Thats Awesome!!! 😳

Wow Stanley utility knifes. I have one my dad had same color grey from the 70s back when they were made in bristol connecticut. them are awesome locomotives I love them switchers just beautiful runners especially them steamers all of them are great. Mehano besides couple other brands I don't have in my type stuff . very generous people out there im amazed to see I had one give me track a while ago and i know my uncle has some stuff just I don't know what he has in store for me I gotta wait and be patient but something like this with Rolling stock is amazing. I have IHC passenger cars IHC is still online but i think the prices for the locomotives are high especially they are dc type .

Finally...I had taped the extra box cutter blades to the packaging.

Those sure are nice

Nice score. You’ll have to start writing names on the box after you rip the label off the box.

"Club ?!? None of y'all is old enough to go to The Club !!"

The sd40-2 is not a T model the T stands for tunnel unit and its cooling vents are lower to pick up cooler air from lower in the tunnel the hot exhaust would heat the tunnel and cause the unit to overheat and shut down

I have a red razor knife just like those, they hold up well, its lasted 14 years

Hey SMT good unboxing! How kind of Anton Bruce. Anyways, my grandma has an old blue box and it doesn’t run.

if the 4-6-2 pacific ever revs loudly and takes a lot of power you may need to adjust the weight in the boiler it can be tedious I have the Canadian Pacific one from the Presedent's choice starter set and it had that problem

Smt does not have that many 4-6-2, and surprisingly all of them are mehano and a pc train set

I wonder why Athearn used a SD40-2 body on the Olympic unit. It should use a standard SD40 body. The Dash-2 cab has a few differences, and there is a small window on the engineer's side near the radiator section. The original SD40s did not have those. The actual engine is an SD40R. A rebuilt SD40. SP never had standard SD40-2s, but they did have SD40T-2s, which are known as tunnel motors. Either way, those models look awesome.

I have been looking for a sp loco like that

Holy moly you SCORED!

The dynamic brake hood on the SD40-2 is backwards

I’m thinking about heading back to Los Angeles (Even it has lots of Covid cases) to go to the train store Arnies Model trains. (The store where it has a few Bluebox powered and lots of dummies) Sadly, the 7347 was in a collision but was repaired. But, That SP engines looks nice and I saw it in a train show, but it was $50.. but great video!

its a 40 of some type not a 40t-2 - T was a tunnel motor designation (air intake would be bottom back where it says southern pacific)

The southern pacific is my fav.

May want to consider tracking down some steel mill bottle cars ( think Walthers made some years ago),some battered crusty gondola spacer cars and equally crusty looking transfer caboose because those switchers just scream steel mill and while a steel mill is practically a layout in itself nothing says you can't run a bottle train from an off layout blast furnace to an equally off layout mill operation

The yellow sw1500 kinda reminds me of an IRL emd gp30 remote control unit with blanked out windows.

hey there great video. the 4-6-2 is a rso.

Esa locomotora C&ORR esta increible felicidades esta muy bonita

Hey dude.they don't have sheet rock knives in Canada?😂😅😄.love your work.keep going

Smt mainline I went to an antique store and bought a ho scale big boy locomotive tender for 12 dollars!! In Delaware

I love the channel keep up the work.👍 When is the next raffel?

And today's history lesson is the SP unit was on a BN train that derailed and burned up... the story was that the BN heard about the Olympic torch and tried recreating it for themselves

Good video Harrison

i love the camel back engine.

Awesome video

Would you ever sell one of you rather blue box switchers? I am in need of one.

you should review bachmann thomas, and maye some other things from that range.

I was going to get a southern pacific 1984 Olympics SD40-2 on ebay but the bidding got to high

4:25 Do I see a Tyco canadiana Switcher 👀

Very cool

Can someone count how many mega unboxing smt has had. I'm too lazy too

I have the Olympic SP i done full dcc LEDs and sound in mine

Thats a regular sd40. If it was a sd40T-2 the long hood would extend almost to the edge of the handrails

I have that exact IHC/ Mehanno Pacific steamer, I might have smoke equiped

The home hardware in Acton, Ontario has a g scale set (at least i think its g scale) so, yeah.

WOW 🚂

I miss you

Cool Steamer