Unbelievable Channel Donations Over the Last 8 Months!! 

Praying for a quick recovery. Love all the info you share with us!

I, like you, am drawn to the basket cases and flood victims! Just shows the quality of materials they used that they mostly come around, without using any, precious, spare parts! Plenty of projects there. Good luck!

8:15 the SVT 137 is a high speed railcar from the 1930's. These were used on the first high speed rail network in Germany. Usual operating speed was 100 mph

Reference material is great to have, and thanks for the donations tour!

Good Video! Hope your back gets better quickly!! That’s got to be putting a pinch in the pocket book.

Prayers going out to your back...these work

Shout out to Nicks Trains here in Raleigh!! Nice Send in!

This was very creative of you, Ron. To dedicate a whole video to your donors speaks volumes about your character. I hope your injury heals soon...

Hats off to all the donators. Great video again. Take care and try not to pickup AC units or unload heavy equipment off trucks. My back is hurting just watching you.

Looks like you have plenty of things to keep you busy during those cold winter months!! That absolutely sucks about your back man. At 42 I’m still stubbornly learning I no longer heal like I did when I was 20. Wrecked a 4-wheeler and cracked a rib, forgot how much that sucks lol! Hope for a speedy recovery man!!

Ron, you are a joy to watch. I'm a HO scale modeler. I loved trains since I was a youngster. Keep up with the great videos.

Wow, Ron, I’m astounded by the generosity of the viewers of your channel! You are so very lucky they send you such amazing treasures to keep your fingers busy. You have an amazing collection that just keeps growing. I am so sorry that you hurt your back and I certainly can sympathize with you as I have a bad back as well and the doctors can’t help me. I sincerely hope you recovery soon and do not suffer a permanent injury. Best wishes to you.

Man. I'm sorry about your back. I hope that you heal completely and quickly.

I understand the back pain stuff. We are not as young as we used to be. That was a great video you put out. It shows how much you appreciate the donations and how many good people are out there in the world.

First "LIKE" and comment... You got great stuff and know how to make it all look good and run well (tentatively better.) John

As Always Great Video Sir! Lots of Jems can't wait to see your magic touch on them! Sorry to hear about your accident hope you feel better soon! B Safe......

Sorry to hear about your back.. Take care of yourself. Good to see all of the very nice donations you have received. Thanks for sharing.

Model Railroading when Wanting Something You are Gonna Get what Your Looking for One Way Or Another.

What's really cool about you Ron is, that a lot of us are getting too old and it's great you keep up on the Train Hobby information to keep the Hobby growing. for the younglings.

Hope your back gets healed soon enough. Thank you for all of your presentations. No more heavy lifting! You have model trains to restore.

Gratitude moves mountains. Thanks for thanking others. This is great to see! - Tim

Hi Ron, good to see you. Sorry about your back, get better soon, my friend. Thanks for sharing all the donations, and thanks to all the donators for the great stuff. Looking forward to seeing the videos coming from these. That Yankee flyer is going to be awesome to see restored, WOW. Get some rest when you can, heal up. Until next time, go 33%ers. Cheers 🍻

Lovely video Ron. I’m sure the donators are very happy with your recognition. Hope your back heals soon. Take care of you my friend!

I have a tyco train set that was given to me that is a Pacific in rough shape but I believe it still works but all I'm missing are the curves

Love the new back lighting.

Hope you get to feeling better soon, Great show

Dang Ron. Sorry to hear you got injured. Cool stuff. Lots of future projects. Take it easy and get well soon.

I mentioned to Nick the last time I was in his shop in Raleigh that he had gotten a shout-out on your show. He faintly remembered sending the book and was glad for the mention. He hs a great shop and I always find something in there that I didn't know I just had to have.

This was an outstanding video!! What a true gentleman you are Ron. You took the time to make a video thanking everyone for their donations to your channel over the past year. That first rate my friend, total Class!! I do hope you get some rest and take it easy. Back injuries aren’t fun, and they do take some time to heal up. And yes you are correct about age. I’m 61 years old myself, and I have to tell myself every so often that I’m not in my 20’s anymore. Paying the price by doing too many strenuous things hurts too much later on. LOL Tom

Hi Ron, your pronunciation is almost bang on. Thanks for the shout out. Superb content as always! Looking forward to many more repair vids, keep up the stellar work.

Ron great video! You have some very generous donors! Sorry about your back, hope you get back on your feet soon!

Thank You Ron, sorry you've gotten hurt

Awesome video!! I really appreciate what you do. Get better soon. Getting older is not for the faint- of- heart.

Sorry to hear about your back. Hope you heal fast. Great video! Always nice to see the generosity of the model railroad community. Hope you feel better soon.

Hoping your injury heals fast!! You have many many fans out there!

Excellent video! Extremely creative! Take good care of your back and heal quickly----- you have the best RU-vid channel that depicts the true essence of collecting and maintaining toy and model train treasures. Best regards, Mike G.

Nice Video as always. And Thank you Jeffery out of McMechen WV. as it's nice to have one that holds a soldering iron instead of rolling around on ones pants leg.

Great vid as always Ron. Hope your back heals up soon ✌️

So cool how the things are coming to by so many great people across the country and even from beyond! Maybe from off the world someday Hehe Nice show Ron Love it TU

Well Ron, I have to say I did not expect to get any recognition for those three locomotives. They were a form of payment for the entertainment you provide with that Will Rogers type personality. Great video, (William Hughes) Jersey Bill

Good video Ron. I really hate that you hurt your back. Hurry up and get well soon. 😎

Great haul. All great treasures hope you get well soon and give that new puppy a scratch behind the ears 4 me

As a kid in the seventies I like reading the magazines of the 1960s especially the atlas track planning books that were for sale for $2 back then. I love reading old model railroaders and trains magazine as well as railroad model Craftsman from this era as well

Great stuff, Ron...thanks! That Lionel catalog near the beginning appears to be an "Advance" catalog, sent to all dealers, stores, etc. They were primarily 'sans color', and considered more collectable (as there were a lot less printed...and saved!). Feel better, take care of your back!

I tell you the 2056 is gonna be a fun restoration project for someday hopefully 🤞! Very cool vid btw and thanks for sharing!

I'm 53 years of physical labor has wore my back out. Couple years ago was diagnosed with arthritis in my back. That's when I got back into HO trains but now as an adult with more skills and money not that I make that much. Can't wait to see the video you make on the vintage Flying Yankee. Looks like my HO scale Con Cor California Zephyr.

Love the old blue boxes

Hope you feel better. Back injuries really stink.

Ron my bucket list is to meet you in person one day but you are so far away but love the show 😊

Should do a model train repair convention some time. Get you, SMT main line, Sam's trains, Darth Santa Fe together and a few others that do videos like this and do a model train show/ repair convention

Great video Ron…sorry about your back…you need Dumpster to help you out…😊…cheers from 🇨🇦

Heal soon. Back injuries are the worst!

Dear Ron: I've never been a serious railroad modeler but I still really enjoy your videos, I have been watching your channel for a couple months now, always a hundred-percenter. In a troubled world, your videos make it seem like things are gonna be OK! (@ 13:46) Christmas 1972, I was nine years old, and Santa Claus left a Tyco Twin Freight set under my Christmas tree! My set was just a little different, as it probably was the '72 or '73 vintage. My boxcar was El Capitan, and my flat car had two vehicles on it, I remember Corvettes but who knows, they're long since lost to time. The rest of the set is packed away in a box somewhere in my house, along with a Tyco Burlington diesel. I kinda wanna dig it out now!

The Skokie Car from Walthers is Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee interurban car. They ran from Milwaukee to Chicago. They ran grade level until they came into Chicago and ran on the elevated line over the Loop. Beautiful prototype and beautiful model.

I model from just after the Civil War to 1963, when the Central of Georgia was sold to Southern. It seems that in order to find rolling stock for my era, I have to build them usually from Tichy Train Group. So far I've built a nice 40 foot flatcar and 2 ore cars. They date from 1900 to 1918. I've also got a wood side gondola (a 40 foot flat car with wooden sides) to begin tomorrow. I still have to paint the ore cars. So far they look fantabulous with great detail. I'm still looking for an Athearn Amtrak F-7 shell. Cheers from eastern TN

No mention of the 33%ers 🤷🏻‍♂️🤪🤪 we’re the same age . Get well soon brother. My camper AC works ok when plugged into an RV post at 30A but not off my generator so i put a window AC in for $125 and it pumps it full of cold air in 101°! I can only imagine how much stuff you have . Take care

HI Ron like your videos keep it up.

Nice hauls, that road crossing is a Marx. Lots of American Flyer dear to my heart but a pain in the butt to fix. Shipping methods: the old Box and stuff inside of a box and stuff is a guarantee of survival incase the boys in the USPS Fedx or UPS distribution Center want to play football with the packages. "Louey Go long".. can end in "Crash".

Love watching your videos, I've been adding to my collection. I have 14 steam engines, one of which is a challenger by River Rossi and I'm close to 140 locos now, all in Ho gauge. Here in a couple of days I should have them posted

I just sold my Flying Yankee streamliner set with whistle recently,almost the same condition as yours. From here the diecast apron does not seem to have chips and windows are intact .Cleaned up and lit,it is a beauty..very cool

I'm glad you are happy with the donation! I'm looking forward to a restoration video! I found the trains at an antique store going out of business. I am glad they are in a good home now! I'm sorry to hear that you hurt your back. Get well soon!

I like horn couplers. They work and they endure.

I hope you feel better soon! I'm looking forward to seeing the flying Yankee! It looks like a lot of fun to get it flying again!

Another great video Ron, I love these and especially the first thing on a Saturday morning with my coffee and toast.

A lot of cool stuff there. 😮

Thank you for sharing. Hello Leavittsburg, Ohio, my hometown. Hello Vic.👍

The red switcher is Minneapolis & St. Louis. Made by Lionel.

Hello classic model trains hope you get well soon

A lot of drool worthy items today! Fun video again, thanks! Looking forward to more restoration videos

Lots of great stuff Ron! Always looking forward to the next video. Much love from Haverhill, Mass-achoo-zits 🤟

Gotta have metal wheels on everything!

Hi Ron & it's is Randy and i like yours video is Cool & Thanks Ron & Friends Randy

This is like watching the land of misfit toys from Rudolph the red nose raindeer….lol….pretty cool though!….

Ron, what a great bunch of fans you have!!! That stuff is cool! Sorry about you back, that suck and I know what you’re talking about. I was wrenching for 38 years, working mostly on heavy equipment. Ya know why they call it HEAVY EQUIPMENT? When a 2500 lb tree spade crushes you, pins you between it and the machine it was mounted to and ya end up getter 28 surgeries on your back and leg, it HURTS!!! If I could donate some Norco and Morphine to you, I would but with my luck I’d get busted for trafficking 😂😂😂 Maybe one day I’ll take a ride out west 😉 Ron

The Gandy Dancer (hand car) is made by Bachmann. I have a few and they are funny little critters. The wood/metal walthers (fun to build) kits are great. I have a slew of them waiting to be built. I find the kits kind of quirky in that they have card stock interior walls with illustrated details.

You know I have been collecting model trains all my life and I am quite surprised how little money value any of it really has might as well just keep it

The Mehano UP GP18 was actually a Bachmann produced under license

Great job on your video

SHOEEE....DOGGY! you be a popular feller.

Timmy rules

Sorry about your back brother. You said you gave your youth to the man- you a vet?

nice music Ron. Who is the artist?

Hey Ron, Looking at your shelves of locomotives, is that a NMRA Headquarters 4-6-2 Pacific locomotive on the lower left? Are you going to do a video on that one?

Hi Ron I have a Rivarossi E8 that my Grandfather gave Christmas 77. I took it apart, cleaned and lubricated it. It runs fine by itself. When I hooked up the 3 passenger cars that came with it the wheels on the loco spin out and it barely moves the stalls out on the curve,22” radius. But it pushes the train in reverse with no problem. Any suggestions? I hope your back feels better soon. We dudes in the 50+ club have to be careful.

NP, maybe one day we can talk about our battle scars, both in civilian life and military too, LOL

Hello Ron I'm sorry that you hurt your back.....also I'm thinking about selling my trains about $2,500 I live in Bensalem Pennsylvania

Can i send you something to fix and how would i pay for it?

Would you believe (Sounds like the TV show Get Smart). I've found more, yes, more stuff for ya. I do want to say I'm sorry I didn't drop by this year, but that ten-hour detour last year didn't quite go well with the little Lady. (wink, wink) Maybe next time.

How do I send train stuff to you?

Hey .... Don't drink that Trooper Beer!!!! ..... The Iron Maiden beer is not available in the USA!!!!

Ah, yes. Doctors just love middle-aged men with ladders. Seriously, though be very careful with that back from here on out. Great video, though.

Too bad Bachmann drives are so cheap and unreliable. Bachman looks good. But never runs.

Thanks Ron, I watched it on Friday night at 7:27 pm west coast time! Gee; you definitely have your winter hobby work set before you.

Get better quick Ron. 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃