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Awesome!

None of my MTH have their original boards. All of them run off a bridge rectifier

Great info, and K4's were in Pennsylvania colors from MTH, SO my take away is I can use a bridge rectifier to basically replace the gut of a tender? I have a MTH 2-8-8-2 w/o tender .. I ran it with the tender from my C&O 2-6-6-6 Alleghany

You’re missing a passenger car. Those sets came with three. A coach, vista dome and the observation car. Nice train.

I have the same set only mine still looks like yours at the beginning.

Me likem plenty good.

I have that same CB&Q GP-9 and like you I love ❤ mine too!!!

This would have been very typical of model railroading in the 1930s. True two rail wasn't feasible due to lack of good insulators, so most modelers ran off of an outside third rail, but catenary was also common. During the depression there were articles on how to upgrade toy trains into something that would blend better into a scale layout. Thanks for sharing!!

It`s a Spicy Meat Ball, though I would replace the 6/32 screws with single slots from that time frame.

Marx guy here, love the tin. I have a Flyer cast prewar #420 shell that I`m squeezing a Marx 999 motor into. Pray for me?

That`s a Spicy Meat Ball, me likem.

It's June 2024 now and MTH is coming out with an updated version of Susquehanna FP45 3636 and 8 other road names any day now.

Love what you have done. Enjoy it!

Nice job!

It is a nice locomotive, but I'm confused. You said this was a Hudson. Hudsons are 4-6-4s, not a 2-6-4s? So you're still calling this a Hudson?

I have always thought that its size made it look like a standard gauge locomotive.

Dave, you have made another masterpiece in restoration !! You are a magician indeed !!

Looks a lot more like the Boston and Albany berks that the 736 was based on

What a professional restoration you did with many up-to-date improvements !! The chrome window surrounds were especially fine !

Amazing restoration Dave, great talent combined with dedication.

Dave , my hat's of to you !! Most tin-platers have never known of this. I have only seen one myself ! I pronounce it "Hoag," but I don't know if that is correct.

Again, have made a train the way Lionel should have made it ! I mean with a coffin tender instead of the small coal tender ! Keep up the good work ; you have great taste and judgment !

Very nice ,to say the least, including the cars ! What an effort !

Surprised it actually worked to use that motor for an O gauge loco. It appears to be the "super-sized" Lionel HO motor that was used to power Geeps and ALCos with crown gear drives, made around 1964-1965. I'm used to working with the 'medium' and 'small' versions, which tend to run pretty hot. I suspect it's mostly because they don't have very good air circulation.

Great information

This 2344 f3 NYC is in rough shape like mine. (Inherited from my grandfather). Mine, the shell has stress cracks, inside the shell is covered in white film, either from a battery leaking, or just the chemicals breaking down in the plastic... (Mine is for sale, as I'll never be able to restore it myself)

K lines cheaper, just sayin

SWEET!❤ Great job cobbling this little beauty together. Enjoy! 🚂

this thing is so cool! thanks for sharing!

Excellent!

Awesome paint scheme! I will be renovating a 636W set soon. Well done.

I have this set brand new in the box never run. It’s AWSOME Wonder what’s it’s worth……

Great looking engine good luck with it. I myself have looked at that engine at a hobby store about 10 years ago and the guy just wanted way too much money.

You did a fantastic job on you GS4 Dave! 👍😎

I have found that the original brushes are often the problem. Put a new set of brushed in it, oil it and it should run better.

I have this set with original track and Jefferson 75W transformer, mine will run, barely, with the Jefferson. It puts out 24V. It runs better with the ZW 275W which only is putting out about 21.5V, the engine pulls about 4 to 4.5 amps while running with added head light like you have done. I suspect the motor is just tired. The stator, armature, e-unit, wiring, slide pick up are all original. Pretty heavy train and a rather small engine, no plans to update or rewind anything on my engine, it runs okay and I like the all original aspect, I just don't run it all that much, it is 90 years old after all. I love your content, keep the videos coming

It's just like restoring a classic automobile to it's former glory, That five months was well worth it, though i model in 'HO' you have my upmost respect. Nice custom job you did on it, That locomotive is truly one of a kind.

Sweat

Just watched all your videos when you gonna drop another one

Fantastic job you did.What lionel part did you use for the flag holders? I've been working on a 3322 that could use a set

Sadly mostly all of those classic toy that were sitting up in attics that sat unused until WII ended up in the great scrap drives of 1942.

Beautiful job, It looks so factory.

You have a detailed how to do it I also got one with out the guts in the tender

My 221 has had a horrible wobble.. come to find out its axels and a wheel were bent horribly. How this happen? Who knows after all the years but the motors gonna need a whole rebuild.

Can you make like a wiring diagram on what you did I want to do the same thing to one of my locomotive

So hard to find and you have an add on car also. Awesome find and a $ deal on top of that.

90 year old light bulb that work and we can’t make LED bulbs replacing incandescent bulbs last more than 6 months!

Man, she is a beauty.!

How did you clean up the case so nice? Please tell us and how did you do the lettering?

Very Nice. I just picked up the Lionel 785 in Grey. They are very nicely built and very detailed for being so large in scale. Good luck with your new baby, I hope to be getting a Albany / Boston soon, my Great grandfather worked on the Boston/Albany RR, until taken out by the Spanish Flu after WWl. Take good care of your new toy and enjoy it. Yes unfortunately we all can't afford to buy an original 700e, but these definitely help us out Lol.