After watching several of your videos over the past 2 years, I finally broke down and subscribed to you today. lol. I take old switches like the ones in your bushel basket and remove the rusty track from them before tossing. I use a pair of snips and cut the track into one inch sections. They make great scrap loads for gondola cars. I have 2 magnetic cranes, so it's endless fun loading and unloading scrap metal. Kudos for saving the Marx signals. They don't get much love, but can be fun for the kids and grandkids by wiring a separate button to them for the kids to activate.
Nice You can get transparent red paint and refinish those bulbs. Also-consider not throwing away/recycling the old power pack. That would make great hobby conversation piece showing “how it was”. Yes, it’s nothing like what must power your current layout behind you but nice to pay homage to the past. Maybe even clean up those turnouts as wall art. I’m building an HO layout with modern pieces and techniques but have saved some older stuff along the way. Just so part of the hobby isn’t lost. An F7AB set from Globe makes a great display on ballasted track in my office, for instance. Completely unpainted. Just assembled. Both dummy units with dummy couplers, too.
The thing I noticed was your Chessie grain train :) The boxed version was my first high-end set back in 1988, and still have it today, except that it's been massively expanded with two dummy engines and well, the whole thing is about 30-ish cars between Lionel's add-ons (the 19105), set-break-ups and K-Line/MTH versions of the ACF hoppers. I've made a few videos back in the day of it, one with the SD40's, and one at its full length pulled by an MTH Greenbrier (not to mention a second train of larger 4-bay hoppers made by Weaver, MTH and Atlas) I expect Menards will eventually do this color scheme too now that they've introduced a 2-bay ACF hopper about a week ago.
Glad you saved some crossing signs! Excellent work on the bell!!
Amazing the bell works !
Thank you for a wonderful video, my friend
Very cool Ray! Awesome job on the restoration!
Thanks 👍
That's wonderful!
Yep a mess !
That was really nice Ray! Someone is looking out for you. 😊
Yep not the first time , thanks for watching .
Good save
I was suprised to save something.
After watching several of your videos over the past 2 years, I finally broke down and subscribed to you today. lol. I take old switches like the ones in your bushel basket and remove the rusty track from them before tossing. I use a pair of snips and cut the track into one inch sections. They make great scrap loads for gondola cars. I have 2 magnetic cranes, so it's endless fun loading and unloading scrap metal. Kudos for saving the Marx signals. They don't get much love, but can be fun for the kids and grandkids by wiring a separate button to them for the kids to activate.
Thank you for you support . I like your idea I plan on purchasing a gantry crane in the future.
Nice
You can get transparent red paint and refinish those bulbs. Also-consider not throwing away/recycling the old power pack. That would make great hobby conversation piece showing “how it was”. Yes, it’s nothing like what must power your current layout behind you but nice to pay homage to the past. Maybe even clean up those turnouts as wall art.
I’m building an HO layout with modern pieces and techniques but have saved some older stuff along the way. Just so part of the hobby isn’t lost.
An F7AB set from Globe makes a great display on ballasted track in my office, for instance. Completely unpainted. Just assembled. Both dummy units with dummy couplers, too.
Great find! 👍
Very rusty .
Great video sir, A+
Great project Ray, they look nice.
My kids gave me tips on where the bell should go on the layout .
Great job!
Cool wish someone would leave stuff at my door step
I finally found out who left it . Thanks for watching.
The thing I noticed was your Chessie grain train :) The boxed version was my first high-end set back in 1988, and still have it today, except that it's been massively expanded with two dummy engines and well, the whole thing is about 30-ish cars between Lionel's add-ons (the 19105), set-break-ups and K-Line/MTH versions of the ACF hoppers. I've made a few videos back in the day of it, one with the SD40's, and one at its full length pulled by an MTH Greenbrier (not to mention a second train of larger 4-bay hoppers made by Weaver, MTH and Atlas)
I expect Menards will eventually do this color scheme too now that they've introduced a 2-bay ACF hopper about a week ago.
Very nice Ray! See you at the Hamburg train show this weekend. I will be there on Sunday :)