Huge 1950s Lot HO Train Collection Unboxing - Will Any Work?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ม.ค. 2023
- I was browsing eBay one night and I found a listing for what looked to be two locomotives however after having a closer look I realized it was actually an entire collection. I suspect this set was put together sometime in the 1950s or possibly early 60s.
Most of the locomotives are not in working order as they likely have been sitting for many decades however I was able to get around four to start. One of which was able to pull some of the cars included in the lot. - บันเทิง
A non-train hobbiest here. Your channel has captured my attention. Impressed by your genius in restoring derelict locomotives giving them new life. Please keep up the good work.
Wait until he repairs a non running locomotive, He's the Scotty of train repair.
I appreciate hearing that. Not everyone understands model railroading but I believe you don't have to be part of something to get why people like it. Thanks for the comment!
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@@SMTMainline that's a very nice haul, when it comes to repairing those locomotives your the Michael Angelo of model train mechanics and yes i watch all of your videos all the time.
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Gotta love old Rivarossi models. I’m amazed that little 0-4-0 hauled all of those cars.
It was impressive for an 0-4-0 for sure!
I own one older Rivarossi 4-6-2 heavy pacific and it doesn’t run but I think it’s only because it’s motor is not completely powered
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Nice Video. Can't wait for maintenance time for this 1950's HO lot.
I spent nearly $400.00 changing the plastic wheels on all my rolling stock to metal wheel sets. I also added body mounted Kdee couplers on each piece of rolling stock. Took me almost a year to get it all converted. W Rusty Lane K9POW in eastern Tennessee
Ah, you do amateur radio? I recognize that second part as a callsign.
I have some questions about Kadee and metal wheels in this video if you have time to reply.
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I hope my stuff goes to a good home when the time comes…that collection was someone’s pride and joy at one point!😀
2:23 The orange M.O.W. piece is called a boom car. It protects the business end of a steam or diesel electric wreck crane.
they are part of a set at 10:00 you can see them together.. The biggest set was put out by wathers
Hey great video and haul. Those orange cars are a MOW set from Walthers and you have all the cars including the crane, the crane is the only thing I’m missing from my set. Thanks for sharing!
I hope you could find one someday.
there are some from other makers too
@@billfusionenterprise like athearn I’m guessing
amazing..
your video treats my desire to have one of those miniature trains
Nice purchase! A lot of nice projects. I like the MOW cars and the automobiles. Great video.
Oh yes man it is.
They should make for some exciting projects :)
Me years ago watching my kid: I don't get unboxing videos.
Me now: BEST VIDEO EVER!
Go ahead and build that kit. It’s an evenings entertainment to assemble a boxcar and fit it with kaydee couplers and details. Most of my rolling stock is Athearn, Varney, or Roundhouse kits. I model the late ‘50/60’s so I covet your billboard reefers and vintage autos in that box. A good haul!
great haul for $70 nice vehicles and rolling stock. im sure you can bring life to the engines
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The American flier Hudson is the gem of that group. I'd love to restore that one.
I can't wait to work on it, I've still gotta figure out that tender though, there appears to be something inside.
@@SMTMainline That most likely is the smoke in tender unit. If you ever want to part with it let me know.
The small 4 window caboose with the center cupola are models of the Northeastern caboose that was used by ConRail predecessor roads.
Made by Gilbert
@@johnblair8146 And later on by Life - Like. First as an inexpensive model in the 1970's then it appears again in their Proto 2000 line ( mid to late 1990's ) with extensive underbody detailing and other detail parts and interior detailing with lights.
That package I sent you, I intended it to be a Christmas present, so don't be surprised if the note in it mentions Christmas
Really nice and vintage pices of locomotive
I love your videos and they make me smile very day
Hi like the trains
The hudson looks like a prewar Gilbert American Flyer model. They had no smoke unit, and were driven by a "universal" type motor. While in theory you could run them on DC just fine, the prewar Gilbert hudsons were designed to run on AC.
In addition to the three boxcars, I'm pretty sure both the Gulf tank cars are Gilbert HO. So are both of the illuminated cabooses.
I'd say the hudson is very much worth fixing up if you can, being a prewar piece- but it probably won't be easy.
They were run on two rail AC? I can't say I've seen that before.
@@SMTMainline Yup! 2-rail AC existed. American Flyer S gauge trains were mostly 2-rail AC. Lionel made a 2-rail version of their AC-powered OO gauge hudson. And I think most early 2-rail O scale was AC.
My best guess is that good permanent magnet DC motors either didn't exist, or were less common up until the late '30s and '40s.
The "Half Boxcar/ half gondola is a crane tender. Restring that crane and pair them!
That 0-4-0 is definitely the little engine that could.
Loved the video as always, been here since around the beginning of COVID/lockdown. And I wanted to thank you because you were the one to inspire me to buy my first train set which was n scale but now I have N scale, HO scale, O scale, and G scale.
Thank you SMT mainline
Thanks a bunch. 2020 was a little more challenging production wise without train shows and so on but there's always something to do.
Those lighted cabeese look neat. I'm going to have to look for one of those.
Tyco made some in the 60's, hard to find though
Of course they're hard to find lol I'll just have to keep my eye out for one then.
Those are Gilbert HO cabooses- not the most common compared to the plethora of generic 70s Tyco cabooses out there, but they aren't impossible to find. Gilbert also made HO versions of their iconic "New Haven" passenger cars (aka Osgood Bradley coaches), those are much tougher to locate.
Gotta love 50s equipment!
I’ve bought several lots like this before. It’s always a treat to go through them! I got a Mehano CN Bullet Nose from one! 70 bucks is also a fantastic deal for this. The locomotives alone make it worth it.
Those are awesome, I've owned one since 2007 myself.
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oh holy cow thats the exact gilbert hudson thats in my brothers collection haha never thought id see another
That American Flyer Hudson has a smoke unit in the tender. They did that in the 50s because the smoke unit was too big to fit in the boiler. They also did the same thing with their early S gauge Hudsons as well.
I'm not sure this one does. The ones with smoke units in the tender will have a little filling cap that sticks up through the coal load in the tender, and I don't see one on SMT's model. It appears this one is a prewar HO hudson, without smoke, and driven by a universal type motor and spur gearing.
@@leverettrailfan5414 It has the motor in the tender and the tube from the tender to the loco. I think it's the smoking one.
Seeing you go through that box reminds me of the time I went through an old box and found a green mask that when I put it on my face weird things happened. I went out and bought a yellow suit just to name one weird thing. Not sure where that mask went. I think my dog may have found it and buried it somewhere. Anyway, great purchase. Lots of cool finds.
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I'm sure there is a clever reference here but I can't understand it no matter how hard I try lol
@@SMTMainline Old movie. The Mask starring Jim Carrey. I took a chance.
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I see a Matchbox Weatherhill hydraulic excavator in there too.
Nice unboxing. Way to go Harrison.
FYI: those orange cars about 4:00 are MOW work cars, one is tool car, machine car, bunkhouse, etc. Part of a large set. Walther's use to put out one. Several companies made them. Classic is the tyco 200 ton boom with tender.
Great haul, Harrison! I hope to see the New Haven boxcar sometime on your livestream!
Imagine +$5 for each freight car alone, Gilberts and Varney are most of them, some Train Miniature (M.O.W.) and... you've passed the value of your collection by well over $100. Those locomotives, Harrison... from what I've seen you bring back to life, you've got a fortune in those as well, I know you will bring them back to life, Sir Canadian Frankinstine! (misspelling and sarcasm intended.) And then, those Ulrich truck/Trailer kits about $10-$30 each!
SMT, if you can put it in your hands, you can make it run... you have the technology! I believe in you!
$70... Like that one tender, You got a Smokin' Deal!!! John, BC Canada
Half caboose/boxcar: Payroll and signal maintainer... you gotta pay your workers and keep power going through the telegraph lines.
I had no idea they were worth so much, thanks for sharing!
I have one of those riding conditions. I got it at a train show last year
Harrison a great deal indeed vintage is the best keep em all
A lot of neat looking cars and locomotives
Well done! The majority of the construction equipment is Matchbox late 50s, early 60s and reasonably valuable. Nice little cardboard time vault you've got there.
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These premium vintage products are exciting to see, and is what I been seeking, thank you for the video
Been silently watching you video for 2 years+ and just have to say it's awesome to watch you restore these when alot of people would have no chance do to modern tech taking over our minds
yay always a good day when smt uploads
What a score!! You did well Harrison. Thanks Harrison for the video!
The little engine at the end with the wheels spinning fast as hell pulling all that 😂
The little engine that could.
That Gilbert Hudson was at one time a must have until imported Brass came to ruled the day,what a haul.
The hudson looks to be a prewar (WWII) ho engine. Check to see if it has a e unit (reversing unit)
In the tender. Those ran on ac. It can run on dc but the e unit will eventually magnetize. I have 2 of those. Classic model trains had a repair video on this engine 8 months ago.
One of your best videos yet, when I was five minutes in and realized there were 15 more minutes, I was overjoyed. Great work and nice haul!
That's super kind, thank you!
Wow! That 0-4-0 is one powerful locomotive! Pulling all those cars is impressive!
6:54 is a Varney NW2 always misidentified by Varney and Life Like as an SW7.
Love the video, thanks a lot. I look forward to your videos. That 0-4-0 is impressive. I have never had an 0-4-0 pull that many cars before.
Look forward to seeing you repair these models and get them running again. 👍
Thanks!
@@SMTMainline No prob..was quite impressed with your mechanical repairs from some of your other videos where you got some models running again..I do a bit of that myself with hornby British locomotives..(fine tuning) I try and make sure they run to the best of their ability aswell look good when running everything being in sync..bogies/tender etc line up with the locomotive.
15:00 I love that old guy and hope you'll make it a rehabilitation project. Seems like the Charlie Brown of locomotives.
In the red Tensoto PRR FT unit did you notice that the engine weight was made to look vaguely like the locomotive's prime mover (generator)?
The Varney F unit's rear truck isn't necessarily backwards. It could be but not for certain. Check the schematic diagrams to make sure.
One of the 4-6-4 Hudson's tender trucks is on backwards.
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I agree with you here!
very nice collection, i have nice collection myself, not that vintage, but at one time my layout was 7x9 but my final location at retirement doesn't have space to continue hobby, but x-mas is my favorite time of the year.
Really nice old collection. The Varney stuff was also issued by Revell and are really well built. The Diecast truck is a Uhlrich and are quite expensive. Nice to see some vintage Matchbox as well. Those are actually close enough for HO scale. Really an excellent score, even with what I had to imagine was a huge shipping charge. If that Hudson is a Gilbert, good luck with it. I had one in as bad of shape as that back in 1975 that the frame also disintegrated as I disassembled it.
Hopefully this hudson will be different, I haven't worked on one like it before..
I’m looking forward the video.
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Nice unboxing!
3:02 With those... I would be inclined to make a kind of little scrapyard somewhere in the diorama!
4:05 I think, inferring... that they are repurposed freight cars to be used by some engineering crew for track maintenance or something. (...) Cost reduction? lol
Yeah.. must be a rail maintenance kit, will go well with the crane. 👌
That maintenance-of-way car is a companion car to a crane. It carried the boom and other pertinent equipment
Super. You always seem to find something that I would love to have on my railroad. Hello again from the Tracy Mountain Railway in Colorado. 💙 T.E.N.
I always enjoy these videos of your eBay finds. You get some really interesting pieces
Thank you!
All those cars were in surprisingly good shape. May be of real value for their classic paint schemes
6:18 is an Athearn GP-7 with a brass model underframe, trucks and drive.
Nice that was like Christmas all over again. You did good.I have not been able to find ho scale cars for a decade price. Glad to see another great video.
Wow. This is un expxpected. Cool lot. And this un expected upload.f for ur next repair vid can you do that varney diesiel swicther? I have a metal band for that varney band drive. Maby I can send it to ur po box
I might be able to do that one.
2:50 Truck trailer probably by Ulrich.
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I love these lot videos! Keep it up Harrison
Congrats on the amount of views this video has gotten in such a short time. Unboxing videos are a hot TH-cam thing. I really liked those Gilbert items. Some are miniature American Flyer stock.
Thanks, I was a bit surprised by that too.
awesome finds ! Keep it up pal
Really nice haul here bro! I also have that same rivarossi 0-4-0 steam engine that my dad gave me when I was in 7th grade here in 2007. Yeah most of those engines do needs some maintenance right there especially that American flyer ho Hudson right there which it’s smoking which is not a great thing man and also weird unusual that it’s coming from the tender but however I hope you could get it fixed here sooner or later.
Something is quite off with that tender for sure.
I'm looking forward to seeing you restore those locomotives.
I think this is the first train video i ever watched about this guy and or You (if your reading this)
Smt if you ever find your self needing a job you can always get a job editing videos your are pretty good at it. Keep the videos coming . Love them.
Harrison, The orange MOW cars and the crane is made by thru-scale in the late 50's and 60's The two lighted cabooses are Gilbert the Reding in 1955 The NYC 1956-58 The two Gulf tank cars are Gilbert The yellow Katy stock car was made for Gilbert by Varney in 1955-56 The AF Hudson looks like a prewar made to run on AC with a E unit in the tender Hope this helps
nice to know I have over a dozen of them
I love the “well folks in today video”
Yeah I like that intro too it makes me some happy to hear when Harrison saids that.
Very nice lot of vintage trains Harrison! Gotta love how vibrant the colors were on trains of that era!
Yup I agree with you they are really brilliant right here especially that b&o emd gp9 or 7 plus the American flyer New York central Hudson which unfortunately the tender in the back had a smoke show but like I said on the comment I posted I hope he could get this Hudson working again. It’ll be a nice treat if it did.
Less realistic but more exciting!
Hey Harrison I find your channel amazing ==I've been in model railroading since the early 60'swhen I was10 yrs old I am now74 you really impress me with your knowledge
Thank you, the community has taught me quite a bit about stuff from this era.
That little steam locomotive was great, the first time you put it on the track! Very nice!! It was my hero!👍 The other ones, just need oil, and a little work, and they will probably work fine! The first little steamer was really impressive when it pulled all those cars by itself!!😳
I'm sure with a bit of oil it will be great.
Looks like your Hersheys Factory is coming right along. Any plans for a update video on it? Like all the trains in your latest eBay score👍
90 percent complete, the 60 year anniversary of the actual plant's opening will be in June this year so I hope to have it complete by then.
Nice haul Harrison.
if you don't want the brass track, i'll be more than willing to work something out. i like the brass track better than the newer style
What an incredible fine and most of those cars were in really good condition and whoever had the car the train set before really took good care of it because they packaged carefully! Just imagine all of this new would have been really really expensive with that many cars and locomotives and track all together!
00:49 The flat car model and other bright orange maintenance-of-way cars were produced by Tru-Scale. These models were latter sold by both Train Miniatures and Walthers.
The metal weight in the Tenshodo looks like an early model of the EMD 567B prime mover.
It's good to see HO equipment from the 1950's to 1970's from various manufactures. To help with a couple items such as cabooses, the Reading and NYC cabooses are Gilbert/American Flyer HO 'Northeaster Style' cabooses, but they may also be Mantua. Also, it's good to see an Ulrich kit. Somewhere, I may still have a couple of them in my collection, but I haven't seen them in recent times.
In closing thoughts: this is a good deal to show to everyone the early years of the HO scale hobby.
Also, you are right about the Varney steel band drive F3A. The truck is turned the wrong way. On all of the ones that I own, the pulley gears point towards the fuel tank.
I was thinking about the Varney F3A. A though for a replacement for a band maybe an 'O Ring' for a drive band. I don't know the size, but this would be the area that I would experiment with.
@@casstelles My thought also if you need a drive band or you could use heavy duty rubber bands
@@danielbackley9301 You could use rubber bands, but O rings would work better due to the rounded grooves in the three pulley steps to change the drive ratios.
good job and good score, harrison! i like that tenshodo f-unit pair. rob
Nice. The trailer is old Ulrich,have plenty of these. Both Mack and Kenworth 50's old trucks,they are very fine models.
Wow you scored Big Time!
Your line in the video is iconic
ok two things an idea and some info on the crane and MOW (matinence of way) setup
one throwing a idea for those fire trucks a scrapyard or maybe put them behind a fire station as if they are old and forgotten as new equipment came in.
second the crane would go into one of the orange cars name of said car is boom tender the "boom" of the crane would rest inside the notch in the car.
love the video!!
I got to say you did very good for what you got for the amount of money. When I saw that brass track and I was thinking when we mentioned about cleaning it I never quite understood it myself that I cleaned mine once and I didn't have an issue with that. But I can understand where if somebody has a train layout in a basement they're in a room where it's not really climate-controlled or low humidity it can cause an issue with the corrosion or oxidization. But then I did clean my track with some special brass cleaner and it probably helped keep the track clean but with a dry environment and a non basement Lowell area when I had my running it was quite ideal. You did really good with those models that you got including all the rolling stock.
15:15 That 0-4-0 sounds like a rooster. Cleaning and new oil for that one.
this gives me soo much nostalgia
I havent had a model train set since i was a kid, am 35 now, but have always loved them and their real life counterparts as well. I have watched quite a few of your videos and i gotta say you really know your models. Youre making me want to get into it again although with my limited space i think id have to go with an N scale layout. I always liked Amtrak trains. Got any recommendations on finding a good Amtrak starter set? And imma go ahead and sub because i have been enjoying watching you fix these old models up.
I think Kato sells Amtrak N scale sets, they aren't dirt cheap but they are well made and have a good reputation in the community.
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Nice finds Harrison, early ho stuff. All 50's 60's and 70's I like brass f units
vintage matchbox vehicles! another thing i like to collect.
Very cool
What a haul!! Always fun to watch.