Can We Make it Run? Seized Athearn GP40 Locomotive

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  • @zerogscott2976
    @zerogscott2976 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Got a blue box gp9 a year ago, it didn't run. Tried cleaning and re greasing. Still didn't run. Left it for dead. A year later, revisited the motor. Found this video. Checked the gear bearings. One was seized! Works like a champ now! Thank you!

    • @SMTMainline
      @SMTMainline  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I'm glad it helped. It's not super common problem but I guess if they've been sitting a while it can happen.

  • @davidztog9011
    @davidztog9011 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Train Limbo with Harrison - - "how low can it go?" Nice revival of the Chessie. When you have it apart, you may as well clean the wheels too. Good job troubleshooting the seized wheel bearing. Finally putting the precision screwdrivers to use?
    Thanks for sharing. 👍 👍 👍

  • @randallellison6421
    @randallellison6421 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    These old Athearn blue box locomotives just won't die, especially under SMT's watch! Plus it's a Chessie System unit, guess that means it's the year of the cat!

  • @JtTaylor-mx3tm
    @JtTaylor-mx3tm 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Every locomotive I own is an athearn bluebox. I have no modern locos. Still running DC as well. Never had the money for DCC. Very great locos and fun to work on

    • @SMTMainline
      @SMTMainline  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      A large part of my collection is made up of these blue box engines, they're great engines to buy used because you can find them cheap but they don't break easy and can be great runners if you take care of them.

    • @JtTaylor-mx3tm
      @JtTaylor-mx3tm 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SMTMainline from what I read its real easy to convert them to DCC as well but not totally sure how to go about that because there's a certain way the wiring has to be done to connect to the fly wheels

    • @JBofBrisbane
      @JBofBrisbane 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JtTaylor-mx3tm as long as you isolate the motor from the frame and wire the DCC chip directly to the motor, conversion should be straightforward.

  • @dinnerfromthediningcar1080
    @dinnerfromthediningcar1080 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice diagnosis from Dr. Harrison. I would not have thought about bearing freeze. I'm too lazy - I would have replaced the wheel sets with sets from a dummy loco...
    Now would be a good time to solder a 18-20 gauge wire between the tops of the trucks to the top of the motor clip. This will make your electrical connection solid and not reliant on the partial connection between the trucks and the motor clip (these things do get out of alignment after a while, and it causes sparks - not a good thing). And removing the rust from the motor clip would be a good idea as well.
    That being said, Dr. Harrison...great job, and great video!

  • @briandonovan9560
    @briandonovan9560 ปีที่แล้ว

    Athearn DC blue box are some of my favorite locos. Easy to work on and with a little effort the details and handrails can be modified too. Thanks for the video.

  • @dbtech7914
    @dbtech7914 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Good job and good use of the WD-40. Those Atherns have a lot of parts but I like to work on them because they run great when finished. I usually replace that metal rail at the top with a piece of wire for better electrical contact.

    • @bryanphillips6666
      @bryanphillips6666 ปีที่แล้ว

      LEDs front and back make a big difference too.

    • @MrDgwphotos
      @MrDgwphotos 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If you use LED's for the lights, you can set them up to be directional.

  • @animalyze7120
    @animalyze7120 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Still my favorite brand of Locomotives, yes that's a bias and there are better ones but Athearns will always be near & dear to my heart. Easy to run, repair, diagnose and maintain. Virtually bullet proof and in my experience of 40 years of running trains the most reliable and consistent. Great video as always SMT!!! P.S. You may have a rare one there check out the articles on Chessie loco's and the WM could indicate a rare paint for a certain style of Locomotive.

  • @robby062
    @robby062 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Harrison, that is an unusual repair for an Athearn, as the axle bearings aren’t known for seizing. When you were disassembling this, I would have bet on carpet fibers being in the gears. Older LifeLike/Walthers Proto locos use a clone of the Athearn drives and those seize the worm gear bearings and sludge up really bad. I would have just replaced the wheel sets, but it’s great to see you take everything apart and repair it old school.

    • @bryanphillips6666
      @bryanphillips6666 ปีที่แล้ว

      To bad 😔😞 you can't get I think northwest shortline nwsl wheels for those engines. Great replacement,, RP-25 contour and nickel silver I think for contour. RP-25 contour refers to the correct scale circumference of the wheels and flange thickness and height. Blackening the outside of the wheels with the shiny tread makes a big difference in appearance. Harrison you should be using a wheel standards gage for the correct scale width between the flanges after wheel disassembly. You'll cut down on derailments, I also don't think I've ever seen you employ a coupler heighth gage either. Again it's more of a performance item on locomotives and rolling stock.

  • @mercuryoak2
    @mercuryoak2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Awesome job getting that Athearn running. I never seen seized bearings like that. We-40 La Silicone eh . silicone is a good lubricant the original wd-40 your absolutely right its a great penetrant and water disperser but for plastic I don't think good because a petrol based. Anyway as you say Serenity! Also that shows me the difference between my Athearn to this. My trucks have I think a rivet holding it to frame unless the same and a non exposed commutator . very interesting indeed

    • @ThePeninsulaRailfan
      @ThePeninsulaRailfan 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh wsp

    • @mercuryoak2
      @mercuryoak2 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ThePeninsulaRailfan ?? Wsp

    • @ThePeninsulaRailfan
      @ThePeninsulaRailfan 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mercuryoak2 yea, hello

    • @mercuryoak2
      @mercuryoak2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ThePeninsulaRailfan oh it's abbrivation whats up lol nothing done with work from being on road all week

    • @ThePeninsulaRailfan
      @ThePeninsulaRailfan 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mercuryoak2 oh cool

  • @engineerpat5290
    @engineerpat5290 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well done harrison! Love the Athearn BlueBox products! They were built tough!

  • @NicholassTrainChannel
    @NicholassTrainChannel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    That is a GP40 because it has 3 fans at the rear a GP38 has 2 fans at the rear nice job at getting it running.

    • @Subpowerzero66
      @Subpowerzero66 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yup! Athern, at the time used the Gp38 Chassie for the shell of the 40,50 and 39 and all that on it for customization of an engine. It's really confusing since they did that and I can tell how it was mistaken as a GP38-2 as I've personally done the same thing.

    • @Stanf954
      @Stanf954 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      If that had been a LL PK2 those axle gears alway had a habit of cracking and thumping around inside of the gear box. They should have stuck with the BB system. 20 y o and going strong with some TLC.

    • @Tristanstuff6988
      @Tristanstuff6988 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I thought it was a gp9m

    • @micsayre
      @micsayre 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Stanf954 The BB system......

  • @Kmaster2007
    @Kmaster2007 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    YES WM, THIS AMAZING
    That is a GP40-2 that came from the Western Maryland btw

  • @robbyteal4509
    @robbyteal4509 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Hey SMT I love your videos and I find them really helpful. I decided to start my own channel on Ho scale trains and Railfanning!

    • @ThePeninsulaRailfan
      @ThePeninsulaRailfan 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I subscribed 2 yaa bud!

    • @robbyteal4509
      @robbyteal4509 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh man Thank you! I can’t edit my videos so I just make them as best I can so they don’t need editing but I’m going to get something to edit soon.

  • @adessniper5864
    @adessniper5864 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Honestly you’re good enough at it where you could do it as a profession.

  • @shipbuilding1000
    @shipbuilding1000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the last "true blue box" locomotive offerings were the final run of SD40-2's introduced in 2000 or 2001, but I believe they stayed on many store shelves until the late 2000s. By the time these were made, Athearn was putting the 5-pole "hex" drives in them rather than the old 3-pole and plastic handrails on sprews instead of the old durable metal ones. The earliest "Ready-to-Roll" locomotives were essentially identical with the handrails and couplers pre-installed from the factory.

  • @johnkuzma7066
    @johnkuzma7066 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    For my locomotives I use a mixture of 50% steam oil 25% light machine oil and 25% rapeseed oil or canola oil (same thing) it penetrates really well and sticks to the rods of live steam locomotives and electric much better than just light machine oil. Another plus is that its much cheaper than labell oil.

  • @epacm50
    @epacm50 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great Work SMT!!!! Wish I had the same luck on my old Walthers Proto 2000 F units. The gears were locked up and worthless on my railroad.

  • @jamesstrickland631
    @jamesstrickland631 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have that exact same Engine, and a second one I renumbered 4258. A easy trick to free up seized worm gear bearings, pop off the lower truck cover and soak with cigarette lighter fluid... preferably with the body shell off. The fluid evaporates quickly and it's cheap..... you also want to check the axle gears, which are proned to crack.....

  • @Stanf954
    @Stanf954 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Old school Athearn BB. Simplicity at it's best and so easy to maintain.

  • @jdcunnington
    @jdcunnington 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    One thing I've done with Botchmann and Tyco motors to improve low-end response it to really polish the crap out of the comms. I start at 400-grit emery sticks (Sally Beauty Supply) and go up to 1200, higher if I have it. The idea, especially with the Botchmann & Tyco motors, is to eliminate that "waffle" pattern from the underlying circuit board they're cut from. That gets a smoother surface for better current transfer, less resistance (and heat), and better voltage response.
    I've heard of guys doing the same to Athearn motors, but I'm not sure what the improvement might be since they're already pretty decent motors to begin with. The extremists, I hear, even set the motor shafts on razor blades to balance the armature lobes.
    The one documented experiment I did with a Bachmann as a proof-of-concept, I lowered the starting voltage on the motor, an old pancake motor trolley, from 7.5 volts to 2.5 volts. Needless to say, that helped eliminate or mitigate the jack rabbit starts.

  • @ashleywalker1315
    @ashleywalker1315 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am a big fan and I am so happy I live so close to you I live just over the river in cumberland

  • @JuanGamer0202
    @JuanGamer0202 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love the gp-40 and sd-40, idk why but i love this desing

  • @robertzimmer8579
    @robertzimmer8579 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nicely done, impressed with your expertise!! Trainster in Erie, PA USA!!

  • @localrat2796
    @localrat2796 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    why is it so pretty, i need Athearn engines in me collection.

  • @theoldbayrailfan
    @theoldbayrailfan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    And yes it did sit in a box for a long time

  • @artroberttucker4218
    @artroberttucker4218 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have that locomotive also.Awesome if you have these .Paint the handrails & put decals on number boards & this improves the the appearance making it look top notch

  • @CR7659
    @CR7659 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sometimes they just stick, galvanic corrosion maybe, although it can be as simple as dried lube or the axle is pushed too tight into the gear.
    I've had a few do it on the worm gear bearings too. Once freed up they run fine.

    • @CR7659
      @CR7659 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I have to say the only Athearn I ever had that would not run was an early F7 I found in a junkyard in a car trunk, that had been left open. It probably had been that way 20 years when I found it. For fun I had the caboose that was with it running though.

  • @harrtwins1237
    @harrtwins1237 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Your fixing videos are awesome

  • @MrDgwphotos
    @MrDgwphotos 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is a fairly late one, the body attachment points are inside the fuel tank, and the side frames on the trucks are plastic.

    • @SMTMainline
      @SMTMainline  6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I wish I had known then, live and learn I guess.

  • @e.mnz1280
    @e.mnz1280 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    SMT: okay, were gonna give it a little bit of power
    Also SMT: Literally turns the knob almost all the way

  • @Zebrails
    @Zebrails 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    WELLLL Sir, Awesome video. Quebec Maple.

  • @pieseasmyseas
    @pieseasmyseas 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Blue box was discontinued in 2009

  • @CodysTrainz
    @CodysTrainz 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    What causes that problem is that the old oil based lubes made back before the rules changed back in the 2000's, they often Jammed the Gear Boxes after sitting on shelves for a while, a problem that could've easily be prevented if the user applied a different lube, I had similar problems with 3 Mantua steam Locomotives, and a Life Like Steam Locomotive back in the Early 2010's.

  • @Brian_rock_railfan
    @Brian_rock_railfan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    great video 🚄👍

  • @shockstrains5077
    @shockstrains5077 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I believe it’s actually a GP-38-2 I could be wrong but close enough

    • @shockstrains5077
      @shockstrains5077 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BNbrett1376 every Geep looks the same lol

    • @shockstrains5077
      @shockstrains5077 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BNbrett1376 what kind I have 2 Walthers ones I got off of Amazon for like $60

    • @shockstrains5077
      @shockstrains5077 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BNbrett1376 I love Genesis locos they always run so well no matter the age

  • @TheSharkKing45
    @TheSharkKing45 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Perhaps cleaning the commutator on my Athearn FM H24-66 could help improve its performance, as it got rather sluggish after being in a flood. (That occurred a couple months after I bought the model. ) it still runs, nonetheless

  • @johnramirez5996
    @johnramirez5996 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great job again. Just got cpl new ones myself. Got a Jupiter, Amtrak switcher, finally got an Alaska engine. Love it. Even cheaper then the ones i missed out on. There's few n scale pieces to. Needed that as well. Getting stuff around to begin building a 4x8 layout using n scale in center. Outside... Ho.

  • @myvideosetc.8271
    @myvideosetc.8271 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This vídeos should be consideres therapy, is so relaxing seeing them.

  • @lackawannarailfan
    @lackawannarailfan 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video! Athearns are awesome! Before the video started a Frozen ad was on!😂

  • @larryfields2652
    @larryfields2652 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    have you expanded the layout, I would have installed a place for all those locos and cars...would be a safe place for such great loco's, wish I had kept mine

  • @halliebohan884
    @halliebohan884 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Did not see you check the wheel gauge. The axle gear has a little slop and they will still turn but can be out of gauge. Thanx for your video. Hal

    • @SMTMainline
      @SMTMainline  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I didn't have one back when I made this.

  • @kindcake
    @kindcake 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    That locomotive is actually a western maryland locomotive in chessie paint

    • @randallellison6421
      @randallellison6421 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Didn't notice that at first. From what I understand, that would make this Chessie locomotive a somewhat rare one, I believe most were done as either C&O or B&O units.

    • @kindcake
      @kindcake 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@randallellison6421 it mabey rare because when I search up chessie WM locomotives in ho scale I rarely find anything

    • @randallellison6421
      @randallellison6421 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@kindcake It was mentioned in an issue Model Railroad News' "From The Archives" section in which the WM/Chessie locomotives are listed as some of the harder to find Chessie System locomotives, sorry I can't remember the exact issue of the magazine, but its titled "The Chessie Issue".

    • @kindcake
      @kindcake 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@randallellison6421 I'll try to find the issue. It seems really interesting

    • @JBofBrisbane
      @JBofBrisbane 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The big "WM" above the road number was my first clue...

  • @serbianrailfanning967
    @serbianrailfanning967 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have the same train at home!
    Mine works but the control that I got with it has a broken part in it. It is made in Slovenia by Mehano.

  • @cnwproductions
    @cnwproductions 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    SMT, I am going to paint my ho scale Atlas FP7, and Stewart F7A and F7B units in Chicago and Northwestern paint scheme

  • @rdrogel
    @rdrogel 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    the real one is now CSXT 6158 in Dark Future scheme(Aka B&O livery)

  • @sort187
    @sort187 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What are you using for lubricant? I'm digging that needle point applicator. I use Wahl's clipper oil (recommended) and DuPont Molycote for grease. They seem to work well, but the application leaves something to be desired. I'd rather use a needle point like what you have, but I'm not sure where to find something like that for my bottles.

    • @SMTMainline
      @SMTMainline  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I use Labelle 106 and 102.

  • @Dawsonsrailfanadventures74
    @Dawsonsrailfanadventures74 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Your lucky smt I repair my own engines it good people believe in you

  • @lawnmowermanTX
    @lawnmowermanTX หลายเดือนก่อน

    Harrison, just an observation-side-note, maybe, want to make a 'How To Test, Clean, Repair' video for D.I.Y.R.? Perhaps, people would send in requests for a Step by Step, How To Troubleshoot, Diagnose, Test and Service locomotives, for all known types? Tyco, Rivarossi, Bachmann, Athern, and other model train makers? What is the difference from a 5 pole, 3 pole, pancake? Make 'one' teach/instruct video and if anyone needs service, send in a step by step instruction procedure sheet(s) from Test, Teardown, Troubleshoot, Clean, Rebuild?? (I got this video due to the Algorithms.) I hope you find my comment?

    • @SMTMainline
      @SMTMainline  28 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I like that idea a lot, I'll keep it noted.

  • @Alerrecks
    @Alerrecks 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice! The athearn blue box chessie GP40s are hard to find.

  • @Elfnetdesigns
    @Elfnetdesigns 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have a custom painted and detailed KCS white version of this locomotive

  • @alcopower5710
    @alcopower5710 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I really enjoy watching SAR Mainline (she’s a runner)

  • @starguard4122
    @starguard4122 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great Job

  • @TSMGL_Youtube
    @TSMGL_Youtube 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Something you should try whipping up is a motor with a gear attached to the shaft to test gear boxes.

  • @jamesstrickland631
    @jamesstrickland631 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can use the lighter fluid trick on axle bearings as well....

  • @chessiejohnproductions
    @chessiejohnproductions 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love Chessie System my favorite railroad

  • @BenandMylesMom
    @BenandMylesMom 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love the Chessie System

  • @PercysRailway
    @PercysRailway 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I like ur a vids a lot i cant get enough ;-; there so cool

  • @evanj2400
    @evanj2400 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good ole Chessie

  • @DowneastProductions211
    @DowneastProductions211 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice vid!!

  • @sergioarroyoguerrero5434
    @sergioarroyoguerrero5434 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Chessie System HO scale.
    I have Chessie System Athearn blue box, GP40-2.
    Work to 100% to run in the modular layout, 3 Centurias.
    Good job in repair the locomotive GP40-2 Chessie System.
    Where is you 🐱 ?
    Scooby Doo is a good dog.
    My best friend.
    Scooby Dum is a nice dog.
    Scrappy Doo my pup.

  • @rdrogel1116
    @rdrogel1116 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I hope that you can superdetail the unit and paint it in CSXT Dark Future scheme that the real unit(6158) wears now

  • @Dawsonsrailfanadventures74
    @Dawsonsrailfanadventures74 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Smt blue box was last made in 2005 and athearn sold the last of the stock in 2008

  • @ramonquiroz665
    @ramonquiroz665 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Clean the Wheels! Firts! Principiantes!!

  • @theoddfish4376
    @theoddfish4376 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have a blue box from a house fire and it still works lol

  • @juangabrielsolanoperez2929
    @juangabrielsolanoperez2929 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Muy bien 😊👌👍👏

  • @MattKonsol
    @MattKonsol 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Harrison got some Important detail about athearn blue boxes I believe they’re made until I believe early as 2008 I don’t know for sure By the way Chessie looks better

    • @mercuryoak2
      @mercuryoak2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I know my Athearn f unit I have came from a train set I bought. I don't think they call it a blue box. However same build and the trainset box was blue. I noticed in a video I made which i have to schedule uploading has a code number on bottom like Lifelike. 42005 so im thinking it was made 4-20-2005 or April 2005. I got it in 2006 never oiled it ever. My first time doing I got on video and surprised its not over lubes like bachmann tend to be. But gears seemed dry. Its all good now with fresh synthetic oil and grease

    • @SMTMainline
      @SMTMainline  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I have models which use the exact drive system that blue box locos did but they have nickel silver wheels instead of the steel ones and weren't sold in blue box, boxes.

    • @mercuryoak2
      @mercuryoak2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@SMTMainline ahh so mine are nickel silver wheels? Maybe??? Oh i know I'll try seeing if a magnet would stick lol I don't think nickel silver is magnetic

    • @mercuryoak2
      @mercuryoak2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You know I looked up my train set i bought back in 2006 2007 about it was the Athearn Warbonnet Santafe. Came with Illinois central gondola with Red trucks ( yeah red?!!), Northern Pacific box car, and caboose ( missing) on details on website mine had Blackened nickel silver wheels the cars all plastic. With bachmann ez track steel. And an athearn controller i still have

    • @MattKonsol
      @MattKonsol 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mercuryoak2 dang man

  • @user-cu9kz5ec8o
    @user-cu9kz5ec8o 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Definitely a GP40

  • @trainshowminecraft2265
    @trainshowminecraft2265 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey Smt plz Do the all your electric train or can you get a Japanese train if you do you are the 10/10 train TH-camr you cool bro

  • @trainstorm1225
    @trainstorm1225 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Motor: **seizes**
    Locomotive: “Why must you... hurt me in this way?”

  • @mistermadmachine6311
    @mistermadmachine6311 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing 😮

  • @theoldbayrailfan
    @theoldbayrailfan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Hey that’s my locomotive when did you get it in the mail

  • @1964catt
    @1964catt 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    i have a train with the same insides as this one but am not sure if its a Walthers are an Athearn train, its a high hood GP7 8 or 9 not sure they look the same to me. also do you know where i could get some window parts and and some plastic light insert's for the body?

  • @southwestlimitedproduction9738
    @southwestlimitedproduction9738 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'm back after 2 months of being inactive

  • @evanstraintubeyt6950
    @evanstraintubeyt6950 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yay

  • @lmagolda6001
    @lmagolda6001 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Where did you get your DC transformer from? It doesn’t seem like there are many good options online. Not even on eBay.

  • @thayersubdivisionproductio9233
    @thayersubdivisionproductio9233 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have had the same isue but it was a drive shaft and now nothing from the motor

  • @colbeausabre8842
    @colbeausabre8842 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    GP40 as it has one stack and three radiator fans

  • @LRSX
    @LRSX 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    You make it look like you did this once or twice before hahah! I would need a list of where everything was lol.

  • @sosig1341
    @sosig1341 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can you do a video on a hornby class 87 in intercity swallow livery

  • @michaelg8936
    @michaelg8936 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good job fixing nerf cat's brand.

  • @dalecherne5377
    @dalecherne5377 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What conductive lube is that?

  • @TunnelMotorMann
    @TunnelMotorMann 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It's a GP40-2, not a GP38.

  • @Alexstrainsandthings
    @Alexstrainsandthings 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well i understand i had an engine to fix but ill wait like you askef

  • @signal_to_departure
    @signal_to_departure 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can you make a video on how to send stuff because i got something for you.

  • @johnkuzma7066
    @johnkuzma7066 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Name it Nerf Cat

  • @bernadettegarbers9552
    @bernadettegarbers9552 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    To me it looks like a little bit of Loctite got in there to me it looks like a little bit of Loctite got on that bearing to me it looks like a little bit of Loctite got on that bearing

  • @slr_393p
    @slr_393p 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thats a GP40 Same as Exeter Centeral 00 gauge model railway by nicholas Woa You have a long name dude

  • @trumpispresident7775
    @trumpispresident7775 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    i plan on going to a train show
    how do i know it runs by looking at it

  • @juansilveti9336
    @juansilveti9336 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    aqui en mexico es dificil conseguir un tren

  • @rebeccajones4659
    @rebeccajones4659 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    have you heard of athearn genisis

  • @Erfp551
    @Erfp551 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Gp 40-2

  • @chrisbraun9984
    @chrisbraun9984 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think thats a wd40 not a GP-40..😜 Keep up the good work love ur vids!👍

  • @trumpispresident7775
    @trumpispresident7775 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    how much for your repairs

  • @aidan.perret
    @aidan.perret 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What type of oil do you use on you trains?

  • @thiruraj3866
    @thiruraj3866 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes

  • @TRRailfan
    @TRRailfan 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    SMT WHY DID YOU POST AT 1 AM??? GO TO SLEEEP
    Great video tho

  • @nightisright1873
    @nightisright1873 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Please do more O gauge stuff

  • @Yourmom-et1xo
    @Yourmom-et1xo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I don’t know smt can you make it run

  • @theoldbayrailfan
    @theoldbayrailfan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Did you get the two other locomotives

    • @SMTMainline
      @SMTMainline  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yep, I will probably try to get those working next.

    • @theoldbayrailfan
      @theoldbayrailfan 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ok but I have to warn you the B and O engine might be hard And also in the next engine repair from me you can say my TH-cam name

    • @theoldbayrailfan
      @theoldbayrailfan 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      And also when are you going to repair the two other engines? That came in the box with no note