Lot of Vintage Project Model Trains - Locomotives & More! Unboxing

A box from Florida showed up recently and I've been meaning to unbox it. Inside contained several vintage project model trains and locomotives (Likely 1960s era). Apparently non of them run however I believe with a bit of work many of them may be riding the rails once again in the not so distant future. I'd like to thank North Florida Rail Productions for sending this lot.

[swamphdaddy]

Switcher which looks it has a broken cab is a Hobbytown. The plastic shell was by Hobbyline (separate company) and at times marketed by Hobbytown who later offered a metal shell. Both plastic and metal shells often show up on eBay if you feel you can't fix your current one. It's an Alco RS-2 or RS-3 and I have no idea how to tell them apart. RS-4 or 5 had 3-axle trucks and the body looks much the same as the one you have.

[davidztog]

First off -- Congratulations on reaching 30K subscribers, Harrison! 🎉 The Royal Blue is going to look great on your layout. Santa Fe All the Way, yes, that's lots of Santa Fe. KUDOS to North Florida Rail Productions.
Thanks for sharing. 👍👍👍

[dkendrick]

Dude sent you the entire Santa Fe railroad in ho scale.

[Techmonies]

Hey SMT glad to see you got my package all the way from Florida! Sadly the shell of that R-S2 or R-S3 fell apart in shipping :( I’ve been wanting to send you these but $60 shipping price has deterred me, I finally scrounged up some extra cash for the shipping fee but I’m glad to send you some old classics!

[npwx]

I like the box of goodies you got today. You are so lucky. I wish people would send me some?

[vintagemodels]

Have the same Athearn Gp9, love how good the slow speed is on them.

[richardp]

That first one is a Vintage Athearn F unit. Hope it has the weight in it as they always go missing. They go forever!

[abethpezarkar]

Great locomotives.. Suggestion. Make a nice show case and keep your trains in them. You really have a great collection.

[CR]

#1 is Athearn, early gear drive
#2 Tyco, looks like number's been changed
#3 mate to #1
#4 Tender for Tyco Shifter 0-4-0 or the 0-6-0
#5 the BIg Six the tender goes to; likely early-mid 60s
#6 Remains of a Hobbytown RS2/3; 1950s era
#7 Athearn "GP9" circa early 60s, number also was changed
#8 Tyco, mid-70s Royal Blue 2-8-0 with tender drive
#9 Athearn streamlined observation
#10 same, RPO
#11 common Varney
#12 likely Mantua circa 1959, identical to early Tyco cars
#13 appears to be newer Athearn

The Royal Blue used to be somewhat desirable in good shape, but it's been a while since I had a nice one to try to sell.

[angryrailfan]

It’s the dynamic brake blisters on the Gp9 that tell them apart from the Gp-7

[thunderturbine]

Jolly good show Harrison @SMT Mainline

[clivewilkinson]

Harrison, thanks for your great videos, especially the servicing and resurrection of old locos. Here in the UK, I was interested to see in this video the Tyco/Mantua Santa Fe loco, it might be a GP20. I have one the same in NYC colours. It is 50 years old and runs just great even at a crawl, a tribute to T/Ms engineering. As it runs so well I am reluctant to try and service it, even though the brushes and commutator must need some attention. The thing is built like a tank and I have not yet figured out how to get inside of the truck without using cutting equipment or explosives, so I am looking forward to seeing you take the thing apart. It would be great if you could do that soon. Cheers.

[MattKonsol]

Almost to 30k bro I’m excited!! So much cool stuff! Btw you got to have the dinosaur if its Sinclair!

[MoosesWorkshop]

Pretty soon you will need a separate house for just your HO engines!!! LOL

[stephendollahan]

Harrison, that F-3/7 is from a company that was bought out by Athearn in the late 50s, along with a company called Globe. Athearn continued to produce both drive systems through about 1959, when he introduced a simpler drive train. If you take care during teardown, and reassembly you will find they are smooth running units, although the motor in that F-7 might give you some problems. The brush holder mount on mine disintegrated, and I lost one of the brush holders in the black hole of my garage work shop.

[Graulas]

i also just got my 2 diecast american flyers #433 #443 by gilbert :D

[piedmontrailfan]

I clicked on this video faster then a Chinese bullet train

[joallawestervelt]

Wow what a haul. Looking forward to seeing them fixed and running. Have fun

[DFWRailVideos]

Congrats on 30k :D
Excited for more!

P.S. The GP7/GP9 with the high short hood is actually something I have as well. Crazy!

[randallellison]

Very cool lot SMT! as I mentioned before, it should be no trouble getting parts for the Athearn GP9 as they still make pretty much the entire drive systems for these old blue box locomotives, plus I've actually heard that you can turn these locomotives, mechanically, into Ready to Roll or Genesis locomotives complete with the ability to convert to DCC. Not sure if that would be a popular move with the purists, but the option is there! The rubber band drive F units are definitely unusual, don't think I've seen an AB set of those and as far as the locomotive that was in pieces, it appears to be an RS-1 or RS-3, hard to tell from that angle. Take care and congrats on 30k!