MEGA Vintage Athearn Locomotive Collection - Let's See What Runs!

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In 2021 I received a message from a guy named Ricky saying he had acquired a massive lot of vintage Athearn blue box locomotives which he no longer had space for.

He offered me the entire collection provided I paid for the shipping which seemed like an incredible offer so I sent him the funds. Around a week later he said he was ready to ship out the trains and then his account disappeared.

At this point I assumed I had been scammed however a year and a half later I received another message explaining what happened and that the trains were on their way.

They eventually arrived and today I finally got the chance to open them up and see what the condition of each locomotive was.
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The red black and yellow SF locomotives are Santa Fe. That’s the Kodachrome paint scheme from when they were going to merge with southern pacific but the merger wasn’t approved. They were going to paint SPSF on them once the merger was approved. Since it was never approved the joke is that SPSF stands for “shouldn’t paint so fast”. You can also find Southern Pacific locomotives with the same paint scheme just lettered SP.

alexgoducks
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Seeing all of those BNSF locos reminds me of when I used to work with the BNSF at their Phoenix Mobest yard. Phoenix is a terminus for BNSF, so loaded trains would come in with 3 or 4 locos on them and stop. Then they had to get empty train cars out of Phoenix to the rest of the system. They'd also occasionally have to send extra locomotives out to the rest of the system. Twice a day they'd run a "Baretable" train of empty container cars out to LA, and occasionally combine it with a "power move" of excess locos. I saw trains with 9 or 10 locomotives heading out at least once a week.

murphsmodels
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I’m definitely sad to see that they weren’t handled properly during shipping but super happy you finally got to see what was in those boxes!

Have fun!
Ricky 🚂

daredog
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I am jealous of the fact that every single one of these units is an Athearn blue box

ohiovalleyrailfan
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OMG it's just unbelievable, here in Argentina you have to save a lot of time to be able to afford one of those, they're sold as "new" and really expensive :(
You're really lucky to live in a country with good economy and to have such generous friends!!

facuorona
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Wow Harrison nice haul from this guy named Ricky here! Very generous of him to send you all of this! I also have a Santa Fe fp45 too from athearn.

MattKonsol
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The strength of the blue-box line (of locomotives and rolling stock) is their simplicity and robustness. They’re really easy to service as well. One thing I like to do is solder some 24-26 ga. stranded wire from the metal strip on top of the motor to the metal current-pickups on both trucks, as well as the one on the light; this improves the conductivity as opposed to the metal current pickups just riding on the top strip with only the springiness to rely on. 😊

williamsquires
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He did it again, folks, he bought another collection of engines

Better yet, they’re all Athearn!

haasebahn
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Athearns are practically indestructible. A little TLC is all that's needed. Good unboxing. From Texas.

oskarvalance
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Super. A lifetime supply of HO locomotives for most model railroaders for free, and only three out of dozens of boxes of locomotives and train cars and train stuff donated and mailed to you. Incredible. Hello again from the Tracy Mountain Railway in Colorado. 💙 T.E.N.

tracynation
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Sometimes I think I need to start posting more train videos on here so I can get followers who would send me stuff.

Then I look at the pile of projects I've already got going and realize... I'm doing fine on my own there.

The blue and yellow Santa Fe F-unit is the same paint scheme as my very first engine (also an Athearn blue box F7) back in the early 200X's. It's gone through a lot but thanks in part to things I've learned watching your videos it's still running strong.

avision_official
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Nice to see people sharing their equipment!

ddyodaman
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Please record your fixing of some of the trains. Your previous videos tackling taking apart and fixing your broken locomotives have inspired me to fix an old GO train n scale locomotive from my childhood. Your videos explaining the parts and what to look at for which problem, helped me get the courage to figure out and fix mine. Runs great now, it was only drawing power prior.

DylanDurdle
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It’s fun having you pen boxes! Feel like I’m right there w/you!! A ghost…haha😂😅🎉❤

gregginter
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Wow a really nice collection I love all of the Santa Fe I also like the one Chicago great Western

EdwardsEuropeantrains
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The long nose Santa Fe SD units were called "Snoots". They held the first version of electronic loco-control in the nose. Yep, late 70's or early 80's electronics. No vacuum tubes. "Solid-state" as we called it back in those days.
Edit: Michael beat me to it. Still, for the algorithm. One more thing. If you want to accurately portray the Espee units, mask off the numbers and then completely coat the sides/top with grey primer and then dust the roof with flat black. You want to barely see the color underneath. I saw many an Espee with the cab numbers wiped clean, and nothing else. Running diesels constantly in tunnels and snow sheds makes that happen.

markwilliams
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Wow Harrison those are nice looking athearn locomotives and I wished I could get more of those C44s because they're usually a lot of money and those long nose sd40-2s are called "Snoot nose" and awesome video and I always enjoy watching your videos and so does my grandmother and I also love your older videos and also greetings from United States of America

StoddardCountyRailfan
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Wow so fantastic thanks Harrison some more fixer uppers!

williamsantangelo
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WOW!!! I'd say that was worth the wait! Knowing you Harrison, these be riding the rails within a few weeks!! :)

RayBoebel
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That is a serious haul of loco's. Very nice 😁👍

darrellnorton