I love the P42 loco and wish I could get a few more.

Nice restoration!

Like the updated background! Nice job!

Nice

well done on maintenance scrump, I saw sparks from P42 when cars uncoupled may have to check track in that spot.

Love it my friend

Great video

Awesome restoration

I love those VIA p42 schemes

Glad to see it run again after the accident

Great video and great restoration, good that it will be running again

I love the via train

Very nice video scrump,I love these types of videos that you make,good job

IT LIVES!

More Of A Rebuild I'd Say, Restoration is when you take a dead locomotive and bring it back to life and give it repairs it needs to move again.More of a repair.

I’m may know why the P42’s plow keeps coming off. It may be getting to low and your frogs on the points are hitting the plow. So, what I would do is, if it falls off again, maybe try glueing it a little higher up on the part it holds on to.

It’s most likely a Athearn Blue Box unit painted in the VIA colours

I liked your restoration

Good to see it running

You did a good job

Nice, we have 2 of these now, absolutely in love with them, I need to get more confident with installing LED’s for more prototypical operation etc. But have the same issue with our shells, the steps break off so easily...which makes me sad.

Very late reply but the problem with your wheel was the gear itself. It's cracked thus the half-shaft slides in and out easily, thankfully a 7 dollar gear set (Comes with 6 of them) Will fix this problem. You will need to make sure the wheels are in Gauge with an NMRA tool. This is the first thing I check getting any Athearn and is easily testable before a purchase. Turn each wheel by hand, if it turns the shaft gears are cracked and spreading allowing the shafts to free spin, however this could also indicate the wurm gear is broken or missing as well which is easily checked by removing the shell (If the wurm gear is good and installed correctly you won't be able to turn the wheels by hand thus if they do spin the shaft gear is the culprit). 99% of all Athearns I get or repair have this same issue so I always have bags of these gears in my tool drawer. Gluing works but really isn't a worthy fix just get the gears, most train places will sell these and even though they say for SD-45-2 on the package it's the same shaft gear for all Athearns. The easiest but a tad pricier fix is get a new set of 6 wheel and gear & bearing packs already gauged and assembled but that runs about 22 dollars but is less of a hassle, aside from the new ones are proper scale and 40" wheels whereas the originals were most likely 42" meaning they will work just need to readjust your couplers on the Engine afterwards. P.S Anytime you have to mess with the wheel shafts you must check to make sure the wheel set is in Gauge or you will run into decoupling, derailing, clicky noisy running and a host of other issues, plus it beats the snot out of the transmission gears in the long run and you'll be back to square 1 ;)

I have 3 and one in a wrap

LOVE IT!

Look like atheran they have replacement part axle gear sd40-2 motor Pad pad they get hard brittle easily fix

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Just help out your video are very educational, Axle gear motor pad ,u can get them on e bay old athearn ,lose there traction old age just make sure replacing them , they don’t touch, then you have short, west coast milepost85

I got my big boy going

I see a lot of these pass by, but they have the Amtrak paint scheme

Those clips on the trucks are rather a pain, aren't they? And the bearing can be a snot as well!!!

Looks like your shell is missing the steps, antenna, and wipers. Is the main square headlight lens still there ? Athearn uses spit instead of glue for most detail parts. Looks like a decent decoder install. I put a TCS Wow Sound 9 pin in mine and left the factory bulbs and dcc board.

Use locktite super glue. $3 at Dollar store. Gel kind works best.

Noice. I like that model. Have one myself. Would you believe I paid $75 for it? New.

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SMT Mainline if it's easier, just call it a genesis. Thatd the series that it's from in real life.

I noticed this is a different place

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I have a question for you. I have a dummy engine and want to place Metal wheels on it, what type of wheel sets should I buy for it?

I think those passenger cars wheels need to be in gauge again. Do you have a NMRA gauge tool?

Is it a digitrax decoder

Hey scrump I don’t mean to be mean but in most of your titles of your videos it says Restoration but it’s not technically a Restoration it’s more of a service and relubrication. Sorry to bug you it was just confusing me. If you don’t want to change it it’s your decision. I was just thinking if other people were confused to. To me it’s not really an issue I was more referring to your views even if they cared. Hope you have a good night.

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Scrunp you shouidnt have used super glue yoy can just put it back becuase last year i did that when u was a nub gear broke and long story short had to buy a 20 dollar geared axle

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