I've told many this is the Golden Age to aquire. These old boys had all the cool stuff🚂🇨🇦🚃🚃🙋

I just can’t stop watching these videos there so good

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.

Gotta love old Rivarossi models. I’m amazed that little 0-4-0 hauled all of those cars.

Me years ago watching my kid: I don't get unboxing videos. Me now: BEST VIDEO EVER!

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

You know its a good day when SMT posts a video

I hope my stuff goes to a good home when the time comes…that collection was someone’s pride and joy at one point!😀

Nice Video. Can't wait for maintenance time for this 1950's HO lot.

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.

I love your videos and they make me smile very day

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!

Nice purchase! A lot of nice projects. I like the MOW cars and the automobiles. Great video.

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.

The small 4 window caboose with the center cupola are models of the Northeastern caboose that was used by ConRail predecessor roads.

amazing.. your video treats my desire to have one of those miniature trains

The little engine at the end with the wheels spinning fast as hell pulling all that 😂

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

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.

great haul for $70 nice vehicles and rolling stock. im sure you can bring life to the engines

6:54 is a Varney NW2 always misidentified by Varney and Life Like as an SW7.

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.

That 0-4-0 is definitely the little engine that could.

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.

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

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.

yay always a good day when smt uploads

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.

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!

I see a Matchbox Weatherhill hydraulic excavator in there too.

Really nice and vintage pices of locomotive

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!

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.

The American flier Hudson is the gem of that group. I'd love to restore that one.

The "Half Boxcar/ half gondola is a crane tender. Restring that crane and pair them!

Those lighted cabeese look neat. I'm going to have to look for one of those.

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.

That Gilbert Hudson was at one time a must have until imported Brass came to ruled the day,what a haul.

I have one of those riding conditions. I got it at a train show last year

All those cars were in surprisingly good shape. May be of real value for their classic paint schemes

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.

Gotta love 50s equipment!

That maintenance-of-way car is a companion car to a crane. It carried the boom and other pertinent equipment

I think this is the first train video i ever watched about this guy and or You (if your reading this)

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.

Wow! That 0-4-0 is one powerful locomotive! Pulling all those cars is impressive!

Hermosas locomotoras

I love the “well folks in today video”

Look forward to seeing you repair these models and get them running again. 👍

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.

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.

2:50 Truck trailer probably by Ulrich.

Great haul, Harrison! I hope to see the New Haven boxcar sometime on your livestream!

Congrats on the amount of views this video has gotten in such a short time. Unboxing videos are a hot KZfaq thing. I really liked those Gilbert items. Some are miniature American Flyer stock.

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

A lot of neat looking cars and locomotives

Very nice lot of vintage trains Harrison! Gotta love how vibrant the colors were on trains of that era!

Nice unboxing. Way to go Harrison.

It’s really cool to see your train collection keep growing throughout time.

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.

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!

vintage matchbox vehicles! another thing i like to collect.

Allowing it to pull heavy loads for wheel slip is actually good for it because not only it’s giving the engine a good run but also cleaning the wheels off

rivarossi never dies

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.

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.

What a haul!! Always fun to watch.

Nice unboxing! 3:02 With those... I would be inclined to make a kind of little scrapyard somewhere in the diorama!

I love these lot videos! Keep it up Harrison

13:39 That Train Looks Cool! 🙂👍🚂

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!!😳

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.

this gives me soo much nostalgia

I always enjoy these videos of your eBay finds. You get some really interesting pieces

I am impressed by your ability to basically repair any locomotive, dead, old or broken. Please keep this up!

Your line in the video is iconic

6:18 is an Athearn GP-7 with a brass model underframe, trucks and drive.

What a score!! You did well Harrison. Thanks Harrison for 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.

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👍

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Very cool

Hello smt Mainline I have the same reading caboose it lights up

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!!

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

1:50 The orange 40' flatcar is either an Athearn or an old Train Miniature of Illinois flatcar. ( long out of production )

awesome finds ! Keep it up pal

The metal weight in the Tenshodo looks like an early model of the EMD 567B prime mover.

The American Flyer locomotive is from about 1939 and runs on AC. I have a very minty version of this model as well as a 1938 version. Anyway to run on DC, there was a conversion kit made in the 1940s using a permanent magnet. I have a few examples of those DC conversion kit and you’re welcome to have one if you want to try to get that loco to run.

15:15 That 0-4-0 sounds like a rooster. Cleaning and new oil for that one.

The 3rd locomotive you tested, the front bogie of the tender wasn’t even on the rails. That’s why it was popping a wheely. Also when it moved, the bogie sparked from the power gap. This loco was the angle tank steam shunter.

I believe the Milwaukee road mow stuff came as a set of kits from Walthers

The bands were probably cut by someone who knows what they're doing because the bands tend to shorten the lifespan of the engine

I'd like to add the 040 with tender. One of the tender bodies was backwards. As well as the other bogie was derailed. It would run alot better if achualy on the track proper

good job and good score, harrison! i like that tenshodo f-unit pair. rob