HOLY CATFISH Ron, what a haul.

Keep On Buying those trains.👍

Awesome video Ron. You are great too listen to. Thanks again for another great video.🚂🚂

Nice haul lots of goodies.

Im glad u liked the painting. She was done with a air brush and free hand shields

Nice haul great supporter's great vid. Thank You

Another enjoyable video, thanks for posting!

A thanksgiving thanks to you Ron for keeping us all informed and amused.

Thank you for sharing.👍

Lots of good stuff there! The "Daylight" loco's will be fun ...

fabulous trains man, absolutely awsome!

Great video Ron I cant wait till you shine up the passenger cars I love my Mantua cars and I polished them and look great.

Omg ! It’s a video classic model trains Christmas!….well done!

Wow, you found some awesome things! Generosity of the community is outstanding.💯 that is an amazing lineup!!🫵👍✌️

Love the AMT passenger set. I'd like one of mine someday

And, as always, that's a nice haul. I mostly buy broken cars and locomotives for parts and scratch building. i never ignore trains that don't work.

What a nice lot! Looks like we’re gonna have some very interesting videos in the future. Looking forward to see your work on the Conrail’s B40-8s and SD80MAC.

Hi Ron. Fun video. Looking forward to your upcoming videos

Hey Ron. That was fun to check out. Great finds and donations.

Great haul .

The Mopar logos❤ Satellite has memories here❤

Congratulations, those are great treasures! At 20:50: Hobby-Land was a model train store that was filled with Lionel, American Flyer, and HO trains. Sadly, it closed in the mid 1950s. 😢

What a great haul, Ron. That should get us through the Winter with some great fixer-up videos. I'm anxiously looking forward to them. Thanks Ron. Happy Holidays 🎉

Ron that is an awesome new collection to the already growing collection..... I love the old steamers. That painting looks fantastic also... well done. A few more videos to make repairing some of them and getting them back on the rails.. I look forward to seeing those videos arriving in my YT to watch list. I will have to get off my but and make some more repair videos of some of the locos that I have collected here in Australia..... A great video as always, You are quickly becoming my favourite model train channel.

The decals are awesome.

What a great haul. This should keep you busy for quite awhile. Looking forward to seeing all of the videos. Thanks for sharing.

looking forward to you addressing the bachmann axle issue. dangerously becoming my fave you tube train guy. yay, mopar!

Nice haul of equipment. Can't wait to see the videos. 33%

Awesome Sauce Ron cant waitbfor the Cab Firwords..😅

Great videos coming soon. Nice haul, and very nice viewers.

Nice haul. Those AMT cars are nice and easy to work on. Four screws hold the body to the frame. When you remove the body, the interior end doors can fall out. They just slide in. Easy to replace the wiring. The trucks are just held on by a machine screw, which also holds the draw-bar to the truck. There are two types of draw-bars and couplers. The plastic ones are small and one piece and don't open. The metal ones have separate couplers, with the Lift-A-Matic uncoupling system. There is a spring that keep the metal ones straight and level. When you get them set-up properly, add a touch of hot glue or Elmer's to the top of the threads on the inside so they don't work loose and sag. A nut with some Elmer's can also work. Resist any temptation to replace them with Lionel trucks, which some people do. They look terrible and change the entire appearance of the car. When you have the body off, clean it with some Dawn and a soft cloth. A soft bristle tooth brush will clean the fluting if it is too gunked-up, but a sponge will normally do the job. Shine the top with Simonize or a carnauba wax and buff with a soft cloth. No need to wax the fluted sides. Don't use any type of polishing compound, which contains abrasives and is meant for automobiles and can damage the tops. You can replace the window inserts with sheets that you can buy at any craft store. Lionel window inserts will work, but I prefer the the pale blue or neutral opaque plastic like the original. Set them behind a nice ABA Santa Fe set and they will look exceptional. On another note, those Rail Chief cars are real cool. Some of my HO friends had those back in the day. Some of the best looking HO passenger cars out there. AMT also made some excellent HO passenger cars, but I never see them anywhere. Either way, enjoy getting all of this stuff back into nice shape.

Enjoyed it a lot. Great work!

I gotta admire your big line-up of the AHM monster locos. Much as I’d love to have samples of those giant locos from out west, my layout was never planned to: a) run western roads, and; b) never be built with anything greater than 24 inch radius track, which would look totally silly with the overhang of those big locos. As it is, I do have an AHM Berkshire and several Mountain locos, and I admit they do have an overhang, but I just had to have ‘em for my eastern ‘road. Had to. Got smaller locos, too, from gear-driven locos, small switchers, up to medium steamers, plus diesels, but nothing newer than what ran up to 1966. Anyway, Ron, you have got quite the pile of models to repair, clean, and run, plus I do like that you have been working on building up your layout. It’s looking better all the time. Keep it up!

Hello Ron how are you feeling the video you just made is awesome

You did great on the name. Those Rail Chief kits look real nice, going to be fun putting those together!

3:24 I lived near Big Pine, California, and for a short while there was logging going on in that area during the 70s. The tracks followed highway 395. The tracks would actually end up over in Trona. From there the tracks would end up in Mojave. Then from Mojave would travel over to Boron and then in to Barstow.

Aluminum passenger cars galore in 2 sizes! I think I have 2 of the HO scale ones, but they are unmarked. Just going of how they look. When I got them they were so corroded they were white. And Steam engines! Wow. Good stuff, another quality Gilbert HO. Wish that could be said about Lionel HO. Will be looking forward to seeing videos on all of the engines!

Looking forward to the gs4 video. I have one that needs repair and need help and know I can learn from your videos.

I am 0 /0-27 gauge guy but love all you videos - but I love all your videos because you fix stuff the way I would do it myself. I learn a lot from them watch them to the END BTW.

Much of the Cox trains line ended up with and is now sold by Walthers including the GP9 in its Trainline series with improved detail, a far better mechanism and new frame.

Great video, loved it!

Nice load of fun projects and future videos to look forward to!

I have a Lionel HO scale Daylight GS4 ! Runs good. Loud. Kinda scratchy. I need to take it apart as I learned some from you Ron. Thanks. My layout has been dismantled. Coming soon.

Happy belated Thanksgiving Ron great show

Athearn bought RailPower Products years ago and the tooling became the basis for the first Genesis line locos.

Awesome Ron can't wait for all these videos. Great stuff

The Bachman Daylights will be interesting. I wonder if Ron will use 3d printed gears to fix them. Well, I guess that we'll have to wait for the video to find out along with the various other items.

I have several OK Engines extruded aluminum cars. They came in kit form and are really nice!

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Awsome stuff! Looking forward to all the new episodes!

Man those southern railroad locos are nice, been collecting those and haven't come across those yet!!!!!!! Nice!!!

I just got a $25 IHC/ Rivarossi 4-6-6-4 Clinchfield Challenger that cosmetically looks almost new at a train show in W.V. It was seized up but getting power to headlight. Since it didn't run they made me an offer I couldn't refuse. The grease had hardened and locked up the bearings in the gearboxes. Your previous video on a similar one gave me a general idea how to get it apart. Hard to believe they made these in 1977 probably haven't been lubed since. It runs great now. Watch for the little spring inside the rear drive frame under the little C-clip holding the wheel chassis to the frame. Mineral spirits in a mason jar helped in getting the old grease off. The oil was sticky too like syrup probably the only reason I didn't loose the spring.

I bought and repaired a Penn Line GG1, it's a good runner now. I look forward to see what you find with the one you purchased.

Love American trains🙂

Thats a great find mine great find is koko from chuggington

how-dee!! hows it goin? all ready fer santa claus to visit this year ? maybe he bring us all some new (old) trains to play with lol!

Those N scale diesels with the big screw at the bottom are Mehanotehnika

So cool to see the AF Hudson in HO … I’m an N scaler but inherited my father in laws AF collection, mainly S, but also have a HO hudson. All the S stuff is AC powered is the HO stuff just regular DC?

looks like you got some great projects! if i'm right, those 2 n scale locomotives that you didn't know the brand on were older Atlas locomotives (based off the giant screw on the bottom). with the rotatory snow plow, i'm gonna guess it's an Aristocraft model, I have one in the PRR scheme that I need to put together. can't wait to see the repair videos! also, never saw your parts area before, every modeler needs to have a parts area.

how-dee!! how was your thanksgiving? ours was great, i stuffed til i thought i would pop!

Ron ,you are bringing into the force....im a scale rc modle builder.....but wow this looks cool im a detail guy being a machinist for 45 years.... i had a 1776 America birthday set when i was 14 ...think it was Tyco........i run a laser table and water jet and sheet metal l as well i will donate some of my skiils to help out the channles....i watch the RV cannle as well

Hi again, I could be wrong but, Those 'HO' Rail Chief aluminum passenger cars you have shown earlier look like Athearn streamline passenger cars. Maybe athearn bought that tooling from rail chief.

This was great video Ron looking forward to seeing the repairs on the daylights they both probably have the same problems the bad nylon gearing in the drive assembly I'm working on mine found some 3 D printed parts to replace them with just having quartering problems for the drivers

Oh man, those Coach kits are actually kind of hard to find. Great Finds!. I myself have a ton of the older Walther's wood/metal heavyweight coach kits and some of their "Pug" coaches,aswell as a few sets of their "Piker and Oscar" shorty coach kits. The Cox Big Pine Lumber diesel...THAT was a bane to me in the hobby. I had one brand new back in the day. The motor was very grindy and loud,and actually burned out after a week of use. Recently, i restored it by making a new floor and mounted a pair of Northwest Shortline "Stanton" Drive trucks (self-motorized trucks).

When a train collector starts off by saying, "I bought more stuff," ya know it's going to be a good video.

Great deal, Ron. You might have to quit your day job. BTW, I think those are '58 T-Birds on that carrier. Looking forward to your videos on all these trains.

One engine I don't think you can ever obtain is a Reidpath 0-6-0t. What makes this engine so special? Well a certain Reverend from the UK owned one for his model railway based on his books.

Congratulations! By the way, the AF Chief set from 1961 I bought from you is running well along with my '55 chief,'46 Atlantic freight set and1940 AF O gauge #562 K-5 passenger set. Blessings to all two rail.......and three rail fans. You guys got to get rid of that "training rail"! ;)

So Fa' so good!

Hey Ron when will we get to see another RV video??

21:27 that’s a EMD SD80MAC 31 where built 1994-1996 all for conrail 2 still exists both on CP 7206 is still in good shape and 7218 which is just a cab and frame

So much information, so little time to consume......Thanks, The Train Bug is a coming back....

Hey Ron you need to locate your self a 2884 yellowstone

nice

SPOTLESS Town ! Not like where I grew up. Never been there.

I need an Amtrak engine. How about fixing one up and sending it to me. Cheers from eastern TN

I’ll take all of the SD80s!

I'm in need of a roof for a southern pacific daylight steam engine .

I would like the 2 Ahm steamers an what brand is the 2 daylights Ron

I was wondering how much for The HO scale seaboard system

Now I wanna get that N scale Penssy steamer, what type is it may I ask?

I tried but can’t make out what it says on your movie theater marquee?

The seaboard coastline unit is an SD40 -2 it's got six axles not a gp40 to gp40 has a four axles

U got cut off saying goodbye! 100%er! I have an extruded aluminum dome car that needs parts.

Charger emblem is cool. I have a 1987 Shelby Dodge Charger. It sounds like a bad ass car but its not.

CAN'T find it ! I need another 5 lb. bag of HO scale litter and trash.

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Hmm; your channel as a miracle insomnia cure? It's a bit like saying the same of 'Spalcheque' on this computer. (Pete carnt spal; not since Spalcheque, anyway). Haven't time to see the whole video, but so far as I have gone, those extruded pass. cars are of interest. Might be an idea to find new trucks with steel axles and Delrin bearings. Not sure how aluminium would wear with steel? With aluminium there is always the problem of how to stick it in the absence of high integrity solder aluminium soldering in our workshops. Similarly with Mazac/Zamac - I never solved that one. I thought we could copper plate and use that as a solder base, but the model car restoration write-ups cast doubt. Of course, these problems magnify with the bogies more than with superstructure, as they are structural; somehow epoxy etc. doesn't impress. If you want me to sus out the comments on aluminium soldering in the Carr's soldering handbook, I will try and find it. There is a common problem with a lot of these kits in that the flutes go right to the end. That is to be expected as they are extruded in long sections. The only company that solved this, that I have seen, is Marklin who seem to have milled the flutes flat short of the ends. Worth thinking about. If you need to know how far short of the ends to trim, ask and I will find my measurements. Ron haz too many chraynz.

SP Cab-forward. 😎👍 Microscale water-slide decals are awesome, I have used several sets to make the roadnames I wanted.