Everybody gangsta until the loco catches fire

More smoke than a steam locomotive - - good one, Harrison. Hopefully it's just something minor. You'll figure it out - - you always do. Fra-gee-lay, it must be Eye-talyan... classic! 🤣 Still a good looking locomotive, it has character. Thanks for sharing. 👍 👍 👍

The road name should be: *“Chesapeake and On-fire”*

*fra-gee-lay.... Must be Italian!* I love the Christmas story reference

Hello again Harrison and yes you are correct ! I believe you may have over oiled it, that’s what caused the smoke unless the rubber band is so old that it caught fire 🔥! And from what you’ve described and from what I’ve seen so far to me that when you said that the body was made out of metal as well as the chassis and there was a what look like where you can change actually it’s the speed you can go into a granddaddy low,/,or high-speed Granny ! And the only company to my knowledge that made Trains like that one was Lionel, and Mantua in HO Scale ! If I’m right they were only made for a very small amount of time a few years 3 to 5 years I’d say maximum ! But what you have in your hands is vintage so whatever you do do not let go of it there’s always a way to figure out how to fix something from that era ! 🌊🐺

Smt it's the conrail steam locomotive challenge Conrail : you challenging me again

What I hate the most is when non train people sell trains on eBay and list them as new or mint without ever being tested. Just basing it on what it looks like. I often ask if it has been test run and most never even bother replying. Hope it’s an easy fix Harrison......it’s a great looking locomotive

I've a growing fleet of Varney yard diesels. Every one of them has needed some amount of motor maintenance to get them up and running. Look especially carefully for any slivers of metal in the motor, or fibers wrapped around the shafts. Remember, as often as not, these engines might have been run on sectional track placed on the floor.

I LIKE YOUR VIEWS AND VIDEOS . A GOOD REPRESENTATION OF YOUR EBAY FINDS.

I didn't realize they made steam locomotives that looked like that!

This is why you need ***NEED*** a testing stand.... I can't stress that enough. It'll save you some headaches down the road .

Love the Christmas story reference (one of the greatest movies of all time!). Looking forward to seeing the restoration video on this loco! Good luck with the seller. -Rick

So this maybe one reason why My Dad won’t buy me used stuff online.....

That paint scheme is orginally the Pere Marquette Railway's for their passenger EMD E7s. C&O adopted it when they fully merged with PM.

"Fragile, must be Italian", what was that Christmas Story?...LOL!

Great video. I remember when I first ran a steam locomotive I had received as a Christmas present puffs of smoke came gushing out of the motor. When I took off the metal frame/shell of the locomotive, I found that the previous owner had over oiled the locomotive. The commutator, field, and all the rest of the electric parts were drenched in oil, to the point that I had to use a toothbrush to scrub away any of the oil, to get any response out of the motor.

..comes with ultra realistic engine breakdown effect! :D

Fragile must be Italian "A Christmas story"

That much current draw usually means that the windings are shorting out. If true you can rewire the armature to make it like brand new. Also remagnetize the motor magnets. You can take your restoration videos to the next level up

Hi Harrison! Wow! That old Varney looks really neat. Hopefully the info I sent you on the loco on Instagram was helpful in a way. I suspect that the loco was custom painted as well, because there was no such scheme for the C&O or on other models when I did my research. Whoever did it did a really good job. Nice find, and great video as always!

Very cool! It’s very good that you found the maker, everyone that’s on insta knows about this one

The loco is like "I finally get to live as a steam engine, AND NO ONE WILL STOP ME!"

you have more locomotives than anyone could ever imagine and yet here you are buying more lamo!

She’s a beauty! I hope this will last a long time!

That sucks you got a bad runner right out of the box. If there’s anyone who can revive this old custom Varney. It’s SMT Mainline👍

Once the magic smoke gene come out, electronics tend to never be the same...

Hello SMT Varney made these all die cast engines in the late 40s to about 19554 in 1955 they changed the cab to plastic making them for American Flyers HO as well as Varney, Varney made them until 1963 its called an F3. And I would contact the seller about some refund as it should have ran a lot batter than it did. I have several of these engine from Varney & American Flyer & I run them hours at time

great video liked 👍😮🚄

Hope you get it running it is beautiful looking

You ain't a model Railroader til you can cook up a batch of magic blue smoke...

Yep it's as I suspected. That is certainly an oily comutator. A thorough cleaning with alcohol will cure it. A friend of mine had recently got the same Nickel Plate Products brass Nickel Plate Road L1-b Hudson and the seller had really screwed him over. It had an oiled comutator and it actually shot flames. Some alcohol an a q tip later and it's a fine runner. Something else you might see about doing is if it uses an open frame Pittman motor, a similarly designed motor as the Tyco/Mantua motors, with very fine sandpaper, resurface the brushes and that may help improve performance. It's certainly helped all of my Pittman equipped and Mantua engines.

Man that really sucks I’m sorry about that

By the title I can tell this video is gonna be a roller coaster

Lol I've seen that loco time and time again on eBay. Good to know it found a proper home. Looks like you dyed your hair, it looks great! It is a custom scheme Btw, these locos came undecorated. That thumbnail looks like it could get all the girls XD

Whoa whoa whoa wait... Fire... Smoke... ITS A STEAM LOCO IN DISGUISE

Hopefully you hit 9k this week

thank god nothing burned down lol

Bonus smoke feature!

Holy Smokes! Nice looking engine though.

Congratulations! You Reach The 'I Just Got Scam' Award.Your Award Is Loseing $15 Dolllers!

Hey Harrison sorry for second comment remember. I sent you a picture of that chassis i bought seller said it ran good. Yeah if you used test leads and cleaned and oiled the stickin thing. Oh yeah and made sure all wheels that picked up current were on right and insulated on left they were wrong im like what the heck so i know how you feel bout this believe me im sure we all had it happen. 4 more packages to come from eBay for me. Kadee couplers,talgo adapters, decals which coming from Alberta 🇨🇦 and then my kadee height gauge fedex ground is messing with it yet they say its the shipper. Anyways i got my pilot for my other steamer finally now to paint it and get it re numbered

I got a locomotive like that but mine's a Santa Fe Jack Durbin Spaceman

Smells like burning!

Got to resist those used impulse buys. lol

Probably a short circuit somewhere drawing all that power. Or something like that . Heat is generated when power is stopped up and it builds up ..

Dude nice hair it looks good on you

I see you got it.

One hot locomotive you got there SMT. IIRC most of the NOS die cast Varney's I've come across were naked metal plus there does seem to be some discoloration of the Chesapeake And Ohio letting indicating a decal.

●Thinks he's buying a locomotive. ○Receives a toaster on wheels in classic C&O livery. ☆BONUS: opens it up, finds Indiana Jones's foot on the brake.

This makes my trains that stop and start with a push look doable

Low key ebay the place to get your good priced trains if no train store nearby like me

5:04 fire moment

Runs great, smokes better. Ebay seller ratings here I come.

Hey man! I think you should probably check the motor. If it’s bad then you’ll want to get a replacement one

It might smoke but it's still a good runner

Hey smt for my high school train engineering class we got to get to work on up 1989 today by myself

Im sorry that happened to your F 7 C&O. So that doesn't happen on your layout I would get a test track. I would hate to see your system blow out your hobby transformer! I like your videos. Remember Operation Lifesaver... ☺😃 This CN. modeler thanks you once again..

I buy quite a lot of HO trains on e-bay and have found that their are a lot of people selling junk, saying good runner, tested runs good. then find out that the motor is cooked, cracked nylon gears, and just units that do not run and were never tested, all you can do with these is give them a bad review and check their rating before you buy

Gomez Adams would love this locomotive

Weren't these Varneys sold as bare metal kits? I have a couple of these and they run great!

Nice

Not the video you want to see just after buying a Hornby Coronation off ebay lol. Fingers crossed that the same doesn't happy. Sorry bout your bad luck. The varney locomotives from my experience have been good locos.

If you like the C&O that much you should just join team CSX lol but I have a proto 2000 gp9 Louisville and Nashville i can find f units in the paint job just not any other gp7/9s

This be a certified bruh moment

You need to watch Sam's Trains "How to burn down your model RR" video.

Hate to be a downer, but this is a model of an early EMD F3 (Phase 2, produced in 1947), but neither C&O or PM had an F unit until the F7's of 1950.

I would love to tear into that F unit!!! I would put an Athearn drive in it if the motor is shot!

I have bought 2 used locomotives in 2 months and BOTH were supposedly working well. One arived in pieces and probably had not worked in a long while the other one had damaged brush spring and there was no way it was running well. It ran but very slowly and intermittently. I think some people just unload em that way

I’m expecting an Athearn Blue Box locomotive in the mail today. Hope it doesn’t catch fire! :)

Holy crap this was a year ago, felt like a few weeks

Nice custom steam locomotive you have there if you know what I mean

I've never experienced this but I'm glad I haven't

SMT buys a locomotive and runs it for 20 seconds and almost catches it on fire Me :(

My Kato N scale gg1 did the same, but there were small flames INSIDE the motor. Do you know anyways to make it run again??

Does anyone know how reliable a smoke producing unit in a model steam locomotive usually is? I have one and it works great but I'm afraid for it being 30 - 40 years old it might not last that long.

How do you wire each individual track even though there are switches?

I love trains

I know this unrelated to the restoration but I like your hair cut... sorry if that seems odd

Been looking at eBay listings for trains lately, and now a bit leery of them.

I remember you asked on Instagram about this one. . heck im still waiting for my package. FedEx keeps messing around yet I drive for a contractor for these idiots. I seen my package was at my terminal and they said i couldn't have it. But terminal did now it was too late shipped to Massachusetts for who knows why and they claim it be here today Saturday. Pfft. Go fedex ha ha ha no way.

oh wow! An eBay import that didn't get sliced up by eBay's international shipping hub.

Good luck with eBay. “It worked fine when I last used it” Still not sure why you stopped running it, makes for a more entertaining video. ;)

Oh wait this is the locomotive I figured out the name of when you made that Instagram post

Hey SMT, I have some older Santa Fe passenger cars that I got years ago. They have a hitch design, however, that I've never seen before. Is there any way to send you any pictures of said rolling stock to get your opinion? Thanks in advance 🙂👌

I had the same issue with one of my locomotives, afterwards it still worked but would stop after 30 seconds of running. Does that mean the motor is burnt out, or can I fix it in anyway without replacing the motor?

The engine is an ex-perè Marquette streamliner

Oh my

It looks very similar to an EMD FP7, its definitely an EMD tho and those were produced around the 50’s and 60’s maybe very early 70’s

That motor is smokin' hot... just like you! :-)

SMT looks pretty mad in the thumbnail

Those frosted tips tho

Gee...,maybe that should be "Piece of Toast and Ohio"????

Well at least it was a loco on fire and not a car. Lol

Me: sees the box from ebay then read the title of the video that's why you dont buy stuff from ebay. By the way I ordered a coal loader wich was $120 and wen I went to run it a second time it made a giant gust of thicc white smoke I was very mad it was new from ebay!

Well that sucks you get it eBay in right away and almost catches on fire

Free smoke unit

Never know there are die cast loco. GWS LIRR

Ebay: Sir do you prefer smoking or non-smoking SMT: smoking Please!!!

Hopefully it was just a heap of oil on the commutator from the previous owner just shoving oil in everywhere.

I would definitely buy that off smt if I had the money