i just love model train rescue videos and am always totally amazed at how you and smt mainline are able to give so many old trains a new lease on life, i love it!!

You are a great repair man engineer. You are the best refurbisher model trains ever seen. Keep up the great work.

Ron, I have to tell you. I have been going through a super ruff patch with stresses. I have had a horrible time relaxing. Your videos have helped sooo darn much. They are fascinating. They help my mind calm. They are relaxing. And they are just wonderful.

Just wow..Great job on saving these from the trash! Can’t wait to see what they look like painted :)

love your flat front pick up and your videos thanks for sharing

Wow Ron you did a He'll of a job with it. It's great to see something that old given some much needed TLC and it works. Great job

as a kid i never in my wildest dream thought that all these years later i would still have a running marx 1666 steamer, but i not only have a whole fleet of good running, and new looking 1666s! im thrilled to say the least.

Just love the h e f t of a diecast locomotive. It has all the w e i g h t it needs for good traction. I love running a whole diecast train cars included. When that goes You switches and crossings they thump just like the real thing.

Amazing Job!!!

Still have my Varney cast metal A unit my dad bought new in 1954. Thank YOU LORD for my dad and Gordon Varney

Very instructive, thanks Ron.

I have a collection of varney locomotives! This video really gets me drooling hard!

RON!!!!! ...... Your movie made me wanna get some popcorn!!! 😳

Superb job Ron. This turned out amazing!

Super. 💙 T.E.N.

I replaced all the magnets in my open frame motors (Pittman) with rare earth magnets and it really made a BIG difference in current draw and now they "creep" around the tracks. Cheers from eastern TN

It's just like real life. Old locomotive gets bought out and brought back to life by a nice shortline :3

Truly cool, thanks for sharing

Excellent videos! I love the old school quality. Just restored a Varney A B set in Santa Fe colors.

Awesome job on the F3s

great rebuild

Great Googa Mooga… That’s as tedious and fiddly as rebuilding a Therma Quad! Great job! Cleaning her up! Hope you can get the decals you want.

Another Great Video! Great job on the locomotives..

Another great video! Good to see an old piece of the hobby be repaired and made usable again! Thank you! Keep the videos coming.

Amazing job all around . Look like they may have been a wabash lash up before but still going to look great in Q color scheme. Once again you made me laugh you are so funny thanks Ron

love your videos Ron!

WOW - very nice.

Hello Ron you make me laugh in your videos you do a great job making your videos I like the train Shelf I think it's cool

When assembling something with springs , do the assembly inside a large clear plastic bag. There’s a good chance the bag will contain the errant spring.

Was going thru the internet found a source called mainline hobbies. They showed the decal sheet you were looking for give them a try. Thanks and keep up the great work . Rob h

There is silicon flexible tubing/hose you can use that is thinner walled (inner and outer walled) than what you tried to use. Also you can make a solid plastic tube with slots at the end for the ball joint's horns. If you want to DCC them you must change out those motor of course!

Congratulations Ron on the 1700 followers!🎉🎉🎉 You deserve it! Great video, by the way. The MX 3 seems to produce good effects.

I know Montana and Wisconsin are quite far apart from each other, but Trainfest is back on this year and if toy can't find it at this show... it never existed. I'll be there and can keep my peepers open, but it isn't for two more weeks. Great job btw, I love old Varneys. I have 11 Casey Jones's which about a third are parts locos.

Just wow factor, Ron ! First away, loved your video. Second up- fantastic job you did here on your 1945 Varney ❗ Third up- I hope that you find or did ...find a set of Microscale Burlington Route decals! Here's a tidbit of information for you - Varney, was the first manufacturer of styrene plastic model ship and plane kits in the USA/ and possibly in the World ??? ; back in 1945 to 1947. All of that was totally new to the world back then, in plastic, as WW II ended when everything was balsa in kits. Their kits are legendary and if one is spotted on Ebay today, in mint condition, boxing and all - phew-- big prices! So it is no wonder that they had such high end HO scale locomotives in 1937! -- Frank🚂👏👽👻

Good luck searching the decals Ron....someone is bound to have them.

Great job bringing these back to life, can't wait to see them finished :)

Nice video!

I am SO excited! I'm going to watch the video now..

Great 👍 awesome

Great video as always! Funny you mention your interest in film; I was going to school for animation. I learned a lot about animation and the entertainment industry as a whole. Which led me to grow even more interested in my model railroading. Now my art and design combine welding, wood working, and of course model railroading. 😅 great work as always sir!!

nice loco thanks for showing such a detailed tear down and rebuild picked up a varney switcher in a lot that was in pieces got er running again took a little bit

Beautiful job Ron. Hope you find the decals soon.

I love seeing these old Varney's being restored. In my collection, I have 2 of the F3a's with metal belt drives that have 3 step pulleys on them along with a F3B dummy. My future plans are to turn them into a NYC Cigar band scheme set.

This is the kind of videos I like. Very good job, sir. Can't wait for the second part.

Ron hello gotta love the vintage! What 😂 an excellent pet 1 and your sense of humor! Neat build

Looking good so far but needs some paint. Amazingly quiet for being that old. Great job!!

First time viewing. I live the way you are restoring these vintage EMD F unit Varney Ho classic diesels. They look brand new & semi quiet . Hope you can get the decals...... 🤔 💡 Suggestion when you flashed the decals on left your right side of screen, if available if you got this far print a copies of them via computer the adhesives ? I am sure there are instructions or tips to apply the Burlington & Quincy logos. I truly enjoyed watching this now i want to get a vintage Varney to work on restoring. On another channel SMT did a repair on a vintage late 1940's Varney EMD F 7 unit. Great units you have in the A & B units. 👍👍✅

Saludos amigo hermosa colección de locomotoras

Fantastic video Ron always exciting to watch your videos 👍🏻🚂 TSM

That's going to look really nice when you get it all done and looking really good. Keep up the good work my good friend

Another great video Ron! Well done sir!

I love watching your videos Ron! Great work and down to earth! Thank you ! quickly becoming my favorite channels!

I am actually sourcing out a set of those older Varney drives. I have an older Walther's (wood/metal) MP-54 coach kit set that needs some life added to them,lol.

"what is your major malfunction, Private Pile o parts!?" Full. Metal. Sideframes. 😂

great job , you remind me of dereck over at vice grip garage ,, and that's a good thing , can't wait for part 2

Nice work on these F units. I have an all powered A-B-B-A set of these that I will be rebuilding sometime in the near future. All of mine have the earlier coil spring belt drive but are, otherwise, identical to yours. The only modification I intend to make is to substitute a rubber O ring for the spring belt which will make the loco very quiet and should make each one pull better. Varneys were built to a high quality which is why they have stood the test or time. Thanks for showcasing these great vintage trains.

Just subscribed. Nice channel. Great work.😁😁😁🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

The More I watch, the More I like. Suggestion for the Driveline (if you're still interested). Habor Freight has small packages of Heat Shrink tubbing. An assortment of sizes. Even IF you can't find something that will work, you'll still have some Shrink Tube.

Take a razor saw and cut/slot the end of your thick tubing to facilitate the ball rod to slip into each end of the tubing cut/slot you cut with a razor saw.

1945?! Woah, that train is old as my father was.

the coupling you need is varney 2062. check your hobby shop for plastic or brass shapes which can easily fabricated for that use. simple hand tools can form a tube. suppliers are on line if you want to mail purchase. they also sell a generous sample pack.

Well done Ron all the way around👍👍👍📹 🚂🇨🇦🇺🇲🙋

Man I try mounting that body onto a new modern chassis probably be badass

Last year I bought an old 1957 tenshodo 8 wheel drive Pennsylvania RR gp7 with the same Pittman motor setup with the center drive shaft that was missing. The retailer I bought it from is out of Florida and they made a new shaft to go between the drives and capture the dog bones with some notches out of some sort of small diameter fiber thin wall pipe of some sort. I can email some pictures of it with a few dimensions if you'd like.

I have my first loco which is a Varney I got christmas in 1956. I need to do this to my unit

Here's an interesting side note, A.C. Gilbert company also sub contracted with Varney to "make" their line 'ho' scale train sets. look it up. also, that vintage varney F7A&F7B is a jewel made in U.S.A. with pride that locomotive is a beauty.

I saw the bicentennial box cars at the Columbia, SC train show two weeks. I recommend that you could also go to train shows I your area.

Oh, my God. That shelf behing you... I can only classify that as railway porn. How glad I subscribed to this channel...

Wonderful video. A very easy source of inexpensive drive-lines/transmissions is silicone micro-tubing. You can buy it cheap on ebay. Works great.

Nicely described steps on disassemble and reassemble. I understood you can't actually include the significant amount of cussing needed while working on the small parts, so I took the liberty of remembering some of the ear burners my Grampa and my Dad would have used. Yikes! Thank you for the both entertaining and enlightening videos you produce. Keep up the good work.

The driveshaft from a Hobbytown drive might work. They use the same style dogbone/slotted collar drive.

That b unit looks like a a hobby Town of Boston drive

Awesome looking locomotives all cleaned up! I have used some decals of that scheme for CB&Q made by CHAMP decals. The usually are older but if you put a coating of Microscale Liquid Decal Film they will work perfectly. Another great video Ron! Again all the best and your short was very cool as well! Happy Halloween!

Good show, Ron. Decals are a killer, though. Since the advent of DIY decals for home computers the decal companies have been closing up shop. The major problem, though, is making white decals. Can’t do it because home computers can’t spray white ink and many RR company heralds and numbers use white. Damn. Me? I happen to prefer F-7’s over other F- series cab units. I’d like some different F-s, but Athearn didn’t make them so I don’t have them except for a pair of FP-7’s from Atlas, IIRC. I wish you luck finding your decals for Burlington. They should make a sharp looking head end for your train when the time ones.

Great job on the locos! Check online for Champ decals for Burlington diesels. I saw some for sale. I have used them a lot and are very good decals. I have some that are over twenty years old, and they still work great. look forward to seeing them finished.

Talk about your 1940's Erector Set 🤣

Was wondering if you were ever gonna reintroduce that very entertaining clip again. And, with a very nice rebuild, too? What more could you want???

typo correction, i meant to say i not only have one but a whole fleet!

As usual, another excellent video. Those old Varneys are fun to work on and make nice pullers. Another option you might be able to make a drive shaft out of an old Bic pen, or a plastic tube about that size then cut slits in the end so it fits over the pins. Painting that makes it look amazing. Do you rattle can or are you into airbrushing? Looks like those engines run well together. If it was a major problem you could put the A shell on the B chassis and then turn the 4 wheel drive chassis into a dummy unit.

NWSL drive shaft kit I believe is still available and wii work to connect the two trucks on your locomotive.

Best video I have found about this subject matter. One question, what do you do with the ends of the bus lines?

Another great video 👏👏👏👏👏. You are The Locomotive Whisperer. That little scary video is awesome. Su funny 😄. Quick question. When you work on trains do you use one of those jewelers magnifying glass or just only you own eyes 👀. Those trains are small 😀. Fantastic video!!! All the best Ron!!! P.S. What's the name of your dog?

Great work on those Varney units! I have one that probably would be better off going to you! I’m unsure if it works but I’ll have to dig it out and give it a look. These are some solid units. I’ll keep my eyes out for the decals, if I find a link I’ll forward it to you. I usually have good luck looking for some as I find stuff at good places. Youre for sure going to use the Burlington scheme? It’s nice to see it! As well as the early Burlington Chinese red color. Also wanted to know if you got your box of goodies I sent. Hopefully you like them! Looking forward to seeing them restored here! Hope you had a wonderful Halloween and got to eat some candy and run trains! Hope to hear from you soon Ron!

Hi I tried Ox Guard and the loco's I treated lost all traction . I had to clean the loco wheels , and it also coated the track and rolling stock wheels as it transferred to the track from the loco wheels . Before I cleaned the track any non treated loco I ran also lost traction from the contaminated track. So I am just going to clean the wheels from now on .

You do nice work. Varney products back then were very well made. Have you seen the Varney super motor that has 7 polls? I have repaired several Varney 0-4-0 Dockside switchers, and, in a video, I took apart the motor and took out the magnet and a viewer said that will weaken the magnet and cause a higher amp draw. I was wondering if you know anything about that. There is a way to re-magnetize the magnet but requires a special magnetic coil setup. I just came across your channel and now have watched almost all of your videos.

Check local pet shop for fish tank tubing - maybe something there?

Just curious how did you decal job come out on your Burlington project go?

Hello so far a really good and nice Job you did. What I don't unterstand is, after all this Work you dit, why don't you change the Wireing? So much right now from me. Greetings to you from Germany Bruno 😊

Beware of zinc rot.

dont have any varneys yet, i have tyco, bachmann, athearn, and atlas ho engines.always lookin for something different though.

Hobbytown of Boston drive parts order direct will work

a little late to the show, but interasting stay well

Hi Ron, Another great video.. question pls.. when working on these motors how does one know if the magnet needs re-energising? I have seen it talked about on a few channels and just wondered if you know anything about this... There is a gentleman named Ronald Dodd (on the Ytube) who has made a device to do this but my question is how do we know if a magnet needs this done or not...

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What is the music you used on the reveal ⁉️

you want to be careful about removing those magnets from the motor cage because they can loose magnetism

What is ill-eh-NOISE ? 🤔⁉

Well, There is 1/2 hour of my life I will never get back. The thumbnail implies that the train is going to be re-finished with a new paint scheme. "CLICK BAIT"

Your a Stephen King look alike! nice repair and clean!!