What a brilliant idea!

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That's genius, thanks for the tip.

Excellent Man gotta remember that cool magnets also help

are you sure youre a gunsmith? you don't even know how to spell it. i have a white plastic box i use for that purpose. i usually charge extra if i have to use it (box fee)

I'm a huge fan of Bob Ross and am a huge believer in his idea that a hobby is about enjoyment and not about making something perfect.

i would be violent bob ross working on some of this junk!

Thanks. I'm sure this loco could probably haul around 50 cars with the amount of weight it has.

@@SMTMainline holy moly that is a lot. Would be really cool to see.

It's amazing they made these things for so long. I wonder when mine. is from.

@@SMTMainline It is very difficult to date these. I think the spring loaded brush tensioner was a late 60s through early 80s design. Also that box is a later design. Early Bowser (Montoursville, not Redlands) boxes were just red and white Penn Line boxes with a Bowser sticker on them. Next generation boxes were mostly white with some green. Your mostly green box is, I believe, an indicator that this is an 80s era kit.

@@jefflynnalex I'd bet that the quality of the castings were better earlier on. This just looks like it was cast from a mold that was used for a couple of decades.

I lived in Sharpsburg and I knew that scrapyard. I remember the big gantry crane visible from the Highland Park Bridge. The last sight I saw there before it closed was dozens of ex- Pittsburgh PAT PCC trolleys awaiting their fate.

it's gonna be awesome when the get the real thing done. It's probably what I will re paint it into.

Two great railroads of the glory days of America's classic trains.

That must have been an exciting thing to see. Were you watching from the switching tower?

Thank you!

Thanks, I try my best to get them going again :)

It sure is and I hope they succeed on the project of building one today.

Every time I do one of these repairs I learn a little more which can be applied to the next one.

No doubt

Yup I agree with you

Thank you!

you overestimate him....

They were only notorious for that because it was way more sensitive than the k4, so the engineers gave it too much throttle.

That's a super interesting idea but wiring such a thing would be a nightmare and I don't know where you would fit the decoders and speakers.

Decoder-per-motor setups are actually the standard for G scale dual-motor models, so it should work on the smaller scale provided there's space for it.

I'm a fan of James May so I really appreciate that.

I plan to make some major changes to the track work soon. The other stuff you see is just small cosmetic work.

I'm gonna try, I miss that show.

@@SMTMainline I’ll have my 1970s D&H equipment available for running and my Z scale suitcase layout! Hopefully we can collab! Also, i hear the show is completely sold out which is exciting.

I’ve only built a couple kits and can understand why people would get frustrated with them. Takes a lot of patience and skill to make them work right. It’s great to hear about someone mastering the skill

Those skills I learned while I was young have turned into a hobby of fine scale model building in which some of the builds number into the thousands of hours. Just remember, the most complex kit is still put together one part at a time. The hardest thing is knowing when to stop!

Yeah i did the same and saw the spring fly off to the top left of the screen

@@CustomiZe_ yeah but it's unfortunate it's gone. But I like the way he used a pen spring to fix it. Now that's using ingenuity

@@mercuryoak2 yeah I’ll tell you this if I had a older bowser steam loco like this one right here, I’m probably gonna try to be kinda careful with it when taking off the spring.

@@MattKonsol there isn't any other way to do it it comes off it comes off. It's a poor design there was an easier way to do it with the motor because I come into it motors have a spring that's attached to the top and it pushes against the brushes one is insulated the other one is not. I'm not saying Bowser is a bad manufacturer but it's just from that time frame it wasn't a good idea. Unfortunately Bowser does not sell kit locomotives anymore they're all ready to run

The PRR sure had some good stuff, huge fan of those GG1s

@@SMTMainline you know there is a group actually building a new T1 duplex. It's a couple years away from being finished. Can't wait to see it run. The real ones were scrapped not to far away from my present location.

The larger flanges are a huge advantage for that.

It sure does, I wonder what it can pull?

@@SMTMainline Probably quite a lot considering how massive it is. I've heard that these models are insanely strong.

I really wish I hadn't lost that but trying to find that spring would be worse than a needle in a hay stack.

@@SMTMainline yep restoring my father in law's Revell set I scavenged some springs from some old grungy sprung trucks ( Revell were truck mounted couplers these were from body mounted and separate trucks) and needed only 8 springs and had 19. I burned through all my extras and only made it to completion because one spring launched in such a way it got trapped and was recovered. The other one was building a model of KITT and dropped the steering yoke and the part just vanished. Figured I was going to have complete it with no steering method until I noticed it had caught on my pant leg just above my shoe.

Someone must have run the snot out of it considering the wear on the gears and motor.

@@SMTMainline 8 wheel tender trucks are occasionally available on E-Bay - you are looing for part number 7006

And then some lol. I need to find some decals and proper paint.

@@SMTMainline if ya get stuck with a real tough decal, let me know. My daughter can make some with her CriCut. Just got done doing a decal job. Last video post. Railcity Brewing Co Build.

Yep, they existed. They are building one from scratch as we speak. Search up the "T1 Trust"

@@SMTMainline Holy Smokes!!! Aparently Big Boy is the largest engine. I've seen one on your channel. Somehow it doesn't look as big to me. Not as monolithic. I wonder what it feels like to drive? Frankly I'd be scared to try. Thanks for taking the time to reply.

@@alpetterson9452 The big boy is slightly longer but only by a few inches.

Thanks, I was up until 3 last right trying to meet the target.

You don’t need to do that, I would be happy just the same if you posted the next day. But thanks, I live in Portland, so it was closer to twelve.

Thanks for the comment. My controller is an MRC Tech 3 9500 series

That was law in the state?

@@SMTMainline Not to my knowledge, I think it was just specific weather conditions.

Ain’t that the truth lol

I haven’t done anything with it since but I intend to eventually repaint it.