Hi Paul, i really enjoyed seeing your collection mate. You have quite a few that i dont, so it's interesting to see. Tommy was brilliant, i watch him on KZbin quite a bit, you could tell the audiences loved him. Steven

Its called a trolley pole

I want to build one of these in g scale for my self

Looks good, but i have to ask, after you run this engine does it make a bad smell?

I actually recently got the N scale version of that set, though mine was eight cars long. It did come with the bar kitchen car as well.

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How can you tell when the rubber bands need replacing

I have a soft spot for all things Varney. Nice job on the build!

Yes ! Do a video on the first track cleaner MDC locomotive. Would be interesting the mechanism. Yup, $90 .Thats a deal for a Big Boy

This is what makes the world a better place. Something as simple as asking for help,and receiving just that. Our hobby is full of very talented intelligent people willing to help each other. As for the freight car. Not a clue. Very cool car anyway.

5:18 Carbon fiber pen ? Kadee tool ? Very cool channel Fren. Subscribed. Very interesting.

You got a bargain. 👍 Tri-ang has service sheets for all their engines which are still online. Refer Hornby Collectors guide that will give details on each model and point to the service sheet number. Hope that helps. Happy Modelling

Part of why this locomotive is so weirdly tall is that the locomotive for this set was more or less a modified version of a previously available model, the 999. Yes, Marx sold an HO locomotive with the same number on it as the classic diecast O gauge model! It was also sold with small battery powered Marx sets, and was the same apart from smaller domes, smokestack, and no big extra headlight. The loco can be found lettered with the New York Central oval herald and 999 on the cab, it also was made completely unlettered. These sets used the same plastic station/battery box to power them, but colored differently. I've been looking for one of these battery powered sets, they're pretty neat looking. Marx also made some sets with an 0-6-0, and with a version of their F2 that had a rubber band drive (the latter at least seems to have been exclusively for the european market). I think the 6096 hudson was the only steam locomotive Marx offered in HO that came with transformer powered sets.

what an absolutely fascinating thing

This was a 1960's promotional train set for the Green Giant brand vegetables and in the commercial the giant actually says, "Ho Ho Ho", in a very low voice during the short song with the wording as follows, (In the valley of the jolly Ho-Ho-Ho green Giant). I typed this before the end of the video where you relate your research on the train so in the words of Gilda Radner, "never Mind". lol; Great video, Jersey Bill

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Interesting find, Tomas. Cool! It will be neat when cordless tool battery tech will fit in to HO scale or smaller. Like a 5 or 6 amp hour battery. Dead rail will open wide for smaller scales. Longer will we have to worry about dirty Track. Thanks for Sharing!

This is an odd locomotive and your right about the pic-ups not being in the locomotive. The pic-up bogey in the tender can be removed by pushing off the cert-clip, (the C shaped spring clip), on the top connected to that brass peg you pointed out, so your guess was correct. That clip will shoot off so hold it down or you will be serching the floor. It was a very interesting video. Jersey Bill

Very cool engine and mechanism. The gearing is quite impressive!

Fastener holding the one truck looks like an e-clip, Tomas. You just push it sideways away from the open side. They make special tools or you can use a wider flat-tip screwdriver. Brass parts usually mean decent quality. Great find,Tomas!

Great video, but audio is real low. Thanks for Sharing!

Nice video! Always liked this engine

Actually Goldlok Toys (sold under the Walmart Kid Connection label)

Both of the stack supports pull out of the stack before removing the body. Other than that, you did great. Jersey Bill

its a battery trainset from japan i have it the original box as well as a steam set to.

It is a Radio... I believe that wire that goes the length of the chassis is the antenna. There was a time where you could get an AM or FM transmitter , set it to a frequency that matches the radio receiver ( in the boxcar) and basically broadcast sounds or whatever you wanted to the boxcar. A way to test this might be to see if you have any adjustment nobs, potentiometers, etc. and see if you can tune it to a radio station in your area.

Cool video! What is the music playing at the end if the video? I Shazam it but it didn’t find it. Thanks

I have one of those sets but mine has a steam locomotive with it . I myself have no idea about the maker but I'm leaning towards it's a cheap cheap cheap crappy marx knock off train ..... yes very different

Great Fun! Some really Interesting items in that Haul. I thought you did a nice job with this video.There was a lot to cover but you kept a good pace and still showed off the important details of each piece. WELL DONE SIR. Cheers, Steve

Super. I bought a "foreign" locomotive once like this, not an "F" unit, when I was a kid in the Philippines with my dad, that had a drive like this and something of a generic boxcab look about it. I was young and only remember from my dad opening it up to clean and oil it. I do remember that it didn't like the rerailer track on my layout, and would thump over my switches. The controler was battery operated, and reminded me of an Erector set motor control, and I used it for a Lego motor control because I already had a train transformer, but the track fit right in on my layout. On the way back from the Philippines, the ship "lost" (?) our car, and the container our stuff was in, (How do you "lose" something out of a ship?) and probably had to pay my dad (Airforce) something. My parents got a new car, and I got a brand new Lionel HO steam locomotive train set with six cars and a caboose, which made me forget about the other train totally. Thanks for the memories, I was about eight at the time. Hello from the Tracy Mountain Railway in Colorado. 💙 T.E.N.

Reminds me of Marx's HO set that were sold near the end during the end of ownership by Marx ,before the sale to Quaker Oats in 1972. I remember them being on sale at Ben Franklin's stores.

I have a tender the NYC gon and B&O caboose from the same manufacturer

Never seen anything like this. Interesting.

lots of classic AHM/pola and faller buildings

Diesel-Schienenbus

Modelleisenbahn

That's the Hungarian MAV railway logo

Dízel mozdony

Bandai/TM Nomura (cragstan)

Have you considered repainting the old partially paint stripped shell to a German locomotive

That green sludge was old dried up grease

The shell of the F7A intrigued me. Judging by the 3 triangular dots on the nose, it appears to be a clone/copy of an old Globe shell. Globe F7A had this setup where the two bottom dots were the place where the number board attached to the shell since it was a separate piece. I don't know if this provides any valuable clues, but it may be a start.

The train set appears to be a set made by triang, for OO scale with large D type couplers

@14:59 Bachmann unpowered San Francisco Cable Car. It was sold in a set along with an unpowered Bachmann PCC Streetcar; I think through Reader's Digest; they show up on eBay all the time.

that front truck is equalised . and the rear set wheels look to be out of gage

Hello. I think the Baldwin VO-1000 style locomotive was probably assembled from a Kemtron brass 'Baldwin diesel kit'. There are products made around 1957 that are very similar to Kawai products.

Very interesting locomotive to say the least. The shell looks to be a replacement Life-Like and the third rail contact on the tank is just mind boggling. The set may just be a one year run by some toy company that cashed in on Christmas here in the States like Trix or Matel. The Sakai guess is a good one, but we may never know. The drive gear on the truck rides up on the re-railer because it is as big as the wheels. Dame odd this. At any rate great video. Looking forward to the next.

Osow the big couplers its because its OO gauge,i forgot that there is an other variant of the steam, one that comes with a figure 8 layout and other that has and automatic wistle and smoke... Yeah, smoke that's the one got, there is an other train set of T.N that is Western themed with an 4-4-0 but is more rare to see...

Looks as though you have a lot of work ahead of you so enjoy. Great video of very interesting stuff.

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