Mega Fix of an Entire Collection of HO Locomotives

[@railroadsandrandom]

Nice to see that daylight working again

[@Your-Old-Timey-Guitar-Kid]

The daylight stand out to me, more than other steam engines.

[@P.h.o.n.e..G.u.y.1]

AGREED

[@DaylightMainline4449]

​@@P.h.o.n.e..G.u.y.1 I own Bachmann Dcc on board The American freedom Train #4449 works very well.

[@NepsiNetCEO]

Mine has the same problem. I don’t even wanna try to fix it myself.

[@UnofficialBigOne]

You did a good job, Harrison! I'm impressed to see those little guys get up and running again.

[@FrankC321]

Nice repair job's. You have a mastered skill. Self tapping screws, soldering iron, wheel distance gauge. Awesome!

[@SMTMainline]

Whatever gets the job done right?

[@jesikebiking]

I really like the UP swither and love the slow speed operation =====Im really amazed with what you did with the GS-4

[@MarshallsTrains]

I love that daylight, wish I had one. Great job fixing all of them!

[@Thyelegance]

what a project smt! great job on getting all these glories back on the tracks once again!

[@robinbryde3038]

Great job rewiring the Bachman...I really enjoyed seeing the locos on the track together at the video end. Thanks for sharing this with us 😎👍

[@SMTMainline]

Thank you very much!

[@TheMiaters]

I"VE BEEN WAITING FOR THE DAYLIGHT FOR SO LONG😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@NorcalRailroader4449]

YOOOOO IT'S A ATHEARN BLUEBOX DAYLIGHT! I got one myself in fact I am the one who was talking about it and it's pulling power a few streams back 😁Great video SMT

[@JerseyBill-x9r]

7 videos in one are very impressive and with a crazy run at the end. With the repairs and video editing that 30-minute video took about 5 to 6 hours. Great stuff, Jersey Bill

[@SMTMainline]

Thanks. It took quite a bit of editing to condense this down to a reasonable amount.

[@Benthetrainkid]

The 2007-era Life Like GP38-2 High Hood was produced around the time Walthers acquired the Life-Like branding, also the GS4's faceplate is the smokebox door

[@Benthetrainkid]

The AHM C-Liner's 5-pole motor also has an oil wick on the top for lubricantion

[@adamspender6595]

Another, awesome watch. Thanks. Your channel is definitely one of my favs. This one specially will be good for me. Thanks again SMT 😊

[@lxndr3299]

Love the end where they're all running together. You are the Coolest Dude.

[@adamspender6595]

Another, awesome watch. You're probably my favourite You Tube channel. This one will be especially good for me. Thanks again SMT 😊

[@user-MotoTrains1974]

Another successful project done SMT

[@mikerotch4597]

The screw to hold the truck on the 3560 was genius

[@SMTMainline]

Thank you so much!

[@ApproachDiverging013]

Nice job repairing all of those engines and getting them back in service, also nice parade of trains at the end!

[@rdrogel1116]

The high hood is a GP38-2 - Southern Railway(later Norfolk Southern) is the only major North American railroad ordered with that unique feature(low hoods were the norm at that time)

[@Raul_MP]

At first I had assumed the Daylight was a old split chassis pancake-motor (Or a Bachmann Plus, at best) since they're so problematic, safe to say, I was caught off guard when I saw the plug in the tender. Great video, as always.

[@SMTMainline]

It surprised me too. The modern ones aren't flawless but certainly more reliable than what they used to make.

[@thomascanady1967]

It's amazing how you fix locomotives. It's also amazing how some people can't take care of them. I treat mine with the utmost care package well when not in use.

[@SMTMainline]

Thanks. To be fair some of these are 50 years old so with that in mind I think they held up pretty well.

[@northamericanrailfilms3025]

Thank you for doing my box!

[@SMTMainline]

No problem 😊

[@TrainNerd97]

A whole "train" of repairs in one video? Excellent idea Harrison! Btw, pun 101% intended.

[@WinterroSP]

9:11 This is exactly the reason I have a 3d printer, you don’t know what you missed until you’ve tried it.

[@kliller854]

You're always with these things!

[@kylek9864]

Great video love it when you fix locomotives and great seeing the daylight run

[@KearSki]

Quite the assortment and quite the interesting fixes! I recently got back into model railroading in no small part thanks to your videos and recently bought a small lot of HO locomotives, most of which have had examples featured on your channel! (2 Life-Like F40PHs, a Tyco F unit and two 90s Bachmann F units) It was quite the simple task getting them running as I was already familiar with the mechanisms involved. Shortly after buying that first lot I managed to come across someone selling a whole bachmann overland limited set for super cheap! It seems to be usin' the same mechanism as the GS4 there, although it doesn't have any fancy features, or even a tender with electrical pickup. Sure does look nice runnin' down the track though!

[@Judehoodtood]

Thanks for the great video!

[@tonny4175]

Harrison you are truely a magician Always watch your videos even your commercials haha

[@SMTMainline]

Thank you so much!

[@markwilliams2620]

The Athearn SW probably has Enrst reduction gearing. It was an aftermarket kit to give it the slow speed. I put one in my GP-9 and tookit out. Too slow. Works in an SW. That AHM has the same issues they all do. The front truck breaks off too easily, and it's a HORRIFIC model of a C-Liner. The Proto 1000 is miles above it. Edit: I've watched you pull many locomotives back from the grave but your work on that Daylight was outstanding. Kudos!!

[@SMTMainline]

Thank you!

[@carlosalbertochaveznavatre8247]

ANd again, you showed me a simple way to fix those cheap life like trucks that brake so easy.... thanks for the advice man!!

[@SMTMainline]

Glad to help. It seems to be a common issue with these life likes.

[@elleryparsons2433]

Keep Rocking on those Trains Harrison. If Someone Were To Deliver A Trailer Full Of Broken Or Fixable Trains You would Have Them Do No Problems.

[@SMTMainline]

I think I'd be overwhelmed

[@thomaseinstein9074]

That’s a nice Daylight!

[@michaelmohrmann]

I noticed you forgot to say it, so I'll say it for you... SERENITY!!

[@SMTMainline]

That's true!

[@xaviers2ndaccount354]

I swear, you can get a model with hardly anything remaining from it, and SMT will always (somehow) get it to work.

[@johnsterling7420]

Harrison the Wizard does it again great job, there is Nothing you can't repair.!!!!!! 👍👍👍👍👌👌👌👌👌👌😃

[@SMTMainline]

Thank you!

[@jamesdenny4734]

SMTs got the midus touch! 😊

[@Stinkyfish-h7m]

It's nice to see steam locomotive running again

[@Stinkyfish-h7m]

I watch your videos everyday

[@Wyattbmarksman]

Smt, you are the Best KZbinr to watch before bed I cannot believe that i was the first view, like and comment😂

[@SMTMainline]

Thank you!

[@sergioarroyoguerrero5434]

Good job in repair you locomotives. You 🐱 is friend of my dog Scooby Doo.

[@Tomsplanesandtrains]

Nice video!

[@paulburns3788]

Hello SMT mainline how are you doing friend you are so amazing fixing old locomotives

[@SMTMainline]

Good, how are you?

[@thetruecptcrackers]

Another sweet haul!

[@SMTMainline]

Thanks for watching

[@mikewilliams8510]

Great video

[@oskarvalance3041]

You are the man. Is there any loco you can't fix? I think not. Another nice vid. Thanks. From Texas.

[@strobson1]

Aloha Harrison from the big island of Hawaii

[@casstelles]

Finding a Tyco C430 with handrails is something of a rarity. Often, they are never found since Tyco offered them as a separate item.

[@SMTMainline]

I think Tyco did include them on some of its older models and then quit to save money. I don't think the ones that did had them attached out of the box.

[@keepamericayisraelgreat5708]

WOW, good job...I have 3-4 HO Bocmann Overland locomotive to fix one day

[@randydobson1863]

Hi SMT Mainline & it's is Randy and i like yours Cool & Thanks SMT Mainline & Friends Randy

[@normancoreyBuildingTrains]

You did a very nice job especially on the daylight .the wirs are a bit stiff . You can get 30 gauge really flexible stuff all different colors on Amazon that work great. Again very impressive.

[@SMTMainline]

Do you know if the wires from amazon are more durable than the stock ones from Bachmann?

[@normancoreyBuildingTrains]

@@SMTMainlineyes they are .

[@normancoreyBuildingTrains]

@SMTMainline they are super flexible so less likely to snap from moving I use it in all my stuff. I used it on the smt berkshire. I put the wires to a 6 pin pug by leaving thicker wire at the plug but cutting them different lengths and soldering the flexible wire and shrink tubing.

[@GageTucker-of2wd]

Hey smt about that athearn I fixed it, it was just a simple axle that needed to be put back in place, but looked at that video of you fixing that athearn what 3 years ago I think, and thank you for teaching me how to take off the shell😊

[@SMTMainline]

I'm glad that helped after all these years :)

[@GageTucker-of2wd]

@@SMTMainline all these years🤨, I just got it 2 weeks ago, I didn’t look at the video until I was repairing it, but glad the repair vid was yours☺️

[@Heroduothecomedian]

19:38 Lifelike: I'm fast as **** boi xD

[@edhoscoe9928]

Daylight is one of my favorite train in the world

[@ashevilletrainman6989]

Good to see you’re still fixing trains. Have you gotten a silver play button yet ?

[@SMTMainline]

Hey, how have you been? I got the button!

[@crystalboutte9880]

Awesome video when are you going to do another live stream

[@SMTMainline]

Probably this week

[@AEStudt]

Well done congrats

[@OldcampRanch]

Awesome 👍🏻

[@carldean5987]

How u been? Wow that's some very great work there man, they all were runners.

[@Enby-wierdo]

That athern up switcher i have two of almost the exact same thing, but in santa fe blue, and one is in perfect working order, it runs so smooth, and has all its handrails and everything, and the other, is missing every hand rail, and a few other things, and its wired backwards and has no fly wheels like the other, but it runs fine, just backwards

[@thomasrankin8506]

@SMTMainLine you need to get a Marquette rail locomotive for your hi scale layout

[@60hzminimum]

I have that same bachmann GS4. One day it just quit on me while using DC. It's gettinf power since the headlight comes on, but the motor is seized or something. Wish I could get it back up and working

[@Martinjstevens]

I have that same Athern switcher, and although I love the style of the Atherns I find they weirdly run for a lap then short out, any ideas about that problem would be appreciated

[@randybrening9528]

What oil and grease do you use?

[@SMTMainline]

Labelle 106 and 102.

[@danmah7575]

Hey SMT, awesome repair work. How did you figure out which contacts on the loco PCB of the GS4 matched those on the tender?

[@SMTMainline]

I traced them on the pcb. And then matched the colour of the wires connecting to the pcb to those on the locomotive.

[@PlasticMoviesWithToySoldiers]

23:11 Hey David, above the engine you were fixing in the secluded track piece, what’s the train sitting in that section of track if you Don’t mind me asking?

[@SMTMainline]

Its a locomotive out of my fathers collection. it doesn't run great but I plan to fix it soon.

[@mikegrappone9078]

Great video amazing skills. You should be a watch master also!

[@SMTMainline]

Thank you!

[@kellyashfordtrains2642]

7 is my lucky number. A pity only two of the engines are steamies. Does the little 0-4-0 tender engine run well? If so, I'd love to see her running.

[@SMTMainline]

The 0-4-0 needs some work but I think it will live again.

[@carlosalbertochaveznavatre8247]

So you were running the DC and the DCC locos at the same time??? or the one with sound is not a DCC?... that also means that the DIGITRAX can support all that variety of motors working together!!! I have that Digitrax but I have had no courage to test it with more than 2 locomotives at a time......

[@SMTMainline]

At the end I was running everything on DC. You can run DC locomotives on DCC but you have to be careful not to overheat the motor. Never let a DC locomotive idle or run slow on DCC

[@mintchip5763]

i see you're back to using that behemoth soldering iron

[@SMTMainline]

The other one stopped working. I tried several methods to clean the tip but it struggles to melt anything so it's back to the tried and true one for now.

[@BC-fx6ud]

Just bought a C liner last week. Do you ever sell your stuff? I would love to have both the Southern Pacific

[@SMTMainline]

The locomotives shown in this video don't belong to me

[@BC-fx6ud]

@@SMTMainline thanks for replying. I watched you about 3 years ago , and thought this is kid stuff( my kids are older than you) but lately I have learned a lot from your repair videos. I have rebuilt several 70’s and 80’s engines this year.

[@SMTMainline]

@@BC-fx6ud Right on

[@an_official_scratcher_alt]

1:02, In America we don't call these "C-Liners", we call them "Superchiefs".

[@SMTMainline]

I don't believe that's true. The locomotive is a C-Liner regardless of what railroad it belongs to, it does have the Warbonnet paint scheme but I don't think the superchief was ever pulled by a C-Liner.

[@MarkCinque-uq9kh]

would i be able to do the same kind of repair work on one of my old Lionel 0-27 Gauge Locomotives with Light and Sound from 1995 if i learned the right way on how to do it from a local Hobby shop?,17:55

[@SMTMainline]

I'm sure its possible but I've never worked on one of those myself.

[@user-xz8rr1bl7jf]

i have a question have you ever had a runaway train

[@GageTucker-of2wd]

I have a problem with a miniature ahtearn Santa Fe can you help, it’s a bonnet like the southern pacific

[@Your-Old-Timey-Guitar-Kid]

Getter closer 775 videos! Are you going to do something with that?

[@SMTMainline]

I wasn't planning on it but that will be a neat milestone.

[@luisfelipearruda3790]

We want more Brasília trains!😊

[@SMTMainline]

I already ordered several to unbox :)

[@luisfelipearruda3790]

Thanks I love Frateschi locomotives!

[@luisfelipearruda3790]

Is because I love this frateschi! I am from Brazil.

[@betsymani2734]

NEW SMT VIDEO!

[@HitPoint110]

Is it possible to put a decoder and sound into an old life like

[@SMTMainline]

It's pretty easy to. I believe the cvs must be adjusted for 3 pole motors though.

[@RailfanUS]

What is that thing u use to clean the wheels of the locomotives

[@SMTMainline]

A Peco track bright.

[@RailfanUS]

@@SMTMainline I am only getting peco track, not the eraser thing ur using

[@SMTMainline]

@@RailfanUS thetrainexchange.ca/pl-41/

[@RailfanUS]

@@SMTMainlineThank you!

[@JonathanColemanMoreTrains]

With a working Southern Pacific daylight now you can recreate the famous profile picture that you have for your channel and if you can get some Southern Pacific Passenger cars then you can try and recreate the famous train that was on VHS and on KZbin

[@SMTMainline]

That's a good point but I won't be keeping this locomotive since it doesn't belong to me.

[@nelslyman8167]

How did you just.. touch.. the hot glue?

[@SMTMainline]

I'm not saying anyone should do that but it cools so quick it doesn't burn.

[@CooperPike-u3j]

When are you going to do your live stream

[@SMTMainline]

Soon.

[@johnreiter6664]

Noticed that you did not address the coupler units...why?

[@SMTMainline]

These locomotives aren't mine and I'm doing the repairs for free so it was just to save time. Couplers aren't difficult to change so I'll leave weather they want to go with Kadee or horn hooks up to the owner.

[@JayCeF076]

I have the exact same warbonnet high hood and the bi centennial u boat lol

[@Blur_Drone220]

How did someone mess up their whole collection 😂 Me with what feals like 40 "project" locos

[@SMTMainline]

I have no idea what happened to some of them.

[@joelchristensen9503]

I have a life like Family Lines gp38.that needs some help missing a truck cover too.

[@Douglas-not-Dougie]

Make the 0-4-0 "puffa" from tugs

[@Sheetstttttttttt]

That American train I have the same and in the front axle there is a broken gear and I don’t know how to fix it because I play with my ho scales all the time but I don’t really repair them I take care of my ho scales but the America engine I found it at a garage sale that’s where I got it I also have the caboose too

[@stephenhudson8739]

What would be neat is if you had some daylight Passenger cars

[@SMTMainline]

I do have some, I just didn't bring them out for this video.

[@Tyler-3712]

Wow! I have that same 1776 locomotive (it it doesn’t wanna run) Edit I just looked at the video and the same thing with the headlights happen to me

[@SMTMainline]

Have you looked to see if its the same problem?

[@thomas-id5sl]

I think my diesel Express engine might need some work

[@djparn007]

👍👍

[@frankrowland63]

I'm having trouble finding brush springs and brushes for these motors in ho scale if anyone has part numbers for them and souses I can buy them from I would appreciate it.

[@SMTMainline]

Most of these companies are long out of business, some didn't even sell replacement parts. The best chance at finding similar brushes would probably be slot car part dealers.

[@XBOXShawn12thman]

SERENITY!!!! ............. 7 TIMES!!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@Engine1988]

"Favorite junky brand"... ;)

[@littlepastelkitten]

lol wiring harnesses are why I said fuck it and soldered direct to my board for my bachman gs4. cant not work if its attached with metal right?

[@SMTMainline]

Exactly. I've seen these harnesses break with people who don't even use them that much. It seems like a bad design combine with crappy wire.

[@Top-Trains-1943]

First. But I'm watching the whole video through.

[@CooperPike-u3j]

Asmt can you do a live stream right now

[@SMTMainline]

Not atm

[@chasesrailwaylinesrr6447]

Wish Bachmann made it so you could bypass the plug because if its removed the motor won't work

[@SMTMainline]

For sure, the design is super annoying. I've worked on so many Gs4's which had the same issues.

[@chasesrailwaylinesrr6447]

How hard would it be for them To add a connection from the wheel pickups to the motor Then you could remove the tender

[@Blakechannel33]

Please do another giveaway I Love trains a lot