Model Train Shop Visit - Looking for Vintage Locomotives

Every year between boxing day and new years my local train shop hosts a sale where everything is being sold at a good discount so I decided to stop by and see what they had. Their selection of vintage consignment locomotives wasn't bad so I ended up picking up a few things and am overall pleased with my haul.
For anyone wondering the store is called "Larkspur Line" Located in Ontario Canada.

[@johncloar1692]

Thanks for sharing . It all was good to look through model train store.

[@TimsBitsnPieces]

When I saw you show that engine in the shop I said that's cute and I would have bought it myself.. glad you got it.

[@modelrailroader5619]

I have 2 of those little Fleischman steeple cabs. They are great on a European themed layout. The gears underneath are for running it on a steep cog railway. Good haul! I guess all those tunnel portals mean there will be some serious hills on the layout 🤔 Happy New Year! 🥳

[@SMTMainline]

Thanks for sharing

[@TheParanormalPieman]

Seeing those Green Bay and Western box cars in the beginning...I want them bad 🤤

[@myvideosetc.8271]

1:08 If I was visiting the shop those trams will surely be going home with me, the are nearly zero second hand HO rolling stock of this type where I live. also a BR 89 series fleischmann loco for this price is a nice deal too, is a really classic model.

[@markmcdowell231]

SMT happy new year 's eve have a great one , I love hobby store's I enjoy when you got the hobby store's.

[@joehacker6412]

If that round thing at the bottom of the loco were some sort of pickup shoe for a third rail you would probably see a high electrical current as the axle would short-circuit the two regular rails.

[@christopherdelgaudio9484]

Happy new year buddy.keep them runnin

[@fishersilverado3082]

Great video smt, that little blue loco was pretty cool!

[@elleryparsons5766]

Nice Haul Harrison.

[@elleryparsons5766]

Happy New year Harrison!

[@L.I.Thunderbolt1003]

Nice video Harrison as always

[@SMTMainline]

Thanks

[@joallawestervelt6918]

5am and I am awake only to discover a new SMT video. Looks like you had a good trip to Larkspur. How fun to see what you decided to bring home. Can hardly wait for you you do the repair on that cool looking little engine. Thanks for sharing. Happy New Year to you and yours. May it be a better year.

[@TheUnflushedToilet]

I was just in an antique store and bought some cheap trains and then I noticed you uploaded

[@SMTMainline]

Nice

[@rainybear209]

KEEP WORKING ON THOSE TRAINS SMT I LIKE THEM WHEN THEY ARE FIXED KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!!!!!

[@bluejaysfan256]

I love the GO it's my favorite transportation system and the TTC

[@thehotrainguy586]

Nice video been here for a while love watching your channel grow

[@animewithsenpai2923]

Im here at 1 45 just before new years just to see my fav youtuber

[@SMTMainline]

Thank you so kindly!

[@MMRails]

I’m hoping to go today to take advantage of his no tax sale. Nice purchases. Can’t wait to see those switches on the new layout.

[@SMTMainline]

I hope you did. Like I said, it makes a great excuse to go to the train store.

[@clevelandmaker386]

@@SMTMainline you should have gotten that Rio Grande box car and that green arco hopper

[@anthonyj.adventures9736]

I used to travel across the U.S. doing concrete work. I always used to plastic wrap/seal my locomotives to keep potential mositure out of the motors to keep them from oxidizing.

[@fernsnyder7072]

Great video I've been to that store a couple of times bought a huge bunch of old metal 3-rail track there for a good price. That little steeple cab is very cute! Happy New Year!

[@jcure]

Nice Haul, I see some folks seem to know something about the little steepleCab. I woulda guessed AC, but maybe not.! hope not. There is one Electric freight line still in the USA the Iowa traction. I think* there were some similar operations in Canada like at Inco in Sudbury. We need an Unboxing for NewYears! I think* that your pal P. Waco may have sent you one of those Freishmann Baldwins. He has a video of it on his channel. He visited me and filmed my layout btw...

[@timnewman1172]

That is exactly what it reminded me of! One of their locomotives(#54) came from the Iowa Southern Ry, which was a traction line that operated in the coal mining areas between Centerville & Albia. Probably way more than you wanted to know, I wish somebody would model one of these Iowa electric trainlines!

[@jcure]

@@timnewman1172 Hi and happy new year! Unclear, were you hoping to see someone build a layout of freight traction operations? Or were you just looking for US type traction Locos? Because there are some shells out there of the freight motors; plus brass. The Shells look to be quite a bit of work. I have one, Can't recall what it uses for a mechanism. I want to say the old Athearn SW7?

[@timnewman1172]

@@jcure kinda both. Sadly, as important as they were in the early 20th century, traction roads just don't get much love...

[@jcure]

@@timnewman1172 I hear ya brother

[@davidsheriff8989]

Great video...it's amazing what some shops have lying around unused and just needing some attention, cleaning and lubrication...

[@rainybear209]

KEEP WORKING ON THOSE TRAINS SMT I LIKE THEM 🚃 🚅 🚂👍👍 😁

[@SMTMainline]

Thanks

[@souris_62]

happy new year

[@garysprandel1817]

Nice haul. Kind of liked the classic CP livery Athearn F and the Baldwin VO 1000 but the CNW was the home town railroad I might be a tad biased. Happy new year Harrison and may the channel continue to grow and you score some really good trains in 2022.

[@sort187]

That "pick-up" shoe looks like a magnet that activates a track mounted Reed switch....for automated block signals.

[@SMTMainline]

That makes sense, thanks for sharing.

[@BarefootCuer]

@@SMTMainline That's exactly what it is. Fleischmann produced a special track with such a switch (No. 1700/2 SN) and replaced it in 1967 with a switch one could mount onto any straight track (No. 61)

[@CR7659]

The Pepsi car is a Tyco. I used to be able to get $20 out of those on eBay without too much trouble, so $4.95 CAD is a good price for one. It's less common than a lot of the other advertising cars. The green and yellow 1340 is also a Fleischmann, it's meant to represent a Baldwin VO1000 or similar switcher. Those bring about $40 usually. The Roco shark was sold in North America by Model Power for years. I have one just like it in my show inventory. it's always worth looking. One show I found a nice, factory painted Mantua Belle of the 80s 4-4-0 for $50. Those were sold in the early 1950s. It's probably worth four or five times that (really hard to find one this nice) but it's a keeper for me.

[@BarefootCuer]

The Fleischmann green and yellow CNW Baldwin switcher looks to be in great condition and would be a bargain for that price. A scarcer version has the C&NW logo and "Route of the 400" as decals. Among the box cars was an old Fleichmann model as well - the "Pennsylvania Merchandise Service" tuscan read & grey car produced form 1954-1958. In 1959 the paint was changed to the "State of Maine" red white nad blue of the BAR. Look at the cast trucks: it will say "Made in (Western) Germany). The little steamer is the "americanized" version of a German switcher made by Fleischmann (check the underframe!) When you do a video like this, please go slower and try to get a full shot of the whole drawer.

[@racingraptor4758]

Nice haul! Also I wish we had shops like that in my country. I would be able to make a small layout for less than a cost of a passenger car.

[@JoseAntonio-xc3ju]

Feliz ano novo 🎇🎇 SMT....2022 Brasil...

[@SMTMainline]

¡Feliz año nuevo!

[@Brianrockrailfan]

great video happy new year's 👍🎆🚄

[@raymondleggs5508]

That little locomotive is a Fleischmann engine the Eagle Logo on it means it ran on either the Deutsche Reichsbahn, or the Bavarian State railway the button thing on the bottom is for automatic coupling and uncoupling,

[@asquithmainlines699]

You are lucky to have access to such a good train store. I am from Saskatoon and we don’t have a train store here. We have a hobby shop that sells trains but it is definitely not a train store. Closest thing we have to the one you were in would be Trains and Such in Calgary. Happy New Year!

[@SMTMainline]

I went to Trains and Such while traveling across Canada - Great store!

[@asquithmainlines699]

@@SMTMainline Calgary has a very good Train Show as well in the spring called Supertrain.

[@peterplaneman]

That Fleischmann will need new brushes for the motor I got a few of those Locos

[@eastpavilion-er6081]

The metal German 0-6-0 and the yellow and green 1340 both have a tension lock style coupling, similar to the couplings used on British OO gauge locomotives.

[@js3003]

That german engine at the end looks to be a bavarian type, used on some rack railroad.

[@KrizAkoni]

Cute little engine find!

[@SMTMainline]

Thanks

[@randallellison6421]

Hey Harrison@SMT Mainline, happy new year! Looks like you picked up some cool projects there!

[@bipbipletucha]

Man I would have snapped up a ton of those used freight cars at the prices they had them for!

[@williammcgeehan3424]

That Fleischmann Baldwin V0-1000 is pretty nice. The green and yellow unit in the Chicago & North Western paint. It's not as good as a Hallmark brass unit by Samhongsa or a more recent Stewart or Bowser offering but not bad for an early Baldwin in ho scale.

[@justaboringjoha3678]

But the Fleischmann one is zhe most expensive, on German ebay these can go for like 200- 300€

[@eriknewland3686]

Some German electric locomotive models have a switch that changes power pickup from the wheels to the pantograph on the top (with brands like Marklin, you can supply models of electric locomotives with power from a live overhead catenary system for realism and ease of track maintenance). I'm not sure if Fleischmann electric locomotives had a similar system, but it's worth looking for a switch of some kind on that little locomotive.

[@johnd8892]

Same option provided by Triang electric locomotives starting in 1958. Trix also. Not just German outline but was standard in all better quality pantograph equipped models.

[@BarefootCuer]

The littlle Fleischmann electric is a free lance engine based on the German E 69 - this particualr "Edelweiss-Lokalbahn" engine has a cog wheel drive for the Fleischmann cog rail system introduced in 1968. It does not have a switch to run off the catenary. The pantograph is a dummy. It runs on 12V DC. The contact on the underside is not for pickup.

[@jojo99FIN]

Nice fact to know as I have Märklin M-track

[@eriknewland3686]

@@johnd8892 yup. Doesn’t Kato offer it too?

[@johnd8892]

@@eriknewland3686 most likely. Starting in the fifties , many makers of pantograph equipped electric locomotives did use this overhead system as a means running two locomotives independently on the one track well before DCC.

[@OgaugeTrainsplusslotCars]

Cool locomotives.Cheers from New Jersey USA

[@SMTMainline]

Thank you!

[@OgaugeTrainsplusslotCars]

@@SMTMainline 👍

[@qwincyq6412]

I envy you getting to Larkspur, one of my favourite train stores. I first went there when he was operating out of the garage in his back yard.

[@scottleidenberger4007]

I remember those days. About thirty years ago. I would help at the store on Saturday's for a while. To bad I live about 1800 miles away now. All the hobby shops around here have closed up.

[@SMTMainline]

I had no idea that's how it started. Apparently my uncle ordered from their catalog back in the 80s.

[@ModelTrainsAutomation]

Awesome!

[@Trains-With-Shane]

Nice little haul. I've had to pick up a handful of new turnouts for my layout as well. Mostly to replace broken ones, lol.

[@SMTMainline]

I find buying used switches tends to be risky but they aren't cheap.

[@Trains-With-Shane]

@@SMTMainline Yeah I was surprised. I'm doing N scale but Atlas Code 80 remote turnouts are going for like $30us each!

[@michaelhunschag2430]

what you got there is a small little cog railway electric Locomotive used in Austria with the nice name of Edelweiß-Lokalbahn, happy new year from Germany. sometimes these locomotives need power from the pantograph i have one on my smaller Layout and some models have a switch to activate the pantograph.

[@SMTMainline]

Thanks

[@jmm2000]

That GO F40PH would've been a great add on to your layout and pulling those GO commuter cars.

[@haroldalexis4200]

I was thinking the same thing. 😄

[@Dtuba15]

Just relized this is only like 2 hours away from me I totally need to take a trip there one day!

[@PSICaptain615]

That's a really impressive stuff I'm surprised you didn't pick up that Pepsi car you could have set up some kind of vintage railway display

[@SMTMainline]

It would be fun but space is of the essence

[@PSICaptain615]

@@SMTMainline touché

[@wafflesnfalafel1]

I got one of those ancient rubber band drive Athearn F units from my uncle as a kid - Northern Pacific "Christmas Tree" livery. Super cool hobby store there.

[@dbtech7914]

I like box cars with interesting graphics, and the trolley that was in the box looked like a great buy. Love the little engine you bought. Used switches are taking a chance, but if the price is right it is worth it. Great video.

[@littleoad]

I love these videos

[@SMTMainline]

Thank you!

[@steve87thpsap]

It’s funny that looks like on e of the Switching Engines Jawtooth (pretty sure) had on one of his video for an over wired switcher. Good luck on the engines, real nice buys on the tunnel portals.

[@peterkneissl3358]

The loco you bought runs on a cog that you can buy from fleishmann. It will also run on regular track it is geared down. Go back and pick up the 060 tank loco and Baldwin cnw loco. They are fleishmann and are collectable. With a tune up the should all run well

[@SMTMainline]

Thanks for sharing.

[@andrewferguson5653]

Larkspur is a great store, I'll make the trip again when winter is over.

[@SMTMainline]

I always love going there

[@velaro_tv7031]

The Fleischmann loco is a E69 and yes it‘s a DC Locomotiv.

[@johnmulrine730]

The loco is Fleischmann Edelweiss Lokalbahn 12 - a fictional mountain cog railway locomotive based on the E69 (LAG 1-5) series or the Bayerische Zugspitzbahn series 1-4

[@oscartorres96]

SMT nice Video and Also I Already Got the AHM Spirit of 1776 Engine and A Life Like in New Condition Union Pacific GP 38 Engine Hi Nose Wish You A Happy New Year.

[@randyoehling303]

You should've grabbed that CP rail B unit.

[@SMTMainline]

I don't have use for it. Better to leave it for someone who actually wants it :)

[@ericgregory9337]

the shoe is an auto revirse switch that requires a modified track

[@theidkwhatsgoingonchannel3840]

Hey SMT Mainline! Have you ever seen a Kansas City Southern unit show up in Larkspur line?

[@koschkaschroeder6791]

the little blue-white e 69 runs like 15% tracks close to the zugspitze, the highest mountain in germany. the thing you see down under where you sais "ac" - no its not ac, this is an early kind of sensor for the fleischmann track system. if its in the way you can remove it (check it at switches)

[@Petemonster62]

Koschka Shroeder - Can you add a rail to the track to have it activate signals?

[@SMTMainline]

Thanks for sharing

[@brandonharristsw7516]

Cool

[@robleighton1019]

Isn't that little steeple loco a three rail powered unit - the circular metal contact provides one polarity and both rails the other..? I think that you can convert them to two rail working by wiring one side of the wheel pickups to the under train contact instead of where it normally goes.

[@johnd8892]

Nope. Two rail like all Fleischman. See next vid where he gets it running

[@robleighton1019]

@@johnd8892 yeah, I stand corrected - always assumed that round contact was for power but apparently not... Opens up a new brand to start collecting... Uh-oh!

[@4everdc302]

A cool little local shop for ya Harrison. I'm doing a unboxing in my next video of that Life Like GO Transit set with lit coach's.🚂🇨🇦

[@randyoehling303]

I've been looking all over for that lie like GO transit set with white passenger cars.

[@sawekcc8065]

It is the E69 locomotive. Nice one.

[@DSuer-mf2vy]

A modified (no handrails, different color & cog railway mod.) E-69 of a fictional bavarian/austrian "Edelweiß-Lokalbahn" (ELB).

[@taylorbaggarleyunionpacifi3409]

Happy new year hairson have awesome new year I hope someday meet you also doing ho scale and lionel trains my photography see you soon my buddy eh

[@SMTMainline]

Happy New Years!

[@taylorbaggarleyunionpacifi3409]

@@SMTMainline thanks buddy

[@felixfelix9062]

I would KILL for that tiny blue train in the top right of the thumbnail…

[@SMTMainline]

Lol

[@Gravity461]

I found a boxcar and a snowplow that were both built out of wood at my local hobby shop and I got them for 2 dollars each!

[@Zebrails]

SMT, Larkspur has an Ebay store. Surprised you didn't pick up the AHM six-dome tank car. Great haul... how much were the switches? John Kamloops, BC Happy New Year.

[@SMTMainline]

The switches were between $8 and $20 Canadian

[@theoldbayrailfan]

Happy New Year’s

[@SMTMainline]

Happy New Years!

[@atsfrailfan5367]

btw the small geman electric is an E69

[@allendykstra9339]

I was really hoping you would pickup the three truck shay I wash some one made those in s guage

[@metropolitantransit7276]

I have the GO F40PH on the thumbnail as well.

[@metropolitantransit7276]

Love he F40PH (in terms of design).

[@Jethawk-ii7yg]

that Santa Fe gondola in the wooden box is half of the logo for SPSF rare rolling stock. you can buy some track off of me if you want

[@SMTMainline]

I'm good for track thanks

[@MPRail]

My cat got a Moxie Pacific c liner.

[@Petemonster62]

4:28 - That bridge pier is for Tyco slot car track. SMT could have the German steeple cab electric go up a steep grade on the mountain layout with rack rail on the incline!

[@tednouver9909]

Maintenance fact for Tyco Power torque motors: If it starts to screech, lubricate the pivot gear and the back of the motor. It will run better after you run it with your lubrication. Lubricate it once every week. (All of this was in me experience with Tyco locomotives)

[@jameshamrick5660]

Here at 7 am lol

[@West_Coast_Gang]

Cool, if you ever find an athern Amtrak gp7 let me know

[@cpcnmodelrailroadingrailfa9339]

Wow I wish I could go there but if it’s a 5 hour drive anyway amazing video like always

[@SMTMainline]

Gotta make it an entire trip

[@cpcnmodelrailroadingrailfa9339]

@@SMTMainline yep

[@pauljohansson695]

Hi Harrison

[@wceyuki]

Recently i picked up a Bachmann northern that has no tender and doesn’t run, but i did get her for only $20 canadian!

[@Lil_Pennsy]

Tbh I thought he was gonna buy the shay locomotive😂. That would be cool if u had a lumber area

[@SMTMainline]

Nice engine but the price, ehhh.

[@mercuryoak2]

The steam engine you looked that yes I would say was a Fleischmann branded locomotive also that electric locomotive that you're trying to get running that you bought at Larkspur looks to me like it could be an AC locomotive but that tab on the bottom that has the metal contact in the middle I have the same thing on myplacement 0-60 locomotive and they used it for a special track that placement had so that you could actually stop the locomotive still have power going to the rails but it had a little part that lifted up the locomotive with that pick up shoe and stopped the train. Then when you wanted the train to resume you push down on the lever that pushed the part on the track that lifted up the locomotive on the pickup shoe drop that back down level with rail ties and the train continue around the track

[@ivovanzon164]

That thing on the bottom is the 'Kontaktpilz', which is used to trigger occupancy sensors and so on. Which does only work in Analog mode and needs a special track piece

[@Petemonster62]

Can you add a rail to an existing track to use this function?

[@mercuryoak2]

@@Petemonster62 I would think so yes. The reason why I say this is because my Fleischmann train set that a friend of mine got me for my birthday is from the 1960s. It looks like a Pennsylvania 0-6-0 steam engine and it has the freight cars that go with it and the bobber caboose however that piece of track that I was talking about is it with the set because that was something that you added on later mine only came with all 15 inch radius curves

[@ivovanzon164]

@@Petemonster62 if you use the Profi track (with the integrated ballast) you need item number 6432 for the contact rail. Or 6402 for the brass track type

[@Petemonster62]

@@mercuryoak2 - Did your train have the Fleischmann couplers or horn-hook couplers?

[@antonbruce1241]

Nothing like an "After Christmas Sale", eh???

[@SMTMainline]

Absolutely.

[@therailfanman2078]

The loco you got looks similar to a loco I saw at my train club just in a box and it was a different color I almost got it but it was going for 60 or 50 dollars so I passed

[@chasesrailwaylinesrr6447]

I saw a shay gear train those are rare cause lots of companies don't make them and they are worth a lot.

[@themodguy3233]

Old german Locomotives are likely and mostly made out of metal and they are heavy.Nowadays i would say german locs are wether made of plastic or metal (expensiver ones).We have like 50 percent metal and 50 percent plastic trains.

[@hof-spoorwegvideo524]

I'm looking for an f7 shell. If I'm right I did see that you had one in your hand short. But yeah shipping overseas is so expensive.

[@SMTMainline]

It really is

[@Phunker1]

Your little blue loco is a German E69. E69 03 to be precise.

[@saramargaretstrickland9125]

Pls go to new brookland railroad and hobby shop because they have lots of ho scale trains and the N&W Y6B and the 4014 big boy

[@SMTMainline]

Where is it located?

[@saramargaretstrickland9125]

West Columbia South Carolina

[@CounterCraftYT]

So this loco is DC. It is a special on in that it is geared to run slowly and is able to run on a toothed rail.

[@SMTMainline]

Thanks for sharing :)

[@funtasticisland2874]

Those Tyco billboard cars may be unrealistic, but quoting Marge Simpson, "I just think they're neat."

[@rj29productions]

The steeple cab engine is dc

[@SMTMainline]

Excellent!

[@MPRail]

Got a N scale tanker car.

[@wyvern5747]

The German Electric locomotive is an E69. I believe they were used for local freight services during the 1930s.

[@johnd8892]

Mainly passenger use from 1909 on a steep grade Bavarian Branchline with short trains. Ran into the seventies and now preserved.

[@BarefootCuer]

@@johnd8892 There were 5 E69s built, in 1905, 1909, 1912, 1922 and 1930 respectively. They ran on the line from Murnau to Oberammergau. The increased traffic due to the Passion Play was part of the reason for their construction. The E 69 02 & 03 did shunting work in Heidelberg from 1955 to 1964. All are preserved. The all had nicknames, too: "Katharina" (body made by the Katharinenhuette in Rohrbach/Saar), "Pauline", "Hermine", "Johanna" and "Adolfine", named for you-know-who.

[@F40Productions]

I've got 2 GO F40's like that, one of which I have put the shell onto a Rapido chassis to make a GO F40 that runs well and pulls well

[@SMTMainline]

If you have a spare drive I'm sure it would be great.

[@F40Productions]

@@SMTMainline I found a wrecked Rapido F40 on good ol kijiji and dispite the shell being destroyed the chassis was in perfect running condition. Made for an easy swap and a fantastic result

[@16jan1986]

There was a Heljan Danish farm house in the view for at short time a beautiful piece but terrible out of scale eventhought it was supposed to be HO but is closer to 1/100

[@jbsmith966]

passed up the Pepsi and Starkist, that is painful for a Tyco fan to watch..moving along.. I think that loco is meant for Marklin 3 rail track. Not 100% sure myself about that. Yes there is such a thing a 3 rail HO track. Used 3 rail HO track Can be found on Ebay but I am not sure if it is still made new. Unless you can figure out how to convert into a 2 rail loco. Otherwise it would make a nice static display.

[@SMTMainline]

Others seem to think it will work on two rail track, no idea yet. I was temped by the Pepsi car but I've gotta watch how much I'm adding right now.

[@West_Kootenay_railfan]

3:04 probably was a chago North western locomotive