Union Pacific FEF Steam Engine American Flyer S gauge Nimco scale late 40's

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@DGHodgson-o8z 2 ай бұрын

Hi Leonard, great video as always, can I just say that your layout is an engineering masterpiece and must take some dusting.

@davelewandoski4292 2 ай бұрын

Beautiful locomotive, especially with the scale drivers.

@MygrandpasTrain 2 ай бұрын

Oh nice, the big Northern! I have an unmodified American Flyer which belonged to my grandfather, and I run it almost daily. Except for the whitewalls, the Flyer engine isnt too bad looking. The conversions are really neat, but that takes away the smoke and choo choo feature.

@AustinsAmericanFlyertrains 2 ай бұрын

Wow wow wow!!!!! Love this Leonard. Was the choo choo qnd smoke disconnected? Repowered?

@vintage-model-trains 2 ай бұрын

They were disconnected

@turdferguson4124 2 ай бұрын

Great video, Leonard. Has your Northern had the choo choo disabled?

@vintage-model-trains 2 ай бұрын

Yes someone removed smoke and choo choo action ...

@willamettevalleyAFtrains 2 ай бұрын

The Northern looks great running on the wider radius track. How did Nimco insulate the drive and pony wheels?

@vintage-model-trains 2 ай бұрын

They have a plastic sleeve on one side for the wheel slip over on the axle

@lucasquintanilla1673 2 ай бұрын

Awesome video! I find it interesting people were making models of this type of locomotive so early after the war. I wonder how many people if anyone decided to put their hand at modifying the engines cosmetically to put their favorite Road names and numbers on these things? If anyone did that technically means that this could theoretically be the earliest model that someone would have put 844 on. I mean all it would really take to make this look like the real 844 would have been perhaps trying to make some smoke deflectors to put on the front but other than that this really does look like 844 when it was first delivered before it even had smoke deflectors. By the way does the tender look like a standard coal burner tender or an oil burner?

@vintage-model-trains 2 ай бұрын

Flyer introduced the FEF in 1939 3/16" scale for O gauge

@lucasquintanilla1673 2 ай бұрын

@ I really more meant that this would theoretically match up with the later FEF class like the class three since that was not developed until 1944. Since people would not have been making models during the war 1946 would’ve been about the time that you could’ve had something like this as you said.