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You bet! Glad you liked the video.

Thanks for the great comment. I'm glad the video helped.

Glad you liked the video. The remote is an accessory for the Z-4000 transformer. Note, along with the remote it requires a receiver to work. I did a video on it here czcams.com/video/Wcc2K0JAQuc/video.htmlsi=lUCtIqV424v7aSrK Let me know what you think of the video.

Yep! Very true. I am so glad I'm not in this to make money. The enjoyment I get from cleaning & fixing this stuff up is my reward.

Excellent! Two axle cars look neat going down the track.

I lucked out for sure

Thanks for the great comment Sometimes I get lucky and other times I get

Awesome job tackling this repair Tim Thanks for the comment.

Neat! I didn't know that about the water tower. Thanks for the fun trivia

Good choice

Thanks! My friend Ed who does videos on my other channel (Pinball Mayhem) is a big proponent of being super careful with screws in plastic. I'm slowly learning 😁

Indeed

They made some neat ones

thank you so much for your service Jim ❤

No thanks needed just love honest vidios of running trains know some guys colect trains and they are always looking for the holly grail but they come off as snobs because of it I just like watching trains no matter scale or brand including full scale 😊

Manards has a nice collection of military tribute cars

I'm not a huge fan of Menards rolling stock. But they do have some great variety

I haven't had bad luck with box cars but some of there stuff have issues with their couplers and rock back and forth bad

Thank you, I certainly got lucky on this one.

Thanks! I'm happy

@@TooManyHobbiesJeremy I enjoy your videos, I mainly collect post war Lionel and even have my first steam locomotive #1654 which I got as a Christmas gift in 1948. Keep up the great work.

Thank you so much Dennis. That's excellent you have the first stem loco you received Does that loco still run good?

@@TooManyHobbiesJeremy kind of, but it needs some more work.

You bet Brad. Glad you like it too!

Thanks, it is interesting comparing the K-line from this era to the Lionel (paint finish, etc)

Thanks Corey, I'm happy with it

Much appreciated That is a neat car.

Neat idea for the platform lighting I was not looking at trains when I was frequenting K-mart in Eau Claire WI. I was into hot wheels back then.

Thanks - indeed - trains is trains

thanks and Sweet Dave! I'm glad you purchased some neat stuff and you like the Menards engine. They are surprisingly good for the money they sell for.

Thank you Tom. The ramp car is my favorite for sure. I will be most certainly putting a bridge rectifier in that engine. I got to get myself another 5 pack of those. Perhaps I should get 10

Agreed Steve I remember when I got some long pieces when I was starting out with American Flyer. When the train hit those sections it was so smooth!

Yes! I learned this from one of my followers. When off- if the light dome is clear, then it's a later revision. Also there's a way to tell by looking at the model number - a Google search should get you that info.

@@TooManyHobbiesJeremy thanks!

Wow! I didn't know that about the passenger cars or balloon car. Neat info ❤️

The outer rails on fastrack are connected to each other under the roadbed. The exception is special sections of track.

@@TooManyHobbiesJeremy - Thank you for the information!

This one is manual controlled. It just has an electronic reverse unit.

Racing boats? sounds interesting!

@@TooManyHobbiesJeremy Yes Sir Jermey, I had at one point over 110 antique and vintage from the teens to the middle 50's standard lower unit and the shorter more streamlined factory racing outboards..... I had almost all of the major and the not so popular outboards and smaller 1 and 2 seater wooden hydroplanes and runabouts in "A, B, and a few C" class purpose built race boat's. 2 of which I had built from the original Hal Kelly blueprints, which these ranged between 8 to 13 feet long. I grew up in upstate NY on the Hudson River where they held a annual marathon back in the late 20s to middle to late 50s here, running from Albany NY to NY Harbor in Manhattan, which was not only a endeavor, but mechanical, engineering and endurance test for both man and machine! Most never made the halfway mark around Kingston/Poughkeepsie markers without any problems or sinking. These were huge events not only for the drivers, but the boat or outboard manufacturers of the day, the likes of say Evinrude ELTO, Johnson and my personal favorite and later to the party Mercury Kiekhaefer. So since my early 20s my brother and I had begun purchasing and restoring, then showing and even racing these things in specially held events and shows called "Wet Meets" in the AOMCI "Antique Outboard Motor Club Inc" which we were members of, plus a bunch of other non official type meets/shows/displays and races across the northeast. But these kinds of hobbies I've learned are a young man's kind of sport Lol, you basically knelt on your knees in these boat's being pounded by the chop of the water beneath your body with nothing more than a piece of 1" foam or carpet as a sort of padding. Needless to say Jeremy, it's physically daunting and definitely causes some permanent damage to the body, which you don't really notice when you're younger. But today I'm almost a ¾ walking cripple from my hard lifestyle with a bad lower back and shot knees and almost all other joints. Having had Lymes disease multiple times in my early childhood doesn't help the complications I'm enjoying nowadays, with arthritis of a 90 year old I'm told @ 45. So yes Sir Jermey, I had to make a lifestyle change in my hobby life and find something that I could still use my brain on, something that involved sort of engineering and or restoration skills to keep me occupied. So yeah man it's been 1/4 scale RC gas boat's I have 3 of one of which is a actual liquid cooled 32cc gas powered 2 stroke outboard with a exact copy of the Mercury outboards I use to race. The other 2 are inboards with liquid cooled 2 stokes and custom laid fiberglass hulls which range between 40" to almost a full 48" long cigarette boat. Then I have a few of the ⅕ to ¼ scale RC drag cars, Baja rails and trophy trucks gas powered by air cooled 2 strokes ranging from 30cc to almost 45cc. LOL I have to do something man!? But even these things have been getting challenging for me to get around, they're not light or small but I'm not throwing in my towel just yet. I've always had a big interest in the railroads, my Great grandfather was a conductor for the Boston to Albany railroad, which I still have his precision pocket watch he used for his time keeping on the tracks. My father was gifted a complete NYC set of the Lionel 700e freight used for a Christmas present in the middle 1940s, stupidly that which he ended up trading in the engine and tender in 1951 for the brand new Lionel NYC F3's in which I still have and run once and a while. The weird part was he kept the old 700e freight set for the newer F3's? Which 1 of the freight car's had to be a adapter car to go from the older couplers to the postwar knuckle coupler. Talk about that saying about Hindsight regrets brother LMFAO! But I don't care about that, it's not about the money for me, it's the memories of my dad and his love for his trains as well. What began as a pretty well controlled hobby, basically turned into a new obsession I'm told LoL 😂 but we all need something as a outlet man. I don't do drugs or drink alcohol, and enjoy my quiet life with my family. At the moment my living room has 4 giant glass display cases where I keep some of my most prised Lionels, Marx and American Flyer Locomotives and their amazing accessories. At the moment we are packing up the house and moving out of NYS soon, where I can have a place where I can build up a nice actual train room for myself and keep my hobby for the trains out of my wife's living room and off the dining room table LMFAO, otherwise we'll probably end up getting a divorce over my "Too Many Hobbies Jim"!!! My garage is full of all my other hobbies as is my family room downstairs, modified golf carts, ATC's ATV's and a small machine shop isn't a great mixture to have a decent display or layout for trains with dust and metal shavings. So yeah man it's now time to make a move to somewhere with more space for the hobbies and the family, not to mention just getting out of this dumpster fire of a state called NY Is the biggest goal in mind here Lol. But keep doing what you're doing Jermey and people will definitely be following your videos. I personally don't prefer to post my own videos due to keeping myself privately as possible, unless someone is asking me for assistance with something that I can't easily explain how to do in writing. God Bless and can't wait to see what you find interesting next my man and hopefully we'll talk soon. Thanks again for doing what you do Jermey. Sincerely, Jim C.

Very impressive history Jim

I want to get one of those mobile missile launchers. The styling on them is really unique.

@@TooManyHobbiesJeremy You should, they are a lot of fun!

Very neat! Thanks for sharing those fun memories ❤

Thanks Tim! When I was editing that video I just couldn't leave it alone without trying to get that motor running

Something unusual for sure.

Yes! I do need! Hit me up cadkid1965@gmail.com

@TooManyHobbiesJeremy Ok, I'll message after work. About 18:30-19:00 MDT

Yes indeed! A really interesting history.

Thanks, while I prefer to fix trains than run them - I really like this latest version of my table layout. The Plasticville structures are my favorite.

@@TooManyHobbiesJeremy I'm collect 'HO' scale trains and accessories as well as run them, And, Thank you very much for answering my comments.

thanks for watching the videos and commenting. Much appreciated.

@@TooManyHobbiesJeremy 👍👍

I would need to make some side brackets for those tiny screws. Those screws center the motor. Plus I would have to figure out a way to put a center roller on the engine. I'm currently shopping for a k-line chassis as a replacement.

@@TooManyHobbiesJeremy ok .

That is very neat

Great question! On Menards website it says the Santa Fe units are designed to run on 31" diameter curves. So it might not work on O-27 track due to the tighter curves.

@@robertcontri4087 thank you. Wich livery do you like the best?

@@TooManyHobbiesJeremy My grandfather worked for the C&NW and the C&NW ran through my home town so I’ve always been a C&NW fan. When I was younger in the 60’s you couldn’t get C&NW models; most were the bigger railroads: Santa Fe, UP, B&O, NYC, etc.

I’ll definitely be going C&NW, although I wished they had a more realistic graphic job.

Glad you liked the video Dave ❤️ I hope you get the Looney Tunes train for a great price.