Huge Lot of a HO Train Collection from Australia Unboxing - Will Any Work?
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- čas přidán 10. 05. 2024
- I've been looking to expand the Australian side of my ho train collection for a while now and have slowly been collecting things to add to it.
After browsing eBay over the last couple years I found a lot and several locomotives which fit the bill.
Some of the locomotives were chosen miscellaneously, others were suggested by subscribers. - Zábava
It's great to see you have added some more Australian engines to your collection. I live in Australia
555 👍👍 Aussie, Aussie , Aussie , Oi , Oi , Oi Great additions to the fleet !
Remember the Duracell battery commercial with the guy that would always say, "Oi!" at the end?
@@darklordojeda Mark "Jacko" Jackson , great memory , just watched it, still smiling 😂 Oi !
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I was wrong, they were energizer commercials not Duracell.
@@darklordojeda You have an amazing memory, that was 37 years ago ! ! ! Everyone Googled , watched and enjoyed it right after you posted . You made a lot of folks Happy . Oi !
Good to see a few good australian locomotives in your collection finally
Erie/Victorian Rlwys ;/livery was definitely a product of SMD's Styling Department at LaGrange as the locos were built under license from GM. They were essentially SD7 (1500 ho C-C) cabunits. The V Line loco scheme reminds me of the old Lon Gisland gray and orange. Gauges in Oz remain a muddle with 2 Foot, Cape Gauge (42 inches), Standard Guage and Irish Broad Gauge (63 inches) being still ii use. This was due to each colony going its own way prior to unification into one nation and mother Britain not putting down her foot. It took until 1995 for all state capit;ld to be linked `by a common gauge.
"The three main railway gauges in Australia are narrow: 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in), standard: 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in), and broad: 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in). A slow progression towards unification to standard gauge has taken place since the 1930s.
About 4,000 km (2,500 mi) of 610 mm (2 ft) light railways in Queensland support the sugar-cane industry"
Thanks for this in-detailed info
Awesome to see, I'm from Australia myself so cool to see some appreciation for our engines
Many of our locomotives were.. "heavily influenced" by American engines, but they're certainly charming in their own way.
The Lima C38's are a little outdated by now as I believe they were made in the 70's, but they are nice engines if you can score them on a bargain.
Interesting paint job too, during the 1950's the class was given a "cost cutting" paintjob of all black with few exceptions while diesels were beginning to take over much of the glamorous work from the class.
The streamlined engines (3801 - 3805) were given red "cat whiskers" alike the yellow/gold ones they had while painted green a while after, however the Waratah (the red flower on the streamlined smokebox door) wasn't painted back on any of the engines until around the 1980's - 90's when 3801 was returned to steam.
3801 still operates today after a lengthy overhaul, however many overlooked faults that require immediate repairs have left her inactive most of this years steam season, with her expected to return to service in the last quarter of this year.
They made them as late as 2009. The one in the video is likely from the 90s; the blue 'Lima Collection' box is a dead giveaway, and the included manual lists Product Numbers 208482/83/84, which didn't exist until 1995. Can't tell based on the train itself, the thick enamel paint has obscured all of the moulded detail.
The ones from roughly the late 90s onwards got a whole bunch of improvements, and were highly desirable until the ARM one came out. Though even the recent ARM one is just a rework of the 1990s Lima one based on ARM's requirements.
That's what I find fascinating about Australian rolling stock, they are similar to GE's north American stock yet different in lots of ways. Thanks for the info on some of these specific units.
6:40 I used to see the real B80 almost everyday after school pulling a train of containers carrying rice to Melbourne, even now 70 years after she entered service with the Victorian Railways she is still pulling mainline freight with SSR today.
It's awesome how Australia still has 70 year old locomotives being put to work. In Canada and the US for that matter locomotives are given a 50 year lifespan, after which they must be completely rebuilt, sent to a museum or scrapped. There are exceptions with some short lines etc
B80 is now with SSR
@JordysRailVideos Southern shorthaul been buying those old B classes
Great purchases and video, looking forward to the repairs.
Harrison Don’t Stop Collecting👍👍👍👍.
I didn’t even know Australia made model trains until this video
I'm really liking the last engine you unboxed, the one with the Wyoming scheme. Some time ago I commented on a video showcasing some examples of that locomotive in action and the uploader was cool to explain how that type of engine is for all intents and purposes an SD40-2 wearing an E8's body.
The CL doesn't have much in common with an E unit. The reason the rear end looks the way it does is because it's a 40-series locomotive. It's effectively an SD40 (16-645E3) with a full cowl carbody and a bulldog nose grafted on. Originally, the CL class was going to have the same nose as the FP45. They were rebuilt to more or less dash-2 standard (actually closer to a so-called "dash-3" rebuild with microprocessor traction control) by MK in 1992.
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I have the Lima V/Line S Class 310, which is in the same Tangerine and Grey Livery as that B class at 11:23!
The CL's rear section shares a lot more with later EMD cowls like the FP45 or the SDP40F, it's kind of interesting paired with the older F or E unit style cab
Yeah, it’s like an FP45 with an F-unit cab. The Santa Fe (AT&SF) had some FP45s before the BNSF merger.
So glad to see you getting more Australian locos and also extremely jealous at the same time!!
Pretty cool, SMT, pretty cool indeed! And running them side by side was tops! John
Thanks, it was fun to film those scenes.
Ma look, SMT uploaded!!!
Harrison! what an episode! hope you enjoy the locos! dont stop growing the channel and collection!
Thanks, will do!
Great Additions as always SMT! Keep up the awesome work
Good to see all this variety of locomotives. Keep doing good job.
Fun fact: The CLP8's are essentially SD40-2 's in an E unit carbody along with the other CL Class diesels.
Love your unboxing videos my favorites are the ones that aren’t from the US and CANADA because the ones from Australia are so unique compared to what you see here in North America 🚂🚂🚂
I checked youtube right at the right time, new SMT video!
You're so good at making content of trains
I love these Aussie trains imo they are the best type of trains
I can tell
The VR livery being a case copying Erie is more a case of EMD's livery design department recycling an existing livery.
The story of how the Erie-inspired livery was selected is covered in the books "The ML2 Story" and "The A7 Era", about the B and S class respectively. It was the Victorian Railway's Chief Mechanical Engineer, Andrew Ahlston who ultimately selected the design from photos of EMD locos collected by George Brown while he was in the USA.
Future additions to the SMT manual. Australian chapter.🚂🇨🇦🇦🇺🙋
That S class is incorrect, it is just an American loco with Victorian rail paint livery , the Tri-Ang B class's along with the green B class are very poor representations... those orange B class's you have "B84" and "B80" are correct.... The S Class should look like a single ended B class.. they both should have 3 axel trucks..
It's no surprise the Tri-Ang OO engines would have issues. They were designed to run on a different type of track, more akin to an OO version of Lionel 'tube' track.
Not much in common with Lionel three rail tube track, but definitely much higher rail.
More like code 125 steel track than the now common code 100.
The Victorian Railways lettered one is earlier than 1960 production runs.
A fascinating little fleet you've acquired. Hopefully you'll be able to score some rolling stock to go with it. The Aussies run some rather fascinating operations, especially out in the northwestern portions of the country where American-built EMDs and GEs haul massive, _massive_ trains full of iron ore.
Ur still lucky for getting trains my friend. Keep being awesome my friend. Ur trains are the best as always. It's hard to find good trains these days . The prices are crazy. I'll still try to find good trains. But that black and red steam loco is my favorite Australian steam locomotive
Nice video. Neat trains from downtown unda... thanks for sharing. Love the train video at the end.
Great pick up of goodies from Australia……well done! 👍👍🇦🇺🇦🇺
As a Aussie this was good to see especially the running at the end
Hey Harrison sorry for missing your live unboxing of everything from Australia. But to let you know I had the varney finally up in the rails. Man the memories of when we had it up under the Christmas tree. But on a high note have my dad's first train a 1965 American flyer that's being serviced wiring issues so in a couple of weeks it should be up on the rails running plus it's a smoker can't.
Very nice to see you getting more australian stuff
I really Enjoyed your show this morning. Thanks Harrison 👍🏻
Thanks for listening
Gidday from Oz! Great video love seeing them run at the end looks like you have a few bargains there 👍
Some great items, the blue fuel tank on the tri-ang B is actually a slightly rarer variant most having black. Awesome to see some Aussie items being enjoyed overseas as well! If you’re interested in some newer aussie stuff too train world au ships overseas.
Thanks for the info, I was not aware of that.
I’m so glad you have more Australian locomotives SMT espescislly the NR and 38 class
12:24 I've seen that exact locomotive's irl counterpart in person, it is ex-Victorian railways S class diesel S301, currently, it is owned by steamrail Victoria and is in the freight australia livery (with pacific national logos covering the freight australia logos)
Except Tyco cut a lot of corners just repainting their F7 with just four axles as the longer six axle, all powered, Victorian S class.
Sold a few to kids market for a little while before the Hornby but especially the Lima model came on the market. Right number of wheels and far advance in other details.
Now outclassed by more expensive PSM brass or more affordable and better value Trainorama models.
Its great to hear that it didn't go to scrap after all these years
@@SMTMainline Despite their age, relatively few S or B class have actually been scrapped. One B class that did get scrapped being the one in my CZcams name - B67. Although not totally gone as one of its cabs is in my backyard.
Very nice! Always interesting to see what’s up with the model train industry overseas
Really liked the short "through the bushes" track side shot. Nice overtaking shots as well!
Thanks, I had fun filming that.
Those Australian CL units are intriguing -- the bodies and innards are of EMD's 40 series (like an F45 or FP45) but the cab and nose is much more like the older F3/F7/F9.
i love your vids, they are really entertaining!
Thank you!
At the end of my visit to Melbourne for this year's F1 Grand Prix, I caught two trams to the central coach (bus) terminal in Melbourne, where I then caught an express coach to the airport. The coach terminal is adjacent and parallel to the main railway station, so you get a brief look at some VR engines as your coach heads out to join the motorway, which crosses over somee rail lines shortly thereafter.
Cool Australia trains and happy Mother's Day to you
Looks like your collection got bigger, more trains to repair , some cool looking locomotives
Thanks James
Some nice finds. Now you just need some Australian rolling stock to go with the engines. I’m keeping an eye out at model train shows for a lifelike F unit in Australian National Green. If I find one I’ll send it over to you
I already have the life-like GP38 and BHP Iron from them. I just need to add couplers and wheels.
I'm amazed you were able to get Australian HO scale trains shipped to Canada!
Tyco, Life-Like, Hornby, and other American and European manufacturers did sell their regular lineup in Australia but did produce some Aussie exclusives.
The two-tone green model seems to be a cross between a B class, and E6, and FL9 and might be a fictional design.
You can use some old 4-bay hoppers, 40ft tankers, intermodal cars, covered hoppers, ballast hoppers, flatcars, and British freight cars to make Australian-esque freight trains.
They are rare but eBay international shipping sometimes allows it.
Awsome video as always Harrison and I own that Tyco Victorian Railways F7 and mine runs good and it looks like me and you are the proud owners on CZcams of the VR f7 and cool Australian engines too!
The Lima C38 repaint at 2:50 was trying to replicate the black colour scheme the C38s used in the fifties and sixties until 3801 got its green livery when set aside for preservation. As in these high quality filming from the sixties:
czcams.com/video/49HD1OFCapc/video.htmlsi=P7OKu3JCwO9dk9R3
That channel has lots from other Australian states too.
Awesome footage video! Thanks for the link! John
Thanks for sharing this footage. I imagine it's pretty rare.
Nice haul!
Your video was nicely done.
6:08 thats clever they used a fluorescent lighting transformer box to ship that locomotive in, that's clever! Perfect size too!
Great additions to the collection with aloha
As an aussie i see NR classes all the time but they are not in the livery that you have therw now in a pacific national livery after Pacific National bought national rail
Nice unboxing with all of the Australian locomotives plus some American ones.
Nice collection
Hi Harrison. I remember seeing a locomotive like you show at about 6 minutes in, with both a 2-axle and a 3-axle truck (bogie) on the History in the Dark YT channel several weeks ago. I believe it was in a compilation of “top 10 worst locomotives ever” playlist or some such. It’s similar to a Fairbanks-Morse C-Liner locomotive in the N. American market, but it (C-liner) has the 2-axle truck up front, and the 3-axle truck at the rear, unlike the one you show.
"Traveling in a fried out combie, on a hippie trail head full of zombie". Very cool. Another great unboxing. From Texas (the land not so down under).
"I met a strange lady, she made me nervous. She took me in and made me breakfast"
@@SMTMainline 🤣😂
You've bought a fine selection here. Lima motors are bulletproof, they just need a clean and lubricant and they're as good as new.
The two Rivarossi American 4-4-0s seem to be missing the drive shaft between the tender and the loco. Rivarossi motors are really good quality. They're not easy to disassemble, but you can easily clean them with contact cleaner and then clean out the commutator segments with a toothpick through the brush housings. The brushes are one carbon and one copper mesh, so the commutator is usual nice and clean.
Thanks for the info. I think Lima might have made the best pancake drive
Wow that is some really cool and different looking locomotives that I am used to seeing 👍
Thank you very much!
Next you should get some South American locomotives
The NR is my favorite Aussie loco. I bought a pair of SDS models and one from Auscision. They sit in a display case, never run, awaiting a new layout, so, I was very curious how your NR ran. Thanks. (Ken in Maine, USA)
Hi SMT Mainline & it's is randy and i like yours video is cool & Thanks & SMT Mainline & Friends Randy
4:42 that CL12H green thing heavily resembles a FP45. The long hood of an FP45 and the nose of an F unit. Santa Fe is what comes to mind when i think of those units.
Hi Harrison, the SDS NR class are just an updated Austrains model. John Easie, who owned Austrains, sold his business to SDS Models because he wanted to retire. The big 3 Australian owned model manufacturers are SDS Models, Auscision, and Southern Rail Models with Berg's Hobbies doing the Sydney Suburban trains under their Minimodels brand.
I wasn't aware of that, thanks for sharing.
Nice unboxing mate. Nice to see some more Australian locos being added to the collection. The SDS Models NR is a very nice model. The Austrains CLP is a beauty of a loco. And one thing to know with the Austrains locos is that they have a habit of cracking gears. I have and Austrains X class which has a cracked gear and I was told that when I purchased the model but spare parts can be bought from Ebay and also SDS Models sells parts for Austrains locos as well. All you need now is some Australian rolling stock to go with the locos. SDS Models, Auscision, Powerline and many other brands have a good selection to chose from.
Thanks, I'm so far very happy with them.
Nice to see your Aussie collection grow! And to inform you, G&W is no longer in Australia, just to give you an update.
Do you know why they decided to leave?
@@SMTMainline I believe it was because of financial reasons.
G’day mate. I have 3 of those SDS Nr classes with sound. Fantastic models, the Powerline models are good too, plenty of parts available for them too.
Thanks for the info, I'm so far very impressed.
How do you manage to get the neat and oddball looking trains? So far I've only been able to get my hands on American emd, and steam trains.
I'm always on the hunt. If you keep looking on eBay under recently listed and mess around with the tags you can usually find some funny things.
Good haul
Nice video Harrison from Brisbane
Would’ve be interesting if you got your hands on some Victorian Railways steam locomotives, they had quite some cool designs like the H220 4-8-4.
If I find more at the right price I'll get them.
@@SMTMainlinealright then!
You should buy a brand new AUSCSION DCC sound loco! Cool video
CL12 was rebuilt in the 1990's to CLF5 and still runs with Aurizon
CLP8 started life as CL9 and is also with Aurizon
Enjoy your Susie haul, I'm not familiar with the powerline loco you have, bot I have a type 58 in Silverton livery the mechanism is simple but smooth and powerful. Good luck with the refurbishmentof this fine haul.
Thanks. I hope all goes well with the 58, something is way off with the drive.
I forgot to say," good eye to you".
Thanks, it should be fun.
The two double headers remind me of you large War Bonnet creation , just a unit shorter Lol.
You should check out the danish MX or MY locomotives. Looks a bit like the B class.
So glad I recommended the NR class. Now thats 2 locomotive that I recommended and you got lol first was the sd60f and now the NR class lol. Well may as well put out the soon to release SD50F. Has a lot of improvements with the fans over the SD60F
Thanks for the suggestion, I'm so far very happy with the model.
Hi smt, will you be at the midland train show in Ontario? Another great video!
I wish I could but that's around a 5 hour drive for me.
Will you be at Brighton?
That Austrains loco is cleannnnn 🔥🔥🔥
"She fine bro"
The B class locomotives look like an E unit but with 4 axles & a extra cab. The green b class looks kinda like a FL9 but with 4 windows from an E8, very interesting & weird.
Love the video!!
The green is a fictional locomotive kit bashed from other parts available.
Nothing in Australia like that or anywhere else in the world.
Those Bs are supposed to be Co-Cos. They resemble the NOHAB DSB MX/MY NSB Di3 locos in Europe but lower.
@@thhseeking interesting that Harrison should know more about the Victorian Railways B class than anyone in Canada since he owns one of the Auscision B class models for reference and the class history.
@@johnd8892 Yeah understandable
babe wake up.. a new upload just dropped.. 😂
Lol
from all that you have bought and got from packages your fans have got you just how locos have you got tots full?
These are all things I purchased on eBay over the last couple years.
I've got video of CLP8 going through my place, it's in that ARG paint but in reality GWA hasn't operated in years since one rail and aurizon took over.
The CLs are basically shortened E units with SD40/GT26C guts. The reason there's CLs, CLFs and CLPs is because they were rebuilt for passenger and freight separately. The NRs are Pacific national's (basically australian equivalent of UP) main intermodal locomotive and they're GE powered. B80 is the B class that I have seen.
The tyco S301 is supposed to be an S class but it's an F9 instead. The real S classes are as long as your B classes with basically the same wheelbase too.
Thanks for all the info!
What is that glass like thing that you put to stop the trains from falling off?
Its 1/4th in plexiglass.
i dont really expect an answer but ill put this here anyway, i need a DCC controller for bachmann loco im going to get off of ebay, it says its DC/DCC capable, but should i try to find a DCC controller now? or just use DC for now?
DCC would be best but DC probably won't harm it.
To be honest, you probably chose the best possible Australian locos that were available. More and more are being released. So keep an eye out for future editions if you’re interested!
That's good to hear. Some were suggested but others were pretty random
Hi Harrison. Its me jacob
I wanted to tell you that i am doing my final art project on model trains and i am bringing some of my trains to show off at school.
Awesome, I hope all goes well with the project
The NR class down here is very common as there is over 100 units in the class
9:51 That one reminds me of the Indian WP class and I love it.
12:33
"With this neafious look this thing can't work."
* the engine starts even better than other apparently new ones *
Engine: “I am Elmer Van Hess, the engine who came back from the dead! Muahaha!”
"don't judge a book by its cover" comes to mind, I'm still surprised though.
@@SMTMainline
Indeed!
It turned out to be a real australian desert rider lol
3.36 The chrome rivet on the dummy bogie indicate that this was built in Britian but Assembled in Victoria Australia. Brass rivets indicate British built.
That's a fine detail, thanks for sharing.
are there any companies that sell Australian models to the states? or is mostly ebay to find them?
I found all of them on eBay.
Hi harrision i got two of those b units i am giving them service but one needs the some of the wiring to be changed as the wires to light unit are too short so i got to put two longer wires on .once i got used to a new soldering iron with small tip
Nice, does it work well?
One of the dose but it s starting to smell like it burning i notice part of the insulation has hole in it i am going to put eletrical tape over it and give it a service and then do the same for other one
@@grahamlane1313 Do the wires get hot?
Hi harrision the wires don t get hot but it looks like may be just old and insulations breaking down
Do you have any Norfolk Southern locomotives?
That C38 there is in a proper paint scheme that the C38s wore, but I'm not sure if Lima ever offered them in anything other than green so that would explain the custom paint job!
The CL12 loco is simply a 'CL' class, while the CLP8 is a 'CLP' and that exact one still runs in mainline service to this day! Although I don't believe G&W still run down here, the locomotive is owned by (or leased to, not sure) SCT.
Thanks for the info. Others have mentioned that the G&W quit a while back, I wasn't aware until now.
Watching from Australia as my CP Trains run around my layout ..lol.
It's opposite day or something lol
Awesome!!!!