Mystery Boxes Full Of Model Railway Goodies Appears At My Door!
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- You won't believe what I found outside my garage door. My new Model railroad just got an Upgrade!
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Great gift there! My favorite is the MOW car with the light. It could be used with the cranes if the salvage runs into the night! I've had one since I was a kid that was part of the small collection my brother left me when he moved out.
I'm so tempted to make a little cardboard cut-out of a bat, lol.
I wish I could come there and help you identify all of that. A very lucky man! Been doing this for over 35 years!
A Variety Of Different Engines 👍👍👍👍.
Awesome haul, amazing additions.
Your generosity is infectious ;-)
Favourite is definitely the search light thing. Make the LED conversion a priority project, that would solve it. 👍
Isn't strange how little things like that make us smile.
@@ScottRailswe picked up a cool crane car from the second hand wagon shelf at our local model shop. 3 wagons for a tenner and this little gem was included. Weighty thing solid metal frame. I’ll send a pic.
When you brought out that house at about 9:44, my heart skipped a beat. I have that very house, on a hill overlooking a junk yard on my layout. Not sure exactly how old that model is (as in, when they started producing it), but mine was a birthday present back in 1988, so it's at least 35 or 40 years old.
I love that house. It's very 70's TV style I think. Lots of nostalgia.
The spot light car is usually attached to a crane car for rail repair.
That's handy because I have crane cars, hehehe.
"Don't like you any more" wish I had a neighbor like Rick .... what a hard life you have lol ,good on you all good stuff , look forward to seeing all them running
hehehe, right time right place an all that. Yes, I owe Rick a barby or two.
AFAIK the caboose looking thing with the lightbulb is to assist with electrical continuity testing. You push it manually over things like track joints and points/switches to check for continuity
Great idea, but then I need to make sure all the pick-ups on the caboose are good. How about a mobile Bat Signal? lol
I Would Love To Have That Greet me Every Day.
The long flat cars are Athearn piggyback cars. They are designed to carry truck trailers (piggyback). They will have talgo truck assemblies to handle sharper curves. The green car you showed is called an impac car set usually five individual cars attached together and designed to be more efficent in that they are much lighter. They were designed again to carry truck trailers. The CN unit with the handrails is an Athearn GP9. GP general purpose. Can be used in freight or passenger service. Finally the couplers on the VIA set are European style couplers They are mostly found on European model trains.
Thanks Richard. Coming from Scotland, we never saw anything like this. By the time you loaded cars on to a train like this you could have driver there, hehehe.
Those couplers are actually pretty clever. I'm surprised I don't see them more in the UK. I guess Hornby had the monopoly on that.
Wow, what a great haul and a great neighbor. I went to all of my neighbors and showed them the video and I’m still waiting for someone to drop off some stuff by the garage. Maybe they plan to surprise me tonight. I keep checking but nothing so far, lol.
Yeah, I'm still in shock. All I ever got from my neighbours in Scotland was a visit from the council complaining about my tyre collection in the back garden.
Great haul! Love the Via set and the cranes. Those super long cars are piggy back trailers. Same with the other ones that are just “spine cars”. They carry trailers as well. Lots of really nice stuff. Thanks for sharing!
Yeah, it's going to take a while to go through everything properly. I can't find any pics of the Via set in real life. Was it a fantasy set?
@@ScottRails yes unfortunately it is a foobie as they say. I had just the loco years and years ago. Super noisy. Yours is super clean.
It’s a nice… “what if” set.
@@GoViaorgohome I might add a couple of extra decals then, maybe some tiny red maple leafs just to brighten it up. Hey, it's my fantasy, lol.
Some of those that you don’t know Good Luck in Doin Your Homework on Some of those Boxes.
The white and brown rial cars are for piggy back service. It is transport semi truck trailers.
Wish I had a neighbor like that! 🤣 Awesome haul!! The long white flat cars are for 18wheeler trailers. Same thing with the green and brown sets of the odd looking cars, but for intermodal shipping containers.
Some of those Flat cars are the Tractor Trailer.
White truck with a small cab is a yard switcher
You got an oil Derrick, it is used to drill fo crude oil.
Well brother someday when I can find some extra money to ship you something I will send you something maybe Christmas I don't know but that's a nice lot you got there God bless our neighbors
Switches You Betcha Now If you feel like Changing your Track plan Good To Go. 👍.
I think you need to expand your layout, you gots lots of trains now , no room in the inn , nice gift
Well drilling rig
Wow you are so lucky to have such a nice Neighbor to give you all of that stuff also those weird green & brown things at 2408 & 3005 are known as piggyback cars you pout truck trailers on them. Great video to. (:
Thanks for the info. Now I need to build them. Better read the instructions for once.
Nice steel coupe brother
Christmas came early indeed, that's a great neighbour you've got there Dave, love the via rail train, plenty useable goodies in that lot. Nice one. :)
The via train runs amazingly well. And, it's the perfect length to stop at the mountain station, that I am yet to build.
Intermodal containers
The CN with the white paint on the roof is a GP 9. From the looks of the handrails and the motor mount on the bottom it is an Athearn Blue Box. Great runner.
You are correct. It runs like a dream. How did Athearn get it soooo right compared to some of the others.
@@ScottRails The earliest Athearn drives were rubber band drives. Try to avoid those. When they switched to their flywheel driven gear tower version they definitely got it right.
The little red short hoppers are for howling ore
Nice car! And of course, mystery boxes too!
What an incredible haul and what generosity, wonderful. Enjoy all of it and will be great to see where some of that haul fits in with your layout.
I need to build some shelves. I don't want these items in boxes, they need to be enjoyed.
you are very lucky, i got given some old model trains too a few years ago (not as much as you though haha!). It was one of the best days of my life!
The heavy, long things, around 28:00 are flat rail cars designed to carry two 53’ road trailers. Quite common I. The US
thats an amazing gift bud congrats
Thanks Peter.
The green n white lettering is for hauling trailers on it do believe you need 5 or 3
Like I said Right Side Is Passenger cars One Section And Freight Cars To the Other When You have All That Balance Is Gonna Be Key for your Layout trust me It Won’t Be Easy.Good Luck On Your Haul👍.
The green frames are called intermode cars for trailers
Well that's it ... have to move to Canada ... have fun
The white flat car is for carrying two tractor trailers
Both the strange looking kit cars and the 89' flatcars are TOFC (Trailer On Flat Car) equipment- the beginnings of intermodal. The 89' cars will probably not look good or operate well on your curves, but the others should work alright. The trailer kits you looked at first are likely also for this service.
Thanks for the info. If they don't work on this layout, they WILL work on the next one hahaha.
The white car is for haulin semi trailers
The spotlight is a maintenance of way caboose
I have a lot of Athern boxes with the cars in them because you buy them as kits and it is easy to store them in the box they came in.
I just wish they has small windows on the boxes to make sorting a bit easier.
I always had trains before I could afford cars. I have about 100 engine and caboose combinations, 2 seperate CN and a VIA. Most of my stuff is tyco or older mantua, the stuff I had as a kid. You look like you are doing good on your layout. Have fun Dave.
The long flat cars were used to carry trailers when trailers were 40 ft long, two trailers per flat. These guys don't run too well without well weighted trailers on them. The flaps on the ends would be lowered when loading a string of flats, the tractor driver would back-up along the string detach the trailer, drive forward off the string, connect to the next trailer, rinse and repeat. A pretty time consuming job.
The green and the red jobbies are the newer generation of rail cars to carry newer 53 ft road trailers usually in close coupled 5 or 10 car strings. You will see a mix of them and double stack container cars on freight trains today. Loaded from the side with a crane or mobile loader.
The little hoppers cars are used for iron ore and other high density cargo. Iron ore is around 5 tons per cubic meter, compare that with coal which is around 0.8 tons per cubic meter, there are limits to how much weight you can put on each pair of trucks/bogies.
The round files looked to be O/A welding tip nozzle cleaners, using them as files to enlarge holes in railroad is a brilliant idea.
BTW, you can connect your earlier passenger car string by making the baggage car a transition car, KaDee on the front, horn hook on the back then sit it behind the loco.
Have fun.
Tony
Thanks Tony, I appreciate your time with this reply. So they used to drive the trailers all the way along the train, backwards!, I can barely reverse a u-haul up my driveway, hahaha.
So far I've got two of the passenger cars going round with the D&W, but the baggage car has really crappy clip in couplers without an easy way of changing to kadee. I'll need to cut and glue, or wait till the next show and get something a bit better.
Thanks again.
The Frisco railroad is in Texas
That's a intermountain good quality tyco is the worse of worse last in line... You can change that can intermountain to DCC and just about most of what you have wouldn't waist time on the tyco sale not worth it. Park it make it look pretty at..., Joe
dont shut the doors shoestring can not get out lol
The long things are flat cars for hauling 18 wheeler trailers
Which explains all the truck trailers. I'm such a dummy.
Green one looks like a spine car for trailers as are the long flat cars, Epic Haul of Goodies. I have IM you might struggle to get them round your curves mine just get round 3rd radius 21` curve. Enough track to plan the extension.
There's so many directions I'd like to go with this layout, but I need to be patient. The next layout will be huge.
I've heard of the luck of the Irish but it seems you Scots have some to.
I actually refused to accept all this....briefly, hehehe, which is very rare for me.
the long flat cars look like double piggy-back trailer cars. 2-40' trailers without truck cab. Just a guess
??? TOFT ??? Trailer on flat car ???
I had to look up TOFT. It's either a Homestead on a hill, or Travel Operators for Tigers. Or maybe Take One For the Team?
What a fantastic collection... You are very lucky to have a neighbour like Rick.. I guess we all wish we had a neighbour like him..... You do know that on the ends of boxes it usually says what is inside the box.. Re the blue box with the green carriage it might have told you what the carriage is/was.... and the same with the Athern boxes it says what is inside the box. I am designing a new layout and am curious as to what radius your turns are at each end of your layout...
I'm using 18" curves everywhere. I would have liked wider, but it's already a bit of a reach.
Thanks.. wow that's tight So I guess no steamers then...
Amazingly, I have some 4-8-2 steamers that get round without any problems.
That’s just great! Is Rick a car guy too?
Yes he is, but doesn't have a project at the moment.
Turn the building into a hot rod shop
The small red cars look to be cars that were used to transport taconite.
What on earth is Taconite? lol. Let me look that up.
Here in the U.S. Those tiny red ore cars are called "Ore Jennies". @@ScottRails
Impact cars they share the trucks from each frame
You’ll be Busy For awhile.
Want to give Rick my address 😂😂😂😂😂
You are Set For Awhile.
Look At The Money You just Saved looks you won’t have to Go any shows for Awhile.
That's crazy talk. I'm already planning my next train show, lol.
Ore Cars.
I believe they used those spot lights in tunnels (Repairs) and to observe Cracks in a Tunnel. Plus night repair on a bridge or Re-rail a Train at night ETC.
So perfect for a static construction area. I can hard wire the light.
Epic :) 🚆🚊
VIA Stock is a real Life entity. Refer Wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via_Rai
Hey Arthur. Yes, I just meant the paint scheme was just a made up one for this model.