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I had the same issue with a Walthers Proto GP-7. I just remove the wire and switch it around to run this engine. Can't run it with any other loco, but it's a great running piece so I left it alone. Can something be done to make it run correctly??

Get your money back, looks like a hack job. Thinning the herd usually means selling junk. Just convert it to DCC with Sound.

You are correct about "having guardrails". I myself, when pay day comes around, always put 20 bucks aside in a private stash. That way i have a good amount ,as I limit myself to one or two shows a year total. I could go to the hobby shops nearby, that have a good "second hand selection", but I avoid that to go to shows with larger selections available in one shot, and come home happy,lol. I had to replace my doodle bugs geared axles. I couldn't find any stock ones, so i bit the bullet and bought the replacements available from Northwest Shortline. Admittedly, their replacements work great!.

Could the motor itself be backwards?

Maybe it had a GE D9-44CW shell on it before as an EMD SD40-2 chassis would be way to short along with the air tanks being on the right side of the fuel tank.

She a growler😅

Other than the PA caboose. Id of bought all that too. Sub'd 🚂🇨🇦🇺🇲

Trying to catch up to me Ean? LOL

I don't like F-Units

I'm driving from LA to Del Mar for a train show. I need to cool my jets!!!

Fascinating. I am local and have not heard of this...

I go out there as well every month! I'm planning to go there next month, BTW, Were you out there on September 8?

I also have Dundas Valley Hobbies, 15 minutes away, and Paris Junction hobbies, 30 minutes away. Don't mean to boast, just very happy with my choices.

I have to agree with you highly on the vast majority of this videos subjects. It's not easy to find any particular locations of shops these days. Train shows have been (in my experience) the best overall ways to get train stuff. especially when it comes to a great deal or more. I've been able to get diesels or steam engines that are maybe 125 retail between 20 and 50 bucks. Freight cars, I've been able to buy a whole flat of box and flat cars mixed for around 15 bucks (a flat consisting of maybe between 20 and 30 individual freight cars, during the last 5 minutes of a train show,lol. As to any shops... I do know of a handful I can recommend ,here in northeast Indiana if anyone passes through.

Thank you for this subject vidro 😊

Hi Ean, great video, regret you didnt ask me, living in Sudbury Ontario, my closest stores would be in Ottawa ( hobbyland - incl. Consignment ) on Montreal road, Larkspur in Merrickville ON or Toronto area, meaning minimal a 3 hr drive each way !. I attend trainshow in Barrie Ontario, every February, as vendor, to sell my " leftovers" from my estate and lot purchases to establish , next to my euro-stuff, Canadian and North American roads. Barrie is 2 hrs away, tables cost money, and because it's a 2 day event, hotelcost too. Therefore i use FB- marketplace the most. Quit paypal because of highway robbery concerning transaction cost and exchange cost with american $ - customers. I am NOT allowed by paypal to mention those cost to buyer ! Causing a loss what's not worth the potential sale anymore.

Mastic Long Island? What about Train land on Sunrise hi-way? Not close but used to be a good shop.

When you remove one motor brush clip, the motor wont spin very well because there is just the one clip holding the motor together, therefore the motor is slightly not sitting together properly. If you were to squeeze together where the other clip goes,the motor will spin properly. As soon as you pop the other clip on, the motor will spin correctly.

That Athearn H24-66 would be replaced by the Athearn SD-9

Nice rebuild. Always good to see the older stuff running good. Thanks for sharing.

I think I have 2 or 3 of those Manutua Pacific engines and I changed out the magnets and used neodymium (rare earth) in all of my Pittman (open frame) motors and it made a HUGE difference in performance and current draw. Now they will "creep" along the tracks. Cheers from eastern TN

I have had luck with filling holes with CA, then tapping after it dries for those stripped screw situations.

That's a 1973 or '74 model.

From the looks of that model I'd say it's a post 1973 model that was the year Athearn started using fly wheels two years later the gear towers would be redesigned with removable plastic side frames.

It is a nice looking loco.... I would never have the power on a motor for that long if it is not spinning, you will cause damage to the windings.... I would have removed the motor from the chassis and cleaned it then put power to each brush to see if it was spinning.. then replaced it onto the chassis once it was working correctly.. then oil and grease all of the wheels and moving parts.. RE a 123 block why?.. if that is to hold the loco while you work on it why not just cut the centre out of a car wash sponge... or some other foam block etc.. Great to see it back on the tracks running once again.

I was just watching the Chessie repair and was wondering if that was you I sold those cars to. I’m happy you like them!

That came out great. I had one like that I had to get rid of years ago, as it had connecting rod issues that I didn’t have the patience to fix. I noticed on that consist that you have a lot of flat cars like ones I sold in Edison last month. Did you get them there?

Great to see her running!. The Chessie has always been a favorite!.

I actually recognize that loco from a vendor I know, which I thought was funny. I recently had two Blue Box locos that were DOA on purchase and both merely had the flywheels pushed in too far. Interesting to see gears installed incorrectly, as that’s pretty rare. Looks like a previous partial repair gone wrong. Nice job on the slow speed action you gout out of that beauty.

Beautiful

Love tagging along to a train show... thanks for bringing us

Nice locomotive

I want another one I stripped the paint and turned it into my own railroad then added a can motor to it so it runs so smooth going to add dcc sound to it soon.

The Tyco flat car w/tractors brought back a TON of great memories for me. Thank you for that immensely!. I recall when i received a Tyco train set one Christmas. It had a chrome/red Santa Fe F7 diesel , that same type flat car w/load, a BN green box car, a yellow U.P. coal hopper , a silver/black Texaco tank car and the red Santa Fe caboose. That was a great Christmas indeed.

Beautiful Loco Ean. I need one, lol.

Good job, she runs fine now.

I am gonna be on the market for one of these again. I have a string of B&O heavyweights that need a good puller. I had one just like yours for many years, and it was a good runner, but i ended up selling it ,due to financial constraints.

I had a Revell 0-6-0

Rivarossi 8766/1 is the Dreyfuss 20th Century Hudson, painted in all NYC gray. This is a repaint, fantasy scheme. Nice paint job though.

Wow, i wish i had known of Bernie's shop, before i moved,lol. I used to live in over in Pocono Mountain area back in 92. THEN i moved to the midwest back in 2021.

Nice find!

I enjoy your videos about restoring locomotives, but I find the background you’re built interesting, could you show how to make them. Thanks.

Not a bad layout.

It's an old style Atheran locomotive pre flywheel model built and marketed under the ''Train Miniature'' banner.

This may come as a surprise to you but Athearn did contracting work for other model train companies including Lionel, Also, That Train Miniature locomotive was also marketed in the Athearn Blue Box series back in the nineties

Thank you for the no nonsense, informative videos.

Restoring her again was worth the transformation n I like the idea of converting regular Athearn blue box locomotive's to DCC n Sound technology they're worth the investment

I have the same Tech 3 controller. Like the gauges on it. Nice job on the loco.