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Thanks to your video and SNS Trains I got my dads old K325 running! The old steam trains just sound great and look great with the working smoke units.

I went to Joann Fabrics and bought A square foot of velvet and it works real good. I found that the paintmaterial was just to fat and the brakeman gets stuck in the channel

Marx guy here, I just finished shoehorning in a Marx D/R motor into a Flyer prewar 1939 #420 shell. She appears externally stock but inside a lot of cutting and shaving was required. I must say this project tried my patience. SHOEE!

what pad material should I purchase to replace my walking brakeman pad?

I have a 312 american flyer pennsylvania. Unsure it the thing works, the wiring looka shot. How much would new wiring cost?

I have a 343 that has a wire that broke off the front light's soldering joint. I need to replace that wire so it can reach from the smoke unit to the light. Can you tell me what gauge that wire should be in your estimation?

Just bought one of these so thanks for the repair info.

Did you ever get it working?

John , why would I put a new and expensive digital reverse unit and hve to deal with the on and off continually?. I just installed new magnetic fiels that I bought from Franintrains Laboratry and my 325 runs like all of my other D.C. locomotives, no A.C. forward off and reverse to deal with. If I choose, I will be able to install a Dallie Sound system and it will operate as intended.

Never owned any Gilbert 336 that dirty and beat up. Everything I have was bought in Excellent to Like New condition. My 21139 was found mint in wrapper with four chrome passenger cars all in original boxes too in 1968 at the Knott's Berry Farm train store. Probably long gone years ago. Those were the fun times back then. People today have no idea what the real old Knott's Ghost town was like.

Added a 4 amp rectifier to quiet log lift.

will it run prototypical speeds?

So why is there a K in front of the 325

That locomotive is built like a tank! that's a beautiful piece of workmanship and i like it!

I love installing these double reduction motors ( inplace of single reduction flyer motors ) as they offer am flyer super motor performance, Getting the three point alignment correct can be tricky. I install the motor but only snug not tighten the set screws, I try to let the motor find its comfortable alignment place. This can take some time . I then apply a dab to each set screw of epoxy.and the mounting ears outside as well ( clean surfaces and give the expoxy a week to 10 days to cure properly). It seems to work although align boring all three bearings would be preferable but extremely difficult. You will find that single axle and sometimes double pulmor wheels will help withlong passanger trains ( CASG )

Wow, I thought my 370 was in bad shape. looks like yours turned out very nicely. Did you ever put a knuckle coupler on it? Mine has the link bar but the link couplers tend to pop off going around curves.

I like your video's but they never show how to service or repair these locomotives. They are about what you have all ready done NOT how to actually Repair clean or restore. But thanks anyway.

Please post a parts list.

I had heard that their GP7 used the same truck side frames as their PA. But these look different. What's up with this? Thanks.

nice job restoring your american flyer log loader! pretty cool! i think all the lionel prewar, postwar and mpc engines, cars and lionel accessories can be restored by krylon spray paint!

I don't think that's a 1950 for what I ve seen and read they didn't come with pull-mor tires and pick up shoes it's hard to.tell in the video also the bar is missing in the front and back which a link coupler attaches to . Just my opinion could be wrong. Al

I tried what you said I think that was it so on my bench I hooked up black wire to power and yellow to accceries wheel went around and stopped but if I power the red wire it will keep going. And I noticed your soliniad location is different from mine is on bottom . Al

Nice work i have a question went to use mine pressed second button and it stay on any ideas. Why

Thanks for sharing. What track is that running on?

The traction rings are unnecessary, especially on a die cast locomotive. They just dirty the track.

I live about 5 miles from the birthplace of that beautiful engine. Things rust like crazy here as well. BTW, I have the prewar version of this engine. It will outpace anything that lionel made, slower, smoother, and stronger.

You just can't beat American Flyer for smoke and sounds.

What about changing the pads on the undersides of the cows?

Great video. I just picked one up. It does buzz but the adjustment rod is jammed and the brakeman is awol. Thanks for the tips on taking the shell off

It's very great that many people that I know are going to upgrade it. I'm going to classical order engines and brand new engine and the first time ever that I'm going to put a fresh technology that many older trains that are for the 1950s or 60s or the 30s and 20s gotta I make if I have people love it that are of classical train that they wanted to stay where it is the classical or to upgrade is that if something is brand new and specially the many people at that I leave the classical to our side but is going to get upgraded from the inside so I hope that many of you that if you have American Flyer train right now. It is so easy that a of a functional it is like this one and including data all I got to say this that different parts that are of many of for the bigger size medium and small order that are getting one of those remote control that are you don't need like those what are those boxes right there that you can push the power forward or slower it but there is a Wi-Fi right now. A few other questions connect to your control or to your cell phone some of them data of you could get parts for the internet and some of them apart that you can get it in storage other smaller stores but this is to everyone that are well too if you have American Flyer or you have a different names of model that's your choice

Open frame three pole motors are by their nature noisey to some degree because they are ac motors.Don't compare them to today's dc can motors that run quietly. Those canmotors run on rectified and filtered dc and by nature are quiet in operation and in my not so humble opinion are superior to the AC motors used in earlier toy trains,today's technology has made it so.Three cheers for technology!!

You don't like caboose's?

I have a film of a real Hudson just like Gilbert's. The Airchime whistle sounds exactly like the one in my 326 AF Hudson.

Nice engine but since I can run link coupler without any problem, I would not want to change it to KC. All my link coupler engines and cars do not come uncoupled and look much better than KC cars since the spacing is realistic. KC cars look great too but only when made that way. Converted link cars to KC look really bad and derail on curves since the tinplate trucks are too light for Pul Mor engines. They jerk the cars off the tracks on curves. Too much traction. You notice how link coupler engines spin on take off? That way the cars will not be yanked off the track. Keep that engine original and it will pull more LC cars than KC cars any day of the week. Not many operators know how to àdjust liñk couplers correctly. Make sure the pin is parelle with the axle to start with, then adjust height.

Hey Johnny, thanks for the help. Just got a similar loader and it wouldn’t run. You saying about the gear box made me think. I checked it out and sure enough, more grease is NOT better. Completely packed with heavy wheel bearing type grease. I took the gear box completely apart and the main gear that’s drops down to spin the wheel was frozen in place. Couldn’t turn it with pliers!! A bunch of brake cleaner and elbow grease and it works great!! Thanks for the advice!!

Got my 336 at a thrift store several years ago and consider it a stroke of pure luck.

Your exactly right, that horn hook was an AF disaster. How can you make such beautiful locomotives with such an unrealistic coupler

Wow you really know how to fix smoke unit. I have a 283 Pacific that smoke s like that! My 312 SIT smokes like crazy with the later piston type unit install ed by an expert repairman 15 years ago. Too bad he retired from repairing everything!

Good job JF. Funny thing, I have four 312 K5 and two 322 engines with that same paint mark and restamp of the number on the cab. When i first encountered this I assumed that it was done by a previous owner, but now I do believe that was done at the factory by Gilbert.

Nice upgrade and conversion. Great video. "Happy Rails.". GMan

Thanks for sharing. trying to get caught up "Happy Rails" GMan

Great lay out Johnny, It' going to be really fun when you finally get it completely up and going. Thanks for sharing, and "Happy Rails" GMan

Hi. How do you clean the wheels?

instead of just saying "standard" cleaning would really be helpful for you to show the process, thank you love that engine

A 1946 312 PRR would have been a smoke in tender model ,

Why not buy cows from " port lines hobby"?

Poor audio recording.

Hello JohnnyFlyer! Hope you and yours are safe and well. You mention the 336 not smoking, I had similar results with many of my smokers, 282 4-6-2 Pacific for example, it struggled to smoke at scale speeds, like you mention only near full power was smoke steady and volume adequate until I did this. I purchased this year a couple of Lionel FlyerChief locomotives (ok, please don’t vote me off the AC Gilbert vintage American Flyer island!!) one is 2716, 2-8-4 Berkshire with incredible smoke, choo-choo, and other sounds but it was not smoking up to my expectations, it was performing more like the 282, so I contacted Lionel tech support. They recommended: 1) Change smoke fluid, I started using Lionel Unscented Premium Smoke Fluid 6-83280, 2) don’t allow the smoke unit “dry out”, if so turn “smoke” off, 3) keep the smoke unit “wet”, 4) when loading smoke fluid add 14-16 drops, wow, that thing will run you out of the room, its really cool when smoke builds up in a tunnel. For my vintage AF I apply 12 drops, now plenty of steady smoke even at 30-40% power running scale speed, I do not allow it to dry out and it smokes forever. Use a miniature funnel, one of the common issues I experience on customer rebuilds is evidence of smoke fluid running on top of the smoke unit and everywhere underneath. Of course rebuild loco to ensure adequate power and mechanical operation does not hurt. Take Care! DavesAFTrains

AF 302 needs service. Do you have a website w contact info etc

How does one contact you re repair work