American Flyer 477 Silver Flash & Coupler Challenge
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2024
- The passenger cars that I was given with the 477 Silver Flash has a special challenge due to things done by an earlier owner. This video will show those challenges, how I dealt with them and also some videos of the train running.
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Wow Roger! They really turned out nice. I love the addition you added on the side. 👍
@@TwistedMacGyversTrains Thank you and thanks for watching.
Wonderful looking train. Great layout! Thank you for sharing. 😊
@@williamloeber6253 I’m glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching and for the comment.
WOW! You have really got that Silver Flash set running and looking great. I have the set made by Lionel which have chestnut striped passenger cars. I think that the Silver Flash set was the best "Fastasy" railroad scheme made by Gilbert. Your horn sounds really good and better than many horns used in model trains in the 90's. It is always a pleasure watching trains operating on your layout.
Thank you for sharing.
@@flyerjunction Thank you for your supportive comments. I am enjoying running this. I need to try to do a bit of paint and decal work on the B unit but, overall, it’s in nice shape. Several others have also commented on the horn sounding good. I have one other that doesn’t work near this well so I’m glad to have this one. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Bolting the couplers on seems to have worked pretty good, and does appear to make it close couple. Custom paint work is always neat, if done well. I have some plastic coaches painted with red stripes for Frisco. I'm still working on finding some aluminum coaches. I want to learn how to replace bushings, I don't have a lathe but may have access to one then I could also re-bush motors. Your air chime horn is the nicer one, in my opinion- I'm a bit of an audio guru; that one is actually self amplified using a field coil magnet inside which makes it louder and sound better. Great to see your layout operating again!
@@MygrandpasTrain Thank you for the comments. Yes, custom work can look nice if done well. This person apparently knew something about painting but nothing about converting couplers. But, I guess many of us have our specialties and limits. I probably would have done a good job of changing the couplers but botched the painting! At least I didn’t have to completely replace the trucks. The horn came up in one other comment and I agree that this one sounds better than some. I also got a 302, some other rolling stock and a handcar in this box and it’s all working well after some cleanup. They are all nice additions to the collection. Thanks for watching.
The Silver Flash set is very desirable and very hard to find. Enjoy!
@@stephenrickjr.7519 I am enjoying it- as you can see, I especially enjoy running it with my Santa Fe passenger train. Thanks for watching and for the comment.
Very Nice Looking Set that runs very well.. 👍👍👍👍
If you happen to remember the screw and nut size let me know because I may have to go that route to repair a coupler on a Lionel American Flyer Caboose which is riveted on which uses the newer knuckle couplers with the spring between the coupler and the weight. Thanks.
My guess is it's a 2x56, although could be a 4x40. Just my 1 cent😀
@@-MAILMAN I got them from Ace Hardware. I believe they are 40 x 3/8
@@AFTrainsND 4-40 it is then Thank you.
@@MygrandpasTrain I think 2-56 is too small. I have these which I use to mount HO Kaydee coupler boxes to car bodies. 4-40 sounds right. Thank you.
maybe the previous shortened the truck so that the cars were closer together...???
That is one of The most beautiful Flyer diesel engines. I think you are being a bit too harsh on the diesel horn. I don't think it's that bad.
@@ronalddevine9587 You are right about it being a beautiful diesel and, yes, I may be a bit hard on the horn- I’ve heard worse! Regardless, I always appreciate the great work the Gilbert engineers did in those pre-digital days. They were very creative! Thanks for watching and for your comments.