One-Take Build of the Roundhouse Boxcab Track Cleaner Kit!
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2022
- Built in this video is one of the more sought-after classics from MDC/Roundhouse, the Boxcab Track Cleaner! These kits were geared low for slow speed and high torque to move four cleaning pads along the rails, and they looked pretty good too! They also come with their own built-in "sound system" that's possibly as loud or even louder than the real thing!
This is a long video with some moments that are quiet with not a lot of action, so feel free to skip through the boring stuff a little if you prefer.
OK, a 2+ hour Darth Santa Fe video.... Guess I have no plans this evening.
Skip the couplers! I wanna see it run…sometime this evening! 😂 😅😂❤
That is an interesting kit. I saw a GE/Alco boxcab at a museum and the kit defiantly resembles it. Those are defiantly louder than the real loco too.
Hi Darth
I like how you teach how to put things together I'm learning a lot thank you
Surprised at its slippage after its assembly!
I enjoyed that; great way to spend a wet afternoon. The thing's certainly noisy enough but the real ones were probably the same. It's not a beauty but I've always thought they had a certain "ugly duckling" kind of charm about them.
Another excellent video. For the ladders knotch the frame to allow extra space. You can also file the tab on the ladder down thinner along with filing the inner body behind the doors.
I rebuilt one of these into a modern locomotive using the chassis of a Bachmann 70 tonner and numerous detail parts. And its DCC!
Hello Darth, I like the Old Round House models. Would be good see them again. Kenneth
I had 6 of those. I do recall if you got the none track cleaner model it came with a different gear box and had three gears. The flywheel is useless. What I did to a few was replace the flywheel with an athearn brass and used u joints instead of the flex tube. It still made a lot of noise. I changed the motor to a open frame of better quality , used Athearn f unit cross bar drive in place of the ones this came with.Added a small coil spring between the large gear and the drive to keep a bit of pressure on them. Finally to fix the noise , I left the athearn brass flywheel as weight , installed a brass gear on the motor in place of the off center plastic one it was a larger diameter and helped being centered. and the final add on was a small flywheel on the motor shaft just past the new brass gear and it was quiet and smooth. I needed to set the motor height as one would expect. I didn't us the v cast to hold the motor. The rest I left alone other than new home made smoke stacks.
This video in my opinion qualifies as a sort of asmr video.....the sound from when you filed the fly wheel mounts got me a bit sleepy,lol.I too have a few of these kits. i did however replace the cast fly wheels with turned brass ones that a pal made for me.
Great build!
I remember building the Climax when I was in middle school, I think it had the same chassis/mechanism. Wish I still had it. Still have a few of the random HO scale stuff I had as a kid, but not that one.
Thanks for that one; I was thinking of making a boxcab electric out of one. But, listening to yours and watching it run I have decided to go another way to get my boxcab electric.
I've seen one of these, but the other end had a fuzzy "mop" head installed instead of sandpaper.
Never saw so many flatheads in my life!😂😅
Wonderful video build. Even though the quality and engineering isn't nearly up to todays standards, there's something about building something yourself and see it working. Thanks for sharing.
The atlas Kato I liked were the early GP7 heavy metal frame just like the RS1. The RS3 and RS11 and C424. The metal walk way of the GP7 and RS1 were like the S2 except the S2 uses Roco made in Austria trucks. Still very smooth and heavy. At one point I decided to buy Roco electric locos that ran on track DC or by the overhead wires. They were well made and great running units and I liked the way they looked , so odd compared to US and Canada units.
Funny how people complain about noisy engine. Trains are noisy. Anyone that have seen a Speeno grinding rails train, that is roughly the equivalent, late at night at crawling speed will agree. Noisy. Modelers pay a lot for DCC bell, horn, engine, squeeling and more sounds that are all noises. Not the same for sure, but not as quiet as an electric loco.