"If you're days going pretty miserable, you should go ahead and try to put one of these back together." 🤣 Thanks for the laugh! I have an older 2026 Prairie, great runner and smoker. Excellent vid, thanks! Should be good for another 72 years.
The second I read your comment I jumped up to inspect the shell with a flashlight, wanting to disprove this claim. As the beam of light cast over the fireman's side steam chest I noticed the fish eye's, then noticed the orange peel on top of the boiler. Seen the painted over bell, then all the air went out of my sails. DANG IT! I've been looking at that shell for 3 months now and apparently had honeymoon vision going on. You got some sharp eyes there to notice that re-paint. Thanks for your kind words on the video :-)
@classicmodeltrains if you aren't going to repaint the 2026 to fix the fisheye ( oils or water mixed with paint solvents) and the orange peel but want to fix some of it first you probably can mask around the bell to protect paint at its base and use your brass brush on it lightly and carefully to reveal the brass under the black paint orange peel can be fixed with 1500 grit then 2000 grit wet sanding finishing by using the white portion of a 4 way nail polisher fish eye is harder to fix without a respray !!
Hey Ron: Happened on your channel a couple of months ago and now you are one of my very favorites. I love your persistence and ingenuity in repairing and restoring model trains, no matter the gauge. I also enjoy your dialogue as things progress or regress! I'm 77 now and have nearly all gauges, although O and S are my favorites. I'm also in a 7 1/2" gauge live steam organization and my avatar is me riding our Berkshire. Particularly enjoyed this video as the Lionel 2026 was my very first engine that I received when I was 5 years old in 1952. Please keep on doing these very informative and fun videos. Eddie
Hello Eddie! Thank you for the compliments and a really cool story. I like the "O" and "S" stuff the most as well. Just need more room for a decent sized layout. Live steam sounds AWESOME!!
Live steam is awesome. And, since retiring 10 years ago as a judge, I've now learned to operate lathes and milling machines to make parts for our locomotives and rolling stock and it is very satisfying to do it. Love your videos, keep up the great work!@@classicmodeltrains
Nothing like a cold beer after a mind blowing repair. I have not yet tried to repair a e unit. I have two 2020 one old from the fifths and one from 2000. Thanks
Nice work Ron! A note regarding these chassis, if it has been run a lot over the years the bakelite will wear down at the armature hole. The armature will lean down, and no matter how much oil is on the pinion gear side, it will squeal like nothing is lubed. Great starter set locomotives that run forever, with basic maintenance. Magna-traction versions pull really well. Thanks for the great video!
Ron, It will take years of running it (mostly dry) for that to happen. Some years back CTT had an article about fixing them, that involved using brass pull rivets. I'll try to find it and get back to you. One other minor note, the blackened coating on the driver's keeps the wheels from corroding.
I LOVE seeing these old postwar trains get repaired! It’s really fun to see all the over engineering happening here with that little mechanism, and how they have such a high rate of running, just needing some care Anyways, great video! Hope you’re doing well haha
Older Lionel were relatively easy to work on. I had one of similar wheel arrangement that I rebuilt, lead truck e-unit and one pickup roller. What I liked was the fact that these could be serviced with very common hand tools. I am definitely going to have a go-around with the whistling tenders I have, they both pull a lot more power than they should. Thanks for another fine pair of videos, really appreciate the efforts you put into these projects, and giving these classic models a new lease on life.
Nice rebuild. Your completed loco and tender look really good! A couple of things: the next time you have to disassemble an E unit, there's a special tool, Lionel part # ST-303, that easily pops the two side apart. It's flat steel and kind of in the shape of a T, but with the top part at an angle. They are readily available on the internet. The other thing is the smoke. You typically don't get much smoke until you put several cars behind it. That's because you have to raise track voltage to pull the cars so there's also more power going to the smoke coil. An even heavier train will cause wheel slippage so there's more "puffs per mile" and more smoke.
Thank you for the information on the Jig and the number. I will do some research and find one. Yup, when I put the loco in "neutral" and crank the ZF up to max warp power it would really "roll the coal". Of course I would need a nice large layout and a lot of cars to load that Ol Gal down enough to give it the full onion while pulling.......You know that's not a bad idea!!
I love your comedy naration.. keep it up.... hahaha... Nice to see this all worked out in the long run. Another old girl riding the rails once again. Well done.
I had to chuckle having just gone through my first e-unit rebuild recently. After many hours and a dozen or more tries, I got pretty good at it. I had to replace the fingers having mangled them in the process. Amazingly, you can still buy the fingers and drum.
You can still get a lot of the parts, like everything else they are made in China. One of my happier moments as a hobbiest is rolling the old Lionels over and seeing that brass plaque “Made in the US of America”, kind of gives me that nostalgic feeling when we made just about everything here.
Didn’t recognize your model even after you gave us her name. Anyway, your videos- very interesting to see your work on the Lionel models. But, you have totally convinced me that my poor Lionel train is not worth salvaging- too many broken and missing parts to restore it when there are too many decent models available on eBay. I am sorry that mine is in such rough shape but my brother and I were much too rough playing with it when we were small. Keep on with your repairs and reclamations as they are fascinating projects. Each episode is such a joy to watch as you explore these grand old toys from our mutual past!
Thanks 13th for your kind words once again. It took me some digging to find a picture of Linda that wasn't from her playing the character on P.J. It really threw off a lot of Fellers. To bad your Lionel had a rough time in its early years. Perhaps you can list it on the eBay and someone can use some of the good parts to resurrect another?
I got my first train set when I was 2 years old and it was a Lionel 2026, a 2-6-4 which was a weird wheel arrangement known as an Adriatic engine. When we moved from Hephzibah, GA, it got left behind in the attic. About 20 years ago, my cousin had the very same train set and he gave it to me. It has the whistling tender. Still runs good after I serviced it. I usually disconnect the E-unit for running on DC. Now I've got several old Lionel engines mostly 027 even 2 Scout engines, one die cast and the other is plastic. I've got an E-unit that has the lever broken off and there's no way to repair it. Need to find another E-unit. Cheers from eastern TN
You know John, They sell new e-units. I would try and get into it and just see if you can repair it, but in the back of your mind always know there's a plan "B" :-)
Ron, are you suggesting that Lionel may have over engineered their locomotives, a bit? Linda Hennings played Betty Jo Bradley on Petticoat Junction. Used to watch it for the Hooverville Express I believe it was. I still quote for the theme song, saying I’m like Uncle Joe, moving kinda slow, at the junction. LOL great video and don’t really have any Lionel stuff in any gauge. For larger scale think I will stick with American Flyer. Even on shop Goodwill anything with the name Lionel on it means add $$ for not much value I don’t think. I may be wrong but I liked the AC Gilbert look of their trains better than the more toy like Lionel. All the best great to see two videos out in one week! Sorry for the nasty E-Unit fund, though you did have me laughing out loud! Take care Ron!
Thanks Erick, The Lionel "O" gauge stuff looks real good and proportional but I agree the "O-27" has been shrunk down so much it does look funny. The A.F. looks good to me at any angle and lighting :-) Digging out from a snow storm here today. a few more snow days coming. Dang springtime anyway!
@@classicmodeltrains snow here as well so at least your not alone. 4 inches Friday night fun driving home from seeing John Wick 4 in blizzard at 1 am lol.
Outstanding job again Ron. Glad to see you got that 2026 up and running again. Those “E”;units can be a dog to work on. LOL Linda Henning played Betty Jo Bradley on Petticoat Junction. Her mother ran the Shady Rest Hotel in Hooterville.
Ron I find the O27 Lionel postwar engines, with the exception of hudsons and turbines, can't pull more than 3 or 4 cars. They have power but aren't heavy enough. Even the magnitraction ones are poor. I have been experimenting with the lathe putting a grove in the driven wheels to accept traction tires. The first wheel I did was not a complete success but I think I figured it out to try again. The tires would fix the pulling issue. I keep my engines so authenticity is not important to me.
Ron I liked this series. You really can repair old engines. My hats off to you sir. When will you be dipping back into ho scale that is what I am into most of all? I understand you have to mix it up and so keep on doing you I was just wondering. Have another beer my friend. And thanks for the videos. 😎
Good videos. I just had a family member give me my Grandfathers 464 #2046 locomotive and the other cars that came with it. Unfortunately I have no track or the controllers but I'm big into e-buggys so I have a lot of tools and experience building RC cars & drones.
Hi Classic Model Trains, my name is Steve. I just use the Marklin as that is the kind of trains I have. Had 'em since a long time. The Zeit means time, so in short, train time! They are a german company that have been making trains over 160 years, so they may qualify to be 'classic'. My old friend's Dad was in the USAF and was stationed over there a while, and brought a set back. I thought it was great, so got the same kind (I had already destroyed all my Dad's Lionel and Ives). The stores that sell Marklin in the states come and go as the owners retire, so I usually have to mail order the stuff. My closest store right now is about 350 miles from my house. They do turn up in the antique shops and there is one of those about 20 minutes away. But he suffers from the 'mint' condition bad-sightedness sickness that your antique store guy has. Definitely not mint; barely fair condition....;but at mint prices of course. Reckon they will sit there a long time. Keep the fun videos coming!
Greetings Steve. I have one Marklin. It's a little 0-4-0 tank switcher. They have been around a long time. I need to get my hands on a few and do some restorations to them. Yup, them dang antique stores. Sometimes a guy gets a good price.
The 2026 is a really decent Lionel engine. It exists in two versions. Early postvwar had nickle/silver driver rims and no.magna traction but it had a very complete and realistic drive gear mechanism. The later version had magna traction, no nickle/silver driver rims (does not work with magna traction), but a less detailed drive gear mechanism. Both had headlight, smoke and whistle in the tender..Both are great runners and when clean and well lubricated (but not over lubricated), they are good pullers. They look good on curves and with their big but not huge drive wheels look good in passenger service. BDS
Greetings from North Dakota again love watching yur show. I was wondering why you don't build a shelf track of O and S around yur room just above the door. Then you could give yur projects a chance to stretch there legs a little
Greetings Brent. What part of ND you in? I did some time just south of Jamestown. Cold azz winters ND can put on over there. Funny I was just working out how I could do a ceiling loop for the "S" and "O" stuff. Sounds like a good idea to me. If we can ever get it to stop snowing over here (I know...preaching to the choir) I can warm up some saws and build it!!
@Classic Model Trains we live in minot about. 100 miles north of Bismarck. Winter will not let go here jumping around the freezing mark to the lo teens
Fascinating to see how that engine is put together. Good job on the repair, it is odd to me how the front and rear trucks always disappear, and it is also true that it's often cheaper to buy a complete locomotive than all the parts! I know how you feel when it Just Wont Work! I've had those days too..... Apparently simple green makes a clear version of their product. My dad told me that the green dye will eat certain metals, and I found it leaves a white film on my engine chassis. (Although I use it full strength). I found in a Flyer repair book you can make a wheel puller by modifying a battery cable puller. (That book was from the 1980's) I don't know if you can still buy those cable pullers. Would you try expanding the shelf layout around the room and make lift out sections in front of the door and electrical panel? We got like 2 1/2 feet of snow today over here in Wisconsin. Had the deepest drifts I've seen in a long time. Hope you don't mind me rambling! - Tim
Greetings Tim! The battery cable puller idea is AWESOME!! I shall look into that. I use the simple green full strength to strip paint along with the ultrasonic cleaner. Im surprised it leaves a white residue behind. I always rinse the parts off with water. I'm kinda thinking about extending the HO layout like you mentioned. I to am experiencing a spring snow. Cant wait for the nice weather to get here and STAY so I can warm up the saws and do some more construction :-)
Hello Brad, Just sitting down to answer the comments. Uncle Joe was sure a sour puss character on that show. I just seen the movie that launched the series on the RUclips a few days ago. Thats how I come up with the model. I suppose you have the whole theme song memorized and locked in your head to this day dontcha ? :-). Take care. It's snowing like a bugger over here. Wet spring snow..
I know who Linda Henning is she played in the Sound of Music and was Betty Jo Bradley!! Loved that show Petticoat junction a hotel at a railroad stop you never really saw an actual junction lol but the water tank was as nice as you were going to get in those days with frilly bathing suits NO bikinis !!
@classicmodeltrains yeah it's along the same vain as Green acres you had to be kinda off lol to like it alot I just liked watching the train mostly but I always yearned for more traffic than just 1 locomotive!! If I remember right "Skipper" from Gilligan's Island was an engineer for a few episodes !!
A word about the pin holding the motor assembly to rhe rear of the locomotive. When the pin is renoved watch the splines on the pin and carefully line them up to the old cuts in the boiler casting. If you are careless you will make the hole to hold the pin in the boiler casting one giant hole and ruin the casting!
Check out e-unit jig made by PE Design and Manufacturing. I bought one and it is a game changer. Makes the finger boards and drum installation soooooper easy
ZAP! Yeah been done that. But, not as bad as a 20,000 volt zap from a HEI and you come up slamming your head into the hood and your elbow into the hood hinge.
Maybe the gals you are picking are too young. Maybe go for the ones that appeared in Petticoat Junction. Can't beat pretty girls AND trains in one show!
Lionel e-units are a royal pain in the you know what to reassemble. If you don't have the jig, you almost need 2 helpers. I've done a few. Ain't worth my time. I'll buy a newer one.
Lionel is too complicated; I have my dad`s 224 from 1946 that won`t run. I know if I dismantle it I`ll have leftover parts on completion. This is why Marx is my preference.
I was going to check for M.T. on this one. forgot all about it, now I see I don't need to. I do remember reading about that sometime ago. Thanks for the information!!
Ron you are working to hard. You can buy new fingers that are already wired up. And they make a special tool to spread the E-unit. But anyway keep up the good work 👍
I would like to know where a Feller can buy that e-unit jig. I know about buying new e-units but I didn't have the time to order one and wait the 5 days to get here. Production schedules are tight. :-)
You should do out takes maybe at the end. Or use adult words like real train guys do putting back together parts that the gnomes used to build them trains back in the 1950s in under a minute.
Ive sorta though about out takes. In real person I talk like a Sailor, I try my best to keep my language Family friendly in the video's. Their are a few Fellers who watch these with their kids.
I like your rare attitude about cussing. I can do it with the best of 'em (4 years Navy late 1960's) but it doesn't really add much to the conversation. Thanks for all your great videos. I enjoy your sense of humor. The 2026 was my first engine in 1952. Dad gave it away 8 years later after convincing me HO would be better. I dropped the 2026 around 1957 and dented the cab exactly like the dent in yours, so you may have gotten mine for parts! I still love that engine and wish I had it now. Lionel had that hefty feel, that great sound, and great aroma. They knew how to make trains in those days (except maybe that pesky E-unit)! 🤣
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Oh man , this guy knows so much...damn...I wish I had that confidence
Thanks for the compliment. Been working on "stuff" my whole life. it can be learned, you just have to start :-)
"If you're days going pretty miserable, you should go ahead and try to put one of these back together." 🤣 Thanks for the laugh!
I have an older 2026 Prairie, great runner and smoker. Excellent vid, thanks! Should be good for another 72 years.
Thanks for watching! Yup follow up service is scheduled for 2095 :-)
I learn and laugh from you, thank you!
Thanks for watching!
That 2026 was a repaint. You can tell my the masked off area around the numbers and the black pained bell. Nice job though!
The second I read your comment I jumped up to inspect the shell with a flashlight, wanting to disprove this claim. As the beam of light cast over the fireman's side steam chest I noticed the fish eye's, then noticed the orange peel on top of the boiler. Seen the painted over bell, then all the air went out of my sails. DANG IT! I've been looking at that shell for 3 months now and apparently had honeymoon vision going on. You got some sharp eyes there to notice that re-paint. Thanks for your kind words on the video :-)
@classicmodeltrains if you aren't going to repaint the 2026 to fix the fisheye ( oils or water mixed with paint solvents) and the orange peel but want to fix some of it first you probably can mask around the bell to protect paint at its base and use your brass brush on it lightly and carefully to reveal the brass under the black paint orange peel can be fixed with 1500 grit then 2000 grit wet sanding finishing by using the white portion of a 4 way nail polisher fish eye is harder to fix without a respray !!
I get much pleasure out of your humor as well as your expertise lubing (and repair too.)
Thank you!
Hey Ron:
Happened on your channel a couple of months ago and now you are one of my very favorites. I love your persistence and ingenuity in repairing and restoring model trains, no matter the gauge. I also enjoy your dialogue as things progress or regress! I'm 77 now and have nearly all gauges, although O and S are my favorites. I'm also in a 7 1/2" gauge live steam organization and my avatar is me riding our Berkshire. Particularly enjoyed this video as the Lionel 2026 was my very first engine that I received when I was 5 years old in 1952. Please keep on doing these very informative and fun videos.
Eddie
Hello Eddie! Thank you for the compliments and a really cool story. I like the "O" and "S" stuff the most as well. Just need more room for a decent sized layout. Live steam sounds AWESOME!!
Live steam is awesome. And, since retiring 10 years ago as a judge, I've now learned to operate lathes and milling machines to make parts for our locomotives and rolling stock and it is very satisfying to do it. Love your videos, keep up the great work!@@classicmodeltrains
I really look forward to your videos. Love the trains. Love the problem solving. But I especially love you being you! May you live long and prosper!
Thank you for your kind words :-)
WOW, what a project and glad you saw it thru to the end. Thanks for the Video and taking us along for the ride.
Thanks Lynn for watching and commenting :-)
You are a master mechanic. I can't do that. Pleasure to see the inner guts of Lionel so I can remind myself never to own one.😵💫
Thank you for the compliment. Yup these Lionels have a lot going on inside
Wow, great job overhauling one of my favorite Postwar locos!
Thank you
Nice job, that one looked like a real challenge!
Thank you. This one fought me tooth and nail
Nothing like a cold beer after a mind blowing repair. I have not yet tried to repair a e unit. I have two 2020 one old from the fifths and one from 2000. Thanks
Right on!
Just got to love them E- units! 😮 So rewarding once you get it right! 🎉
I cant believe I got it working again. I figured once it was apart it would not go back together. Perseverance paid off :-)
Nice work Ron!
A note regarding these chassis, if it has been run a lot over the years the bakelite will wear down at the armature hole. The armature will lean down, and no matter how much oil is on the pinion gear side, it will squeal like nothing is lubed.
Great starter set locomotives that run forever, with basic maintenance. Magna-traction versions pull really well.
Thanks for the great video!
Thanks for watching Henry. Thanks for the info on the Bakelite bushing hole wearing. Something I will have to keep an eye out on :-)
Ron,
It will take years of running it (mostly dry) for that to happen. Some years back CTT had an article about fixing them, that involved using brass pull rivets. I'll try to find it and get back to you.
One other minor note, the blackened coating on the driver's keeps the wheels from corroding.
Although I’m not a Lionel guy, this is one of the most interesting job that you’ve performed so far Master Ron. My best compliments for you!
There is a lot of stuff going on in these Ol' Gals. That E-unit is way over engineered in my book.
I LOVE seeing these old postwar trains get repaired! It’s really fun to see all the over engineering happening here with that little mechanism, and how they have such a high rate of running, just needing some care
Anyways, great video! Hope you’re doing well haha
Thank you for your kind words! I am doing well as I hope you are :-)
Older Lionel were relatively easy to work on. I had one of similar wheel arrangement that I rebuilt, lead truck e-unit and one pickup roller. What I liked was the fact that these could be serviced with very common hand tools. I am definitely going to have a go-around with the whistling tenders I have, they both pull a lot more power than they should. Thanks for another fine pair of videos, really appreciate the efforts you put into these projects, and giving these classic models a new lease on life.
I agree. I hope you get your whistling tenders working as they should
Nice rebuild. Your completed loco and tender look really good! A couple of things: the next time you have to disassemble an E unit, there's a special tool, Lionel part # ST-303, that easily pops the two side apart. It's flat steel and kind of in the shape of a T, but with the top part at an angle. They are readily available on the internet. The other thing is the smoke. You typically don't get much smoke until you put several cars behind it. That's because you have to raise track voltage to pull the cars so there's also more power going to the smoke coil. An even heavier train will cause wheel slippage so there's more "puffs per mile" and more smoke.
Thank you for the information on the Jig and the number. I will do some research and find one. Yup, when I put the loco in "neutral" and crank the ZF up to max warp power it would really "roll the coal". Of course I would need a nice large layout and a lot of cars to load that Ol Gal down enough to give it the full onion while pulling.......You know that's not a bad idea!!
I love your comedy naration.. keep it up.... hahaha... Nice to see this all worked out in the long run. Another old girl riding the rails once again. Well done.
Thanks Tim. I Try and make the video interesting as well as informative :-)
Wonderful as always. Your videos make my day!
Glad you like them!
I had to chuckle having just gone through my first e-unit rebuild recently. After many hours and a dozen or more tries, I got pretty good at it. I had to replace the fingers having mangled them in the process. Amazingly, you can still buy the fingers and drum.
It's awesome there are Fellers out there still selling repair parts for these old classics :-)
You can still get a lot of the parts, like everything else they are made in China. One of my happier moments as a hobbiest is rolling the old Lionels over and seeing that brass plaque “Made in the US of America”, kind of gives me that nostalgic feeling when we made just about everything here.
I know this pissed you off.... but... I loved the whole video. It was excellent as always. God Bless ya Ron.
Thanks C.C.! Yes that e-unit had me twisted up for awhile.
Didn’t recognize your model even after you gave us her name. Anyway, your videos- very interesting to see your work on the Lionel models. But, you have totally convinced me that my poor Lionel train is not worth salvaging- too many broken and missing parts to restore it when there are too many decent models available on eBay. I am sorry that mine is in such rough shape but my brother and I were much too rough playing with it when we were small. Keep on with your repairs and reclamations as they are fascinating projects. Each episode is such a joy to watch as you explore these grand old toys from our mutual past!
Thanks 13th for your kind words once again. It took me some digging to find a picture of Linda that wasn't from her playing the character on P.J. It really threw off a lot of Fellers. To bad your Lionel had a rough time in its early years. Perhaps you can list it on the eBay and someone can use some of the good parts to resurrect another?
Thank you for sharing. Great repair Ron. Your videos are FAN-tastic.👍
Thank you very much!!
I got my first train set when I was 2 years old and it was a Lionel 2026, a 2-6-4 which was a weird wheel arrangement known as an Adriatic engine. When we moved from Hephzibah, GA, it got left behind in the attic. About 20 years ago, my cousin had the very same train set and he gave it to me. It has the whistling tender. Still runs good after I serviced it. I usually disconnect the E-unit for running on DC. Now I've got several old Lionel engines mostly 027 even 2 Scout engines, one die cast and the other is plastic. I've got an E-unit that has the lever broken off and there's no way to repair it. Need to find another E-unit. Cheers from eastern TN
Started at 2? WOW! you've been at this for quite some time :-)
If you have access to a good Lionel Repair Station, they should have one in stock. Also watch your train shows, some venders will have these parts.
Nice work, very informative!!
Glad it was helpful!
Great stuff!
Thanks!
Found this video with you repairing the E unit. Hoping I do not have to do this, but will rebuild it if I have too. Thanks for sharing.
You know John, They sell new e-units. I would try and get into it and just see if you can repair it, but in the back of your mind always know there's a plan "B" :-)
@@classicmodeltrains I will do that. Thanks
Thanks Ron!
Thanks for watching!!
great job Keep up the good work. A+ video
Thank you James
Betty Jo! I thoughtbI recognized her. love your videos!
Yup! Thanks for watching and commenting
A classic model train restoration!
Thanks for watching and commenting
Love your videos 😊
Thank you Ron
Great job Ron
Thank you
Ron, are you suggesting that Lionel may have over engineered their locomotives, a bit? Linda Hennings played Betty Jo Bradley on Petticoat Junction. Used to watch it for the Hooverville Express I believe it was. I still quote for the theme song, saying I’m like Uncle Joe, moving kinda slow, at the junction. LOL great video and don’t really have any Lionel stuff in any gauge. For larger scale think I will stick with American Flyer. Even on shop Goodwill anything with the name Lionel on it means add $$ for not much value I don’t think. I may be wrong but I liked the AC Gilbert look of their trains better than the more toy like Lionel. All the best great to see two videos out in one week! Sorry for the nasty E-Unit fund, though you did have me laughing out loud! Take care Ron!
The train was The Hooterville Express.
Thanks Erick, The Lionel "O" gauge stuff looks real good and proportional but I agree the "O-27" has been shrunk down so much it does look funny. The A.F. looks good to me at any angle and lighting :-) Digging out from a snow storm here today. a few more snow days coming. Dang springtime anyway!
He He......Hooter-ville. 14 year old me loves it!
@@classicmodeltrains snow here as well so at least your not alone. 4 inches Friday night fun driving home from seeing John Wick 4 in blizzard at 1 am lol.
great information and makes it easy to do thanks .
Glad you enjoyed it.
Outstanding job again Ron. Glad to see you got that 2026 up and running again. Those “E”;units can be a dog to work on. LOL Linda Henning played Betty Jo Bradley on Petticoat Junction. Her mother ran the Shady Rest Hotel in Hooterville.
Thanks! Yup, I'm not going to be standing in line to work on a e-unit any time soon. Good job on the model!
Ron I find the O27 Lionel postwar engines, with the exception of hudsons and turbines, can't pull more than 3 or 4 cars. They have power but aren't heavy enough. Even the magnitraction ones are poor. I have been experimenting with the lathe putting a grove in the driven wheels to accept traction tires. The first wheel I did was not a complete success but I think I figured it out to try again. The tires would fix the pulling issue. I keep my engines so authenticity is not important to me.
She’s a beauty
Thank you
Ron I liked this series. You really can repair old engines. My hats off to you sir. When will you be dipping back into ho scale that is what I am into most of all? I understand you have to mix it up and so keep on doing you I was just wondering. Have another beer my friend. And thanks for the videos. 😎
Thanks for watching and commenting. The next video out will be back to HO scale. Yup mixing it up to include all the Classic's :-)
Betty Jo on the Petticoat Junction
Yup!
Good videos. I just had a family member give me my Grandfathers 464 #2046 locomotive and the other cars that came with it. Unfortunately I have no track or the controllers but I'm big into e-buggys so I have a lot of tools and experience building RC cars & drones.
Thank you Nathan
Hi Classic Model Trains, my name is Steve. I just use the Marklin as that is the kind of trains I have. Had 'em since a long time. The Zeit means time, so in short, train time! They are a german company that have been making trains over 160 years, so they may qualify to be 'classic'. My old friend's Dad was in the USAF and was stationed over there a while, and brought a set back. I thought it was great, so got the same kind (I had already destroyed all my Dad's Lionel and Ives). The stores that sell Marklin in the states come and go as the owners retire, so I usually have to mail order the stuff. My closest store right now is about 350 miles from my house. They do turn up in the antique shops and there is one of those about 20 minutes away. But he suffers from the 'mint' condition bad-sightedness sickness that your antique store guy has. Definitely not mint; barely fair condition....;but at mint prices of course. Reckon they will sit there a long time. Keep the fun videos coming!
Greetings Steve. I have one Marklin. It's a little 0-4-0 tank switcher. They have been around a long time. I need to get my hands on a few and do some restorations to them. Yup, them dang antique stores. Sometimes a guy gets a good price.
The 2026 is a really decent Lionel engine. It exists in two versions. Early postvwar had nickle/silver driver rims and no.magna traction but it had a very complete and realistic drive gear mechanism. The later version had magna traction, no nickle/silver driver rims (does not work with magna traction), but a less detailed drive gear mechanism. Both had headlight, smoke and whistle in the tender..Both are great runners and when clean and well lubricated (but not over lubricated), they are good pullers. They look good on curves and with their big but not huge drive wheels look good in passenger service. BDS
I agree with you Sir!!
Didn’t one also have Walsharts’ valve gear? (I know I spelled that wrong)
If you get any rough FLyer stuff, rusted, busted, missing parts, I build Resto Mod Flyer stuff. Be happy to take one on for/with you. Dennis
Thanks Dennis. Most of my flyer is "all there but need cleaning / maintenance " kind of area. Don't have enough to have any bad parts lots.
Greetings from North Dakota again love watching yur show. I was wondering why you don't build a shelf track of O and S around yur room just above the door. Then you could give yur projects a chance to stretch there legs a little
Greetings Brent. What part of ND you in? I did some time just south of Jamestown. Cold azz winters ND can put on over there. Funny I was just working out how I could do a ceiling loop for the "S" and "O" stuff. Sounds like a good idea to me. If we can ever get it to stop snowing over here (I know...preaching to the choir) I can warm up some saws and build it!!
@Classic Model Trains we live in minot about. 100 miles north of Bismarck. Winter will not let go here jumping around the freezing mark to the lo teens
Fascinating to see how that engine is put together. Good job on the repair, it is odd to me how the front and rear trucks always disappear, and it is also true that it's often cheaper to buy a complete locomotive than all the parts! I know how you feel when it Just Wont Work! I've had those days too.....
Apparently simple green makes a clear version of their product. My dad told me that the green dye will eat certain metals, and I found it leaves a white film on my engine chassis. (Although I use it full strength).
I found in a Flyer repair book you can make a wheel puller by modifying a battery cable puller. (That book was from the 1980's) I don't know if you can still buy those cable pullers.
Would you try expanding the shelf layout around the room and make lift out sections in front of the door and electrical panel?
We got like 2 1/2 feet of snow today over here in Wisconsin. Had the deepest drifts I've seen in a long time.
Hope you don't mind me rambling! - Tim
Greetings Tim! The battery cable puller idea is AWESOME!! I shall look into that. I use the simple green full strength to strip paint along with the ultrasonic cleaner. Im surprised it leaves a white residue behind. I always rinse the parts off with water. I'm kinda thinking about extending the HO layout like you mentioned. I to am experiencing a spring snow. Cant wait for the nice weather to get here and STAY so I can warm up the saws and do some more construction :-)
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Where did you buy your ultrasonic cleaner at and for what price who. Makes the unit and model number
Mine is a Rovsun model 613HT. I got it from amazon. Maybe around $150ish 3 years ago.
I wonder if, good ol uncle Joe's still movin' kinda slow, at the junction...
Hello Brad, Just sitting down to answer the comments. Uncle Joe was sure a sour puss character on that show. I just seen the movie that launched the series on the RUclips a few days ago. Thats how I come up with the model. I suppose you have the whole theme song memorized and locked in your head to this day dontcha ? :-). Take care. It's snowing like a bugger over here. Wet spring snow..
Oh ya, Betty Joe!
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Take a hair dryer to the bent cab roof and a soft mallet and an old broom handle and be gentle with it. Heating it up will help.
Thanks for that good tip Fred!
@@classicmodeltrains Thank you Ron for your tip on the ultrasonic cleaner tip. I use it now all the time on my Lionel repairs.
I know who Linda Henning is she played in the Sound of Music and was Betty Jo Bradley!! Loved that show Petticoat junction a hotel at a railroad stop you never really saw an actual junction lol but the water tank was as nice as you were going to get in those days with frilly bathing suits NO bikinis !!
Yup. P.C. was just a bit before my time. I seen a couple episodes of reruns but could never really get into the show as a kid.
@classicmodeltrains yeah it's along the same vain as Green acres you had to be kinda off lol to like it alot I just liked watching the train mostly but I always yearned for more traffic than just 1 locomotive!! If I remember right "Skipper" from Gilligan's Island was an engineer for a few episodes !!
A word about the pin holding the motor assembly to rhe rear of the locomotive. When the pin is renoved watch the splines on the pin and carefully line them up to the old cuts in the boiler casting. If you are careless you will make the hole to hold the pin in the boiler casting one giant hole and ruin the casting!
Thank you for this important little bit of information :-)
How does one contact you about repairing a lionel 1946 steam turbine
Goto my Facebook group page Classic Model Trains and message me there.
Well, i didn't see the video you're talking about, but it had to be Billy Jo, Bobby Jo, or betty Jo. I'll try to gind the vid. 😊
Yup. I found the movie of petticoat junction somewhere. its was made before the TV series I guess.
Check out e-unit jig made by PE Design and Manufacturing. I bought one and it is a game changer. Makes the finger boards and drum installation soooooper easy
I’ve been eyeballing a jig. I think from the same Fellers. Going to have to get me one for sure.
I don't know Ron, I think I might be over my head with fixing/ rebuilding locomotives
Practice makes perfect. :-)
Let's hope, I still have one on the operating table don't know if he will make it!!!!@@classicmodeltrains
Best locomotive made my youngest son has one I got @ a yard sale with a box Lionel & ho trains
You and your yard sale items :-) Always finding gold for pennies!!
That Train Was from The Fablemans (2022)
This model of loco was used in a movie or TV show? I must go find it :-)
I would have sworn the classic model was Lori Saunders as Bobbie Jo Bradley...Petticoat Junction.
Yeah i thought it was heather locklear at first
OOOhhhh.........HEATHER LOCKLEAR!!
Betty Jo. Linda Hennings was the only sister that was played by the same person for the whole run of P.J.
Betty Jo
Yup!
ZAP! Yeah been done that. But, not as bad as a 20,000 volt zap from a HEI and you come up slamming your head into the hood and your elbow into the hood hinge.
I've never been bit by a HEI. Standard points got me once. gets your attention
You earned that IPA for sure…more than 3%?😂
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Why not use electronic cleaner? that would do the job nicely,
Many good cleaning products / techniques out there for sure :-)
@@classicmodeltrains And, As Always, Thank You for the reply.
Maybe the gals you are picking are too young. Maybe go for the ones that appeared in Petticoat Junction. Can't beat pretty girls AND trains in one show!
It's a dream come true. I never watched that show when I was younger. I think I need the DVD set now ;-)
Lionel e-units are a royal pain in the you know what to reassemble. If you don't have the jig, you almost need 2 helpers. I've done a few. Ain't worth my time. I'll buy a newer one.
Ron, I forgot to say I was glad your were successful in getting the loco and tender in working order. That is very cool!
I agree with you. I should have a couple in "stock" so I can swap it out. Production schedules are tight. Didnt have time to wait for shipment.
Thanks Erick!!
Lionel is too complicated; I have my dad`s 224 from 1946 that won`t run. I know if I dismantle it I`ll have leftover parts on completion. This is why Marx is my preference.
Marx are some well designed and simple machines
The 1952 version of this loco,lacked Magna traction because of the Korean war and the demand for magnetic material for the war effort.
I was going to check for M.T. on this one. forgot all about it, now I see I don't need to. I do remember reading about that sometime ago. Thanks for the information!!
Shouldn't this loco be a 462 not a 264 . the rear wheels aren't a pair one axle is the same as the front axle .
That's how Lionel made them. Ron's model is correct.
In it's original form in 1948-49 it was a 2-6-2. when released again in 1951-53 it was a 2-6-4
Ron you are working to hard. You can buy new fingers that are already wired up. And they make a special tool to spread the E-unit. But anyway keep up the good work 👍
I would like to know where a Feller can buy that e-unit jig. I know about buying new e-units but I didn't have the time to order one and wait the 5 days to get here. Production schedules are tight. :-)
You should do out takes maybe at the end. Or use adult words like real train guys do putting back together parts that the gnomes used to build them trains back in the 1950s in under a minute.
Ive sorta though about out takes. In real person I talk like a Sailor, I try my best to keep my language Family friendly in the video's. Their are a few Fellers who watch these with their kids.
@@classicmodeltrains Thanks, but it really doesn't add much to conversations, IMHO. Thanks for all your great videos.
I like your rare attitude about cussing. I can do it with the best of 'em (4 years Navy late 1960's) but it doesn't really add much to the conversation. Thanks for all your great videos. I enjoy your sense of humor. The 2026 was my first engine in 1952. Dad gave it away 8 years later after convincing me HO would be better. I dropped the 2026 around 1957 and dented the cab exactly like the dent in yours, so you may have gotten mine for parts! I still love that engine and wish I had it now. Lionel had that hefty feel, that great sound, and great aroma. They knew how to make trains in those days (except maybe that pesky E-unit)! 🤣
@@gmaneis Yes them old Lionels sure had a distinct aroma when they were run for a long time. You know it the second you smell it again for sure