Love it "go, Speed Racer, go!" Another fine switcher saved from the scrapyard, Harrison. On a side note: MSt&L is Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway (1870-1960) headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
An excellent video. My railroad still operates a Lionel HO GP-9 and two Tyco Plymouth CR-4 center cab four wheel switchers. The GEEP came with a five pole motor, all gear drive, directional lighting, all metal wire handrails and stanchions, separate horns, and a removable dynamic brake housing so you can model GEEPS without dynamic brakes. I bought it when I was only ten years old, after checking the competition, like Athearn, Bachmann, Life-Like, Rivarossi, Model Power, and yes Mantua-Tyco,(No Atlas yet.) I KNEW I had to have this locomotive. It cost a little over 25 dollars and took almost two months of chores to pay back Mom and Dad. The GEEP and the two Plymouth switchers,(Which cost $4.99 each plus tax.) are the only RUNNING survivors of my childhood, but most of the locomotives I bought back then survive as dummies or roundhouse decoration, either whole or in pieces. Thanks for the memories and HELLO SMT Mainline from the Tracy Mountain Railway in Colorado. ♡ T.E.N.
I just saw this video, I had one of these locomotives when I was 7 or 8 years old. It was a Christmas gift for Christmas 1961. I hope I can find one of these engines for my collection. Thanks for the memories!
The Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway was an American Class I railroad that built and operated lines radiating south and west from Minneapolis, Minnesota for 90 years from 1870 to 1960. The railway never reached St. Louis but its North Star Limited passenger train ran to that city via the Wabash Railroad.
Edit: much time later, I have had some better luck. I even own an 0055, and it runs beautifully. I think the main issue with these motors is they will overheat easily if you run them for too long, or if there is too much friction in the mechanism. The magnets definitely do go weak with time, and need recharging or replacing. You can tell if the motor is blown out usually by looking at the motor poles and seeing if anything looks burnt/strongly discolored. Most Lionel HO motors (but not all!) have a red pole, a green pole, and a yellow pole. On some of them, all the poles are reddish-orange. Original comment: Every single Lionel HO motor I've handled was blown out somehow, I think that Lionel's postwar HO motor is poorly designed. I really want to get mine working again but they've been very resistant so far. I have one with what seems to be a good armature, but won't run properly still and now I'm suspecting the magnet is too weak so I'm going to try finding some rare earth magnets to replace it.
I have the same one, found it at a junk shop, disassembled it cleaned all the contacts greased and lubricated it and still would not work. I found this video helpful. Great channel and awesome content, keep at it
One other note, Lionel refered to their version of the Athearn Hustler as the "Husky" probably to try and differentiate the Lionel version from the true Athearn version first made in 1957. Lionel versions had a different forward headlight casing than the Athearn units.
I would like to recommend two things to do to that locomotive now that it is operational is put a piece of styrene where the cover plate should be on the underside to help prevent debris from getting into the motor and to replace the old bulb used in the headlight with an LED. The model I have has bad warping from the heat from the incandescent bulb these models originally came with.
Since it is a diesel, the AAR Code, not Whyte is applicable. Under the AAR rules, it is a plain old B - no lead truck, two separately driven axles, no trailing truck - although I prefer to blend AAR and Whyte to come up with 0-B-0. I am not aware if there is a special notation for wheel arrangements where one axle is driven from other axles with side rods, Cardan shafts or having hydraulic transmissions.
A very cute little Davenport! I've only ever had a very poor condition Lionel Geep, so I had no idea what the inside of their other HO locomotives were like. I was not expecting that thing to be so quick! A very nice addition to your fleet, can't wait to see this in future videos!
Hello SMT I have some old Lionel ho the engine you have is called a hustler catalog by Lionel 1961-1966. Lionel began HO in 1957 all their ho that year was made by Rivarossi, in 1958-1959 Athearn made ho for Lionel, in 1960 Lionel began making their own HO using tooling they got from hobby-line, a company that went out of bossiness in 1958, Lionel stoped making HO in 1966. They made HO again in the early 70s & from time to time to the present day, Today Lionel is making a poler express set in ho. Happy to see your engine run again Thanks
SMT: Great content! I have been into the HO scale train hobby since I was 10 years old. I'm a Rivarossi fan and have several mint condition locomotives and passenger cars. Also in my collection are various other brands, Stewart Hobby's, Bowser, couple of brass and even some old Lionel HO, plus many others. Most of my interest is in 1930's to the end of the steam era/early diesel. I enjoy all aspects of the hobby. Restoring and kit bashing old and new locomotives, cars, scenery, etc... I was watching an old show when you restored a Rivarossi 0-8-0 and mentioned a source for Rivarossi parts. I couldn't find the company you mentioned. Could you please post the info. Just discovered your channel a few days ago. Keep up the good work. It's great to see a young person taking an interest in what is becoming a lost hobby, craft! P.S.: Enjoy ur Hersey's and maple syrup up there!
i collect and have about 2 dozen of these units including an original from my chilhood, mainly Athearns, but a couple of Lionel versions (they were made by Athearn for Lionel with gear drive versus the rubber band "hi-fi" drive of Athearn units proper). Anyhow i have clocked some of them at a scale 400 mph with my Accurail speedometer when at full power. Awesome as an 8 year kid 50 years ago but hard to keep on curved rails at that speed. Of course i never (well almost never) run them at that speed now. Good seeing the thing run. Thanks.
The Lionel versions with band drive were made by Athearn, but the geared ones were actually made by Lionel. Lionel started switching over from rebranded Athearn to in-house produced HO in 1959, and I think they completely made the switch over by 1961. They copied a few Athearn models, the GP9 and the "Hustler". The Rectifiers are interesting because apparently Lionel was producing the shells from the start, and the earlier ones used an Athearn chassis, the later ones use the same chassis as a Lionel GP9 I think. The in-house production was made possible by Lionel purchasing the majority of John English's HObbyline tooling.
Oops Its Accutrack, not Accurail, speedometer. Its a good investment particularly for testing and setting dcc locomotive speeds and dcc speed matching for multiple lashups of steam or diesel locomotives.
I have 2 of them in Lionel.I am 67 years old and have one fron a set from the 60 s and one i found at a train show for $ 5. 🇺🇸. Like new Niether one had a plate underneath
That little loco was made for Lionel by Athearn to begin with.Later Lionel made their own with the name embossed on the frame.This one was made in the early 30s.Athearn called theirs the Hustler,appropriate don't you think?
Although Lionel has always been “O”gauge, they chose to Bring out this sets to compete against other HO companies ! Although a lot of professionals have turn their nose up to the Lionel HO But they are still worth money and they do still carry some form of value as well as a decent amount of detail ! They are still well worth it after, this little Missouri and St. Louis switcher engine that you have is a nice little piece of Lionel history ! 🌊🐺
Harrison: advice, please. I don’t want to tear an old Rivarossi loco apart to put some alcohol on the commutator. Can I just put a drop on the brushes, hold the loco vertically and let the alcohol run down onto the commutator?
When you were test running the motor at the bench it sounded like the brushes were arcing badly across the commutator? Which would suggest badly worn brushes, still it seems to work just fine after your maintenance 😊
AHM sold the same underframe and body shell with a band drive they were owfull they only had two speeds stop and wide open , you gut the good gear drive you dont see many that way,
Up until the horizon hobby take over you could get from Athern, brass gears for the drive shaft and a set of geared axles to convert them from band drive to gear driven.
I had a Tyco transformer like that one I threw it out because it was humming and when I took apart it was burnt. Not good controller at all. Now the first train set I remember kind of I was 3 or 3.5 it was a Santa fe Tyco diesel the transformer was black with a blue throttle control.
Love it "go, Speed Racer, go!" Another fine switcher saved from the scrapyard, Harrison. On a side note: MSt&L is Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway (1870-1960) headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
An excellent video. My railroad still operates a Lionel HO GP-9 and two Tyco Plymouth CR-4 center cab four wheel switchers. The GEEP came with a five pole motor, all gear drive, directional lighting, all metal wire handrails and stanchions, separate horns, and a removable dynamic brake housing so you can model GEEPS without dynamic brakes. I bought it when I was only ten years old, after checking the competition, like Athearn, Bachmann, Life-Like, Rivarossi, Model Power, and yes Mantua-Tyco,(No Atlas yet.) I KNEW I had to have this locomotive. It cost a little over 25 dollars and took almost two months of chores to pay back Mom and Dad. The GEEP and the two Plymouth switchers,(Which cost $4.99 each plus tax.) are the only RUNNING survivors of my childhood, but most of the locomotives I bought back then survive as dummies or roundhouse decoration, either whole or in pieces. Thanks for the memories and HELLO SMT Mainline from the Tracy Mountain Railway in Colorado. ♡ T.E.N.
I just saw this video, I had one of these locomotives when I was 7 or 8 years old. It was a Christmas gift for Christmas 1961. I hope I can find one of these engines for my collection. Thanks for the memories!
The Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway was an American Class I railroad that built and operated lines radiating south and west from Minneapolis, Minnesota for 90 years from 1870 to 1960. The railway never reached St. Louis but its North Star Limited passenger train ran to that city via the Wabash Railroad.
Edit: much time later, I have had some better luck. I even own an 0055, and it runs beautifully. I think the main issue with these motors is they will overheat easily if you run them for too long, or if there is too much friction in the mechanism. The magnets definitely do go weak with time, and need recharging or replacing. You can tell if the motor is blown out usually by looking at the motor poles and seeing if anything looks burnt/strongly discolored. Most Lionel HO motors (but not all!) have a red pole, a green pole, and a yellow pole. On some of them, all the poles are reddish-orange.
Original comment:
Every single Lionel HO motor I've handled was blown out somehow, I think that Lionel's postwar HO motor is poorly designed. I really want to get mine working again but they've been very resistant so far. I have one with what seems to be a good armature, but won't run properly still and now I'm suspecting the magnet is too weak so I'm going to try finding some rare earth magnets to replace it.
I have one of these that must be 60 years old! For fun, I detailed the cab, added glass, and turned it into a "cab forward" design. Works just fine.
Love the smell of my vintage Marx when it runs also!
This locomotive is better than the Athearn Hustler. Instead of rubber bands, Lionel decided to use a worm and spur gear combination.
I have the same one, found it at a junk shop, disassembled it cleaned all the contacts greased and lubricated it and still would not work. I found this video helpful. Great channel and awesome content, keep at it
One other note, Lionel refered to their version of the Athearn Hustler as the "Husky" probably to try and differentiate the Lionel version from the true Athearn version first made in 1957. Lionel versions had a different forward headlight casing than the Athearn units.
That Lionel loco was the very first loco I received at age 5. It came in a train set.
I would like to recommend two things to do to that locomotive now that it is operational is put a piece of styrene where the cover plate should be on the underside to help prevent debris from getting into the motor and to replace the old bulb used in the headlight with an LED. The model I have has bad warping from the heat from the incandescent bulb these models originally came with.
Since it is a diesel, the AAR Code, not Whyte is applicable. Under the AAR rules, it is a plain old B - no lead truck, two separately driven axles, no trailing truck - although I prefer to blend AAR and Whyte to come up with 0-B-0. I am not aware if there is a special notation for wheel arrangements where one axle is driven from other axles with side rods, Cardan shafts or having hydraulic transmissions.
A very cute little Davenport! I've only ever had a very poor condition Lionel Geep, so I had no idea what the inside of their other HO locomotives were like. I was not expecting that thing to be so quick!
A very nice addition to your fleet, can't wait to see this in future videos!
Hello SMT I have some old Lionel ho the engine you have is called a hustler catalog by Lionel 1961-1966. Lionel began HO in 1957 all their ho that year was made by Rivarossi, in 1958-1959 Athearn made ho for Lionel, in 1960 Lionel began making their own HO using tooling they got from hobby-line, a company that went out of bossiness in 1958, Lionel stoped making HO in 1966. They made HO again in the early 70s & from time to time to the present day, Today Lionel is making a poler express set in ho. Happy to see your engine run again Thanks
SMT: Great content! I have been into the HO scale train hobby since I was 10 years old. I'm a Rivarossi fan and have several mint condition locomotives and passenger cars. Also in my collection are various other brands, Stewart Hobby's, Bowser, couple of brass and even some old Lionel HO, plus many others. Most of my interest is in 1930's to the end of the steam era/early diesel. I enjoy all aspects of the hobby. Restoring and kit bashing old and new locomotives, cars, scenery, etc... I was watching an old show when you restored a Rivarossi 0-8-0 and mentioned a source for Rivarossi parts. I couldn't find the company you mentioned. Could you please post the info.
Just discovered your channel a few days ago. Keep up the good work. It's great to see a young person taking an interest in what is becoming a lost hobby, craft!
P.S.: Enjoy ur Hersey's and maple syrup up there!
Gotta love rivarossi with their pizza cutter wheels!
i collect and have about 2 dozen of these units including an original from my chilhood, mainly Athearns, but a couple of Lionel versions (they were made by Athearn for Lionel with gear drive versus the rubber band "hi-fi" drive of Athearn units proper). Anyhow i have clocked some of them at a scale 400 mph with my Accurail speedometer when at full power. Awesome as an 8 year kid 50 years ago but hard to keep on curved rails at that speed. Of course i never (well almost never) run them at that speed now. Good seeing the thing run. Thanks.
The Lionel versions with band drive were made by Athearn, but the geared ones were actually made by Lionel. Lionel started switching over from rebranded Athearn to in-house produced HO in 1959, and I think they completely made the switch over by 1961. They copied a few Athearn models, the GP9 and the "Hustler". The Rectifiers are interesting because apparently Lionel was producing the shells from the start, and the earlier ones used an Athearn chassis, the later ones use the same chassis as a Lionel GP9 I think. The in-house production was made possible by Lionel purchasing the majority of John English's HObbyline tooling.
Great video SMT and the little switcher is cool. And that engin is like, Gotta Go Fast
Oops Its Accutrack, not Accurail, speedometer. Its a good investment particularly for testing and setting dcc locomotive speeds and dcc speed matching for multiple lashups of steam or diesel locomotives.
Love it whenever you restore these little 0-4-0s! Hope to see another one of these soon!
That locomotives is like “focus speed, i am speed”
Amazing trains! Have a wonderful day!
Piko still sells this loco as part of their MyTrain series it even has a rubber band drive
You are above King of the Rails. You're a GOD! You can breath life back into the dead (locomotives).
great little switcher!
I have 2 of them in Lionel.I am 67 years old and have one fron a set from the 60 s and one i found at a train show for $ 5. 🇺🇸. Like new Niether one had a plate underneath
Amazing repair 😮
Sweet man, looks good running
Fantastic video 👏. Can you please do more of these
That little loco was made for Lionel by Athearn to begin with.Later Lionel made their own with the name embossed on the frame.This one was made in the early 30s.Athearn called theirs the Hustler,appropriate don't you think?
It’s so freakin’ adorable!
Wow that 0-4-0 is so fast
Although Lionel has always been “O”gauge, they chose to Bring out this sets to compete against other HO companies ! Although a lot of professionals have turn their nose up to the Lionel HO But they are still worth money and they do still carry some form of value as well as a decent amount of detail ! They are still well worth it after, this little Missouri and St. Louis switcher engine that you have is a nice little piece of Lionel history ! 🌊🐺
good for you smt i hope you continue getting fun projects and fixing locos maybe you could fix an o gauge loco?
I've got a few Lionel HO scale engines, one of them is the Southern Pacific daylight
Nice switcher
Nice video and really cool lionel engine!🙌🙌
Yes i love your restoration videos
Harrison: advice, please. I don’t want to tear an old Rivarossi loco apart to put some alcohol on the commutator. Can I just put a drop on the brushes, hold the loco vertically and let the alcohol run down onto the commutator?
It's so tiny I actually was thinking of buying one of these (Pennsylvania scheme) and it looks really detailed
Check out a ScaleTrains Rivet Counter series locomotive, THAT'S detail! These are toy-ish in detail.
@@westtexasrailfan I was looking at eBay and found the exact train that you were talking about the on eBay for 10 bucks
Wow that thing is fast. Cool.
That little loco is fast!
When you were test running the motor at the bench it sounded like the brushes were arcing badly across the commutator? Which would suggest badly worn brushes, still it seems to work just fine after your maintenance 😊
Can you restore your Rivarossi 0-8-0 next please great video by the way
AHM sold the same underframe and body shell with a band drive they were owfull they only had two speeds stop and wide open , you gut the good gear drive you dont see many that way,
Up until the horizon hobby take over you could get from Athern, brass gears for the drive shaft and a set of geared axles to convert them from band drive to gear driven.
Locomotive be like: I AM SPEED ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Nice job!
Same as the Athearn hustler but gear drive
No no no nooo !!! Why did it u do the Varney 2-8-0 and could u make a huge shunting yard for the 0-8-0’s plas
mmmm Lionel... oh wait, it is an HO.... Wait, what?!? :-) Great video. Thanks as always.
Smt: hello everyone I'm restoring this locomotive. Me: *clapping👏👏👏👏👏 keep going smt and then you become a millionaire
I had a Tyco transformer like that one I threw it out because it was humming and when I took apart it was burnt. Not good controller at all. Now the first train set I remember kind of I was 3 or 3.5 it was a Santa fe Tyco diesel the transformer was black with a blue throttle control.
Just got an older alco pa the lights turn off but it doesn’t move the wheels also might have paint on them pls help from the crimson valley model rr
Why don't you do what he did , take it apart and clean it up.... lube and TLC goes a long way
Does the motor make a humming sound?
It makes a humming noise sometimes
Love it
If it's not steam, wouldn't it be a "B" configuration?
Go speed racer? Hmm..thought about repainting it in the old "Mach 5" racing scheme???
Earlier today someone from my mom's boyfriends family gave me a old g scale train set
First veiw not too familiar with O but very interesting
It's a lionel!
Hello my Canadian brother lol
What's up
@@SMTMainline not to much how are you
Looks similar to the athearn hustler
How much for the tyco controller
I don't really want to sell it.
Ah I see also I got an old AHM BIG BOY that needs some work what do you think
Trying to fix up a rare Disney world locomotive and I can't even figure out how to open it up to work on it
Not an 0-4-0 that only applies to steam!!!!!!!!
Why can't Canadian Dollars be the same as American Dollars.
How much time do you have?
@@MMRails Quite a bit.
I have a athern mrc 50 years of product innovation just for 30 dollars and it runs
Has anyone noticed his intro gets slower over time
First and yay another video
And congrats on 7000
Hey SMT
It’s probably hot because your running it too fast.
Fast and furious lionel ho husler
I have the same switcher same melted spot on mine where the light is i have a video also
HI SMT
Hey
Hello smt
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Old PIKO train 🤣
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