Tyco Mantua GP20 Restoration ⛽️🧰 Can We Fix It?
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
- 1970s Tyco Mantua GP20 Restoration ⛽️🧰
Restoration: Here I repair an old Santa Fe GP20 locomotive from the 1970s, removing the old oil, by adding new lube, cleaning the oxidized wheels, and a few other tiny fixes.
Based on some light research, this locomotive is around 50 years old.
Thoughts and Ideas are Appreciated
Music Composed and Recorded by Thelefevrefever Production Studio
Super. My railroad still has six surviving MU-2 truck drive (A single truck mounted motor with four wheel/two axle geared drive.) powered Mantua/Tyco locomotives in operation. (And one Powertorque drive, and a few steamers, but we won't go there.) Two Plymouth CR-4 center cab switchers, one EMD F-7A, (Featuring an Aussie designed MU-2 drive truck with the screw on, not rivited, bottom cover plate and sideframes.) one Plymouth MDT switcher, a Brill Trolley, and an EMD GP-20, along with a matching EMD GP-20 dummy, call my railroad home. These models are a joy to operate, and MU well with my more modern locomotives. These, and other locomotives, survived my youth (Many didn't.) to become part of my model railroad. All of them operate quite well, even at almost 50 years old. I added dynamic brake blisters to the two GP-20 locomotives, from Lionel HO GP-9s, (Easy, one piece.) as only New York Central had GP-20s without dynamic brakes. I also added lots of weight, (Trolley too.) windows, lighting, Kadee knuckle couplers, better horns, details, and a picture of me in the cabs and at the controls of everything. The trolley got RADIAL X2-f couplers mounted to it (Decades ago.) so that I could haul passenger, freight, or maintenance cars around the 4 3/4 inch radius trolley curves. (Awesome) About 10% of my locomotive fleet, and about 25% of my train cars, are Mantua/Tyco, and all are operated constantly, both inside and outside, even in the rain and snow, which gives them a realistic patina after all these years. Hello from the Tracy Mountain Railway in Colorado. 💙 T.E.N.
Sounds like you had fun doing that! Thanks for Watching!!
Very Nice.Tyco was my First train.
Silver streak Alco...
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Those ones look great! Thanks for Watching!!
Great fix-it video!
Thanks for Watching!!
Great video and I'm glad you caught your mistake with the wire to the light. In case you ever wanted to disassemble the motor truck you have to drill out the rivets, remove them (difficult at times), and replace them with a (2-56 x 7/8 Phillips pan machine screw) from FMW Fasteners. It does take some work and most repair people don't attempt it and you gain little. Good to see you attempt a cradle, but it needs a flat bottom. Even a towel doubled up on the surface is good especially when working on metal shell locomotives.
I might shave the bottom of the cradle to give it that flat shape. Thanks for Watching!! 🚂🧰
@@Thelefevrefever I've given it some thought, and I would cut down the center of the pipe insulator you now have without cutting through, so it opens up and then glue it down to a piece of carboard, wood, or plastic. you will have a perfect cradle that may catch on. You had a great initial idea it just needs tweaking. The cradle doesn't need to clamp the locomotive it just needs to be something for the locomotive to rest on with sides. I really like the pipe insulation thing you thought of and plan to make one. Great stuff this.
The side frames pop off but often times the tabs break off but you can glue them back on. That will give better access to the communtator. It also allows you to pry the wheels off.
Check the Bakelite wheels they might have cracked and need to be stabilized with CA,
Will do! Thanks for Watching!!