What a great surprise, Dave! A complete train with oldies, but goodies for your collection! You have such great fans, and you deserve it! You bring a lot repair knowledge and humour to your videos. I enjoy every video you release.
That was a nice mystery box, Dave. It must be great to have friends who are so thoughtful to make sacrifices with their collection. The 600 volt rated 12 gauge electrical building wire is over overkill. It will be a pain to use for wiring a layout, even if it's stranded. It's hard to work with and incompatible with making terminations to smaller gauge wire unless you plan to use wirenuts for every tap or splice you make. You'll have much better results with terminations using 16 gauge bus wires and 18-gauge feeders. The blue T tap wire connectors (suitcases) are made to only work in a range of 14-18 gauge size. 16-gauge primary wire is sold at Lowe's or Home Depot. It's inexpensive, comes in different colors on 30' rolls, and is pre tinned. It's better suited to low voltage wiring. There is such a thing as improper wiring even for model railroading. You'll soon realize this when it comes to making taps and terminations. I used 16-gauge bus wires and 18-gauge speaker wire feeders T tapped to the bus with suitcases. It makes wiring quick, easy, and reliable. I tested each track section connection with a railsounds tender to ensure proper terminations before complete continuous assembly of track.
I really am very lucky to have such great friends and viewers, I love this community. You are probably right about the wire, but I am going to use it for the main bus line for the two main loops anyway. I don’t mind about suitcase connections not fitting because I don’t like them anyway. I know people love them and they are really convenient, but I’m just biased against them. I can crimp ends onto this wire and fit it to distribution blocks, so it’s working so far. Overkill? Yeah probably. But when dealing with such a large project, getting something for free beats using the best suited item!
Now who of us doesn't enjoy watching someone opening up unexpected goodie boxes? Fun video Dave, short but VERY sweet! And I can understand your' dying with the heat, I've done the same this year. It's been an inferno and my Chugger Barn was uninhabitable for most of the summer even with four fans and a swamp cooler. Thank goodness the weather's breaking and I can look forward to a fun fall! Thanks for posting!
A very nice contribution to your train collection, with plenty of goodies, for sure. It is certainly good to have friends like that. It will be neat to see that locomotive running, pulling all of those 'new' cars. An excellent video, as always.
Thanks! Hopefully I can get the work bench cleaned off and get to work on some of these smaller projects. I have a number of engines like this one that just need a little service
Really awesome mystery boxes you got! I really like the Lionel 8040 that Michael sent you as well as some other cars like the great northern hopper which I have one of those in my collection I think?
Awesome mystery boxes! for those smoke units to turn on and off Sean train depot did a video in his series about his amusement park where he used timer boards. I bought some of of Amazon and use them to automate house lighting on my layout, real easy to use and Sean gives a great tutorial on how to set it up.
Those Lionel MPC 8040 are great runners,Dave. I have one with a PRR rattle tender that I added lights to, as well as a brown NPR gondola and red NPR caboose. My 8040 looks great pulling a Lionel consist or a Marx one.
I feel like there are millions of mpc republic steel gondolas out there. As far as rolling stock I swear it has to be one of the most produced ever. Still a cool car. And most I see are blue so it’s cool to see a green one.
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Some great items!👍🔥🙏💪❤️🇺🇸. Thanks for sharing your mystery boxes.
All good items!
What a great surprise, Dave! A complete train with oldies, but goodies for your collection! You have such great fans, and you deserve it! You bring a lot repair knowledge and humour to your videos. I enjoy every video you release.
Thank you so much
What a wonderful experience to open mystery boxes.
One of my favorite things!
Great to have train friends😂
It really is!
Congratulations on the great gifts!
Thanks so much
Way to go guys! Congrats Dave.
Thanks
A very generous surprise indeed. You'll put them to good use I'm sure. Good Stuff !
I sure hope to!
Great trains stuff Dave that's for sharing! Kool Happy Railroading
Glad you enjoyed it
That was a nice mystery box, Dave. It must be great to have friends who are so thoughtful to make sacrifices with their collection. The 600 volt rated 12 gauge electrical building wire is over overkill. It will be a pain to use for wiring a layout, even if it's stranded. It's hard to work with and incompatible with making terminations to smaller gauge wire unless you plan to use wirenuts for every tap or splice you make. You'll have much better results with terminations using 16 gauge bus wires and 18-gauge feeders. The blue T tap wire connectors (suitcases) are made to only work in a range of 14-18 gauge size. 16-gauge primary wire is sold at Lowe's or Home Depot. It's inexpensive, comes in different colors on 30' rolls, and is pre tinned. It's better suited to low voltage wiring. There is such a thing as improper wiring even for model railroading. You'll soon realize this when it comes to making taps and terminations. I used 16-gauge bus wires and 18-gauge speaker wire feeders T tapped to the bus with suitcases. It makes wiring quick, easy, and reliable. I tested each track section connection with a railsounds tender to ensure proper terminations before complete continuous assembly of track.
I really am very lucky to have such great friends and viewers, I love this community.
You are probably right about the wire, but I am going to use it for the main bus line for the two main loops anyway. I don’t mind about suitcase connections not fitting because I don’t like them anyway. I know people love them and they are really convenient, but I’m just biased against them. I can crimp ends onto this wire and fit it to distribution blocks, so it’s working so far. Overkill? Yeah probably. But when dealing with such a large project, getting something for free beats using the best suited item!
Nice set of rolling stock!❤
Great stuff
Now who of us doesn't enjoy watching someone opening up unexpected goodie boxes?
Fun video Dave, short but VERY sweet! And I can understand your' dying with the heat, I've done the same this year. It's been an inferno and my Chugger Barn was uninhabitable for most of the summer even with four fans and a swamp cooler. Thank goodness the weather's breaking and I can look forward to a fun fall!
Thanks for posting!
Alot of cool stuff my favorite is the salt car
Yeah it’s a great car
Very nice additions and stuff to help get the layout closer to being operational. Enjoy!
Thanks!
Very cool mystery box!
Yes!
A very nice contribution to your train collection, with plenty of goodies, for sure. It is certainly good to have friends like that. It will be neat to see that locomotive running, pulling all of those 'new' cars. An excellent video, as always.
Thanks! Hopefully I can get the work bench cleaned off and get to work on some of these smaller projects. I have a number of engines like this one that just need a little service
Very nice! Love the Morton Salt car.
It’s a good looking car for sure
Really awesome mystery boxes you got! I really like the Lionel 8040 that Michael sent you as well as some other cars like the great northern hopper which I have one of those in my collection I think?
Thanks it’s all great stuff.
Awesome mystery boxes! for those smoke units to turn on and off Sean train depot did a video in his series about his amusement park where he used timer boards. I bought some of of Amazon and use them to automate house lighting on my layout, real easy to use and Sean gives a great tutorial on how to set it up.
Awesome! He’s always got the good ideas.
Those Lionel MPC 8040 are great runners,Dave. I have one with a PRR rattle tender that I added lights to, as well as a brown NPR gondola and red NPR caboose. My 8040 looks great pulling a Lionel consist or a Marx one.
Very nice!
Glad you like the goodies, Dave. Enjoy. Yes you did say it 3X
Thanks again so much. Now as long as I don’t say Candyman five times in front of a mirror!
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I feel like there are millions of mpc republic steel gondolas out there. As far as rolling stock I swear it has to be one of the most produced ever. Still a cool car. And most I see are blue so it’s cool to see a green one.
They are everywhere aren’t they. Well it’s my first one! I do like the basic traditional gondolas.
i used to wear my hair long many moons ago and the first thing i noticed when i cut it short, was how much cooler i felt.
Oh yeah it really sucks when it’s hot out!
Hey DA where can I get one of your shirts?
You can follow the link in the description of each video. Thanks for asking.
My aunt suggested that the plural form of caboose should be “ Cabeese.”
It is!