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I would add one more DC to DCC switch in for one of the turntable siding tracks and turn that into a programming track

I love this layout and it’s 4 train action. I want to build a 5x10 o scale train layout and I always thought I can only run two trains, maybe three, but four is crazy(five of you count the trolley) I want to base my layout after this one

How much did you pay for it on eBay?

When was this produced? I found one at a garage sale today.

Great video on how to take these apart, check them out and get them running again. I have a B&O version coming that was a little more than 3 bucks, and will probably need some TLC. I’ll share it when it’s pulling a nice passenger train on my layout. BTW, I use a magnifying lamp when it gets into the nitty gritty…

Damn, you got that 4x8 for 300!!! Wish I could find a deal like that. Just starting but I want to do a small DCC lay out.

Its been 3 yrs but I am watching for the first-time. I have n scale and got a Eurotool. It is like the fiberglass pen, but uses a fiber that is maybe 3mm. I haven't been able to find any more of these. I am glad I bought 5 extra fiber pieces.

Nice…where most of us started…a 4 x 8 and atlas track…and dc…😎

You have demonstrated why I throw out every slotted screw I ever encounter. I have thousands of button head Allen socket 2-56 x 1/4” long machine screws 🤣 to replace those British crappy screws !

Nice haul, I'm mostly hunting around for high hood GP7/9's my favorite locomotives, Athearn, Life-Like Proto 2000, (pre Walthers) And the long defunct Front Range Products GP7/9's They were the best of the whole lot they were super customizable, I would have put Atlas on my list but due to the fact that their frames rot out, I'll get Atlas when they improve on the frames with stronger metals.

Well, I’m thinking that you tore this down put it away and moved onto another new hobby

Just purchased one from The Train Station near Columbus.

There's a video of guy restoring old computer parts yellowed plastic yellow plastic in tub of water with hydrogen peroxide left in the sun takes yellowing out

For the love of God don't use sandpaper you wouldn't use that to clean your glasses would you, just baby while a wheel. I'm glad you ain't got a body grinder

I had the silver express from 1991. It had the same loco with the same dull paint job.

Just saying the real GM50 was low hood not high hood but great video

You can slightly file down the edges of the turn outs. I see the cars are bumping when the hit the rail of the turn out that isn't part of the main line. that will stop that not so smooth transition from the turn out to the main and the same way coming into a turn out. It appears the coupling issues are on small curves.

Sou Brasileiro, e gostaria de comprar esses kit de trens comprar

Hey! Is that the central ohio model railroaders club? If so I live about 19 minutes away.

Awesome

Had this, turned it into a bnsf engine

I use # 148 couplers on Athearn cars. The little brass coupler spring on Athearn is just a little to high. No worry on those with 148s Easiest solution for Athearn cars.

Super. My railroad only had one Bicentennial locomotive, a Tyco EMD F-7A unit, bought new in 1976, with an Aussie variation of the Mantua MU-2 truck drive. It still operates on my railroad, almost fifty years later, both inside and outside, and has a nice patina on the paint job now that makes the locomotive look very realistic. Hello from the Tracy Mountain Railway in Colorado. 💙 T.E.N. Edit: I wonder if there will be any "Bicentennial and a half" Red, White, and Blue locomotives or rolling stock for 2026? 🙂

About ‘75, I got the Tyco Spirit of 76. It was based on the Alco 430. I got my first train set on Christmas ‘69. That one was also an Alco 430. It was a Santa Fe “War Bonnet” (red & silver). I don’t have a layout now.

Happy 4th of July!!!!

Seaboard Coastline all the way. Nice set.

The Santa Fe Bicentennial unit is still around in a museum.

I have a scrapbook of HO train set advertisements from the 1970's. The spirit of 76 train set with diesel loco was $29.99 top of the line set. I still remember the jingle. The spirit of 76, the red white and blue. The spirit of 76 for me and for you. Alas all of my HO trains were stolen from my storage unit while I was in the Air Force. I have a scale Williams GG-1 and a K line in Bicentennial colors.The K Line plays God Bless America when you press the horn button. My cutoff date is the Bicentennial on my PENN CENTRAL layout.

Quite the Collection of Trains.

Nice Collection God Blessed the USA!

i thought you were going to clean the track in the video. Anyway, best of luck to the layout & its new owner.

I just finished watching the video. I found out why you were having problems on that turnout. It was thrown in the wrong direction of travel. We all forget to throw the switches sometimes for the route we needed.

Glad you got it to a new owner. It looks like a classic Linn Westcott or John Armstrong (Atlas book) track plan.

Can you tell me the DCC adress I bought mine without paper work

Gonna Miss That layout.

Sad to see it go... I hope the new owner likes it :(

Are you going to sell the US Army Locomotive and car?I have the rest of the Army train but NO Loco to go with it.

They all need a good cleaning and oiling Clean the wheels lube the motor and turn it on and stand back!

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Super. Cox locomotives are not as common as the other brands, but the drive truck is comparable to a Mantua/Tyco MU-2 drive, and they are pretty good runners. All of my Life-Like, Bachmann, AHM, and Rivarossi four wheel drive diesels died decades ago and got turned into dummy locomotives, but one Cox F-3 and seven Mantua/Tyco MU-2 drive locomotives, (EMD GP-20, Brill Trolley, EMD F-7, 2 × Plymouth CR-4 switchers, Plymouth MDT, and a Baldwin RF-16 Sharknose) are about to celebrate their fiftieth birthday on my railroad, along with about 15% of my locomotives and about 25% of my rolling stock. The Cox and Mantua/Tyco locomotives operate great, inside and outside, MU well with my more modern locomotives, and have a nice patina on the paint job, after all the years of use, that makes them look very realistic. Hello from the Tracy Mountain Railway in Colorado. 💙 T.E.N.

The Cox army loco is an F3.

Although needs a service. Cox are a little grumby. Easy buggys to service, tho. Have 2or3🚂🇨🇦📸🙋

Very nice the prr floodlight car you have is a tyco and the Napa boxcar is a model power since I have one of those as well in my collection.