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I had one of these back in the day. I hated how they ran! Bowser is coming out with a modern highly detailed model of this locomotive. Those must be some great traction tires!

A great little loco there Ron. I love those types of locos. The new grade gauge seems like a bit of fun... after a while you will have a whole video of bloopers for the grade calculator... I look forward to your next video... Cheers from Melb.

I guess the ATT was another distributor of those Yugoslavian models since it looks identical to the AHM road switchers I got as a kid. The bottom and inside motor layout looks identical to an AHM RS-3.

That's the most excitement that little locomotive's seen in decades. YeeHaw!!

It’s amazing that that single truck drive could accomplish wat it did, of course the traction tires helped quite a lot. Nice video as always, your ability with ypthis vintage models is amazing.

Way back in my younger years we would use a warehouse forklift to pull loaded semi-trucks around the yard when they were stalled for whatever reason. I did not think it would pull the load. But it did. Very well. The old guy supervisor of mine told me as long as you got traction it will pull. Never forgot that. I think your traction tires did the work. LOL. Take care Ron and as always thanks. G

Great video Ron. I have the very same loco in Penn Central made by ATT. I bought it on my 16th birthday way back on May 14, 1969. I believe it was $9.99. It was always a rough runner but it could really pull many cars. I just cleaned and lubed it up recently. I also put on new traction tires. Still runs after all these years

Thanks good job plus thank's for answers to comment's ***** No one does that !!!

Do you still have one of those #671's and would it be possible to aquire it from you ? GMan

This repair was unique for sure. Thank you for the manufacturer(s) history, aka importers only. What a scam. lol AHM passenger cars always had Rivarossi on the bottom. Crazy. Thank you for another fun video.

I bought and sold a few of these ATT C415. One of my dream models to eventually have, but I want more details

Loved this one. I've been there -- working on all metal kit locos. They always seem to need a whole lot of customization and tuning. I don't think it's important to always be able to wrap up a repair/build in a single video. It's not a failure if you don't succeed, it's a multi-part series. I am glad you tackled something as tricky as this. I encourage you to keep at it and put those brakes back on. I know you could have come up with a few ways to insulate those brakes if you weren't under a production deadline.

I have an Athern Baltimore and Ohio DD40X. It still runs after all these years.

Ron you really do a great job. You’re every man’s railroad hobbyist. Having fun. Goofing off. Learning by doing and showing us all how to do things better the first time. Fantastic!

Did you ever find the horn?

Love the information. I started watching your Lionel ZW rebuild and I have been hooked since.

Great video! Maybe someday I can be a channel supporter. I do have some odds and ends to donate to you.

Another fantastic video!

Timing is EVERYTHING! I just purchased a Marx 999 loco/tender at a local train show for $20! I haven’t yet had the chance to place this little bear on the track to see if it runs. I’ll use your vid to guide me in the overhaul process. Many thanks for covering other brands/gauges in a repair process! 🚂 Please keep them coming! 😊

Another strangely engineered locomotive. Watching you fiddle with those springs, brushes, and trucks once again makes me think just how right Athearn got it with the Blue Box design. Take care, Jeff.

Another fine video…always time well spent…

Cool video Ron & thanks for putting my name in the list. Never had my name shown looked real nice. 🤠

Very interesting model Ron. Glad it all worked out.

I thought it looked like an AHM. They are a little noisy, but good pullers.

Hey Ron you're asking for supporters- how about you owe me!?!? Because of your channel, I've spent thousands on rebuilding my collection lol. Thank you for such awesome content brother

Hi Ron. Good to see you. Good job and good history, funny a lot of companies in the day were owned by a few people. They say follow the money, for what that's worth.lol. Glad you left the pull test in, it was a great chuckle 😂 Glad nothing broke. Chat again soon, Cheers G.

Until fairly recently, there was a quarterly magazine named "HO Collector". The istQ 2021 issue had an artile on the ATT company, including a discussion of the Mehano-built Alco C-415 model. Incidentally, I have repowered several of these models. The easiest approach is to use the chassis from the later eight-wheel drive Mehano RS-11.

hop hop pop. 🙄

Rear truck pull the worm off to drop truck. Dont

Same drive as mehano rs2 rs11 c415 and s2

You forgot the most important part of the Alco C-415 story the demonstrator unit was sold and shipped to Australia and is still used but now in a heritage service.

I have a old Mantua steam ho train when I got it it didn't run took off the case got the motor only runs with wires on the motor.doesnt run any other way Do you think it's the wire from the tender to the locomotive?

Thank You Ron, always a great repair video! Kool

Bridget Bardot? Also, I'm starting to really like your videos. Im 61, and have been into damn near every train you've torn apart. Brings back many broke ass memories! Lol Great stuff

Thanks!

I remember seeing these in the IHC ads in the 90's. I looked up Mehano and they still make HO stuff, including the same Burlington war emergency red gondola I received for Christmas back in '74.

Like the grade tester good idea

I almost lost my mind working on a similar Mehano motor with that fiddlely gear array [DON'T EVER TAKE THE WORM GEAR OFF AS CATASTROPHE AWAITS]. The meshing of those gears add to the crazy making, not to mention the brushes' set up with that awkward way to bring voltage to them. And the motor itself that hangs up all the time. I salute your work on one of the most frustrating motor bogie I've ever worked on!

Great little loco. That had some very unique brush holders. Rube Goldberg must have invented them. I bet you're the only guy with a train launcher.

Life-Like actually did make trains. Most of what they had though in the beginning (1970 ish) was from Varney and Revell. Eventually, they did retool and then in the 1980's, snagged the Athearn drive system for their P1K and P2K models before being bought up by Walthers. A buddy gave me a AHM/Mehano/ATT S3 to work on. That motor took a dump. I have to see if I can find a replacement but its the same motor that your C-415 has in it.

Hi Ron & it's is Randy and i like yours video is Cool & Thanks Ron & Friends Randy

The interior of this engine reminds me of one that I put aside in frustration last year. Maybe it's time to try again. The engine I've got is a Southern Pacific RS-11, and it was my very first loco.

A T&T is American Telephone and Telegraph

Super. I always wanted an Alco C-415 center cab locomotive for my railroad, and so I took a look at the American Train and Track model. AT&T (ATT) imported brass and plastic models from England, Japan, and Yugoslavia, so I had high hopes. The model looked great and had an enclosed drive, but the traction tires (I knew back then) and the handrails really broke the deal, and even though I was only ten years old, and I really wanted one, I passed on it. Decades later, and decades ago, while I was checking out a garage sale, I found one, along with the remains of an ATT EMD FT unit which had the same brass electrical pickups as the Century loco, and the same axles and wheels. Long story short, I added the pickups to the powered truck on the C-415, changed the wheels and axles, added new handrails, couplers, weight, diode directional lighting, and details, and ended up with an ATT Alco C-415 with eight wheel electrical pickup and four wheels driven. (And a dummy ATT EMD FT unit, using the traction tire wheels filled in with epoxy.) Extra weight lets the center cab Century locomotive pull 12 to 15 cars, which is less than my Mantua/Tyco Plymouth CR-4 center cab four wheel switcher will pull, but the "I have one" part of me is satisfied, and it operates pretty well for such an old girl. The loco also came with three different height cabs and an option to raise the bottom of the fuel tank to clear the rails by thirteen inches so that the C-415 could be used in rock quarries. Good video. Hello again from the Tracy Mountain Railway in Colorado. 💙 T.E.N.

Thanks for another great video. You keep making them and I’ll keep watching them.

Great video, I knew Mehano was producing for Model Power but never knew they were that old. Akways great to find a model that old and seeing it running again.

Hello from the UK Ron, if you have time to watch "Sam's trains" from the UK, he has a great way of testing the pulling power of the locomotive's and it's a lot less scary, no need for any juggling 😅. Also I find loco's with a drive like your c415 pull better with the motor at the rear nearest the consist.

Well done. I think I have one of the C-415. I gotta go find it.

Great video Ron, I love the history you provide with each video. Keep it up brother

It has some Rivarossi traits.