Building The World's Largest Santa Fe Super Chief Locomotive? HO Scale
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- After collecting three ruined TYCO Santa Fe super chief F-Units I wasn't entirely sure what to do with, I came up with the idea of making them into what is possibly the worlds largest Super chief locomotive. In order to do this I had to figure out a way to connect the three shells, wire up a drive system and build a custom fuel tank out of wood. This isn't a fantastic model but it's better then these locos going to waste since the parts and shells are practically worthless due to all the damage.
"What are you doing down there with your trains?"
SMT Mainline: "Nothing...just a little kitbashing. (Evil Laugh)
That’s a priceless comment lol
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He more wheels and trucks on it. That would fit in with first Gas Turbine that U. P. had that did not last long at all U,P ,had it for 2 years then some other railroad got it went to crap;
Lol
i die inside every time i watch hes "kitbash" work its like watching 10 y/o with no sull doing some thing is just a thing
"Mooooom, can we have Baldwin Centipede?"
"No, we have Baldwin Centipede at home."
Baldwin Centipede at home:
Yes… this made me lol
There was a prototype for this type of a concept. Although much shorter. Built by Baldwin for the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey. Only six Jersey Janus' were ever constructed. All for the Jersey Central exclusively. The model was the Baldwin DR 6 -4 - 2000 double-ender. It attained the nickname of " Babyface " for the appearance of the cabs at both ends, along with several other Baldwin diesel models with the single cab. Double-end designs are used in passenger service where turning the equipment is not possible.
I’m surprised to hear that. Interesting history.
@@SMTMainline Oh yeah, DEFINITELY shorter. Figure about the size of an ALCo PA
are ya sure it wasn't j. anus?
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F units: lay on the table destroyed
SMT Mainline: Let's see what we can do with these!
F units: FUUUUSION HA!
That’s the spirit!
That's what I like about your projects Harrison. Not taking it too seriously rather just having a bit of fun.
FF21DX... built by EMD after it's design shop went on a retreat and found themselves in a Shoshone sweat lodge eating peyote buds and singing Iron Butterfly's "Innagaddadavida" in a nearby karaoke bar, where, in a hallucinogen induced state, came up with Santa Fe's three engine answer to the Union Pacific's two engine based DD40X.
"What ya got in that thing?"
"Oh just yer average V150."
Definitely a wild use of some extra parts!
"Did you feel that?" - Guy working at Ace Super Market.
They would have some stories from working there.
Makes an interesting dust collector sitting on the shelf.
:/
You've heard of the Super Chief, now get ready for the Mega Chief
That's the concept :)
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Wow! That was really cool. I love the creativity. Excellent job. Loved it.
Very nice!!! Very creative! Keep up the good work on your videos. I love watching you work to restore these broken units and make them run like new again.
I love the Santa Fe a f units
great video
Cool Frankenmotive build i quite like it, i think that the on F unit and the B unit just together would have been nice also. thanks
A A-B or A-A locomotive would be nice, it could probably also handle 22" curves since it would be no longer than a DD40Ax.
I think it's a pretty cool bird. When you think about it, there's been several oddball experimental locomotives in history, so I think this could fit right in. You could even come up with your own fictitious history about how Santa Fe developed it in an attempt to harness more power out of one locomotive, sort of like how the farm tractor industry did back in the 70's.
only a few seconds in and i’m already excited
It's something new
same
@@SMTMainline the miles per gallon on this thing has got to be incredible!
That was really cool!! And man it ran really good you should put a track outside or on the floor with nothing around so you could run it you should call it the Santa Fe Frankenstein until your next video stay safe and have a good day 👍👍
Reminds me of when I made a tank out of a tender on an RSO 0-4-0 chassis
SMT - That is a clever idea to mount an Xacto knife blade on a soldering iron! A modeler could cut parts from a locomotive body shell to use for adding details to the inside of a roundhouse! It looks like you used the blade chuck assembly from a knife handle on that tool.
I remember I used to make the exact same thing in gmod train build back in 2016, and it had the exact same turning problem. Have you tried turning collisions off lol.
In all seriousness, this was a really interesting video. Thanks for bringing me down memory lane.
Hey cool. This is nostalgic for me. I still have my father's all-metal Warbonnet EMD F7 consist from Märklin from the 1950's. ☺️
Harrison you get 5 attaboys for this project ,,,if tyco was still in bussiness you could sell them the proto type of this engine and im sure they would have made them and put them a set for around $500
Haha
The Stretch Limo of the HO train world!
Paint it yellow with UP decals and confuse many a people. Say it was a EMD prototype at UP's request.
When boss music starts playing and you encounter non other than, THE MEGA FE.
That was an interesting project. Very cool.
Until today I did not know I needed this¡¡.
It's Kinda of interesting what you can do with scrap parts. However, I would make a B unit with a Power Trucks and it could easily handle the curved track!!!! It's ridiculous too long for your Layout, but it's comical building something like that!!!!!😂🤣 Lol
You Have a Great skills on Repairing and Building HO Scale Train Locomotives. 🚂🚂🚆Thank You for Sharing this with me!
Just for future reference, maybe use hot glue on the block. That way if you ever need to take it apart, you can use a little alcohol to dissolve it. Nice project, even if it was a joke. These are the kind of things you will learn so much in doing.
If you put this on Ebay, I bet it would sell, and I bet it would sell for a fair amount of money just because its so unique. Some folks like crazy looking models, like me, but It also wouldnt run on my radius track. Great job!!
👍 Improvise, adapt, overcome! Hu-Aw!!
Hello, this just a general question ,I have a Rivarossi 4-6-4 with no tender, is the tender required to make the locomotive go. Applying power to the engine which is in the cab does make it go.
love that GGF71
And I’d like to welcome to you, the EMD F777ABA Unit
dang that's a long locomotive.
That thing is so fast! 😂😂😂
The Super Duper Chief.
I love he said a expert worked on it when he is a literal expert himself
Thanks but I'm not.
You now, this isn't too far off from what the DD35 and DD40 were. The DD35 was basically just 2 GP35 rear ending each other and the DD40 was just GP40X's with a "modern" FP40 cab.
Just imagine for a second at some time in the future someone finds this in a train shop.
GMod Trainbuild comes to life..
Thats not a Super Chief. It's a SOOPA CHEEF
The S1 of diesels nice
When you put the lumber, it looked like a boat.
What size radius curves dude !
I have like 10 old f units downstairs, and now I have an idea
Now you need to saw a GG1 in half.
Let me know if you want to let it go. Thanks. Big fan! Choo Choo Ronnie 👍🏻
I wonder if he added a pivot point in the middle would it make the turns.
I wish this was an actual locomotive lol
Me thinking 💭 Wait how is this going to go on a curve?!?!??
American double farlie locomotive
That is epic
Going to steal that hot xacto knife - brillaint. Thanks
It's a great tool. I don't use it often but it's been real handy.
I would buy a new broadway limited set of f units remove the details chop the noses off then remove the back ends and put F45 cabs on both ends then put two big athern motors in and wire them to DDA40X 4 axle trucks put in a DCC circuit board put in a tsunami sound system with F45 sounds and horn put in two decoders for both ends smooth out the area between the F45 cabs and F unit body then paint it in a Warbonnet paint scheme the run it on a layout with very long curves and Call it the SDF45AH
Three F unit body’s would be used
that locomotive need a name for it self At would fit the the ALCO and GE Made first gas turbine that only last 4 to 3 years on the railroad then crap.
UPRR has entered the chat
Would you call it a super f unit?
I think so
150 ft fuel tank
Behold the F7³
Test that gorilla glue on some throwaway piece of plastic to check for if it will dissolve the plastic
Probably not a bad idea although I've used all sorts of similar glues and non of them melted plastic.
You could have cut the b unit in half and glued the ends to the 2 a units and made 2 extra long a units. Would have been more realistic
Hi, maybe you can cut it in half and make it swivel in the middle , Ilike what yu've done already... "Happy Rails" GMan
A better way probably would have been a Razer saw. But your way worked
Super super chief super cool
smt who won the canadian national f unit?
I don't recall but I mentioned it in another restoration video.
SMT Mainline Slaps the F unit on the bench: Well folks
Three of them
DD40X moment
Lol yup
Summary: Harrison takes broken F7s
Harrison makes long boi F7
Absolutely!
@@SMTMainline hi
B A S E D
That f21 locomotive looks so good, those engines were true beauty’s and I wish I could’ve seen one when they were still around
GMD FDP19AX
3 × F7 = F21
It seems your customs always get weirder and weirder but they're always fun to watch, great video
I think they have.
I was looking at the thumbnail just assuming it was a A-B-A set but… well.. it turns out you made an A-B-A unit
It still kinda just looks like an A-B-A set from the front.
The reason they don't line up is there are two different Tyco F-unit body shells. The first one was tooled up around 1961 and I've mentioned before how it's a clone of Athearn with a few detail differences.
In the early 1970s it was starting to have wear issues showing around the side grille at the rear on one side of the body. Tyco's answer was to create a new tool and one of the differences is the thicker, more squared off side steps.
What is strange is when Mantua bought back most of the line in 1977 or so, they got the original F-unit tooling and were able to run it no problem. I don't know if they repaired it, remade it, or what. The second body shell tooling kind of vanishes when the rest of the line was sold to IHC, I don't know they ever used it.
That thing would be fun on a club layout at train shows, if you can make it handle some level of curves. Probably the way to go would have been to cut that B in the middle, attach it to each A unit, and then put a diaphragm in there so it can bend. But those things are cheap, you can always make another one. Or maybe do one using Shark bodies to go with it.
I suspect they might be from different eras since the drives were different as well. They overall don't look too out of place together however slight differences can be spotted. Thanks for sharing you're knowledge on this subject.
the first engine is what moves it, the second and third are what hide the flip out cannon
Hol' up,, WHAT!
That is the longest, craziest thing I have ever seen. But I have to say I am not surprised to see it run. It was touched with the magic touch of Harrison. 😊 Keep it up Harrison. It is all about the fun.. 💕😊💕🇺🇸
I bow to you master. This is awesome. I’m not surprised you pulled it off. Light and everything. Quality entertainment. I watched from start by finish. You do realize that you now have to build an even longer locomotive?
Thank you so kindly! I guess the only limit is how many B-unit shells I can acquire.
" IT'S ALIVE, IT'S ALIVE ! ! " Dr. SMT mainline.
Wow! That's actually pretty cool!
You should give it some 3 axle trucks on both ends and a couple 2 axle trucks in the middle, then it would probably handle the curves
It would probably fit the size of the loco a little better too. :)
Sandable filler and a repaint and you can make the seams will go away.
I might use the filler idea but I'm not sure how well I could repaint the model.
12:56 If America made a “longer” version of the Victorian Railway B Class diesel locomotive
SMT....the evil mad engineer from another reality. Loving it!
Yep Harrison only you can take apart a Super Chief locomotive and turn it into a Super Glue locomotive LOL.
if not- you saw it here first
i have a ho scale display i have been working on and i have wide corners on it.
Hey man, you said what you were going to do and you did it. Sounds like a win to me.
Hitting a target is still hitting a target even if the target is set low.
Whoever has the courage to create something new from waste, whoever has the necessary imagination for this, whoever has learned to work practically with their own hands - has won the world!
looks so cool, it doesn't have to be too serious all the time, they are toys after all.
I would personally recommend the "Micro Precise" version of the glue with the narrow nozzle and the gel type glue. It's really nice for precision applications where you don't want the glue to run.
Sounds like a wise plan.
the glue runs give her character...
ITS PERFECT!!!!
a new locomotive for the market!!
THE F21!!!!!
That’s just about the most far out locomotive I have ever seen!
After 40 plus years in the hobby I gotta say that my friend is a first but love it ,love your imagination as well to come up with such a beast. And it runs very well to boot . Awesome video SMT .
Thank you so kindly!
Once again, thank you Harrison. The practical use of an X-acto blade attached to a soldering iron complemented the entertainment value of the project: likewise, the introduction of the new super gorilla glue: definitely things I am going to try.
I wonder if the high speed bullet trains could just go straight and could uses this as a high speed bullet train I mean that might be ufishint and cool looking and it may be fast
Winner,Winner...Chicken dinner!!!Great job Harrison.Love your videos.You got me interested in doing the same thing.Train layout,I mean.Always wanted one when I was younger.Thanks,Hugues.
48 inch curves might work but the overhang would still look strange.
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There might be enough space in the overhang to run a switcher beside the locomotive on the same track.
The big boy: *Finally an opponent worth my time*
It's about time
U dare challenge me Santa Fe!
Great work! If this were a real loco it would be quite a sight to watch. With that wheel configuration I bet they would've had bad frame cracking issues!
The track should be duper-super, lol, mega wide radius, at least 4 foot, i.e. 48"inches. Also, do you watch the Sci fi show, "SNOW PIERCER", and their Giant train that travels around the frozen world? Also, Snowpiercer has the 10 foot guage track. And nuclear powered. Kooool!!!!! 11.11.21,a.d.
Looks really cool. Love your show. Im an old school h.o. train nut and you have helped me repair so many of my locomotives. Thank you keep up the great work
So, that's 150 scale feet of Santa Fe Superchief goodness!...... 50 feet more than the DDA40X..... that's saying something!