Cute, a fleischmann 4305. The flexible cog rails are 6411 and 6412, you mount them onto your existing tracks. Fitting wagons are 2nd class passenger car 5053 and luggage car 5054. Those three together form a "edelweiss" local train. ps. This info comes from a fleischmann 2002/3 H0 catalog ;)
Fleischmann trains are ones that NEED oil, so if you regularly use this then be sure to oil it often! I personally think Fleischmann is one of the best brands as they are built incredibly well and are just really high quality
Good to see this now rare loco running well. The larger gear was for the Fleischman rack cog rail system. They also made an 0-6-0T steam loco with this feature. Heavily promoted in the Fleischman catalogue and advertising in the seventies. Also the rack system was always a feature of the display layout of the local Fleischman distributor at model railway exhibitions I attended in the seventies and eighties. Enabled very steep gradients to be climbed. Lots of the typical German exhibition layouts of the time would have a rack rail branch line crammed in to show off this feature. Might be hard to find the rack rail these days, but I am sure a 3D printed version could be made
I have a E69 with the rack between the rails. This allows the loco to climb steep grades. I also connected the pantograph so I can run two trains on the same track. It really runs nice going up the mountain. I have the matching cars to go along with it. This was a great video.
The DR Class E69 were used on a single relation in Bavaria, between Murnau and Oberammergau, about 25 km length and about 140 m height difference. Five locos were built. If you ever plan a Bavarian themed diorama, with Lederhosen, Dirndl, brass bands and lots of beer towered by the snow covered Alp mountains, this loco would be at home. It even has the Bavarian white-blue livery. Edit: The Fleischmann model seems to be based on E69 03. The five locos have small, subtle differences e.g. in the placing of the cabin windows, in the number and format of maintenance access openings or in the placements of the air vents. 02 and 03 were built by Krauss (mechanics) and Siemens-Schuckert (electrics) in 1909. They are the only actual sister locos. 01, 04 and 05 were built to similar specs, but at other times, and by other companies.
This displayed loco is the Fleischmann Model 7305, built from 1972 to 2002. It's using the same parts with a different coloring like the E69.02 - Model 7300, one of 3 low budget locos in Fleischmann H0 gauge lineup. The blue/white color is pure fiction, because the E69 was painted in red or dark green by Deutsche Bahn, see de.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAG_1_bis_5 .
@@TuxOpa8725 - I'm late to the game on this, but you are correct - this is not an E69. With this being a rack lok, it is a very good representation (not sure if it is completely accurate) of the loks that were used on the Zugspitzbahn. There is one sitting as a monument in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. For images, do a search for "Zugspitzgahn Loks" and click on "Images" in Google. BTW, I model Murnau-Oberammergau and Murnau-Eschenlohe in N scale. So, I was very excited to see that Fleischmann came out with the E69-05 in DCC! Sure, it's just for tourists trains on my layout (1990-2001), but it still looks great in the Murnau Lokalbahnhof!
Three are still running! E69-02, 03, and 05. I rode behind E69-05 last year on a tourist train from München Ostbahnhof to Murnau - and then onto Garmisch-Partenkirchen. It was in celebration of E69-04's 100th birthday. E69-04 is a monument just outside of the the Murnau Bf.
I am so happy to see you work on this little engine. I had no doubt about getting to see it run. Loved seeing it run on your newer part of your layout. Looks like it belongs there. Awesome job Harrison. Thanks for sharing. ❤😊❤
I had one as a kid. Great little train. There is a set of matching coaches with baggage car in the same livery for it. And if you get the rack track Fleischmann made for it, it can climb quite a steep hill. The livery is fictional but the real prototype was built in 1929 by AEG. it worked on the meter gauge cog railway on the Zugspitze in Bavaria until 1990. Lok Nr. 2 is preserved and near the station in Garmish-Partenkirchen.
It's a nice little loco. Fleischmann made both standard and rack versions of this locomotive, where the rack version which you have was especially geared for low speed running. The gears on the wheels are actually not part of the rack drive, just part of the standard drive for Fleischmann with their flat transversally mounted motor. The central gear on the one axle is part of the rack-and-pinion system though; a rack was mounted in the middle of the track for the pinion to grip hold of. Fleischmann were as far as I know the only manufacturer to manufacture this rack-and-pinion system, which could negotiate grades up to 35% according to their marketing. The prototype for the locomotive was actually not a rack-and-pinion type, that was an invention of Fleischmann's.
To remove the C clips - put a small, flat screwdriver tip in the "hollow" between the clip and the pivot. Then either lever the clip out or rotate the blade. You have more control and can use a fingertip to stop it pinging away..
German electric switchers was E60 and E63. The E69 class is a mainline locomotive for the Branchline Murnau - Oberammergau, which were only five locos. All 5 Locos are still preserved today. This Loco is in Fleischmann Edelweiß painting. Its a fictional Paintsheme. The original E69 Paintings was red E69 003 (Hermine) and green E69 002 (Pauline).
Now you need to find some short little coaches for that little locomotive and maybe find the cog track. Or called rack rail. You find any small coaches for it I think it would be looking really cool
The fleischmann cog track numbers are 6411(204mm for a standard length of model rail) and 6412(200mm for a standard length of profi rail) The cogs are mounted on your existing track. (You have to love your old catalogs ;))
That is a Dutch passenger coach you have there. It is pretty common to see German locomotives running on the Dutch railway, but that are mostly diesel loco's since the German catenary network works at 25 kV AC and the Dutch at 1.5 kV DC
I liked that little engine from the first time I saw it! Neat as a pin and just needed some TLC. Fun to see it on your layout too. Amazing video you guys get these days with modern gear!
The prototype(s) of this model actually existed and came into service in 1905 at the line between Murnau and Oberammergau (in the south of Bavaria, Germany). The train operator Lokalbahn AG (LAG) purchased five in the course of following years which differ from each other to gain more power. 1938 LAG was incorporated by the Reichsbahn and its locos renumbered as class E 69. Initially they had to be provided with 5,5 kV AC (16 cycles, later 16 2/3 cycles). Since 1954 the state train operator in Western Germany (Deutsche Bundesbahn) fitted them to 15 kV AC (16 2/3 cycles), the system nationwide in use. Two of them served as shunters in Heidelberg (Baden-Württemberg, Germany) from 1955 until 1965, today these can be visited in museums and are still ready to run. The prototypes had been coloured in dark green or some sort of burgundy red, but the livery of the model is phantasy (fictive train operator "ELB Edelweiss Lokalbahn"). As well the prototypes had never been intended to run on a rack rail which the model could do. I think Fleischmann choosed the livery wisely because they are a nice extension for a mountain scenery as well as for a more costal themed layout. If you do not have an era I-layout it matches any touristy attraction even in modern times. Fleischmann made this relatively simple model in its prototypical liveries of era II and III, too and some years before its demise in 2020 they made it fulfilling current standards of model railroading with a motor- and cog-free cab, glassed windows, lights, sound (digital version) and more detailing.
These old Fleischmann locos have almost indestructable mechanics. The downside of the construction is that all detail is molded to the frames and casings, so what is broken can not easily be replaced by spareparts. The class E 69 was developed for the Royal Bavarian Railways prior to WW1. One of them is preserved and afaik still in running condition today. The Fleischmann E69 in ELB (Edelweiß Lokalbahn, a fictional company) colors had the cataloge No. 1302Z until 1970 and No. 4305 after 1970. 2 axes coaches in fitting colors were cataloge No. 5053 and 5054. The old 4 axes coach No. 1417A from before 1970 also has fitting colors. Other old Fleischmann coaches like No. 1401, 1402 and 1403 also make a nice train for the little loco. Attention! Numbers were wrong, corretion now: The loco's hook couplers are catalogue No. 6520 and each one needs a spring No. 6522. I don't know how easy these models and parts are to get in the USA. Even though they are out of production, they are still easy to get in Germany.
The E69 was developed by the Lokalbahn AG. The first engine, LAG 1 became E69 01 when the DR took over the LAG in 1938, All 5 have been preserved. Your coach is a Dutch (Nehterlands) 1st & 2nd class coach . The matching 4-wheel coach and baggage car for your eingine had the catalog numbers 5053 & 5054.
You’re getting very good with your macro camera work. It’s a treat to be able to see you do your repairs as clearly as you have on this video. Keep up the great work
Wonderful!! Glad you bought it, was a lot of fun watching you work on it. It makes sense it was just seized, that's quite the gear train. I definitely get the impression that Fleichmann equipment is well built, based on a couple trains I've handled- nice addition to the collection!
The gears on the wheels aren't for rack railways. The large centre gear may work that way if it's placed on Fleischmann's rack railway track. They make these in N as well, and having built a custom layout with European equipment a client had on hand, I can testify that it's fussy stuff to work with in that scale! I expect HO is much easier. That gear has to turn at the same RPM as the wheels, and protrude enough to catch the rack built into the track.
I think I had misunderstood what everyone had meant. I would be curious to get a piece of Fleischmann track and test its abilities. No idea Fleischmann made N scale products, it must be tricky fitting a drive in such a small model.
@@SMTMainline The larger gear was for the Fleischman rack system. They also made an 0-6-0T steam loco with this feature. Heavily promoted in the Fleischman catalogue and advertising in the seventies. Also the rack system was always a feature of the display layout of the local Fleischman distributer at model railway exhibitions I attended in the seventies and eighties. Enabled very steep gradients to be climbed.
@@johnd8892 The model railroad club I belong to has a cog railroad set up. The engine is the same type a shown here. The engine had to be sent out for a rebuild 2 or 3 years ago due to the use. The rack system does work, an adhesion loco will not make the grade, literally.
@@johnd8892 Yes, unfortunately Fleischmann is no longer involved in the production of H0 models but only in N. Production of H0 models was passed to Roco, they make the cog rail and have a loco which is based on the E69 05, very detailed but very cramped if you buy the digital with sound version.
Ow that's very nice: a Dutch passenger car! (I'm from Holland myself). It's a ''Plan K' from the thirties to fifties. You really shouldn't paint that one! I've got 4 of them myself :) . Aren't you gonna fix that buffer on the locomotive? It is a beauty! Greetings from The Hague, The Netherlands!
I agree indeed. This car is to nice for a repaint. A Dutch car across the atlantic, I've not seen that before. Greetings from Kootwijkerbroek, the Netherlands
Love it! A very cute loco and looks great going through the mountain with the German style house. It would be cool to have a little track going up a mountain with a little station at the top. I've never seen track built for these cog locos though... Anyway congratulations on getting it running!
As always, Harrison, well done! The little engine caught my eye as you examined the consignment section in your most recent Larkspur Lane video. Looking for something to kitbash into a reasonable facsimile of a Canadian steeple cab locomotive to add to my streetcar collection, modifying any of the few pricey brass models on eBay always seems somewhat beyond my abilities. Thinking that with the bumpers and the pantograph replaced, the little engine you found might be reconfigured to resemble something owned by the Cornwall Street Railway, suggested a visit to Merrickville to check it out, but the end of your video saved me the trip... but many thanks for sharing this restoration with us.
I had one of those when I was a teenager (long time ago). I also had the passenger car associated with that train line. I believe it represented a rack and pinion railway in either Germany or Austria. Just a follow up to my earlier comment above, this loco was part of the Fleischmann Edelweiss Lokalbahn (ELB) series. The ELB was a fictional cog mountain railway produced in both HO and N scales. The locomotives and rolling stock were based on the Bavarian Zugspitze and Wendelstein Railways.
I love this locomotive. I love Fleischmann, Roco and Piko. I started watching your clips and trying to restore models (of course, not seized). I clean them up, lubricate and fixing everything is needed. Then I reasable the model, adding details (if they are flimsy or ripped off completely. Than everything is ready.
Hey Harrison. I saw this video originally & later when you were running it on when it hesitated & not moving on your live broadcast when you had to fix it on air! Its another interesting locomotive. I hope since your last live broadcast you were able to re-repair it. Harold
If I found on flea market something von "Fleischman" (they are not something what can you find often, but...) I would be glad to ship it to you , because I see that you liked this small "beast"....Keep on with the great work
That's really cool you got that locomotive running. As far as the coupler is concerned yes it's missing a part the d-ring which is what the hook rest on that's why the couple of hook kept dropping down there's nothing there. If it's the old school type that's riveted in those are the originals. I think that predates the nem couple of pockets. That welcome all the runs just as good as my 0-6-0 steam engine by the same brand Fleischmann. Good job
@@mercuryoak2 sorry though I got kinda confused abit and didn’t read the whole comment though you wrote. Btw it does seems it does needs some parts like the coupler though.
@@MattKonsol I wasn't being negative about it. I was tellimg Harrison whats missing because at ending he said looks like coupler missing parts or something. yeah its a D ring its hard to explain but if I had the coupler from my set in hand id send a picture explaining the whole thing. Basically the G scale loco you have take the D ring off and thats what will happen to the hook part it will drop down and not work right. Trying to explain it is kinda hard for me because im sure other terms for the stuff
Hey SMT, Showing me now that you have a Dutch passenger car? Haha. It's an old Fleischmann ''Plan K'' A famous type of passenger car that where build by many pre-war for the Dutch Railways. Also known as ''Bolkop'' , Litteraly translated to ''Bulb Head'', because of the shape of the car. There are some of them at heritage railways and also in the National Railway Museum.
As far as I'm aware, "Plan" denotes the NS post WW2 replacement and expension building programs. These Plan K coaches were build during the late 1950's. There was a similar pre WW2 design, but without a "Plan" designation. Kind regards Christiaan
This locomotive is unusual in almost every way. The prototype, the great train, and even the little contact for activating a sound system. The most prototypical cars to run with this locomotive would be 4-wheel open-platform coaches
Nice little rack and pinion steeple cab. The rack track comes up on internet auction sites occasionally and attaches to the centre of your existing track. I'm surprised you didn't fix the broken buffer whilst you had it apart.
You need to get rid of that broken tension lock coupling which is hanging down. I guess it wouldn’t be much use to you anyway. Fleischmann mechanisms have always been very good (with a price to match !). Even though I model British railways, my dream has always been one of Fleischmann’s big class 52 Kreigslok 2-10-0’s 😍
One thing of note with European models is they might be OO gauge instead of HO. It may be ok in turns and straights but they might get snagged or derail on points as the wheel flanges are a bit deeper and I believe the gauge of the wheels are slightly wider than HO by just a couple thousandths of an inch.
Only we Brits use OO. It goes back to the days of pre war Hornby Dublo. Because the British loading gauge is smaller than in Europe, when they scaled the A4 down to HO (1/87) they couldn’t fit in the huge motors of the time (the first Sir Nigel Gresley A4 they produced in 1938 was produced both in clockwork and electric 3-rail). So they just increased the scale to 1/76 while leaving the track gauge as HO. It’s a compromise we’ve learned to live with, though there are some die hards in the UK who model to strict 1/76 in what is called P4 or Scalefour (because 1/76 = 4mm/1 foot). They have to build almost everything from scratch including track which is 18.83mm gauge rather than the OO/HO 16.5mm.
@@SMTMainline i use code 100 Peco Streamline, even my ancient Triang 1960’s rolling stock with its deep flanges runs no problem though I have to use only their « universal » code 100 points because the finer frogged ones really don’t like Triang wheels. Hornby Dublo wheel standards were always finer and have no difficulties.
OO and HO are the same gauge but just use different scales. The deep flanges are a continuation of toy train ideas of deep flanges being needed , same as Lionel ideas about deep flanges and wide wheels. Fleischman, like many European makers in the early days, used 1/80 scale until moving to 1/87 around the seventies. Rivarossi and Yrix older European models used 1/80 as well.
Hm. Then I guess what I've heard from the guys at train shows was wrong then? I went to one recently and there was a guy dealing a bunch of European rivarossi, fleischmann and marklin models in HO or OO and he said OO might have slight issues from time to time on HO points. Mainly I was telling the vendor it'd be neat to get some foriegn stuff to run on the modular layout I run just to screw with people. Mainly, a Chinese QJ 2-10-2 but the only ones I've seen for sale are WAY too expensive for me.
I really like this little Lokomotive, because it runs not so fast ! it is a rack railway Lokomotive. But not in original. So I converted it into a kind of electric Railcar, using an old LIMA Rail Van. 2 pairs of red Led addet. :-)
Not sure if you have already but can you do a general maintenance video for the AHM HO scale Santa Fe #2654 GP-18 Diesel Locomotive? Also, it would be interesting if you could make a video on souping up a particular loco, specifically DC, to run better than original? Like how to optimize slow to high speed and how to make any specific model outperform their high-end counterparts? Just some ideas but idea's I'd like to see capable of being done...😁
Interesting, so that large gear is used for a rack-railway system. There are brush retaining caps to make changing brushes quite easy. Is that a working pantograph?
That’s a really nice German engine there Harrison! Also it looks like a mini crocodile engine. Could i clean the communtator with a track brite and a school easer besides using the fiberglass pencil to remove oxidation?
The real E 69 were normal locomotives, they didn't have a cog drive, and they were painted in green or red. This "Edelweiß Lokalbahn" locomotive didn't exist in reality and is simply a variant of the standard E 69 which was also built by Fleischmann. Fleischmann also built a cog version of the steam locomotive BR 80, wich also didn't exist in reality. Both cog locomotives were geared to run slower than the standard versions.
If i had that locomotive like that i would tailor it to fit in with US rolling stock getting rid of the buffer springs and replacing those foreign couplers with Kadee #5
Fleischmann (ringfield) motors are built like tanks, one of the best types of HO motors in the world the only thing you need to do every maybe service is to just put a bit of oil on the gears and maybe every 20 years replace the brushes
Good Evening Harrison The fiberglass pencil that you used to clean the wheels did you get that offline or at a local hobby shop I would like to get one so I can keep my wheels clean. Thank you.
in europe fleichmann are seen as one of the best makes, the coach looks dutch to me the symbol along the side i believe is the dutch state railway,best wishes.jpj
Cute, a fleischmann 4305. The flexible cog rails are 6411 and 6412, you mount them onto your existing tracks.
Fitting wagons are 2nd class passenger car 5053 and luggage car 5054. Those three together form a "edelweiss" local train.
ps. This info comes from a fleischmann 2002/3 H0 catalog ;)
Try this with a non cog driven loc : ua-cam.com/video/UABbkVrY9tQ/v-deo.html
this thing and "sams trains" balancing coaches would look so crazy together
These old Fleischmann locomotives have a very good ring field motor. I had run my grandfather's V 200 under the Christmas tree on Saturday.
Fleischmann trains are ones that NEED oil, so if you regularly use this then be sure to oil it often! I personally think Fleischmann is one of the best brands as they are built incredibly well and are just really high quality
... and you can keep your locomotives on track with relatively few different spare parts.
always fun to watch how you repair "old school" model trains
Good to see this now rare loco running well.
The larger gear was for the Fleischman rack cog rail system. They also made an 0-6-0T steam loco with this feature.
Heavily promoted in the Fleischman catalogue and advertising in the seventies. Also the rack system was always a feature of the display layout of the local Fleischman distributor at model railway exhibitions I attended in the seventies and eighties. Enabled very steep gradients to be climbed.
Lots of the typical German exhibition layouts of the time would have a rack rail branch line crammed in to show off this feature.
Might be hard to find the rack rail these days, but I am sure a 3D printed version could be made
I have a E69 with the rack between the rails. This allows the loco to climb steep grades. I also connected the pantograph so I can run two trains on the same track. It really runs nice going up the mountain. I have the matching cars to go along with it. This was a great video.
Does one train run on the pantograph and the other from the track? Or do they both use the pantograph?
The DR Class E69 were used on a single relation in Bavaria, between Murnau and Oberammergau, about 25 km length and about 140 m height difference. Five locos were built. If you ever plan a Bavarian themed diorama, with Lederhosen, Dirndl, brass bands and lots of beer towered by the snow covered Alp mountains, this loco would be at home. It even has the Bavarian white-blue livery.
Edit: The Fleischmann model seems to be based on E69 03. The five locos have small, subtle differences e.g. in the placing of the cabin windows, in the number and format of maintenance access openings or in the placements of the air vents. 02 and 03 were built by Krauss (mechanics) and Siemens-Schuckert (electrics) in 1909. They are the only actual sister locos. 01, 04 and 05 were built to similar specs, but at other times, and by other companies.
This displayed loco is the Fleischmann Model 7305, built from 1972 to 2002. It's using the same parts with a different coloring like the E69.02 - Model 7300, one of 3 low budget locos in Fleischmann H0 gauge lineup. The blue/white color is pure fiction, because the E69 was painted in red or dark green by Deutsche Bahn, see de.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAG_1_bis_5 .
@@TuxOpa8725 - I'm late to the game on this, but you are correct - this is not an E69. With this being a rack lok, it is a very good representation (not sure if it is completely accurate) of the loks that were used on the Zugspitzbahn. There is one sitting as a monument in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. For images, do a search for "Zugspitzgahn Loks" and click on "Images" in Google. BTW, I model Murnau-Oberammergau and Murnau-Eschenlohe in N scale. So, I was very excited to see that Fleischmann came out with the E69-05 in DCC! Sure, it's just for tourists trains on my layout (1990-2001), but it still looks great in the Murnau Lokalbahnhof!
Three are still running! E69-02, 03, and 05. I rode behind E69-05 last year on a tourist train from München Ostbahnhof to Murnau - and then onto Garmisch-Partenkirchen. It was in celebration of E69-04's 100th birthday. E69-04 is a monument just outside of the the Murnau Bf.
Very nice! Fleischmann and Roco are still making coaches for it, at least have been very recently.
I am so happy to see you work on this little engine. I had no doubt about getting to see it run. Loved seeing it run on your newer part of your layout. Looks like it belongs there. Awesome job Harrison. Thanks for sharing. ❤😊❤
Thanks a bunch!
I had one as a kid. Great little train. There is a set of matching coaches with baggage car in the same livery for it. And if you get the rack track Fleischmann made for it, it can climb quite a steep hill. The livery is fictional but the real prototype was built in 1929 by AEG. it worked on the meter gauge cog railway on the Zugspitze in Bavaria until 1990. Lok Nr. 2 is preserved and near the station in Garmish-Partenkirchen.
It's a nice little loco. Fleischmann made both standard and rack versions of this locomotive, where the rack version which you have was especially geared for low speed running. The gears on the wheels are actually not part of the rack drive, just part of the standard drive for Fleischmann with their flat transversally mounted motor. The central gear on the one axle is part of the rack-and-pinion system though; a rack was mounted in the middle of the track for the pinion to grip hold of. Fleischmann were as far as I know the only manufacturer to manufacture this rack-and-pinion system, which could negotiate grades up to 35% according to their marketing. The prototype for the locomotive was actually not a rack-and-pinion type, that was an invention of Fleischmann's.
What Makes you that Good is you do your Homework keep up the Awsomeness.
good thing you made video , helps you to remember which gear goes where
Absolutely love the locomotive and it's nice to see a familiar passenger car 12:20 thats an old Dutch mainline coach that they used
To remove the C clips - put a small, flat screwdriver tip in the "hollow" between the clip and the pivot. Then either lever the clip out or rotate the blade. You have more control and can use a fingertip to stop it pinging away..
& it'll help you keep from stabbing your finger!
That was my first modelrailloco. Thanks for that video. Greetings from Berlin/ Germany. Sven
double Kewl. Love the blue cars you saved from paint shop. good call.
I knew you would buy that locomotive in the last video. I am glad to see it running again.
This looks very interesting. I’ve never seen a small Ho electric Switcher before I saw your last video. Very nice repair.
This isn't a switcher locomotive. This little engine was an actual mainline engine, which would run trains into the mountains
@@scout17051 that’s very cool. It’s such a small engine with big job to run train up the mountains. Thank you for telling me about the loco.
German electric switchers was E60 and E63. The E69 class is a mainline locomotive for the Branchline Murnau - Oberammergau, which were only five locos. All 5 Locos are still preserved today. This Loco is in Fleischmann Edelweiß painting. Its a fictional Paintsheme. The original E69 Paintings was red E69 003 (Hermine) and green E69 002 (Pauline).
Gret collection and glad to see the train works!
So finally you got your very first crocodile locomotive.. Well done
Sure is
Now you need to find some short little coaches for that little locomotive and maybe find the cog track. Or called rack rail. You find any small coaches for it I think it would be looking really cool
I just love the way the second layout is designed love all the hard work he’s doing it’s really smooth runner to
The fleischmann cog track numbers are 6411(204mm for a standard length of model rail) and 6412(200mm for a standard length of profi rail)
The cogs are mounted on your existing track.
(You have to love your old catalogs ;))
@@nielsdebakker3283 I love older locomotives as well but also the unique ones
I might buy a few pieces of track just to test it.
This isn’t a cog loco
I had fleischmann trains as a kid.
That is a Dutch passenger coach you have there. It is pretty common to see German locomotives running on the Dutch railway, but that are mostly diesel loco's since the German catenary network works at 25 kV AC and the Dutch at 1.5 kV DC
The rule of seeing the number 69:
Nice
I liked that little engine from the first time I saw it! Neat as a pin and just needed some TLC. Fun to see it on your layout too. Amazing video you guys get these days with modern gear!
That little switcher reminds me of an electric engine INCO used at Sudbury.
The prototype(s) of this model actually existed and came into service in 1905 at the line between Murnau and Oberammergau (in the south of Bavaria, Germany). The train operator Lokalbahn AG (LAG) purchased five in the course of following years which differ from each other to gain more power. 1938 LAG was incorporated by the Reichsbahn and its locos renumbered as class E 69. Initially they had to be provided with 5,5 kV AC (16 cycles, later 16 2/3 cycles). Since 1954 the state train operator in Western Germany (Deutsche Bundesbahn) fitted them to 15 kV AC (16 2/3 cycles), the system nationwide in use. Two of them served as shunters in Heidelberg (Baden-Württemberg, Germany) from 1955 until 1965, today these can be visited in museums and are still ready to run.
The prototypes had been coloured in dark green or some sort of burgundy red, but the livery of the model is phantasy (fictive train operator "ELB Edelweiss Lokalbahn"). As well the prototypes had never been intended to run on a rack rail which the model could do. I think Fleischmann choosed the livery wisely because they are a nice extension for a mountain scenery as well as for a more costal themed layout. If you do not have an era I-layout it matches any touristy attraction even in modern times.
Fleischmann made this relatively simple model in its prototypical liveries of era II and III, too and some years before its demise in 2020 they made it fulfilling current standards of model railroading with a motor- and cog-free cab, glassed windows, lights, sound (digital version) and more detailing.
Thanks for the info
I was ready to scoff at that dorky little engine but it looks nice and runs very well, thanks to you. Nice addition, for sure.
These old Fleischmann locos have almost indestructable mechanics. The downside of the construction is that all detail is molded to the frames and casings, so what is broken can not easily be replaced by spareparts.
The class E 69 was developed for the Royal Bavarian Railways prior to WW1. One of them is preserved and afaik still in running condition today.
The Fleischmann E69 in ELB (Edelweiß Lokalbahn, a fictional company) colors had the cataloge No. 1302Z until 1970 and No. 4305 after 1970.
2 axes coaches in fitting colors were cataloge No. 5053 and 5054. The old 4 axes coach No. 1417A from before 1970 also has fitting colors. Other old Fleischmann coaches like No. 1401, 1402 and 1403 also make a nice train for the little loco.
Attention! Numbers were wrong, corretion now: The loco's hook couplers are catalogue No. 6520 and each one needs a spring No. 6522.
I don't know how easy these models and parts are to get in the USA. Even though they are out of production, they are still easy to get in Germany.
The E69 was developed by the Lokalbahn AG. The first engine, LAG 1 became E69 01 when the DR took over the LAG in 1938, All 5 have been preserved. Your coach is a Dutch (Nehterlands) 1st & 2nd class coach . The matching 4-wheel coach and baggage car for your eingine had the catalog numbers 5053 & 5054.
You’re getting very good with your macro camera work. It’s a treat to be able to see you do your repairs as clearly as you have on this video.
Keep up the great work
Harrison, once again you got it back in service. Great work.
Wonderful!! Glad you bought it, was a lot of fun watching you work on it. It makes sense it was just seized, that's quite the gear train. I definitely get the impression that Fleichmann equipment is well built, based on a couple trains I've handled- nice addition to the collection!
Wow, that was easier then you expected. Well done. All the very best for 2022.
The gears on the wheels aren't for rack railways. The large centre gear may work that way if it's placed on Fleischmann's rack railway track. They make these in N as well, and having built a custom layout with European equipment a client had on hand, I can testify that it's fussy stuff to work with in that scale! I expect HO is much easier.
That gear has to turn at the same RPM as the wheels, and protrude enough to catch the rack built into the track.
I think I had misunderstood what everyone had meant. I would be curious to get a piece of Fleischmann track and test its abilities. No idea Fleischmann made N scale products, it must be tricky fitting a drive in such a small model.
@@SMTMainline The larger gear was for the Fleischman rack system. They also made an 0-6-0T steam loco with this feature.
Heavily promoted in the Fleischman catalogue and advertising in the seventies. Also the rack system was always a feature of the display layout of the local Fleischman distributer at model railway exhibitions I attended in the seventies and eighties. Enabled very steep gradients to be climbed.
@@johnd8892 The model railroad club I belong to has a cog railroad set up. The engine is the same type a shown here. The engine had to be sent out for a rebuild 2 or 3 years ago due to the use. The rack system does work, an adhesion loco will not make the grade, literally.
@@johnd8892 Yes, unfortunately Fleischmann is no longer involved in the production of H0 models but only in N. Production of H0 models was passed to Roco, they make the cog rail and have a loco which is based on the E69 05, very detailed but very cramped if you buy the digital with sound version.
Great find!! Very cool model!!
Oh my goodness I wanna layout, looks so much fun...
Ow that's very nice: a Dutch passenger car! (I'm from Holland myself). It's a ''Plan K' from the thirties to fifties. You really shouldn't paint that one! I've got 4 of them myself :) . Aren't you gonna fix that buffer on the locomotive? It is a beauty! Greetings from The Hague, The Netherlands!
I agree indeed. This car is to nice for a repaint. A Dutch car across the atlantic, I've not seen that before.
Greetings from Kootwijkerbroek, the Netherlands
I decided against painting it long ago. I really like the look and color of paint.
@@tobiasg169 i live in new england and i have some NS stuff, but only Roco NS stuff, i love it :)
That is the cutest locomotive i have ever seen. A friend of mine has the same one.
I was waiting impatiently for this loco restoration! Nice job SMT!
Nice
Pretty cool locomotive Harrison!
Since I last checked in on your channel you have doubled your subscribers,well done and thanks for all your hard work .
It has been remarkable. Thanks for your support!
Love it! A very cute loco and looks great going through the mountain with the German style house. It would be cool to have a little track going up a mountain with a little station at the top. I've never seen track built for these cog locos though... Anyway congratulations on getting it running!
As always, Harrison, well done! The little engine caught my eye as you examined the consignment section in your most recent Larkspur Lane video. Looking for something to kitbash into a reasonable facsimile of a Canadian steeple cab locomotive to add to my streetcar collection, modifying any of the few pricey brass models on eBay always seems somewhat beyond my abilities. Thinking that with the bumpers and the pantograph replaced, the little engine you found might be reconfigured to resemble something owned by the Cornwall Street Railway, suggested a visit to Merrickville to check it out, but the end of your video saved me the trip... but many thanks for sharing this restoration with us.
I had one of those when I was a teenager (long time ago). I also had the passenger car associated with that train line. I believe it represented a rack and pinion railway in either Germany or Austria.
Just a follow up to my earlier comment above, this loco was part of the Fleischmann Edelweiss Lokalbahn (ELB) series. The ELB was a fictional cog mountain railway produced in both HO and N scales. The locomotives and rolling stock were based on the Bavarian Zugspitze and Wendelstein Railways.
Gute Arbeit bei der Reparatur der kleinen Lokomotive!
Danke schön
I love this locomotive. I love Fleischmann, Roco and Piko. I started watching your clips and trying to restore models (of course, not seized). I clean them up, lubricate and fixing everything is needed.
Then I reasable the model, adding details (if they are flimsy or ripped off completely.
Than everything is ready.
Hey Harrison. I saw this video originally & later when you were running it on when it hesitated & not moving on your live broadcast when you had to fix it on air! Its another interesting locomotive. I hope since your last live broadcast you were able to re-repair it.
Harold
If I found on flea market something von "Fleischman" (they are not something what can you find often, but...) I would be glad to ship it to you , because I see that you liked this small "beast"....Keep on with the great work
Outstanding!!!
Nice job! All it needed was just a little TLC, some cleaning, and some oil.
E69 👀👀👀
Another great video.
That's really cool you got that locomotive running. As far as the coupler is concerned yes it's missing a part the d-ring which is what the hook rest on that's why the couple of hook kept dropping down there's nothing there. If it's the old school type that's riveted in those are the originals. I think that predates the nem couple of pockets. That welcome all the runs just as good as my 0-6-0 steam engine by the same brand Fleischmann. Good job
Matt this seems like a very nice engine though like I said to Harrison though. Seems like a very strong runner.
@@MattKonsol where did i say it wasnt a nice engine... I was saying on how the coupler that is broken what it needs for parts.
@@mercuryoak2 sorry though I got kinda confused abit and didn’t read the whole comment though you wrote. Btw it does seems it does needs some parts like the coupler though.
@@MattKonsol I wasn't being negative about it. I was tellimg Harrison whats missing because at ending he said looks like coupler missing parts or something. yeah its a D ring its hard to explain but if I had the coupler from my set in hand id send a picture explaining the whole thing. Basically the G scale loco you have take the D ring off and thats what will happen to the hook part it will drop down and not work right. Trying to explain it is kinda hard for me because im sure other terms for the stuff
@@mercuryoak2 it’s all good no worries
Hey SMT, Showing me now that you have a Dutch passenger car? Haha. It's an old Fleischmann ''Plan K'' A famous type of passenger car that where build by many pre-war for the Dutch Railways. Also known as ''Bolkop'' , Litteraly translated to ''Bulb Head'', because of the shape of the car. There are some of them at heritage railways and also in the National Railway Museum.
As far as I'm aware, "Plan" denotes the NS post WW2 replacement and expension building programs. These Plan K coaches were build during the late 1950's. There was a similar pre WW2 design, but without a "Plan" designation.
Kind regards Christiaan
Really nice little engine! It looks great on the the other layout too.
This locomotive is unusual in almost every way. The prototype, the great train, and even the little contact for activating a sound system. The most prototypical cars to run with this locomotive would be 4-wheel open-platform coaches
Nice little rack and pinion steeple cab. The rack track comes up on internet auction sites occasionally and attaches to the centre of your existing track. I'm surprised you didn't fix the broken buffer whilst you had it apart.
Enjoy as always! Nice job.
Very cool 😎Really enjoyed the little engine that can.! 👍Mark 😀
Very interesting looking engine
Nice little engine.
Awesome video
I love this little engine!
Serenity!
Nice tune up on a great little engine. Im disappointed you didn’t run it with the catenary “up”.😊👍
You need to get rid of that broken tension lock coupling which is hanging down. I guess it wouldn’t be much use to you anyway. Fleischmann mechanisms have always been very good (with a price to match !). Even though I model British railways, my dream has always been one of Fleischmann’s big class 52 Kreigslok 2-10-0’s 😍
thats an old Fleischmann Plan K coach from the dutch railways. theyre old but still pretty cool
One thing of note with European models is they might be OO gauge instead of HO. It may be ok in turns and straights but they might get snagged or derail on points as the wheel flanges are a bit deeper and I believe the gauge of the wheels are slightly wider than HO by just a couple thousandths of an inch.
Only we Brits use OO. It goes back to the days of pre war Hornby Dublo. Because the British loading gauge is smaller than in Europe, when they scaled the A4 down to HO (1/87) they couldn’t fit in the huge motors of the time (the first Sir Nigel Gresley A4 they produced in 1938 was produced both in clockwork and electric 3-rail). So they just increased the scale to 1/76 while leaving the track gauge as HO. It’s a compromise we’ve learned to live with, though there are some die hards in the UK who model to strict 1/76 in what is called P4 or Scalefour (because 1/76 = 4mm/1 foot). They have to build almost everything from scratch including track which is 18.83mm gauge rather than the OO/HO 16.5mm.
I have 00 Scale stock and I haven't had many problems. All of my track is code 100.
@@SMTMainline i use code 100 Peco Streamline, even my ancient Triang 1960’s rolling stock with its deep flanges runs no problem though I have to use only their « universal » code 100 points because the finer frogged ones really don’t like Triang wheels. Hornby Dublo wheel standards were always finer and have no difficulties.
OO and HO are the same gauge but just use different scales.
The deep flanges are a continuation of toy train ideas of deep flanges being needed , same as Lionel ideas about deep flanges and wide wheels.
Fleischman, like many European makers in the early days, used 1/80 scale until moving to 1/87 around the seventies. Rivarossi and Yrix older European models used 1/80 as well.
Hm. Then I guess what I've heard from the guys at train shows was wrong then? I went to one recently and there was a guy dealing a bunch of European rivarossi, fleischmann and marklin models in HO or OO and he said OO might have slight issues from time to time on HO points.
Mainly I was telling the vendor it'd be neat to get some foriegn stuff to run on the modular layout I run just to screw with people. Mainly, a Chinese QJ 2-10-2 but the only ones I've seen for sale are WAY too expensive for me.
As a kid I always wanted such a loco. Sadly my diorama didn't have a place for the cograil-tracks.
yeah the lube becomes sticky over the years.
the loco's with silver motorgears are the older ones.
they usually get loose on the axle.
Enjoyable video. You need to fix the buffers on each end and it’ll be spot on.
That is a pantograph system on top so you need a overhead power line to make it look realistic even though as a model it works from two rail pick-up.
I really like this little Lokomotive, because it runs not so fast !
it is a rack railway Lokomotive.
But not in original.
So I converted it into a kind of electric Railcar, using an old LIMA Rail Van.
2 pairs of red Led addet. :-)
It's interesting to see what looks like an RF choke, that little copper coil, installed to suppress EMI.
The passengercar is from the Netherlands, it is an so called Dclass and it originates from the fifties.
Those are spur gears on the wheels. It's probably not a rack loco either, that gear would be about the same size as the drive wheels. Nice find...
Wow
Fleischmann 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 I have couple of that company too....They are the best!!!!!!
Not sure if you have already but can you do a general maintenance video for the AHM HO scale Santa Fe #2654 GP-18 Diesel Locomotive? Also, it would be interesting if you could make a video on souping up a particular loco, specifically DC, to run better than original? Like how to optimize slow to high speed and how to make any specific model outperform their high-end counterparts? Just some ideas but idea's I'd like to see capable of being done...😁
I just got my old bachmann n scale U36b running. First time it moved under it's own power in something like 15 years.
Thats a nice dutch ns wagon behind that e69
Interesting, so that large gear is used for a rack-railway system. There are brush retaining caps to make changing brushes quite easy. Is that a working pantograph?
I was wondering the same thing, not enough people model electrified railroads in North America...
Recently i have done prity much all my familys old Fleischmann locos so the mechanicals of this loco are verry VERRY familiar.
It seems like a good design.
That’s a really nice German engine there Harrison! Also it looks like a mini crocodile engine. Could i clean the communtator with a track brite and a school easer besides using the fiberglass pencil to remove oxidation?
Wow I have been here since 10k subscribers and your at 45k 😮
The real E 69 were normal locomotives, they didn't have a cog drive, and they were painted in green or red. This "Edelweiß Lokalbahn" locomotive didn't exist in reality and is simply a variant of the standard E 69 which was also built by Fleischmann. Fleischmann also built a cog version of the steam locomotive BR 80, wich also didn't exist in reality. Both cog locomotives were geared to run slower than the standard versions.
In germany we call this "Zahnradbahn"
i remember this model. Early 1970ies.
Cool.
If i had that locomotive like that i would tailor it to fit in with US rolling stock getting rid of the buffer springs and replacing those foreign couplers with Kadee #5
Go back and get the other 2 fleishmann locos. The rack is available from fleishmann. You just spike it between the rails
im not sure if it was mentioned already, but the passenger car is the Dutch railway or NS ( Nederlandse Spoorwegen )
My n scale Jupiter train set came in the mail today! Gonna have to do some small repairs.
Fleischmann (ringfield) motors are built like tanks, one of the best types of HO motors in the world the only thing you need to do every maybe service is to just put a bit of oil on the gears and maybe every 20 years replace the brushes
Good Evening Harrison
The fiberglass pencil that you used to clean the wheels did you get that offline or at a local hobby shop I would like to get one so I can keep my wheels clean.
Thank you.
Awsum 😎🚂❤️
in europe fleichmann are seen as one of the best makes, the coach looks dutch to me the symbol along the side i believe is the dutch state railway,best wishes.jpj