well folks in today's video we visit larkspurline train store in merrickville ontario
this is a train store which i like to visit pretty often i'm probably up here about once every four
months and i was really excited to get to stop by here today because i found out that the store had
recently acquired a whole bunch of different estate sales now out of these estate sales the
store had already organized some of the stuff and put it up on shelves but the rest of it was still
all packed away in boxes and i had absolutely no idea what could be inside the shop owner was
really nice he let me look through the boxes and what i ended up finding was absolutely incredible
so let me take you all on a tour of the store and i'll show you all what exactly it is i ended up
seeing here now as per usual we begin our tour in the consignment section i can't say i saw
too many new items in here a lot of this stuff i've definitely seen before they had a couple
new passenger cars but that was pretty much it outside the consignment section however there
were some treasures kind of hidden away including this really nice looking caddo locomotive being
sold as a project it was missing its handrails and some other parts but with a little bit of work
it could be a fantastic looking locomotive they also had a blue box canadian pacific locomotive
being sold as a project and it looked to have what i believe is an older style of decoder
over in the locomotive display case they had a whole bunch of new ho scale locomotives mostly
from canadian railroads in a variety of different paint schemes i think that most of the engines in
this display case are used but everything in here is in terrific condition and there were a lot
of engines which really caught my eye they also had a whole bunch of passenger cars from rapido
the majority of them were canadian national but they did have a couple via ones as well over here
is kind of like the store's secondary consignment section not terribly different from the first one
but everything here tends to have a box they have things like this project locomotive going
for thirty dollars with a decoder and uh one of my buddies actually ended up buying that locomotive
and just below that they had this lionel canadian pacific locomotive i'm suspecting
this is one of the bach monero ones with a pancake motor but i'm not a hundred percent sure
down here they had a whole bunch of passenger car kits for the pennsylvania railroad which
looked pretty sharp and then just a box with a whole bunch of miscellaneous freight cars nothing
too special but i always enjoy having a look and then i found this thing it's a daylight locomotive
from bachmann or lionel which somebody's painted black and added a canadian national logo too
i've seen some weird things you know odd projects people have created but that is very unusual i
don't know why somebody would have made that but in any case i just decided to keep on looking
it was pretty much more of the same just random passenger cars things like that uh they also had
this champion box car which i thought looked pretty sharp i didn't end up buying that but
if it's there next time i go i might just end up snagging it i don't know over here is the stores
section for high-end brand new locomotives i don't usually buy too many things like this but i
did really like this sioux line a b set now by this point i'd pretty much looked through the
entire store and that's when i started to notice that they had a whole bunch of different boxes
so i asked if i could go through all of it and uh the first thing i saw was that just a whole
bunch of junk dates of scale locomotives mostly from life like taiko and bachmann
they would all definitely need some work before they could ride the rails once again and that one
random mantua taiko locomotive then over here i started to find some slightly more unusual stuff
and the second i saw this i knew i just had to unwrap it and see what exactly was inside and what
you know it turned out to be was a project which somebody clearly sunk a lot of time into this was
built out of a kit it's a hobbytown locomotive all die cast the paint works a little glossy but again
considering somebody made that themselves it's pretty impressive in my opinion they also had
this river rossi steam locomotive which looked to be in pretty good shape no idea if it ran or
not and this one random lionel santa fe switcher locomotive and then i found something i really was
not expecting to see it's a 2882 steam locomotive from river rossi and the store actually had two
of those which was just kind of mind-boggling and then below that they had some really nice
looking ontario northern locomotives this one was a dummy but they had two powered models as well
those look absolutely fantastic and then here's the other 282 and then this box really caught
my eye just said locomotives on it and i was not expecting to see this check it out a whole bunch
of unfinished 1950s diecast locomotives now some of these are you know in really rough condition
they're far from completed but in and amongst the rough in this box there were a couple of really
nice locomotives which i'll show you in a second here so i had this one this one was you know
fairly complete but then i found something which i was just really struck by just check this thing
out it's such a rough locomotive and i gotta say i just kind of liked something about it it's almost
got like a bit of a creepy look to it but uh i i just thought that was a really cool locomotive
and it had most of its parts this one was pretty uncompleted however i think it has a 7-pole motor
i think that's a lindsay super motor which varney used to use but i'm not 100 sure on that
well i am now obviously home and i have uh quite the haul of different ho scale locomotives which
i am very eager to show all of you as well as test out because i don't have a clue if any of
these things even run so to start off i guess i'll start with the kind of like less exciting stuff
and remember that bin that i referred to in the video here it all is now i know what you might
be thinking you know this is just an irresponsible amount of locomotives to buy and uh you'd be right
but i didn't buy them uh you know these are all junk locomotives and i basically said to the store
owner there was like hey if you want i'll fix them all up and bring them back because in their
current state they don't really serve any good to anybody so i'll bring them here fix them all up
bring them back to him he can sell them all off and somebody can enjoy these locomotives once
again and i'll show you all you know what they all are we got a bachmann canadian national i
think it's a gp40 uh canadian pacific one this is in really rough condition i don't know if we'll
be able to get that one going again but we'll see we got a taiko century 430 locomotive i believe it
is some sort of an f unit from canadian national you've got a canadian pacific f unit of some sort
um an identical one and we got this lifelike kind of military locomotive
all very unusual but uh honestly it all looks a lot better because this was all separated at the
store and i was able to get most these engines at least back into one piece so it's a solid start
so that's what i first kind of got but now uh on to what i actually did buy and uh i am
very eager to show all of you check this out yep i decided to buy the daylight locomotive
i know that it is such a strange locomotive and so on prototypical and maybe to some you know
southern pacific fans this is like not nice but uh i don't know i just thought it was uh something
kind of unusual it apparently doesn't run and i'd believe it because uh if this is what i think it
is this is secretly a bachmann locomotive even though it's all blind l and if that's the case
that's not actually very good news for this thing because uh the bachmann engines from the 80s are
uh not great runners they had a huge problem with nylon gear splitting stuff so this one might have
a binding issue but i don't know there's only one way to find out here it is uh outside of the box
it's a it's a good looking locomotive because it's a daylight just
strange strange paint scheme so uh yeah there it is the canadian pacific daylight locomotive
i don't know it was just unusual i kind of liked it so i decided to buy it and take my chances on
this engine we'll see if i can actually get it running again though who knows and then finally
i think it's kind of predictable what i decided to buy but here it is yep it's what i think's a varni
locomotive i'm not 100 sure but uh i just couldn't help myself with this thing it's just super
you know cool unusual locomotive i don't have a crazy amount of stuff like this in my collection
and i just decided to buy it in untested condition uh i paid 50 bucks for it which you know it wasn't
dirt cheap but i threw in this tender which is all brass and this also has some brass parts i
i think it's mostly die cast but still it looked like a really nice locomotive and i really wanted
it so we'll see hopefully it will run once again i can already tell by the headlight this is actually
a high mileage locomotive because that's got some burn on it so it's definitely been run a lot but
it might just mean it's broken in i don't know now why don't we bring all these engines over
the track and see if any of them will do anything because again i don't have a clue
if any of these run or not let's find out well all these are all ready to be tested
not really sure where to start i guess we'll just pick one up and see if she'll go
uh this is one of the bachmann's with a pancake motor as you can see it's not in great shape
that does not necessarily mean it won't run and these were all in a junk bin so i don't know what
to if the stores tried to test them or not but well right off the bat we got a short circuit
and that's not changing so there's something miswired in this engine
but these are really straightforward engines in terms of wiring so i don't think that's going
to be hard to fix it might be a good thing actually because if it's just a wiring issue
the motor and stuff might be okay and this is another bachmann from about the 1970s i believe
this is actually uh an all-wheel drive locomotive if you can believe it despite being older than the
other one i don't know if this one's going to go these things tend to be prone to having
motor issues i find and a couple other issues which i'll get to in a moment with these but
let's see if uh let's see if she'll do anything
okay
we have a nice bright working headlight and i heard something
from the motor just a second ago but it doesn't seem to want to start now
oh yeah okay that woke it up
like i said these things are quite commonly prone to motor issues
i wouldn't call it hopeless because you know it did move a little bit
but that's gonna need some work that's to be expected
now this is also an all-wheel drive locomotive this has the exact same drive however this one's
in way worse shape and the reason i think this one's gonna be a real challenges because uh
if you take that off that's got zinc pest and a lot of these bachmann engines from the 70s
what unfortunately happens is this they develop zinc pest and the metal expands and it actually
destroys the shell which it looks like it might have done to this one a little bit so
that piece of metal will definitely have to go the question is whether or not all the other stuff is
still okay or not so i guess we'll just try to get it on this truck
give it some power maybe the motor will go who knows
yeah the motor runs
so obviously it's not hooked up to this because it's missing a little
piece of metal there but that's actually better than i expected so worse comes to worse we got
probably a good frame in this one and maybe spare parts out of this one i don't know i mean the goal
will be to get as many running as possible this will try to run the life lake uh these are not
horrible engines in terms of their motors but these gears tend to have issues so
if there's something wrong with this one that's where my money is at let's see
right on cue so that's gonna need some work hopefully the gears aren't stripped but that's a
very common problem with these uh first generation lifelikes which i think we're
actually built out of varney locomotives but kind of watered down i don't know they had issues
now uh i don't know i think this one's got a good
chance it's got the pancake dry it's not a fantastic motor but you might just go
let's see here
that's very unusual for this kind of drive
motors sounds very good actually but uh probably a broken gear would be my guess
and this one's i think also got a pancake motor let's give her a test here
no current draw
crank the power all the way up
this one's got an electrical issue probably nothing too serious i think that uh if i were
to take a guess somewhere in there there's probably a solder joint for one of the wires
that goes to the motor it's probably broken happens all the time on these older engines
uh here's the taiko power torques are a thing on themselves but let's let's test it out
something already doesn't seem quite right just about how it's sitting there
yeah that's not doing anything
so there are both those now onto the engines that i actually actually bought
the engine uh doesn't need the tender to run because it's all
plastic wheels and we'll just set it up as is
that very well might have a binding issue
well we have a working headlight
nothing from the motor so it's picking up power because the light's getting powered
but the motor is not doing anything i'm not hearing anything and we have low current
draw so it's not picking up power so it's not actually the issue i suspected this would have
unless somebody maybe this seized and somebody burned the motor right out of it
i don't know something's not quite right there obviously but that's to be expected
now onto this one i think it's actually got a decent shot now i don't know we might
leave the tender out of the equation we'll just try to hook it directly to the track
these old barney engines are pretty tough like i don't think it's going to run perfectly if it does
but let's try it out so i'm putting power in the track nothing so far
i heard something for a second there okay let's try this
give it more power
yeah it's it's trying to go
oh that does not look good i'll try to run it the other direction just try to fix that
it needs some adjustment but yeah this thing runs it's funny because out of all the locomotives you
see here this one is undoubtedly the oldest of the bunch and it technically runs despite maybe being
a seven-year-old engine um that's pretty cool so anyways that's gonna be about it for today's video
i hope you all enjoyed and with that i'd like to thank you all so much for watching
you