Posted video on Youtube showing our FP7A moving at the museum.

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Just a video of the startup and moving of a nicely restored GMD FP7A that I was lucky enough to work on for the museum. I enjoyed my time working on this loco getting it ready for the mainline excursions this December. Every 3 years the entire brake system needs overhauling by regulation, and of course, there is a bit to do getting the coaches all ready, connected and all the air and electrical systems tested. Don’t have videos of all that, but did get a chance to take this video and snapshots one day when I wasn’t completely greasy. What fun.

It’s over at Youtube together with some videos about my layout.

Merry Christmas!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uREoGEqGmFI

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[8D] Nice looking old diesel, wish I was closer so I could go for a ride.

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Cisco,

Is it DC or DCC? [;)]

Tom

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wind up

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Interesting that you mention wind-up. A friend gave me an old book about model railroading…published in the early 1960s. I mentions wind-up as an option for modelers…albeit a fading option even as the book was being written. The author mentions how a careful winding could be used to have the train pass through the layout sections/yards and then stop at the destination desired…the winding up was a skill in itself it seems.

I think that was purely a British or European option in the early days. The book was written in Britain.

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I don’t think so. Those early trains were also called clockwork. I’d guess that they were brought into the states early on.

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Cisco Kid!

Thanks for posting that awesome video! The CP FP7A is my favourite locomotive by far. I have several HO scale models of them by Intermountain. It was very interesting to see the engine details.

Dave

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Thanks for sharing the video.

I’d be fairly sure you’re thinking of the late Norman Eagles “Sherwood Section of the LMS” an O scale clockwork railroad that was operated to timetable with turns of the key determining the distance the train ran.
Cheers, the Bear.

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Thanks. I sure enjoy myself too over there. And getting to work on the pieces is a treat. I especially enjoy working on 4069 as it is exactly two months younger than me…and I know how it feels sitting there creaking and flaking away. I wish someone would restore me! Here are a couple of the matching cars the staff got ready in time for this year’s excursion:

Mind you, at the same time CP 4069 rolled out of the GMD shops, locos like the one below were still moving the grain cars onto the sidings of my father’s elevator just as this in 1954. Seems like ancient history alright.