ALWAYS DO THIS FIRST when buying MTH O Scale locomotives

Take care of your equipment and it will take care of you. Whenever a new MTH locomotive finds its way to your layout, ALWAYS lubricate the drive idlers with gear oil (I use Excel and Labelle) and more importantly... lubricate the worm gear and primary drive gear inside the truck. I've noticed more and more of my new locomotives have little to no grease inside the trucks and this will spell disaster, long term. How to keep your model trains in top shape.

In more pleasant developments... I decided to pull some new (to me) MTH 3v PS 2.0 locomotives off the shelf for the first time. I've had these for over a year and haven't run them. Today we conquer the grades at Logan's Pass and Little Mountain with tail-end help from an ES44AC!

0:00 Intro
0:40 Important Maintenance
1:45 The Locos
2:15 The Problem
3:17 Opening Up
6:15 Quick Lube Process
6:50 5v PS2 6-axle Trucks
9:32 5644 Chrono / Odo
9:59 5673 Chrono / Odo
10:19 5733 Chrono / Odo
10:49 Ops
11:26 Hold for Helper
12:00 Helper Start-Up
12:36 Tail-end Coupling
12:55 Awaiting Clearance
13:43 Tackling Logan Pass
15:12 Railfanning Trackside
15:38 Drifting Down Little Mountain
16:42 Scrap Facility Railfanning

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