Repairing a Mystery HO Train Set (Unknown Origins)

Never seen anything like this. Interesting.

I have a tender the NYC gon and B&O caboose from the same manufacturer

Cool video! What is the music playing at the end if the video? I Shazam it but it didn’t find it. Thanks

Reminds me of Marx's HO set that were sold near the end during the end of ownership by Marx ,before the sale to Quaker Oats in 1972. I remember them being on sale at Ben Franklin's stores.

its a battery trainset from japan i have it the original box as well as a steam set to.

Very interesting locomotive to say the least. The shell looks to be a replacement Life-Like and the third rail contact on the tank is just mind boggling. The set may just be a one year run by some toy company that cashed in on Christmas here in the States like Trix or Matel. The Sakai guess is a good one, but we may never know. The drive gear on the truck rides up on the re-railer because it is as big as the wheels. Dame odd this. At any rate great video. Looking forward to the next.

that front truck is equalised . and the rear set wheels look to be out of gage

Super. I bought a "foreign" locomotive once like this, not an "F" unit, when I was a kid in the Philippines with my dad, that had a drive like this and something of a generic boxcab look about it. I was young and only remember from my dad opening it up to clean and oil it. I do remember that it didn't like the rerailer track on my layout, and would thump over my switches. The controler was battery operated, and reminded me of an Erector set motor control, and I used it for a Lego motor control because I already had a train transformer, but the track fit right in on my layout. On the way back from the Philippines, the ship "lost" (?) our car, and the container our stuff was in, (How do you "lose" something out of a ship?) and probably had to pay my dad (Airforce) something. My parents got a new car, and I got a brand new Lionel HO steam locomotive train set with six cars and a caboose, which made me forget about the other train totally. Thanks for the memories, I was about eight at the time. Hello from the Tracy Mountain Railway in Colorado. 💙 T.E.N.

The shell of the F7A intrigued me. Judging by the 3 triangular dots on the nose, it appears to be a clone/copy of an old Globe shell. Globe F7A had this setup where the two bottom dots were the place where the number board attached to the shell since it was a separate piece. I don't know if this provides any valuable clues, but it may be a start.

Bandai/TM Nomura (cragstan)

The train set appears to be a set made by triang, for OO scale with large D type couplers

I have one of those sets but mine has a steam locomotive with it . I myself have no idea about the maker but I'm leaning towards it's a cheap cheap cheap crappy marx knock off train ..... yes very different