Hotline Train collecting seems to be a fringe activity, but having recently acquired an opened but un-used Hotline set, I thought it would be a good opportunity to video me actually opening up a fresh Speedchief & show how I break these things apart & look at the state of the inside.

In the end it mushroomed into a 4 part restoration/repair guide epic. Hopefully someone somewhere will gain some useful information from this. I know myself there is little out there on repairing Hotline trains.

Most of this has been realized from applying fragments of information about Sizzlers cars from different sources, plus my own dissections & trials & errors. A lot of errors infact .
Many years ago Mike Grove told me his 'trade secret' method of how to open a Hotline train . This didn't work for me though, so I devised my own method of brute force & gratuitous violence...

The final part credits information sources I've used at the end, (even though they are mainly fragments), so hopefully haven't trodden on any toes.

If you have no interest in Hotline trains, these still may still be useful to watch if you suffer from insomnia.

Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C12JlLrJ67Q

Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2iwh...eature=related

Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT5eO...eature=related

Part 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ0Tz...eature=related