Newly Procured F9 Diesels Looking Good

My two newly procured Atlas F9 O scale diesel locomotives arrived in the mail today. (Thank you to our friend and mail-carrier, Christine! By the way, we all need to get together for a few drinks soon!)

These two fairly large locomotives were packaged very nicely. When I finally unwrapped all of the protective wrapping, they were in much nicer condition than I had imagined. They actually look significantly less used than my previously procured Atlas F9 diesel. This was great news!

Next was to set up a test track so I could see how well they run...

I pulled out some 2 rail, O scale track... I assembled about a dozen straight pieces to make a 12 foot test track... grabbed my old trusty power pack (these are old analog DC locomotives)... I quickly dug out a couple of power leads with alligator clips... connected the clips to the track... plugged in the power... and placed the first locomotive on the track...

The lights came on and it runs very nicely! It runs smoothly at slow speeds as well as fast speeds.

I swapped out this first locomotive for the second locomotive... the lights came on and this one runs very smoothly too!

I even placed my previously procured locomotive on the test track... all three run very nicely!

These three locomotives will make for a nice little fleet of freight haulers. At some point in the future... when another room is remodeled and completed as a model railroading room, I plan to build a nice little dual-gauge O scale layout that runs around the walls of the room. Until then, I'm looking forward to detailing this small fleet of F9 locomotives and converting them to digital DCC command control with sound!