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General Discussion / Re: looking for a head light
« on: January 24, 2022, 01:39:46 AM »
The strap headlights without threads and nuts are two insulators with a squished eyelet holding them together. One insulator disk on the inside of socket and one on the outside with the tabs from the housing between the outside disk and the socket. The wire is attached to the eyelet.

To age a nickel part you heat it up with the torch and then drop it in vinegar.  Just house vinegar of 5% or whatever low amount Heinz is.  You should take the bulb socket part out before doing this.

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General Discussion / Re: looking for a head light
« on: January 23, 2022, 07:48:54 PM »
that's a STRAP headlight. You can get reproductions from many parts suppliers.

You can tone down a reproduction with a torch and some vinegar.

Here's a listing on eBay:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/363591724753

If you buy a used one, do not go for the ones mounted on a bracket that were used in houses and passenger cars. You cannot get them off the bracket without breaking the tabs.

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Layouts / Re: Terry's Standard Gauge Layout
« on: January 22, 2022, 11:50:17 PM »
Here's the Bilt Rite backdrops installed in the corner. I tried to get them scanned and then enlarged, but couldn't find a scanner that could do them. I used green sheets from Life-Like above the backdrop because blue looked too bright, and plain green carpet looked too dark. I think this looks OK

 

 


Here's some shots of the west end of the layout with the trains back on. I need to iron the felt roadway and put some more cars on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


if you look at the maroon walled 126 station above the blue comet loco, you can see what I did with the box from the backdrop. The figures don't stand on the carpet well so I cut the cardboard to make little platforms at some of the stations. I don't know if it's worth the effort to paint the cardboard.

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Collector Corner / Re: Some Interesting Lionel Items
« on: January 22, 2022, 10:11:31 PM »
This is my favorite thread on the forum. Probably because I've seen most everything and so something odd stands out. Here's a car I got a few weeks ago:

 


The car in the front is missing the lettering in the white stripe. The other side has the lettering like the car in the rear.  An interesting factor error.


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Collector Corner / Re: American Flyer tin Litho Burlington Zephyr With Mechanical Whistle 1936
« on: January 16, 2022, 05:44:47 PM »
I like the long straights too. I bought this house to get them.

The whistle makes three short toots and then a long toot. 0 for short; - for long.

 0 0 0 – Flagman protect front of train.

Or if it's a long and then 3 shorts it's

– 0 0 0 Flagman protect rear of train.

Interesting. I would think they would make it give a grade crossing code.

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Collector Corner / American Flyer tin Litho Burlington Zephyr With Mechanical Whistle 1936
« on: January 15, 2022, 07:01:10 PM »
I got this neat set months ago, and just now got around to it. The tin litho Zephyrs came in a few different versions - wind up or electric, and with or without a mechanical whistle. This has a mechanical whistle that tweets as the train runs. (The whistle is explainedin the video below.)

This set has the power car with a rear truck, and only one truck on the observation. Earlier sets have only a motor on the power car, and two trucks on the observation.

The boxes shown in the back are sleeves for the cars. Numbers are 555 for the observation and 584 for the coaches. The setbox label is not readable, but the number ends in a 3 or an 8.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Here's a video of the train running with the mechanical whistle explained:


The clunk just before the loco comes into view at the far end of the layout is the gears hitting the Lionel 072 switch frog. This has wheel gears like Marx, and does not like Lionel switches. At slow speeds it will get through the switches with a bit of noise. At higher speeds it derails.



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Collector Corner / unlettered olive 601/602 cars
« on: January 12, 2022, 08:41:02 PM »
Thewre are a few sets of unlettered olive 601/602 cars out there. I have a set that came from Lou Redman's collection. I think Mike has a set too.

Here's a video with a set on the shelf at the 6:30 mark.



Interesting. . .



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General Discussion / Re: Interesting Auction Items
« on: January 11, 2022, 01:17:02 PM »
Mike - those might be from the Porter radios and record players made in the early 1960s.

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Collector Corner / Re: 1942 freight outfit #8037
« on: January 08, 2022, 11:30:09 AM »
I had a near mint 763E years ago. It came with the madison cars on my layout. I sold it because my dad had one on the layout, and it would just end up looking the same after a few years.

The owner said he never ran it because he didn't have room for the 072 track. He ran the 226E instead.


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General Discussion / Re: Interesting Auction Items
« on: January 08, 2022, 11:19:13 AM »
I had a brown 6456 hopper that was cheically altered with the trucks still on. The maroon paint was fresh underneath the truck screws. Don't know what was used to change it as it came in  a box lot.

I also had a 6342 culvert gondola that was unpainted brown plastic. It was real.

The baby ruth car seems to be unpainted brown plastic. Collectors call these weird cars "Boy's Train Cars," but they are probably just samples or test shots.


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General Discussion / two RARE postwar cars. . .
« on: January 07, 2022, 07:28:37 PM »
Harris auctions has two really unusual cars coming up this month if they are real!

First is a green 6014 unlettered boxcar:

 


I think that's an MPC era shell so it might not be something special. Check the rows of rivets. There's a recent Airex car in the listing with the same rivet pattern.

Here's the auction:

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/120717802_lionel-postwar-8-eight-assorted-box-cars

Here's the gem:

 


If the brown Baby Ruth is real, it's a fantastic car. I had a brown plastic culvert gondola a few years ago that looked like that car.

Here's the auction:

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/120717800_lionel-postwar-eight-8-assorted-box-cars

I saw nothing else interesting on my weekly trip through the internet. It's been sparse out there.

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Collector Corner / Re: 1942 freight outfit #8037
« on: January 06, 2022, 11:41:09 PM »
That's a wonderful set Larry.  The 1684 is an O27 loco and those are 0 gauge cars. The factory putting sets together to have something to sell. Must have been more than one if they made up labels for the box.

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Layouts / Re: Jim's Layout
« on: January 02, 2022, 09:59:11 PM »
That looks great Jim. I have an old mirror ball nestled in the plants in my kitchen. I'll try it on the layout when I get the section I'm wiring done.

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General Discussion / Blue 248 loco
« on: December 31, 2021, 06:59:22 PM »
Here's an interesting loco:

 


Blue 248.


Here's the auction.

I bet that was repainted a long time ago. It's really interesting TO ME that the seller is quoting an article I wrote 23 years ago:

Lionel 248 locos

I'm famus!

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How To and Technical Information / Re: 254e cars
« on: December 25, 2021, 08:44:24 PM »
the 254/254e would go with any of the brass plate latch coupler cars.

Specific sets were

Set 299/299e with olive green 254(e), 813, 814, and 817 in 1926-28
Set 299/299e with olive or pea green 254(e), 812, 813, 814 and 817 in 1929
Set 295/295e with pea green 254(e), 811, 812, and 817 in 1930
Set 183/183e with pea green 254(e), 812, 820, and 817  in 1932.
Set 247E with olive or pea green 254e, 820, 812, 816, and 817 in 1933/34




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