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General Discussion / Re: Interesting Auction Items

« on: December 05, 2021, 11:40:52 PM »

I bought the gondola I mentioned above after the seller messaged me about it. We'll see what it is when it shows up.

Here's a facsinating auction:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/224723794389

Read the description after you look at the pictures for more fun.

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General Discussion / Re: Interesting Auction Items

« on: December 05, 2021, 11:05:40 AM »

The 150 is in Sacramento CA.  That area is where the majority of my shipping cost complaints come from.

I bought a 802 stock car from the same seller and asked him about a brown 901 gondola, but he never replied.  The stock car has the Lionel Lines stamp on the end which I don't have, and the gondola might have no lettering on it. Might be repainted. I'm not paying $50 to find out.

I think the 901 has been cleaned so the lettering is gone. Notice that the 3 sides except the end with the lionel stamp are dull.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/234317629400

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General Discussion / Re: Interesting Auction Items

« on: December 04, 2021, 12:02:40 PM »

I see $13.55 shipping on that. I'd charge 14.00 shipping for it and lose money to the east coast because of the Christmas rate bump. It's 12.95 to ship a 17 ounce box to NY from AZ and eBay grabs 13 percent of the $14 I charge. Not counting the shipping materials and the labels I buy for 20 cents each, I'd lose about 91 cents on that at $14.

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How To and Technical Information / Re: Wheels for a 254E

« on: December 04, 2021, 04:37:18 AM »

That's a good looking loco. Do you have the 610/612 cars for it? Or are you running it with 800 series freight cars?

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General Discussion / Here's a gray 150 loco

« on: December 03, 2021, 08:37:04 PM »

Here's a gray 150 loco. I have a really clean one so I'm not buying this one even though its only $75.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/234317596948

At $75 it's a nice little consolation price for getting shut out last month.

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Layouts / Night time on the Lionel Lines

« on: December 01, 2021, 04:29:40 PM »

I finally got enough blue bulbs for the ceiling cans. The blue gives the layout a twilight look.

Here's no lights but for the train layout:

 

Here's the same area with blue lights:

 

A few pictures of other areas with the blue lights:

 

 

These are Phillips Party LED bulbs from the Grocery Store. There are 5 on the ceiling in cans.

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Layouts / Re: Jim's Layout

« on: December 01, 2021, 04:25:15 PM »

That's a great transition station behind the City of Portland. I've not seen that variation. 115 or 113 in mixed colors? I have a 116 in early colors with a red base and green roof with the stop mechanism.

That's the beauty of Jim's cluttered layout. Picking out the really neat stuff among the just cool stuff.

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General Discussion / Re: Recent Additions

« on: November 24, 2021, 10:56:08 PM »

The maroon is neat, but the maroon 38 is somewhat easy to find and cataloged so it gets ignored.

The red 33 is really cool because the loco was discontinued in 1923 and red was first used for locos in 1929. I made space for both of them in the middle of the wall.


You can do any size pictures as long as the FILE size for each is below 180KB. Windows 10 service pack has tools for converting image sizes.

See this post:

https://www.train99.com/forum/index.php?topic=26.msg106#msg106

There was a viewer on the board that allowed us to post big picturss and then see them easier, but that doesn't work with the newly updated board. The board updated itself. That's why we have dates agian.

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General Discussion / Re: Recent Additions

« on: November 24, 2021, 11:50:39 AM »

Harold - My freind who is internet adverse has some mi-loco cars I found a few years ago.   I sold some mi-loco passenger cars last year and there are pictures on the forum.

Those cast metal trains are so neat. I have lots of similarly made trains in 00 scale. 

Mike - that's a great looking 152 set.

Since this topic is getting some interest again. . . Here's my 29th 33 loco:

 

The 30th came a few minutes later:

 

 

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Layouts / Re: Terry's Standard Gauge Layout

« on: November 20, 2021, 05:07:43 PM »

I was down in the basement today and I heard a loud snap. Like a .22 rifle. Now I'd heard these pops before, but never could localize them. I'd always be too far away to tell where the noise came from.

Today, I was about 6 feet away and it was real loud. Turns out it's the cast heads on the 440 signal bridges.

This is the one that went today:

 

Looks like it cracked too!

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General Discussion / Re: Interesting Auction Items

« on: November 20, 2021, 03:03:30 PM »

I found out Thursday morning the dog is a diabetic, and much of my toy money has gone to the animal hospital. Friday morning I sold a 700E on eBay and had some more toy money, and the dog was stabilized.

Maybe I could get one or two of the 3 items I wanted.

It made no difference.

The two things I really wanted were the two square cabs with ovals.

The 1910 went for $5900 plus the vig:

 

https://connect.invaluable.com/stout/auction-lot/lionel-prewar-std-ga-1910-dark-olive-green-nyc-0-_C264F01B44

The 1911 went for $2200+ which was one bid over my 21, but I don't know how far the other bidder would have went, and after missing the 1910, I decided to go all in on the Penn 38:

 

https://connect.invaluable.com/stout/auction-lot/lionel-prewar-std-ga-1911-dark-olive-green-electr_88B4773BF1

I wanted those because I have the matching oddball 1912.

I was online and bidding for the Penn 38. I threw in the towell and two other bidders took it up to $4K + the premium.

 

https://connect.invaluable.com/stout/auction-lot/lionel-prewar-std-ga-scarce-38-dark-olive-green-l_C734025913


The dog should be ok, and whatever money I don't spend now, I can spend later.

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Layouts / Re: Terry's Standard Gauge Layout

« on: November 15, 2021, 07:32:15 PM »

I'll be selling a bunch of these in the future on eBay. Probably in December as they are unlikely to get damaged in shipping and December is a high da,mage month due to the temp workers.

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Layouts / Re: Terry's Standard Gauge Layout

« on: November 10, 2021, 12:05:10 PM »

Most everything on the layout is from the 1920-40 period. The figures are from 1930-50. I have more figures than I can put on the layout so I decided to put shelves on the ends of the layouts for them.

Here's a scrap of wood to see what a shelf would look like.

 

Here's some more Barclays. 

 

The shelf wood went up from $9 to almost $13 for a 1X6 eight feet long since August.  It's MDF particle board, and the glue formula changed too.

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How To and Technical Information / Re: Loco stalling on insulated track, why?

« on: November 07, 2021, 08:14:53 PM »

Current will follow the path of least resistance. This means something on those 2 locos has higher resistance than the accessory.

Try cleaning the brushes and commutators on the two locos that stop.

If the locos run thru ok in the opposite direction the wheels are dirty.  Clean the wheels.

Also, wipe the track down with a dry Scotchbright pad.

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General Discussion / Re: Interesting Auction Items

« on: November 06, 2021, 04:07:57 PM »

I think about that, but they see it IF it's one of the regular train auction houses.  There are enough  knowledgeable people looking at their listings to ferret out everything good.

If it's not a regular house and it's poorly listed there MIGHT be a deal. I've missed items that were seen by others and got great deals on rarities no one else saw. 

With the stuff I'm into I tend to place a higher premium on some variations than regular collectors. So with those items I try to keep my mouth shut.

Here's something for you Mike:

 

I wired up the lights and all visible bulbs are vintage and correct. The two on the station are lightly interior frosted and the filaments just glow. Might be from about 1920?  The tall street lights are probably from the early '20s.