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General Discussion / Re: Interesting Auction Items
« on: March 21, 2024, 01:53:25 PM »
The cars I mentioned not having are black swans. It's reasonable to suspect their existence, but they've not been observed.Something to watch for.

The early black 33 without binding post is an example of something I  thought existed and finally found after years of searching.

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General Discussion / Re: Interesting Auction Items
« on: March 17, 2024, 08:27:49 PM »
Here's the first two versions of the 822 caboose in one lot for $44 postpaid.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/386866261606

At least I think so. . . I don't have an 822 with the number on the right or one with both ends lettered like the early 820 boxcars. There also might be cabooses out there with clipped corners on the main roof?

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General Discussion / Re: Recent Additions
« on: March 13, 2024, 05:29:19 PM »
Here's something new - a 53 with strap headlight. I've been looking for one of these for over a decade.

 


The loco came with 180/181/182 cars. It was a mixed set. Early sets have Pullman, later sets have Parlor Car. The new set has Parlor Car on the combine and Pullman on the coach. I have the same cars in matching sets so I probably won't keep the cars.

I also got from the same seller this 16 hopper with just the top face of the beam painted black. All my other hoppers either have the entire beam painted a contrasting color, or left the same color as the body.

 

 



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General Discussion / Re: Site Dead?
« on: February 23, 2024, 07:23:19 PM »
The big issue is the phones. . . People are used to using Facebook or twitter and don't want to learn how to post images.

The forum allows everything to be here. If you used the old TCA group on Yahoo, there was a lot of information shared there, but it was hard to find after the fact and is now gone.

There are at least two zoom groups that meet regularly about trains - one is the TCA national and so poorly promoted that only a few national board members attend, and the other is Joe Algozini's Toy Train Hall of Fame.

Here's a page on Joe's site of cool items:

https://toytrainhalloffame.com/joes-blog/f/collectors-their-collections

Mostly postwar, but the lamp on the bottom of the page is certainly neat. Compare that page  to the Interesting items thread here at train99:

https://www.train99.com/forum/index.php?topic=27.0

Joe's site has been up longer than this forum, and he has more active members - the last time I sat in on a zoom meet there were at least 35 people- but not asa much depth.

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General Discussion / Re: Site Dead?
« on: February 20, 2024, 03:18:20 PM »
Not dead just slow. There are many posts after 2021 so maybe your freind is confused?

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Collector Corner / Re: 1929 Lionel Standard Gauge Outfit 349
« on: February 03, 2024, 10:39:13 PM »
Brian I think the baggage doors are the same on all the cars. I looked at a 310 and a 419. The doors are the same, buit a little more is shown lengthwise on the bigger cars.

So if they are the same, then it's a factory error or special with the orange doors from a peacock 10 set.  It's a neat addition to your collection as you get more depth.


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General Discussion / Re: Interesting Auction Items
« on: January 25, 2024, 04:17:25 PM »
Here's a 114 boxcar for Harmony Creamory:

 


 


This one has been painted black everywhere except for the decaled areas. The blue cover TCA book shows a 114 like this that isn't repainted so at least 2 of these exist.

Here's the Stout listing if you want to see more pictures or follow the auction:

https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/lionel-prewar-std-ga-114-scarce-b-o-boxcar-built--081497b921

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Collector Corner / Re: 6044-1x nestles boxcar
« on: January 25, 2024, 04:07:11 PM »
Here's an interesting 6014 style car.

 


Plain white with no lettering in 6014-335 box.  The 6014-335 is a white bplastic car lettered for Frisco from the 1960s. This might just be a factory error car.

Here's Stout auction:

https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/lionel-postwar-6014-335-white-boxcar-no-stampings-1d747a79fe

Interesting.

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Collector Corner / Re: 1929 Lionel Standard Gauge Outfit 349
« on: January 25, 2024, 03:58:14 PM »
Stout auctions listed a Green 9 set with an orange door baggage:

 


The only other use of orange doors was on the peacock 332 baggage.  I don't have a 332 baggage to compare this with, but maybe the door was switched? When tjhis et was made they still had maroon doors for the apple green and mohave 419 combines.

Here's the auction:

https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/lionel-prewar-std-ga-promo-dark-green-pass-set-34-2242-c-99540f6bf4?

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General Discussion / Re: Interesting Auction Items
« on: January 23, 2024, 04:17:34 PM »
Here's an interesting train set:

 


 


The listing says the loco box is dated 1930. I had that loco with and without the stripe. I think the stripe version is more common. The observation is common. Check out the factory error baggage with end doors. You see those in orange, but not often in other colors.


https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/170189692_lionel-bailey-special-train-set-w-box


This 1930 Bailey Special Set looks to be assembled from obsolete inventory. They probably painted the locos up to match the cars. I think they did the same with the 253 in dark green with orange windows/cast headlight to get rid of dark green 610 cars.

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Layouts / Re: Terry's American OO layout 1934-40
« on: January 03, 2024, 08:00:04 PM »
Here's a video of the Nason Atlantic pulling some Lionel cars and the Nason Interurban on the layout:


So far it took me about 8 hours a foot to do the track. I did the gray track, the track with tan roadbed is from 1937.  I spent a lot of time getting the rails perfect, but didn't pay much attention to the 3rd rail. I need to raise it in some areas.

The Atlantic doesn't like the switches. The points are just pinned. I need to clean and repair the points and frogs so they sit correctly.

The interurban will only run counter-clockwise. There is a warped insulator on the underside of the loco and I think it's snagging on rail spikes.

I'm going to add outside pickups to a Lionel 004 Semi-scale Hudson loco and convert it to DC this weekend. I also do a full scale Hudson for the layout.

I'm having fun.

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Layouts / Re: Terry's American OO layout 1934-40
« on: December 26, 2023, 06:00:18 PM »
Here's some information about hand-laying the track.

Originally I thought the outside 3rd rail should go on the outside of the curves because that would keep the loco on the track, but that's not how the old tracks were made. Firstly, these are scale models and run much slower than our toy trains. Secondly, the locos stick out and would snag the 3rd rail if it was on the outside. Only long passenger cars risk hitting an inside rail, and the under-frame details can be shaved to clear the rail.

The old fiber tie strip is too fragile to drill through. I soaked it in water for a week to get it pliable enough to form curves, but it shatters when drilled.

The spikes won't go into the plywood, so every hole has to be drilled first. I started with tiny bits that broke every 5-8 holes, but a friend recommended I use pins or sewing needles. Sewing needles worked well and I bought 80 of them for $4. I can get 15-20 holes per pin.

I have a lot of different spikes I've collected over the years. Different diameters and different heads. This allows me to put different spikes into the same hole and move the rail.

Lincoln pennies are a great help.  I found a penny with a brass strip in the box of track stuff that came with the old track. The penny diameter is the gauge, and the thickness is the wheel tread.

Here's some pictures.

Marking location of inner rail. Inner rail is radius of the track. This section is 26" radius. I made the wood strip when I did the plywood.

 


 


Here's the tie strip after soaking in the tub and being blotted dry on the cardboard.

 


Start with the rail off the curve in a straight section. The black box is a rail gauge for straight track and allows me to clamp the rail. Here's the set up:

 


Then you work around with the rail over the black line.

 


 


Once the inside rail is laid, the straight section is used to start the curve and you just follow along with the track gauge and the pennies. The outside rail goes much quicker than the inner because it only has one place to go.

 


 


 


This section has a slight S curve and then matches to the existing track. By leaving a few inches of the rail sticking out and then clamping the aligned rails down I can make a transition that works. This is actually much easier than it looks.

 


 


After it's clamped I cut all four rails and trim the roadbed. I can adjust the curve by sliding the two roadbed sections back and forth under the rails. Because the other ends of the track sections influence this joint it will be spiked last.

 


So far I think I'm managing to do a foot every six hours!

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Layouts / Terry's American OO layout 1934-40
« on: December 17, 2023, 02:51:46 PM »
I have started the 00 layout. Outside 3rd rail with trains made from 1934-40. My locos are by Lionel, Nason, and Scalecraft. I have cars by the three loco makers and by Famaco and Eastern.

The idea is to build a layout using 1930s techniques. Open framework with handlaid track on ballasted plywood is the start. The track plan is a twice around with the high and low points at the back. This means the forward edge has both loops at the same height so the town-site is flat.

Here's a track plan:

 


I decided to test the trains to make sure they'll go up the grade. The raise is 3" overall - so that's about 1.5" in 10 feet. Overall grade is about 1.25%.

Here's a video of a Nason 4-4-2 Atlantic loco and a Nason Interurban running around the layout. There is a section of temporary track in the back that the trains won't go through.


None of these locos ran after sitting for decades. The original 3rd rail layout was taken apart in the mid 1950s. So far they all run after disassembly, cleaning and lubing.





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General Discussion / Re: Recent Additions
« on: December 15, 2023, 06:15:25 PM »
Here's a new 800 Boxcar (on the right):

 

 


The car on the left is my 800a2 Wabash 6399, orange sides, CLIPPED brown roof, type 2 stamping on both ends, wide wheels.

The new car only has lettering on one end. Might be an error as all my cars have stamping on both ends up to the green 800e. Or maybe I should say all cars with type one and type two stamps have lettering on both ends.

Stamp types:

Type 1 No. 800 on right, LL on left.
Type 2 LL on right, No. 800 on left.
Type 3 LL on right, 800 on left. – Some have corp stamps on bottoms.

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Layouts / Re: Terry's Layout
« on: December 03, 2023, 07:24:47 PM »
I got another 2353 AA set last week and added the two pullman cars to the layout. The single loco wouldn't pull the eight cars, so I cleaned the new 2353P and locked it in reverse. Now I have two double motored A units pulling 8 cars.

Yesterday a freind gave me a newer Lionel Santa Fe Hudson. It's like a 773 with short tender and no added piping.  I had four scale length Lionel Pullman cars from a deal earlier this year. They don't have roadnames so they can run with any loco. Makes for a nice set.

Here's a video of them running under the blue lights:

Both sets are running on full power.

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