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General Discussion / Re: Interesting Auction Items

« on: July 02, 2021, 10:43:05 PM »

Here's some history. A 1926 Lionel 402 set with Mexican Brewery Lettering added to the loco and cars:

 

 

 

 

Corona and Modelo are beers made by the Cervecería Modelo company named on the top of the loco. The first American beer train and it turns out to be Mexican.


Here's the auction:

https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/prewar-lionel-set-402-engine-419-418-490-passenge-72-c-3bf44e4bba

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General Discussion / Re: Interesting Auction Items

« on: July 02, 2021, 06:49:54 PM »

I see him now. He must have had his back turned when I looked earlier.

The White Street book might put a name to him.

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General Discussion / Re: Interesting Auction Items

« on: July 02, 2021, 04:38:59 PM »

I don't see anyone in the picture.

Looks like they had a raised level that was removed between this one and the other. Them's the trains we're looking for!

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General Discussion / Re: We're burning up !!

« on: July 02, 2021, 12:27:22 PM »

I moved to a suburban town for the basement, and to get away from the wackos. I did well.

Here in the desert we're currently at 91 degrees with light rains. That's at noon. I hope it stays cool over the weekend.

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Layouts / Re: Terry's Standard Gauge Layout

« on: July 02, 2021, 12:09:07 PM »

I put string leds under the layout, but they run on 1.5 volts and don't do much. Those were cheap after christmas sale lights.

The coffee shop the dog and I go to has rope lights from Amazon that will work.

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General Discussion / Re: Interesting Auction Items

« on: July 02, 2021, 12:08:35 PM »

The guy with the 5 is the same guy I bought the mohave 38 from a while back. He changed eBay accounts for some reason.

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General Discussion / Re: Interesting Auction Items

« on: July 02, 2021, 02:10:07 AM »

Mike - I can't see much on facebook because I don't have an account. The captions for the pictures I did see say there are earlier pictures of the same room posted. Can you grab one and post it here?

Here's something interesting. 1906/07 Lionel thin rim 5 loco with DUMMY headlight and split frame. The newest Greenberg says only 2 of these are known, but this is the second one I've seen for sale in the past 2 months.

 

The one in the Greenberg book and the one I saw last month both have holes in the boiler top behind the light hood. This one does not. The hole is for the wire so I was skeptical of the orginality of the last one.

Here's the auction:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/284355307613

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Layouts / Re: Terry's Standard Gauge Layout

« on: June 30, 2021, 12:23:48 AM »

I think the track lighting with small hoods and small 40 watt bulbs results in the lowest amount of glare.

I've been modifing Lionel switches so they make closer sidings.  I cut the switch machine part off and also cut the straight off at the frog. Then I put the switch machine onto the other side and painted everything.

I think you can never have enough lights on the layout so I made sure the lights work. The switches don't work, but that wouldn't have been much more work.

Here's some photos:

 

 

 

I need to cut track, but it's too late at night to fire up the chop saw in the garage.

I'll put a bunch of freight cars on the sidings.

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Classifieds / Re: Parts requests

« on: June 29, 2021, 05:17:16 PM »

Parts I need:

Slide on headlights. I need 2 of them.

Teledyne unit for operating coupler in tender of 228 semi-scale switcher.

E-unit for semi-scale switcher - same part is used for 00 locos.

Frame for postwar Lionel GP 7 or 9. Black for use with 2338 Milwaukee. I need a very nice original for an orange cab loco I'm putting back together. I'll buy a whole geep to get a nice frame.

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General Discussion / Re: ALL BRANDS

« on: June 29, 2021, 01:17:43 PM »

Jim mentioned that it needs to "work."  I take that to mean it goes together in his mind.

I watched Jim's video with the Bing station with the ornamental roof. I take from his comment's that he found the station and liked it, and then put it on the layout with things that "work" with it and did the video.

That sounds like fun.

When I first started buying trains I had a small O layout with a Lionel felt tunnel in one corner. About 4 foot square. It looked like pegboard from me bringing home accessories and mounting them on the layout.

I'm trying to recapture that feeling with the Marklin and S gauge.  I've never played with either of those, so they're new.

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General Discussion / Re: Flood light tower

« on: June 29, 2021, 01:07:24 PM »

The 4 light towers were made in aluminum, green, red,  and yellow. The red and yellow were made in much lower quantities. The red doesn't bring as large a premium as the yellow because the red towers were also used for the common as dirt beacons. The yellow is unique to the 395 floodlight from only the early years of 1949/50. (My dates might be wrong, but are close.)

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General Discussion / Re: put my 257 tender back to what it is suppose to be

« on: June 29, 2021, 01:01:32 PM »

that's the correct tender.

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General Discussion / Re: Flood light tower

« on: June 28, 2021, 09:39:21 PM »

Marx made cool towers with two lights:

 

I sell these for 10-20 each.  They made a different early version with a box at the base that was originally for a D cell battery. They come in lots of colors.

I know there are some around here somewhere.  I might dig some out on Friday if you're interested. Jim might have some for sale too.

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General Discussion / Re: put my 257 tender back to what it is suppose to be

« on: June 28, 2021, 09:36:35 PM »

That loco is a 259E, and should have a gunmetal 2689T or 1689T. 

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General Discussion / Re: ALL BRANDS

« on: June 28, 2021, 09:29:41 PM »

I had some dealer layouts over the years, but don't have one now.

I have lots of buildings. I started keeping Marklin HO because I liked the buildings. They were originally made using the rubble from WW2. A whole craft industry arose in the late 1940s early '50s of people making buildings to sell to servicemen. Some can be very expensive - $3-500 each, but most are in the $5-40 range. I only have the cheap ones.

I also have US made buildings from the 30s, 40s and 50s from kits for the 00. Mostly printed cardboard sides or wood siding with many having full interiors. The ones I have were built by men for their train layouts when they were new. I built a few of them from vintage kits. 

I have Schoenhut along with the Lionel tin buildings on my O gauge layout, and the Lionel scenic plots that are on the standard layout. 

I spent years with clutter and and quantity, and now I want quality and openspace.