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Collector Corner / Re: The 110 Bridge

« Last post by CNJRR on March 14, 2024, 12:06:55 PM »

Mine was priced better,  You have seen this one, I don't know if it has been posted here yet.
This 101 Standard gauge was found in a trash pile, box and all.
Once a year we have trash pickup, you can throw a pile out and the town picks it up.
Someone passed on and they threw it out?
I did not find any more trains in that pile? ( I can't remember.)
That was it I believe. With the box.

 

   

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Collector Corner / The 110 Bridge

« Last post by T-man on March 14, 2024, 06:26:54 AM »

I get lucky once in a while searching for Lionel Trains at Antique Shops and Flea Markets. One requiremnt is that they have to be priced just right. In the Northeast the is a Hug market three times a year in Brimfield Mass. It iis huge because vendors are camped out in fields for a four day event. Anyway the concept drifted to Deerfield Fair Grounds in NH and hold a Brimfield North weekend.
It was our first time attending. These vendors are not really local  vendors they travel a lot.

So last May I spotted this with no tag and got it for ten bucks.

 

As a rightful Newbie this is my first picture.

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General Discussion / Re: Introductions

« Last post by T-man on March 13, 2024, 06:43:58 PM »

Hello All!
 I just got approved and have not even looked around yet. I will give my Lionel story.
You see, I was too young to get it so my oldest brother received a Super O set with the Mopac AA units 205. i was old enough to see it set up on the ping pong table and did get a few lessons on the throttles. I was an early preteen when the set was given away to in laws and I was into slot cars at the time.
 Big brother was in the navy and finding out what happened did voice his disagreement.  Years after the fact it was returned not sure when, but it was about the time when the Wilmington Train Show was young. He was in college then. I do remember and being amazed at all the trains.  The most impressive site was the Prewar of course.

My story begins in college where I met my wife and she introduced me to antique shops. One of my first purchases was three tin cars, The Babe Ruth car, the red caboose and I think the third car was a metal tender. That started my collection.
 

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General Discussion / Re: Recent Additions

« Last post by Terry 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?

« Last post by Terry 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?

« Last post by CNJRR on February 21, 2024, 12:39:25 PM »

Yeah, I told him it was slow.

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General Discussion / Re: Site Dead?

« Last post by early0electric on February 20, 2024, 09:55:04 PM »

I check at least 2-3 times a day. Not much to report on. Nothing new in my collection. Nothing being sold in early period Lionel O Gauge at any of the auction houses or on eBay worth talking about.

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General Discussion / Re: Site Dead?

« Last post by Terry 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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General Discussion / Site Dead?

« Last post by CNJRR on February 19, 2024, 12:17:17 PM »

I sent a friend here to join up as he is into Prewar trains and told him to check the site out.
He messaged me this reply,
"The site is dead. The last update was in 2021 and the discussion board was ended and unplugged."

Dead?

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Collector Corner / Re: 1929 Lionel Standard Gauge Outfit 349

« Last post by Terry 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.