Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Lionel 604 observation

›
The 604 observation was waiting to get cleaned and restored for quiet some time. It was dirty and rusty. Initially I made a mistake by not p...
Sunday, April 15, 2007

The last find

›
The Lionel 653 pre-war hopper is in my opinion one of the nicer cars of the 650 serie. The hopper hatch below the car can be opened and clos...
Sunday, April 08, 2007

Easter trains

›
The Easter holiday is very suited for playing with trains. It is still too cold to stay out all day and too warm to do nothing. Anyway, plea...
Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Zinc pest or plain corrosion?

›
Recently, I acquired a Lionel 9440 boxcar from 1981. I had been looking for this boxcar for a few years, but I couldn't get a hold on on...
Sunday, February 25, 2007

Lionel 812 finished

›
On Friday the new parts that I needed to finish the 812 gondola arrived: new couplers, a brass brakewheel and new horseshoe clips to mount t...
Sunday, February 11, 2007

Removing corrosion from brass plates

›
The Lionel 812 was in poor condition when it arrived. The tin plate was corroded on many places. In one place the corroded tin-plate contac...
Saturday, January 06, 2007

Transplanting an E-unit into a 1664

›
In the summer I bought an old Lionel 1664 steamer for a soft price with some corrosion on the nickel driving rods and an issue with the E-un...
3 comments:
Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Billboard reefer fun

›
Well it is a holiday, so a good time to run some trains. This time the billboard reefers with soap, pickles, liquor, cigarettes and beer are...
Sunday, December 10, 2006

Making decals for the Lionel 1722 caboose

›
For the past week I was busy cleaning up a scanned picture of the side of the 1722 caboose. The plan is to paint the side red, to paint the ...
1 comment:
Monday, November 27, 2006

Priming with Hammerite

›
Although both the Lionel 812 and Lionel 1722 are clean now, there was lots of rust on them and much of the surface is bare iron in stead of ...
Thursday, November 23, 2006

A new start for the Lionel 812 gondola

›
Cutting the brass plate and getting the holes in on the right place was quiet some work. The Proxxon SS230 mini-cutter together with the old...
Sunday, November 05, 2006

Rust and holes

›
The rusting of the Lionel 812 gondola car is more severe than thought previous. Several additional holes have popped up while de-rusting the...
Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Lionel 610 almost finished

›
Today, I assembled the Lionel 610 passenger car. I gave it new couplers, but for the rest all the old parts have been cleaned and re-used. T...
1 comment:
Sunday, October 29, 2006

Lionel 812

›
This Lionel 812 pre-war gondola just reached me in time. A few additional years of wear would have made it non-restorable: just for parts. ...
Saturday, October 28, 2006

Lionel 1722

›
Recently I acquired a Lionel 1722 pre-war caboose in poor condition. It is rusting, the paint and lithographed picture are poor. And most st...
Sunday, October 08, 2006

Spray painting the 610 passenger car

›
After looking at the webpages of Terry Gibbs, I decided that red body, cream windows, black tanks and trucks and a maroon roof would look th...
Sunday, September 24, 2006

Priming the Lionel 610 passenger car

›
After the cooking pot treatment, there was still some yellow smuck, predominantly on the inside of the passenger car. This was removed with ...
Saturday, September 02, 2006

Stripping paint from pre-war Lionel cars

›
There are many ways to strip paint from pre-war metal tin toys, including: sand blasting, sanding, immersion in white spirit or ammonia and ...
1 comment:
Friday, September 01, 2006

Looking for Lionel

›
Whenever, we want to see how a pre-war Lionel car exactly looked, web search engines offer often little help. For instance, type in "Li...
Sunday, August 27, 2006

Fun with pre-war Lionel trains

›
It was time to empty the boxes and run some pre-war Lionel trains. It really amazing how smooth these trains run after 70 years. Since, the ...