Sunday, September 16, 2007

Sneak preview of the 259E

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I just finished with spray painting the Lionel 259E locomotive black glossy paint and it really shines and reflects. Great. The pink underco...
Saturday, September 01, 2007

Ebay was down

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Lionel collectors like to use Ebay. Unfortunately, Ebay is down since friday morning 31 august CET. Also other American sites are apparently...
Wednesday, August 29, 2007

corrosion on tin-plate

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After dissembling the 259E engine completely, I stripped the paint by immersing the parts in boiling soap water for 30 minutes. The black pa...
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Saturday, August 18, 2007

Lionel 259E

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A few months ago, I found a Lionel 259E engine in relative poor condition on Ebay. Precisely good for Lionel's junkyard. When it arrived...
Monday, August 13, 2007

Decal trouble

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Progress on the Lionel 1722 caboose is much slower than hoped for. First there was trouble getting the yellow paint decently on the red body...
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Saturday, July 07, 2007

A new house on the layout

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Sometimes you are lucky and today I had a good day. I received a beautiful tin building with a nice lithograph for free from a person who cl...
Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Lionel 604 observation

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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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

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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...
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Billboard reefer fun

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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

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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 ...
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Monday, November 27, 2006

Priming with Hammerite

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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

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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

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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

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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...
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Sunday, October 29, 2006

Lionel 812

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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. ...