Sunday, December 30, 2007

Parade of pre-war Lionel toy trains

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Francesco, you asked for it and now you are going to get it. Here is my attempt to make a video of the pre-war Lionel toy trains running aro...
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Sunday, December 09, 2007

Progress on the Lionel 259E engine

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The pilot wheel of the Lionel 259E engine kept derailing on the 027 switches that were directly after a curve. I could not find the reason q...
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Train trucks

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The Williams stock car made me curious to compare the detail level in the train trucks a bit better between four brands of 0 scale 3 rail to...
Thursday, December 06, 2007

Williams stock car

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St. Nicolas has been good to me on 5 december. He gave me a yellow Reading stock car #FC04 from Williams Electric trains . The cattle car is...
Monday, November 19, 2007

Layout maintenance

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Saturday we visited the ' modelspoorbeurs ' in Arnhem. A toy train heaven for h0 and N scale enthusiasts. One stand had quiet a few ...
Sunday, November 11, 2007

B and O Lionel freight express

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This rainy weekend was very suitable for playing with Lionel toy trains. With the help of a tripod and a little natural sun light I was fina...
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Sunday, November 04, 2007

Building a big 2 stall engine house

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This weekend, I used almost all evening hours to construct the BIG 2 stall engine house that I purchased a few weeks ago. This nice model st...
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Sunday, October 28, 2007

Running pre-war trains

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This weekend was great for playing with the pre-war Lionel trains and running them on the layout. I like the sound of the wheels on the tubu...
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Monday, October 22, 2007

Lionel 259E restored and ready to run

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The Lionel 259E steam engine is ready! The final chapter of the restoration process involved the complete rewiring of the engine, since the ...
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Sunday, October 14, 2007

Scale Zero weekend in Zutphen

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This weekend the Dutch Scale Zero foundation had its annual gathering in Zutphen. A few small layouts with nice scenery, a long central loo...
Saturday, October 06, 2007

Lionel in Europe

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Several hunderds of European toy train enthusiasts prefer North-American toy trains over European ones for a manifold of reasons, to name a ...
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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...