Monday, January 21, 2008

Busy repair yard

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It is getting a bit over-crowded with pre-war Lionel cars that are patiently waiting restoration. Amongst the latest refugees is a 814 boxca...
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Monday, January 14, 2008

Winter station

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This winter holiday season the Dutch railway museum organised a winter station. They created a skating oval in the central building, musicia...
Sunday, January 06, 2008

Stream lined express

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Here is a video showing a beautiful streamlined steamer with three passenger cars running around my layout. The engine is a 1668E and a smoo...
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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...