Sunday, April 15, 2012

Toy trains in the back yard

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Today it was finally good weather. We took a lot of the Lionel stuff outside and laid a small layout with tubular track on the brick pavemen...
Monday, April 02, 2012

Toy trains behind bars

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What will happen with your toy trains after your death? This might look like a bizarre question, but it occured to me, while visiting the Na...
Monday, March 19, 2012

Toy trains and cacti

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Last weekend (March 17th and 18th 2012) several toy trains ran through a green house filled with cacti in Ruurlo. And obviously, American to...
Saturday, March 03, 2012

Please bid according to value

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Auction sites for toy trains can be funny. Every now and then a daft petty thief will try to sell a rusty pile of junk as a toy train gem. T...
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Friday, February 03, 2012

Side panel for the traction engine

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Scratch building a traction engine is nice, but not in the freezing cold. So, the progress is fairly slow. First, I decided that the 1 mm Al...
Sunday, January 08, 2012

Running Lionel trains in Europe

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Taking a Lionel train set back home to Europe from a holiday in North America is a nice idea, but getting it running requires a local power ...
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Starting with the traction freight engine

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Last year, I obtained a beheaded MTH PCC streetcar. It was complete, with only one detail missing; the plastic hood. Since, the C&LE box...
Sunday, November 13, 2011

TCA MG Club cars 2011

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Last week the TCA MG club cars arrived from Weaver . This year I bought the three-pack because it were Reading cars; 2-bay composite hopper...
Sunday, November 06, 2011

Historic train film

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A really special historic train movie has been placed on-line. This movie was specially made in 1939 to celibrate 100 years of railways i...
Monday, October 31, 2011

Lionel 289E running on the attic

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This weekend I decided to make a small oval on the attic floor and run some trains. The Lionel 289E engine still did not run smoothly on t...
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Zutphen 15 & 16 Oct. scale zero meeting

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Last weekend, the Dutch scale zero enthusiasts had their annual meeting in Zutphen. A real surprise for me was to see a large purple MTH box...
Sunday, October 16, 2011

Final run

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The old folding table layout was disassembled today. But before that actually happened the Lionel 289E engine and a small string of passenge...
Monday, October 10, 2011

Lionel 607 finished as 603

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Today the light bulb wire was connected to the third rail contact and the light lit. The reassembly went really smooth. The decals on the re...
Sunday, September 18, 2011

Lionel 607 painted

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This weekend, I finished painting the Lionel 607 passenger car. I choose a middle red colour and not the more typical burgundy red colour....
Sunday, September 04, 2011

Lionel 607

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It is more than two and a half years ago, since I choose to test my new sand blaster on a old rusty Lionel 607 passenger car, which was sc...
Monday, August 29, 2011

Old steamer passing by

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This weekend we had a superb view on a steam engine running through the back yard. The whistle blew near all cross-overs and announced its...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Applying decals

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The paint work in the trailer kit did have some flaws, so I decided to sand them off and spray paint again. The paint job turned out much be...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Painting the All nation line traction trailer

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The weather is excellent for some spray painting in the garden. First the box trailer was primed with a neutral grey paint. Then the roof wa...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

Lazy sunday afternoon

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Spring has finally arrived. This is great news, so I can finally let my steamers smoke with the window open. We played a bit with the trains...
Monday, March 07, 2011

The box trailer starts to get shape

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After a few more evenings the All Nation Line kit of the box trailer car is starting to get shape. The facia boards were glued on and the do...