Sunday, August 26, 2012

Veluwse Spoorwegmaatschappij

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In case you like vintage trains and are visiting the Netherlands, you should go to Apeldoorn and take the steam train to the depot of Beekbe...
Friday, August 24, 2012

Musée du rail in Dinan

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In the old town of Dinan (Northern Brittany) there is a nice rail museum with many old toy trains. Since, many of you will probably not be ...
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Sunday, August 12, 2012

Back on old tracks

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In the Museé du Rail in Dinan I found some old 042 radius pre-war tracks of Hornby-Meccano, that felt correctly compatible with Lionel pre-...
Saturday, June 02, 2012

Lazy claw coupler fix

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Some modern Lionel train cars have bad claw couplers. They simply open all the time, since the spring that should keep the claw closed has w...
Sunday, May 06, 2012

Stoomtrein Goes - Borsele

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Through the flat land of Zeeland a local branch line (Goes to Borsele) is maintained by heritage steam train group named the SGB . In Goes t...
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...