lionel lines

Lionel lines trains are fun to play with. They are nice to hold in your hands and run them over the tracks. Personally, I get most satisfaction from restoring pre-war cars and engines that I obtain as overpainted, rusted wrecks and like to turn them into shining gems. This blogsite tells you about my evening hours.

Sunday, March 16, 2014

Bridge and Light tower

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Yesterday, I finished with cutting the X-beams for the bridge and nailing them down. Today, I filled a few gaps with wood filler and sanded ...
Monday, February 24, 2014

Cutting X-beams

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Building a wooden bridge in scale zero is nice work, but you need real tools. Small doctor knives could work excellent with N scale, but her...
Monday, February 10, 2014

Building a bridge to ...

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This weekend, I discovered that the Lionel 289E engine is a great engine to pull the Merkur coaches over the new track. The video sh...
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Sunday, February 02, 2014

New track for the layout

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This Saturday, I went to Blik en Speelgoed to purchase some new Merkur tracks. The new track enabled me to remove the old half inner circle...
Sunday, January 19, 2014

Cleaning old track gives you black hands

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This weekend we went to a local train swap meeting of MSC Achterhoek , which was larger than expected. I just purchased some small stuff; ne...
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Tuesday, January 07, 2014

Towards a permanent layout

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During the holiday season I build the benchwork for a permanent layout in the attic. The layout will have two levels; the lower level with M...
Sunday, October 20, 2013

Sunny autumn afternoon

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With the lovely sunny autumn weather, I felt obliged to get outside and run the new diner coach. It ran great. The Merkur coaches with Bing ...
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Dutch scale zero meeting in Zutphen

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This weekend, the Dutch scale zero train meeting was held in Zutphen. Since most Dutch model railroaders are into half-zero or N, the scale ...
Sunday, September 08, 2013

Memorail

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Deep in the south west of France in the department Lot is a small railway museum named Memorail. This museum is located in the old goods she...
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Doetinchem Stoomstad 2013

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During the weekend of August 24 to 25th a steam fest was held and the organisation asked me to run some old toy trains. I had several months...
Sunday, May 26, 2013

New tubular track curves

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Yesterday, I visited the local toy train meeting in Zutphen and purchased some new tin-plate toy train tubular tracks made by the Czech comp...
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