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Post by steveoncattailcreek on Oct 26, 2024 15:45:55 GMT
Now that I think about it, I might have overpaid  Nah: new project=priceless!!
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Post by healey36 on Oct 26, 2024 16:02:11 GMT
Now that I think about it, I might have overpaid Nah: new project=priceless!! A couple of screws and we're back in business (you can see a screw going up into the broken bit just above the crosshead). The headlight still doesn't work, which is irritating. Flickers occasionally when I hit the direction button on the pack, but otherwise nothin'. Tried replacing the bulb, but that's not the problem.  So now the questions is, does one invest twenty bucks in a 1130T tender while continuing to burn man-hours playing with the headlight? 
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Post by harborbelt70 on Nov 2, 2024 11:48:41 GMT
Something of a blast from the past and things that I regard as collectibles, these Lionel cars were among the first passenger cars I got with full interiors. They are also mostly aluminum bodied:
 This Skytop observation car is actually a K-Line that Lionel issued under their own brand: And these are part of the very first set of Lionel aluminum cars I got and are still favorites - for their finish both inside and out:
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Post by healey36 on Nov 2, 2024 13:59:55 GMT
harborbelt70 I was going through storage looking for stuff to assemble a small set for some kids, saw this and thought of you (sort of):  I think this might have been an LRRC promotion from a couple decades back. I'm gonna pass on using this for a set...a caboose should be red, right (at least as far as kids go)? 
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Post by harborbelt70 on Nov 2, 2024 18:45:27 GMT
harborbelt70 I was going through storage looking for stuff to assemble a small set for some kids, saw this and thought of you (sort of): I think this might have been an LRRC promotion from a couple decades back. I'm gonna pass on using this for a set... a caboose should be red, right (at least as far as kids go) ?
 This was a custom run done by Weaver years ago and confirms your view of what "caboose" really means. BTW, the vineyard/business is a real place.
A bit of further rummaging resulted in re-discovering these two “cabeese” which are red in significant parts:
 In fact most of the rolling stock I have is red in most parts due to my formative fascination with SP Daylight colors. Out of two really nice K-Line cabeese I have the bay window version on the right end is not quite red but there’s a fair amount of that color in the other two cars: My actual all-time favorite caboose is the other K-Line special run I have kept, and this one is red in strategic places:
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Post by healey36 on Nov 3, 2024 13:11:56 GMT
Terrific examples, all of them harborbelt70 but a bit over-the-top for a six year-old, lol (and I agree, that UP 25140 is really a gem). Efforts to excavate the storage closets here yielded a NIB LRRC-issued mostly-red bay-window that could work, although a kid's perception of a caboose likely not only includes a red color, but a cupola as well. I know I have a few others here somewhere...the search continues. |
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Post by harborbelt70 on Nov 3, 2024 16:21:45 GMT
Terrific examples, all of them harborbelt70 but a bit over-the-top for a six year-old, lol (and I agree, that UP 25140 is really a gem). Efforts to excavate the storage closets here yielded a NIB LRRC-issued mostly-red bay-window that could work, although a kid's perception of a caboose likely not only includes a red color, but a cupola as well. I know I have a few others here somewhere...the search continues.
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Post by healey36 on Nov 4, 2024 16:40:20 GMT
Novelty cars are terrific fun, so maybe those can be added in subsequent years if these two girls really take to the stuff. I'm guessing there's just a four or five year window before they discover Mom or Dad's iPad, or egad, an iPhone. After that, my guess this stuff goes into storage rarely to be seen again (but maybe I'm wrong). No luck so far turning up that red caboose that's buried in the stash somewhere, but I did find an 1130T in the box of orphan tenders. It's correct for the 246 (not that it really matters), and I'll say it lends a bit of proportionality to the little bugger:  So now I've got to figure out the unlit-but-occasionally-flickering headlight, which means another disassembly. This one-dollar project is starting to eat up a lot of time...  |
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Post by healey36 on Nov 10, 2024 17:40:50 GMT
After much angst and gnashing of teeth, I finally found that red caboose I dimly remembered:  I recall buying this some 2-3 decades back at the train shop in Hagerstown. There was a time when the C&NW was a favored line in the basement, but this, like so many things, eventually passed. Looking at the wheels on this thing, I must have run the heck out of it. No worries, after a gentle cleaning it's still serviceable and will be included in the kids' set for this Christmas. Kent Schwartz is sending me a small 1042 pack and I need to clean up some track, then I think we're ready to pack it up.  |
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Post by seayakbill on Nov 10, 2024 22:13:29 GMT
Some MTH tinplate passing through on the S&Y RR. Bill  |
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