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Post by healey36 on Aug 27, 2024 11:01:23 GMT
Looking to thin the collection, this Lionel 246 is likely headed to a new home: The only Scout-type that featured Magnetraction, it hails from 1959-1961. It pulls remarkably well for its plastic-boilered weight. Rarely seeing track-time, it might be on its way off the roster.
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Post by atsda on Aug 28, 2024 2:52:19 GMT
Healey36, that is sad about parting with the 2046. I just ran mine a few days ago - it is a good puller for a 70-year old engine ; and not bad looking to boot - and it is my long freight go to loco. Alfred
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Post by healey36 on Aug 28, 2024 9:44:18 GMT
Healey36, that is sad about parting with the 2046. I just ran mine a few days ago - it is a good puller for a 70-year old engine ; and not bad looking to boot - and it is my long freight go to loco. Alfred Not the 2046, but the 246. I agree that the 2046 is a wonderful postwar loco that looks great and can pull stumps...that one will remain on the roster.
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Post by atsda on Aug 28, 2024 15:48:05 GMT
healey36, I should have read the post more carefully and noticed the reference to plastic shell. Well, I'mm glad you are not giveing up your 2046 - if I recall, it's one that's been in your family. Alfred
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Post by healey36 on Aug 29, 2024 18:12:19 GMT
The 2046 was a project a friend of mine and I worked on. It was a basket-case found at a local meet. The worst thing was it had been dropped at some point and the cab roof was pretty badly bent (but not broken). Nearly all of the parts were there, but no tender. Using a small torch, we were able to very judiciously get the roof bent back into its correct position and form. After that, it was just a matter of removing all of the trim, passing it through the paint booth, then reassembling it. We bought a Williams undecorated 2671W reproduction tender, lettered using a decal set made for the original prewar Hudson tender. It turned out lovely, just a great project. Folks are always telling me "Lionel modelled it after a Santa Fe Hudson!", but I don't care. It's NYC on this pike.
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Post by af3020 on Aug 30, 2024 0:03:27 GMT
So, here we are, once again heading into the Labor Day Weekend and on the Ophir and Oblivion Railroad that means only one thing - the annual meeting of the Sidewinder Society which, this year, is in Ophir. In addition to a fantastic assembly of sidewinders from various historical societies this year features some well preserved examples from several of the railroads whose crack passenger trains call at the big Union Station. As you can see the scheduled talks are guaranteed to be both informative and provocative. An extra bonus this time is the presence of several of the old time keywinders whose job it was to keep those mills wound up and ready to go. They will circulate on the main exhibition floor and recount their experiences of key winding back in the day when clockwork power was king and the expression "wound too tight" was a compliment to your skill as a keywinder.
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Post by healey36 on Aug 30, 2024 2:25:58 GMT
Hopefully a well-attended convention, af...numerous highly relevant topics for discussion. Another good talk would center on the fate of “lost” keys, a chronic problem for engine crews on many lines.
A terrific scene!
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Post by Rj on Sept 10, 2024 0:12:45 GMT
Right now I'm running my 1950 736 Berkshire with the accompanying 2046w Tender Attachments:
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Post by healey36 on Sept 10, 2024 0:41:42 GMT
Fabulous shot, Rj; a very nice mix of prewar and post war, just terrific! This is the most recent thing to hit the tracks, a postwar Marx 999: I posted this pic in one of the other threads, so a bit of a dupe. I've been doing a bit of cleaning up and pulled this down off the shelf to see if it would run. It's been up there for at least a decade, untouched. It was a little stiff, but a bit of lubrication and a quick polish of the pick-up and drive wheels had it back to tearing around the outside loop (the inside loop features a pair of prewar Lionel turnouts, problematic for Marx equipment). The 999 has only two speeds: fast and too fast. You have to hang three or four freights behind it to start slowing it down.
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Post by Rj on Sept 10, 2024 1:09:46 GMT
The 2046 was a project a friend of mine and I worked on. It was a basket-case found at a local meet. The worst thing was it had been dropped at some point and the cab roof was pretty badly bent (but not broken). Nearly all of the parts were there, but no tender. Using a small torch, we were able to very judiciously get the roof bent back into its correct position and form. After that, it was just a matter of removing all of the trim, passing it through the paint booth, then reassembling it. We bought a Williams undecorated 2671W reproduction tender, lettered using a decal set made for the original prewar Hudson tender. It turned out lovely, just a great project. Folks are always telling me "Lionel modelled it after a Santa Fe Hudson!", but I don't care. It's NYC on this pike. Well judging by what shape it was in before you both began to rehab it the results of your efforts are amazing
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Post by 4dogsinjersey on Sept 10, 2024 2:00:50 GMT
The 2046 was a project a friend of mine and I worked on. It was a basket-case found at a local meet. The worst thing was it had been dropped at some point and the cab roof was pretty badly bent (but not broken). Nearly all of the parts were there, but no tender. Using a small torch, we were able to very judiciously get the roof bent back into its correct position and form. After that, it was just a matter of removing all of the trim, passing it through the paint booth, then reassembling it. We bought a Williams undecorated 2671W reproduction tender, lettered using a decal set made for the original prewar Hudson tender. It turned out lovely, just a great project. Folks are always telling me "Lionel modelled it after a Santa Fe Hudson!", but I don't care. It's NYC on this pike. That a great looking engine. My postwar stuff is limited, but the steam engines really have great lines. Tom
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Post by healey36 on Sept 10, 2024 9:43:55 GMT
Thanks for the comments. I have always thought the O-27 2046 and its O-gauge counterpart 646 were two of the sharpest, most balanced-looking of Lionel's postwar steam locos. We were fortunate to have found this in someone's incomplete project pile and be able to bring it back. While it has virtually zero collector value as is, it has tremendous sentimental value as a memory of attending local meets with a good friend long gone. I'll have to bust it out and get it back "on the tracks".
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Post by harborbelt70 on Sept 10, 2024 17:36:55 GMT
This highly treasured project from yesteryear is scheduled to go back on the track (with the body shell on) week after next when I will have some free time:
Incidentally I will have something new to show at that point.
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Post by atsda on Sept 11, 2024 16:42:17 GMT
Post by Rj on Sep 9, 2024 at 8:12pm Right now I'm running my 1950 736 Berkshire with the accompanying 2046w Tender
Rj, way to go! That is my all-time favorite loco (and the first train I ever gott.). I run exclusevily post war Lionel. Alfred
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