Rj
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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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Post by atsda on Sept 18, 2024 1:42:21 GMT
I interrupted wiring to run two trains. Lionel Burlington 2328 GP-7 (1955-56) with Lionel Lines 2500 Silver Series passenger set (1950-53) and Lionel S2 Turbine 4-8-4 (1946-47) with 6464 box cars which I acquired within the last year (2 St of Me, UP. MStL, 1955-58). They were run on temporary trackage since I have not decided on table top covering. The Secondary Control Panel is in place and partially wired - for nmanual operation of 125 whistle shack, diesel horn, 145 gateman. When my granddaughter came over today, she asked to see the trains. She operated the whistle and horn, but did not want to use the throttle. (The Turbine was too loud.) The gateman was not wired at that point. Alfrede Attachments:
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Post by atsda on Sept 27, 2024 1:51:50 GMT
Running tonight is a box car consist headed by Lionel 2-8-4 Berkshire No. 736 with tender (1950-53) – my first loco. The Lionel 6464 cars (1955-58) include: Southern Pacific, Denver and Rio Grand Western, Minneapolis and St. Louis, New Haven, 2 State of Maine, and a Reading (Menards – gift from the 2023 OGF Christmas Party.) I am so grateful for the gift, that I am running it with my post war equipment – it is the only piece of rolling stock that is not post war Lionel that I have. For its age, the locomotive runs fabulously. The voltage from the Lionel 1033 (75W, ca. 1955-58) was varied from about 8 to 14V (estimate, not measured.) The whistle was from a manually operated, 10V, 125 whistle shack – the tender control is on the KW and V. Interestingly, this is one of the longest freight consists I have run. (My previous layout had its electrical, mechanical, physical issues; including attic temps that could range from 45 to 90 degrees.) Amazingly, the features of my new layout (in progress) include: robust benchwork, level sturdy plywood table top, flush seams, clean refurbished track (O72) with good pin connections and joints, distributed voltage using low gauge wire with solid connections, climate controlled. I am having a great time. (3-minute video) Alfred youtu.be/vW6yQ5UzUq8 |
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Post by harborbelt70 on Sept 28, 2024 0:00:39 GMT
Nice work on the layout and the video!
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Post by Adam on Sept 28, 2024 23:26:06 GMT
The layout is coming together nicely Alfred!
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Post by healey36 on Oct 5, 2024 12:26:28 GMT
Made a few repairs to the #3015 damaged in shipment (Trainz) and got the old girl into service:  Made for one year only, 1927, she runs pretty well given her 97 years. Gonna have to move the 270 bridge, however, as the "automatic" direction-control lever catches on one of the supports when passing through. No problem...easy enough to move the bridge to the inner loop. |
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Post by thewaysiderailroader on Oct 5, 2024 19:46:38 GMT
Running lately has been a Lionel Lionchief plus 2.0 0-6-0t docksider with a random jumble of Atlas industrial rail, Lionel, Williams By Bachmann and two new Menards cars with a Lionel CP rail caboose.
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Post by oace on Oct 5, 2024 20:10:43 GMT
N° 2550 "Blink Bonny" ACE Trains 4-6-2 LNER A3 is on the track, hauling three ACE Trains "Gresley Corridor" Teak coaches, passing in front of "Carpet Station", checked by our 96 feline-years old Lady Cat, Mrs. Tibou :
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Post by atsda on Oct 7, 2024 16:11:42 GMT
Paul, glad you can easily resolve the bridge issue. Alfred
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