Lionel trains....

The REAL deal!!!!

 

I’m thinking about starting my own stocking program. Yes, they swim while in motion. USA made!!

 

One of the first Lionel engines ever made....Around 1920...

 

Check out this sign. It’s from the 40’s and looks brand new. From Doylestown, Pa....Has some kind of coating on it....

 

The “General” 1959 production....

 

Lionel beacon manufactured 1954.....I use it for drone warnings. I had four outside my house one night..

 

Not Lionel but I thought this was cute. It’s the smallest “N” scale. The property owner where I hunt gave it to me...

 

Check out this articulation...

 

Just found this thread. Pretty cool stuff! Takes me back 50+ years to my childhood. Every Christmas we would take a 4x8 and 4x4 sheet of ply wood and set them up on cinder blocks in the living room. Our tree would be set up through a hole in the middle of one end.
Then we would throw a white sheet over the plywood, set the Lionel 027 track in a large loop and a smaller loop in the center, put several boxes up in the corner cut perfectly to make a tunnel, then fill it in with balled up newspaper and cover it with sheets of cotton to simulate a snow covered mountain with small trees placed here and there.
Then the town set to scale, would get placed around the smaller loop in the middle at the base of the mountain. Pretty sure the train was from the 40s. Decorating the house and setting up the tree with the train was an event the whole family took part in that would take all weekend. My parents didn't have a lot or make a lot, but they made Christmas nothing but magical for us kids.
I will see if my Mom still has any pics of it all set up.

 

https://youtu.be/6dKq3To9oXg

 

https://youtu.be/wGladIfq2xE

 

This engine already broke down.......

 

Seems it has a feature that another engine may have reset the speed control.....,,,,....

 

And I’m putting a 15 amp fuse on it...

 

I’ve got armor coming....,,,,.....
Manufactured 1958-59...,,,

 

I’ve got this coming for my USMC train...Made by GM in 1942... The original Lionel was made in 1958-59...I keep telling my wife they will always be worth what I’m paying. But I don’t think many people are buying this stuff xept me...,,,

 

Made in New York.....,,,

 

Almost got the set completed..

 

6805 is a Nuclear Waste disposer car.... Just doesn’t match...

 

Latest vid. Smoke is off and I forgot to hit the horn.....,,The 1940 engines are FAST, just going easy on the throttle....,https://youtu.be/Eb4xPjzWcHg
I prefer them beat-up rather than restored...

 

Updated pic for insurance purposes....

 

Are mid 60's train sets selling for a decent buck? My older brother stole my comic book collection so I re-appropriated his train set 30 years ago

 

Ya, that’s a pic of about 6k...

 

Gotcha. Ones I have are basic ones and look older. I’ll have to dig them outta storage and look. Probably find a note in the box from the brother flipping the bird

 

Please do. I have mentally cataloged every Lionel train made and have gotten good at dating them....

 

What would you choose?
Terra Cotta or Lunar Rock?

 

It was 1936. Lionel just designed the whistling tender. Then American Flyer brought their’s out and Gilbert was sued for it. Hitler was humiliated in the Olympics when his Aryan Supermen were dominated by the great Jesse Owens. The Boulder Dam was completed and later called the Hoover Dam. I fell in love with the American Flyer 1680 Hudson the first time I saw it. Still needs a couple wheel rods but should be able to pick them up at a train show.......

 

This might be the first time in almost 100years this has been attempted or filmed!!
1930’s American Flyer 1680 Hudsons trailing!!!https://youtu.be/4_7tafPdEPk
Made in Chicago!!

 

came across a pic from the attic. Prob not worth much, the caboose is on eBay for 22 bucks

 

Is that a “smoking” caboose?