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re: Electric train set questions
Posted on 12/4/24 at 4:44 pm to dblwall
Posted on 12/4/24 at 4:44 pm to dblwall
Christmas train display using 1930's vintage trains and accessories. For size comparison, the boxcar in the lower l.h. corner is about as big as a shoebox. These are standard/wide gauge trains - significantly bigger than O gauge.
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Posted on 12/4/24 at 4:45 pm to The Torch
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No kid wants a spare arse train set these days.
I have found that kids love an electric train display. Maybe these kids need to get away from their Iphones and PS5.
Posted on 12/4/24 at 5:17 pm to ole man
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The 0-27 will be fine, make sure whistle works and it smokes, you can find smoke pellets on e bay if it’s post war steamer I remember just wanting to see smoke and hearing the whist
Use Hennings SP smoke pellets (on ebay). Some of the other non-Lionel smoke pellets will ruin the smoke unit.
Posted on 12/4/24 at 5:37 pm to chinhoyang
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Older Lionel trains were of exceptional quality. They also were not cheap. I just acquired a 1940 set and looked up the original price in the Lionel 1940 catalog: $85. That was a ton of money in 1940.
Lionel loco at bozo toy shop was over $200 around 1978. Like I posted earlier, grandma hustled me right outta there......
Damn they were cool though. I can still see the blue/white rock island livery in my mind. It was the shite.
Posted on 12/4/24 at 6:21 pm to PJinAtl
Get him a Thomas the Tank Engine wood set. That way he can make his own track layouts without destroying an expensive electric set.
Posted on 12/4/24 at 6:28 pm to PJinAtl
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When is the right time to get a kid an electric train set, and what scale?
If it ain't one of these, it ain't about shite.
Posted on 12/4/24 at 8:35 pm to chinhoyang
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There are some good people who will take your old set and mechanically refresh it.
That would be cool.
I still have both of my O27 trains. First is a late 70s/early 80s Lionel Wabash Cannonball set. Engine is all metal, cars are mostly plastic - blue Conrail boxcar, white Mobil tanker, yellow Chessie hopper, gray mail car, and red caboose. The other is a mid 80s Lionel LASER futuristic system, all plastic.
They both still run but not at 100%.
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