Lionel Prewar-O Photo Gallery

winced36 · Post by **winced36** » Sun Nov 20, 2016 12:19 pm

Stopped by a local show today, mostly to support the organizers. Usually its predominantly HO stuff with a bit of modern and postwar O-gauge. Found this late Lionel 807 on a guy's table for a few bucks:

Black journals, blackened wheel-set, stamped silver lettering and just a single latch-coupler. Dating to the 1939-42 time-frame, soon after Lionel would go to war and not manufacture any trains for a few years.

Paul II

winced36 · Post by **winced36** » Sat Mar 11, 2017 9:39 am

Got the 1681 down off the shelf to see if it still runs...like a clock!

I need to clean those rust-spots off the pilot wheels.

Pretty quiet around here...

Paul II

javinda · Post by **javinda** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 5:00 am

wow that is awesome!

winced36 · Post by **winced36** » Sun Apr 30, 2017 7:29 am

An early Lionel 804 recovered at York this week:

I've been looking for a nice example for quite awhile...this should clean up nicely.

Paul II

winced36 · Post by **winced36** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 1:58 pm

Thought I'd repost this...lost all of the others in the Photobucket debacle. Lionel 258 runs south on the mainline after exiting the Lionel 305 Hellgate:

The layout's been offline for awhile...we had a minor flood in the basement which destroyed a couple of the power-bricks. Need to run down some replacements. In the meantime here's one from the archives.

Paul II

winced36 · Post by **winced36** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 2:16 pm

I'd been looking for a nice set of olive 600-series passenger cars to go with the MTH/Lionel Corp 254E from a few years ago...finally hit pay-dirt with this nicely restored set:

Paint matches pretty well.

Paul II

winced36 · Post by **winced36** » Sat Mar 24, 2018 3:30 pm

Don't think I posted this before...a Lionel 804 from the late-1920's. I found this one with various parts missing and its handrails soldered to the tank-sides. A few bucks, a hot soldering iron and some elbow grease got it back in order. Stripped the tank and repainted it dark green and applied "Cities Service" decals, sort of a homage to the postwar two-dome version. Fun little project:

A bit of an abomination for the purist, but this was headed to the bin if we hadn't pulled it back from the brink.

Paul II