Hi
I modified a Lionel 8005 and would like to get feedback from the comunity. That way I can learn and my next Mod can be better. I put on shorter and thinner Handrails, a headlight lens, plexiglas window inserts and a gloss and flat black paint job.
Nineteenth-century American locomotive headlights had no lens. The light was focused by a parabolic reflector behind the oil flame.
The piston rods could not have been painted. They were bare metal going into and out of the cylinders. Any paint would quickly be removed by the stuffing box.
Bob Nelson
Looks great! Perhaps a thin line of gold down the running boards?
Becky
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
Penny Trains Looks great! Perhaps a thin line of gold down the running boards? Becky
Becky beat me to it. Gold on the edge of the running boards would really tie everything together nicely.
Jim
Yes you are right. I used the wrong word. There was no lens it was just a sheet of glass. The piston rod on the model are not painted. On a 8005 they are red plastic. I was thinking about painting them gunmetal but like you sad it would rub of so I left them. I agree it doesn't look right. I think this finish is nicer than a all red engine. It was the first try my next modification will be better.
Thanks for the replay. The original engine has a silver running board edge. So what do you think, gold or silver?
Willi,
Looking Great!!! Go with the GOLD!
John
To me the 8005 as it comes from Lionel is an ugly duck. You have made it much better. I would of used a semigloss black but that is just me. It looks Great. I agree with John, Gold
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Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Looks great! I'd go a little further and gold paint the valve and cylinder assemblys for a more 19th Century look, in addition to gold trim on the running boards. As a matter of fact I'd use flat black for the top of the running boards and possibly semi-gloss gray on the smoke box.
A question for all: anyone know why Lionel used 8005 as the engine's number instead of the prototypical 3?
By the way, I repainted my old Marx 4-4-0 years ago with a 19th Century C.R.R of New Jersey scheme years ago. The old markings had worn off a long time ago anyway.
There are three prototypical numbers: None until the end of the Civil War, then 39 until 1880, then 3 until the present day.
It also had various fuels, in chronological order, wood, coal, wood, coal, oil. The present smokestack is said to be a diamond coal stack disguised inside a balloon wood stack.
Thanks for the response lionelsoni. I'm aware of the "General" numberings, it was the Lionel 8005 number I was curious about. Maybe no-one knows. I've been told there seemed to little rhyme or reason as to the numbers Lionel put on their engines.
I always figured the 8000 numbering had something to do with DC vs AC.
Thanx for the input, Becky. I noticed the photos have been yanked. Wonder why?
Perhaps a problem with photobucket's new format?
Could be a "Photobucket" issue, but I don't know enough about that stuff to even guess.
By the way, I can't help but ask, and maybe you've been asked this before, but just what does " A Lithium Flower about to bloom" mean? Are you battery powered?
It's a line from a song. "She's so cold and solo. She's just something new. A waking lithium flower just about to bloom. I smell lithium now. Smelling lithium now."
So, why do I use it as an epigram? Lithium is the lightest element yet discovered and when you mix it with hydrogen you get Lithiumdeuteride which is the primary fuel in thermonuclear weapons. So a "lithium flower" would be the detonation cloud of the bomb. One that's "waking" and "about to bloom" would be a high energy reaction that's just begun and could change the world as we know it. Pretty cool huh?
WilliThanks for the replay. The original engine has a silver running board edge. So what do you think, gold or silver?
If the original was silver, I vote for silver. Black with silver and brass trim would look great. [opinion]
Interesting about your photos. They are still in PhotoBucket but in a different album with different URLs.
..........Wayne..........
Hi Wayne
Thanks for your input. About the photos. Yes the general pictures are still in the Photobucket. I just copied them and I reorganized my photos in there thats why they are turning up on a different place. In Photobucked you can find photos of all my Lionels.
Willi
Becky:
Ah, so THAT'S the "Waking Lithium Flower about to Bloom!" As in Ka-BOOM! So you're an O Gauge modeler driven by a thermonuclear core. Interesting.
I'm still in the black powder era. And detonated by a flintlock. And refusing to change!
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