Did you mean to say something here?
gunrunnerjohn Did you mean to say something here?
I don't kno what happened. I posted a long post and had a few pictures and nothing showed up. I even had trouble just reponding to this. It would say I did not type anything. I changed to compatability view and now it seems to be working. But I won't know till I click "post".
Bill
OK. Let me try again. I joined a while ago but have been unactive for a while. I have had a 8x12 O gauge in my basement for about 8 years. And a HO 4x6 upstairs in my sons room. 4 years ago I became disabled and stairs are hard on me. Needless to say, I did not spend much time with either. About a year ago I talked my wife into bringing down the 4x6 downstairs to the living room so I could have access to it. Well I did nothing to it. I could not decide what to do with it. I am a O gauger at heart, but used HO because of space. Where the 4x6 is I can expand it to 4x8. And with the help of a friend and a glare from the wife, we did it. I decided finally what I wanted to do with the space. I have really missed my O gauge. I would rather have a small O gauge than a HO layout. So I am packing up my HO and selling most of it. And I finally decided what layout I want to do, so I am begining to finaly make progress. Slowly, but progress non the less.
The old train I have was my dad's when he was a kid. His dad brought it home after work one day for him in 1937. It is a Lionel Jr set, of which I only have the train. I would like to get more information on it if anyone knows about it. Including how collectable it is and a ballpark value. I have no idea what it is worth, not that I am going to sell it. I made that mistake with other O gauge trains he left me. I did sell them and have regretted it ever since. Once finances get better I hope to try and replace some of it. Below are some pictures to help you intelegent people tell me what I have here.
Thanks for any help you can share with me.
Do you expect one will give you a better answer than the other?
Well I would ask, why not? They are two "DIFFERENT" forums. They have different members. Of course some might belong to both. But does everyone? Is this against the rules? Did I offend you by such behavior? I don't expect to get better answers from one or the other. Just different answers since there are different members. and more answers which I can glean the info I am looking for. Sorry I obviously deeply offended you by doing this. I will await my punishment from the moderaters.
There are three or more forums dedicated to "O" gauge. Many folks belong to more than one, and often the same questions do appear on more than one. I belong to all three, and use one (and only one) screen name on all three.
Well, I for one visit only this forum, so if this wasn't posted here I would not have seen a beautiful set of prewar Lionel. I don't know anything about this set, but it looks like it could be a precursor to the Flying Yankee set.
I agree with balidas an if someone post in 3 ,4,5 ect forums is because they know not all follow all forums not to see if there going to get better answers from one or another forum but to get maybe a better view of there post and a collective better answer and then some do it just to share what they have as said above not all join or social all forum I belong to 2 O and one all gauge but basically follow and got one O and the one all gauge So I would of missed it also.
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I see no problem with posting the same question to as many forums as one cares to. My experience has been that different forums provide different answers, which is good. Anyway, we don't need the po-po on moderated forums, that's why we have moderators.
Pete
PS - That's a way cool train, William.
"You can’t study the darkness by flooding it with light." - Edward Abbey -
Your streamliner is a Lionel Junior #1700 set, made during the Depression. I have one just like it, which was my mother's when she was a kid (I also have my dad's Lionel #252 passenger set).
I don't know the exact years of production, I'm afraid, nor do I know its current value. Last time I actually came across one for sale, it was going for around $400, but as we all know, that could easily have changed wildly in the meantime. In fact, just before I posted this, I took a quick look around the net and saw one selling for over $700.
Lionel Articulated "Distant Contol Streamliner", introduced as a "Lionel JR." 3 car set #1065E in 1935. In that year it was also made as a "windup set" as Catalog #1535.
The set was expanded to 4 cars in 1936 as "Lionel Jr." set #1071E. Final cataloged production was 1937 as "O-27" set #1071E.
Very collectible. They came in Red & Silver paint, Red & Chrome, Orange & Gray, and in Fluted or Smooth car sides. Price centers around $300 retail in this recession, dependent on colors and mostly the condition of the silver paint.
Don U. TCA 73-5735
Thanks all for the responses. I appreciate the information.
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