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Hello Highplains. Not too early for the Christmas layout! While I think the stores push the holiday too soon turning it into a commercial holiday, often forgetting the true reason for the season. I will make an exception here: it's never too early for the train layout! And a good excuse to have trains in the living room, which sometimes the wife will argue about under other circumstances. Here's a simple trick for your steamer that has worked for me. Place a small magnet on the upper side
Well for starters, it's not the transformer, but the current requirements and draw of the locomotive. The open frame AC motor used on postwar locomotive has a higher current draw than that of a starter Lionel 4-4-2 steamer with a DC can motor. I'm not sure what you mean by the retrofit... whether you mean a whole new liquid smoke unit? But you need a smoke unit that is equal to the current being drawn by the locomotive. Or a resistor wired into the smoke unit line, powerful enough to reduce
Ohman, excluding limited run items made for clubs or the rare occasion when the manufacturer states so much, production numbers have never been public information. Generally, if you notice a lot of excitement over a particular item, it might be best to jump on it rather than wait. Some of the Lionel PW reissues seem to be selling well, so for example, if you like the 2242 New Haven reissues, I think those stand a good chance of selling out. It's a tough call for the train companies: They absolutely
Benni, give Sears a call. I see where they have a Lionel set on sale. http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_05213386000P?keyword=lionel+train
Sarge, if you have the loco apart and if you have an HO type power pack (even a 9 volt battery will work) you can check the motor. Run leads from the HO power pack directly to the terminals on the motor.. not to the wheels and roller pick up, but to the motor direct. If the motor runs good, then you shouldn't have to replace it. In my experience, circuit boards go bad long before the Mabuchi DC can motors do. I'm not sure of the specs on the PE loco... you could check the Lionel website under
Ohman, as Bob already said, there is always some unavoidable flicker even with die-cast trucks. Now if you like Bob's idea, go ahead with that. The old postwar Lionel metal trucks had a center rail roller only, with the ground going though the truck assembly itself through the sheetmetal frame of the car, being attached with a C-clip via the metal stud that comes up from the truck into the frame. And still, these cars are just as prone to light flicker as those with plastic trucks. The cars you
Jeff, first off welcome to the hobby. Here's a website that is just about the most useful for any beginner out there: www.thortrains.net Depending on how big your layout will be, it is not entirely necessary to use an underlay of plywood. You can use just the homosote. However you choose to go, remember that screws though plywood into the wood frame work and then screws holding the homosote to the plywood will transfer noise level of the trains making them louder. This is not an issue for some
Thanks Mike, I have seen that one. Once you open YouTube, there are usually related videos that pop up like this next one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehPMAd0dTS8 Here's one you might have missed unless you get NYC television. This was a piece on the famous WPIX New York station about the opening of the Lionel holiday season store in NYC. http://weblogs.wpix.com/news/local/morningnews/blogs/2009/11/lionel_trains.html I know everyone has an opinion of the job Lionel CEO Jerry Calabrese is doing
Boyd, I have some observations from experience. There are the "tabs" on the car body itself and then there are two plastic "hinges" on the dump tray base. They are all subject to break, though the log dump cars (minus the dump bin on the car) seem far less prone to break than the coal dump cars. I've also had better luck with the early MPC cars than the more modern and recent ones. That said, I've come up with a design where I cut a piece of basswood to fit on top and
Bluebottle, I don't want to overwhelm you with a lot of info. Don makes a good point of trying to find a train dealer who hopefully has an operating display layout. Here's some video links from YouTube demostrating some Lionel and Atlas Industrial Rail sets. http://www.youtube.com/user/trainzstore#p/u/10/Iw3SdJfLQw8 http://www.youtube.com/user/trainzstore#p/u/5/2dEL821LUTs http://www.youtube.com/user/trainzstore#p/u/6/nxKvsbPxruE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVEoMVnwM7A&feature=related
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