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Wow! I’m only 20, almost 21 - and I REALLY like collecting these old trains and vintage toys - it is so surreal getting to put my hands on the toys that my ancestors and their peers got to play with…

@@davydigger708 My brother was born in 1940 and I was born 11 years later - and I was a girl - but I adored the trains!! My mother would tell me how hard it was to obtain some of the cars and tracks because of WWII. Most metal went to the war effort. I don’t know how they managed to get his first set of trains and tracks but somehow they did. And every year after that, they would get him another accessory for the train set. He had all the basics like the semaphore, the gate, the gateman who came out of his house with a lantern, the bascule bridge. Or they would get things like the milk car and platform, the cattle car and platform, the barrel car and loader, the culvert loader and car, the lumber loader and car, the ice machine and car…. Every year, it became a family project to assemble the trains around the Christmas tree and to make a village to go with them out of putz houses, cotton “snow”, and mountain paper. It really looked quite beautiful when it was done. I miss that smell of the undercarriage of a train car after it’s been running for a while. If you’ve never smelled it, run your trains for a while and give the undercarriage a sniff. I know it sounds weird but the smell is divine - I guarantee it!! What transformer do you have? My brother had the Z 250 Trainmaster.

@@cak813 My Lionel set has the 1041 transformer - I also have some Marx trains as well - including a 1940's-era set, and I plan to keep collecting. I don't run my trains only at Christmas time - I run them all year long, and I like to "play" adventures - I like to build destinations with Lego and such, and load my trains with "cargo", and deliver it from point A to point B - I have an imaginary railroad and I am getting imaginary jobs done on my railroad as I play with my trains! I don't really like video games that much - when I get home from work - I play with my trains!

@@cak813 I was only born in 2004 - but I FELL in love with these trains when I discovered them... 🤩😍🥰😁😄

@@davydigger708 Sounds good to me!!

It wasn’t easy!!!!

This set was from my childhood - I disassembled and rebuilt it hundreds of times, and I have memorized the instructions - I can build this set without looking like the instructions like nothing, so I decided to challenge myself further.::

Watch the whole video through…

Simple - so that it dries faster! 😄 Thank you for watching, and God bless!

​@@davydigger708 That makes so much sense! Thank you!

Thanks! 😊

The detail is incredible on these figures, especially considering how inexpensive they were! Not to mention - they are tough as nails! Mine may be getting a little bit brittle with age - but these were difficult to break when new - much better than most of those cheap plastic figurines you buy for a dollar today!

Thanks for complementing!

Thanks for the tip!

Got it. Thanks. How easy are they to install? SPOILER ALERT - I ordered new screws for the valve gear!!! 😁

I didn’t know that about the pickup - I haven’t tried it through switches yet. Thanks for the info. About the valve gear - wait for Part 4 - I already have it filmed - just need to finish editing it…

Cool! By the way, there’s this company called BMC toys that makes all sorts of toy solders and figurines from different eras - some are even based on former Marx molds! I’d recommend checking them out. It’s cool how a toy can spark an interest in a person! I just wish they still made toys like this - I was really fortunate to find this set in such good condition for its age!

Was this one you got in the 90’s new or used? Was it Marx? Marx originally went out of business in 1980, but American Plastics Equipment, or whatever it was called, bought the right to Marx, and tried to recreate the company the 90’s, even bringing back updated versions of some of their old toys from the 50’s through 70’s - though it didn’t last long and ended up going bust a second time.

@@davydigger708 Ah yes, I check out BMC frequently. I'm now buying for my Grandson. He especially likes all the different Timmee colors that are out now. He currently wants White, Yellow, and Purple. He has divided his Armies into Allies and Evil Alliance. Allies; Green Timmee: American's Light Green Timme: American Marines Tan Timmee and British: British Dark Green WW2 Style: Canadian Light Green different WW2 Style: Australian and New Zealand White Timmee: Israeli Japanese: Japanese, after 70 years and Godzilla movies they are now Allies Blue Timmee and Police: SHIELD Evil Alliance; German and Grey Timmee: Arab Coalition Black Timmee: Cubans Red Timmee: North Koreans Russian: Russian Pink Timmee: Hydra, because in my Grandsons words, it's the Sissy color. I also used to own the local Comic Book Store so he's looked at a lot of Captain America and SHIELD comics as well as seen the movies where Hydra runs or surrenders. He only has a few of the White Timmee. Yellow will probably be Chinese, I don't know what side Purple will be on. He has plenty of Timmee Tanks and Armored cars, he wants more Artillery and Air Power.

My brother and used to love playing with his Tim Mee and BMC army men - we played for hours and had all kinds of fun battles - we used to take them other places and have battles in the car or at other people’s houses - or even on vacation as well! We used Lego’s, Lincoln Logs, blocks, etc. to create fortresses and battlefields indoors, or we would sometimes battle outdoors with them as well. I may pick up some for myself sometime. My dream, however, is to get the Marx Battleground playset, although it is a little pricey these days…

@@davydigger708 I got it new. My Grandson has them now. I'm pretty sure it wasn't Marx as they didn't look anywhere near what my 60s Fort Apache looked like. Exception being the mounted Saber and Bugle Troopers.

Thanks for watching!

They’re not fake - Wilco and Servco weee business partners with Hess. They were made in the same factory.

Oh didn’t know that sorry

Neither did I at first.