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Restored set. Rebuilt motor. New armature, brushes and wiring. New homemade wheel bushings were installed after the motor plates separated. Motor mount shoulder rivet was tightened up with a ball peen hammer. Passenger trucks cleaned and adjusted. Axles straightened. 2 new (Lionel) wheels were added to replace the missing set. New wiring was put into the coaches. Added a light to the middle coa...

Prewar American Flyer O Gauge City of Denver Streamliner. Bought this untested. Wiring is bad in both cars. Whistle is missing. Motor only goes in reverse and the wheel bearings/bushings are worn badly and the wheels wiggle up and down. Armature is worn and there is a groove from the brushes on the copper plate. Missing one set of wheels from a passenger truck. However, original paint in okay c...

Lionel Postwar single motor 2383 chassis. Sprayed flat gunmetal to match the truck sides. Added an MTH F3 shell. size is identical to the Lionel shell. had to shorten the rear mounting posts on the shell with a Dremel to match the length on the Lionel shell. Other than that, it was a direct fit. Nice detailed shell on a train show chassis.

Hoge 900 Streamliner. Made in tbe 1930's. This set is in rough shape. It was missing the motor. I had a motor in a junk lot that I get running again (missing pinion gear, replaced with a Lionel). This set has been repainted a few times, bent, twisted and broken. Missing vestibules and headlight mount. This is the start of a multi-month project. Dents will be pushed out, bends staightened and pi...

A year in the making. Came with scale wheels, no boards and no motor. Added new motor, brass flywheel and dogbone driveshaft. Replaced all lights with LEDs pre-wired for constant voltage from Evans Lighting. Changed wheels in pilot and trailing truck to high rail wheels with larger flanges from wheels I had in my parts boxes. Bought Lionel 2035 wheels without the gears on the back to be my new ...

Bought his Challenger project a year ago. Had scale wheels with very small flanges. Changed the wheels on the pilot truck and rear truck with wheels from the parts bin. Used Lionel 2035 non-geared wheels. They were the same diameter as the MTH originals but with a larger flange. Added a 4-40 washer to the center non-flanged wheel to keep the shoulder screw from binding the connecting rod. Had t...

Built from scrap parts. Started with a frame and trucks. Found motors online. Found a shell online. Added LED headlights, reverse lights and cab corner lights from Evans Lighting. I run the DC motors off a bridge rectifier. Motor reverses witha DPDT switch under the front left corner. Added a small hole for a needle oiling bottle to add fluid to the smoke unit. Front shell had indications in th...

My MTH E8 AB diesel set. Started off as an incomplete shell set. Used a donor AA set to get the frames, motors, portholes, horns and windshields. Wired with a manual reverse switch and a bridge rectifier to run the DC can motors off of a Lionel ZW AC transformer. Lovely shells. Runs great. Dual motors. Traction tires.

Nothing fancy. Repainted 810 crane car. I cleaned up the gearing and added new string to the hook. Part of Lionels prewar larger o gauge collection. Scaled appropriately for the 251 and 256 locomotives.

Repaired Lionel 221. Rebuilt e unit. Minor paint touch ups. Replacement tender with new waterslide stripes. Dullcoat applied over the new stripes to cut down the gloss sheen. Non-magnetraction motor. Simple engine but it runs well and the e unit functions perfectly.

An attempt to put correct (or more correct) tenders with some of my steam locomotives. 224e correct tender, 265 Silver Streak correct tender, 226e more correct tender (still not a real 226e tender but better than before), a new tender for my American Flyer 1680 Hudson and an MTH Greenbriar tender with new frame from scrap parts. I buy custom rubber stamps and white ink pads for my lettering.

This is how I wired my 156 station platform. Found a blog but no how to videos. Mine had no wiring or instructions. Here is how I did it. Both lights light up. Very simple circuit.

This is my 4-4-0. Loco shell is a 4-6-0 that I modified to accept a new chassis drive block. Drive block is part of an MTH 4-4-4-4 T1 duplex. Cut down the frame to fit inside the shell. Front pilot is a Lionel 250e I modified. DC can motor I connected with dog bone drive shaft. Used bridge rectifier to run on AC track. Custom Paint. Tender trucks are the same I used on the passenger cars it pul...

Cool americana custom built be someone in the past. Peewar shell and frame. Originally a lithograph train. Custom painted and lettered. Pantograph added. Was powered off the pantograph. Center rain pickup had been removed. No headlight or bell. Paint is old. Touched up a few places working new paint under old paint to stabilize and prevent more loss. Added center rail pickup. Made headlight mou...

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