For Sale - Misc. Lionel postwar parts

[Boston&Maine]

I have the following parts for sale... They are going on eBay tomorrow around 8-9 PM EST... PM me if you are interested or want more pictures / information...

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Complete set of drive rods for a 675 / 2025 / 2035 locomotive (with plain spoked wheels) with some minor corrosion / surface rusting: $20

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n29/blackdog007/IMGP5840.jpg


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Postwar 6 wheel motor... No e-unit and it does not have magnetraction... Ran well in both directions when tested: $15

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n29/blackdog007/IMGP5887.jpg


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675 / 2025 / 2035 steamchest and cow catcher, with the coupler molded in: $7

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n29/blackdog007/IMGP5958.jpg

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n29/blackdog007/IMGP5929.jpg


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6466 tender shell with broken screw holes and a crack on the front of it: $7

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n29/blackdog007/IMGP6105.jpg

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n29/blackdog007/IMGP6127.jpg

[T-Man]

Where did you get 675 parts???

[Boston&Maine]

From the parts 2025 I bought ;)

[T-Man]

Ok i'm interested in everything except th tender. Are you trying to raise revenue for another last purchase??

[Boston&Maine]

Most of these have been spoken for :)

If anyone is interested in the tender, here is the eBay link: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110499049524&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT

[Reckers]

I'm so glad I run S scale. From what I see on this site, everything made by Lionel ends up rusted, broken, or sold on ebay in pieces!

[T-Man]

So true, but that 's where the fun is!!

[Reckers]

Agreed. But that chain was just hangin' there, begging to be jerked.

[T-Man]

All the perfect ones end up in magazines. The rest are shown here. LOL

[Reckers]

*laughing* Good point. To get them ready for the magazines. Yours look better than new ones, once the paint has dried.

[Reckers]

By the way....magazines. Have you ever noticed that the layouts in magazines always seem to have been built by professionals? Maybe it's just the one mag I get (CTT), but the trains all look brand-new or newly restored, there's a large, newly decorated room in the house dedicated solely to the train layout, and a list of credits for the layout that one would expect to scroll across the screen at the end of Avatar. I've never seen a workbench, an oiler, or a screwdriver. It's kinda like "Let me show you the hobby I bought!" I can't help but feel those guys are sort of missing the point.

Oh well....their money goes into the hobby, too. Rant over. *L*

[T-Man]

The mags are not into blue collar trains. This forum is not connected to a mag and that is a big difference to me. Yeah I saw a layout for sale for 4 grand. It was all new, no personality just set up and run. I found it kinda sad but the guy did support the LHS. I know what you mean, you gotta see the epoxy drip and smell the automatic transmission fluid burning up the track.:D

I guess we can call it blue collar .

[Reckers]

Blue collar works just fine.

You're right about "no personality" on the ones pictured. I read about one guy who had a company build a layout, then moved. When he moved, he handed the MRR contractor a list and said, "Build me one at the new house, and I want these features in it." In the article, he had just moved again...three houses, three layouts, and all he had invested in any of them was a pile of money and a shopping list. The pics made it look like it was expensive, crowded, expensive, and expensive. It was complex, and it was ugly.

It reminded me of a guy at a place I used to work---one of the executives. His son was in cub scouts and they were doing the pinewood derby thing. He was supposed to help his son create a car from a kit. His version of doing it together was to take the kit to the carpenter's shop at work and tell the supervisor what he wanted done. It came back with the block of wood expertly worked by a professional carpenter, sanded and painted by a professional painter, the axles turned and polished on a lathe by a machinist...and that was his version of doing something with his son.