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Leroof posted:

WILL, great little prewar type control panel! Did you make this out of wood? Or is it tin? Really like the look of it with vintage knife controls and switch controllers! 

like the way it is in the corner pocket of the board.

leroof.

Send more photos of any updates on it. Thanks.

Leroof, yes it is wood with a good old Rustoleum satin green finish. The knife switches and switch controllers are my Dad's original Lionel, and the bulb sockets are from old signals. Needs some cool number plates and if I can find a Lionel plate for under the controllers. Like I said, I thought bout a step transformer and rheostat, but decided on my ZW. So the "dispatcher" can control this little panel and the engineer the throttle.

This may also get a little fence or wall around it. The layout will eventually get a Lionel logo and molding trim. It is in the spirit of the 1920's catalogue layouts. I'll post photos along the way. At this point it will be next Christmas before it is finished.

BTW anyone using 012 switches is in for a masochistic experience. I think I took one apart about 20 times.

Will

 

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