Post 78 8-11-2021
Engines Purchased with Previous Owners Modifications
Three Train Show purchased Engines, with Previous Owners Modifications are reviewed below.
Lionel 2065 Baby Hudson With Gold Painted Running Gear
Ben: Thank you for the question about my Lionel 2065 baby Hudson. I bought the engine only at a TCA train show at Millerville School, in Baton Rouge, LA in 1999 and it came with the gold colored running gear. It was painted gold by a prior owner. For some reason I have not run it or the Lionel 2046, bought about the same time, much until the last year to two. I like the 2046 a little better as it is not a narrow looking as the 2056 but runs and pulls the same. I buy all used trains and once in awhile they a have been "improved" by prior owners.
Gold running gear Lionel 2065 with new Homemade Longer Vanderbilt Coal Tender
Lionel 2025 with Enclosed Cab and White Wall Painted Wheels
A Lionel 2025 was purchased without coal tender at a train show at the Astro Hall train show in Houston in 2002. The Lionel 2025 came with a homemade enclosed cab and White Wall painted wheels. I left all in place. Recently I installed a coupler for a coal tender on the front of the loco to allow a oil tender to be pulled by the front of the locomotive. It is now used as a Cab Forward locomotive with a oil tender.
Lionel 2025 with Enclosed Cab and White Wall wheels
A working Head Light and Marker Lights were added to the cab to allow use as a Cab Forward locomotive. The camera flash brings out all the imperfections. It looks like the original owner used the rough side out on small piece of 1/8 inch Masonite particle board.
Lionel 2025 enclosed cab loco as a Cab Forward loco with oil tender
Lionel 4-4-0 General and Coal Tender- Engine has Home Crafted Wooden Cab and Cow Catcher
Here is a Lionel 1862, 4-4-0 General and coal tender that came with a homemade wooden engine cab and cow catcher. It was purchased this way, at a TCA Train show in 2018 in Ponchatoula, LA and was the reason I got it for an inexpensive price. I thought a prior owner did a lot of work and a good job on the wooden modes. The roof is a little rough or more realistic. I do not know if real 4-4-0 General style locos had wooden cow catchers or not, but probably not.
You never know what you might find at a train show.
Charlie