I received the Lionel 282 Portal gantry Crane probably from 1956/1957 as a Christmas present as a kid I loaded/unloaded AC Gilbert erector set lattice trusses into the Lionel gondola cars. I recently rewired the dry rotted conductor control cable with a new cable and everything is working as it did so many years ago, steel loads for the magnet are GarGraves tin plate track drops that came from fitting curved tracks.
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