Bobnatlanta posted:Thanks SteamWolf, very helpful. I did discover, on closer examination, that the ‘drums’ have L I O N E L printed in raised letters across the top...probably would have been a big clue.😀
Don’t know how far this will go. I still think of myself as a pinball guy who has a train er...trains. We’ll see if that changes over time.
You're very welcome. You're where I was a decade or so ago... And long before I discovered tin 
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If you do one day get interested in all the things that are train related out there, there is an obscene amount of information just in this forum and a bajillion times that buried in the internet in little archives and stacked away in virtual boxes. It would be like someone walking into pinball machines for the first time.
If you want an actual layout one day that's more 'prototypical' and has an unbelievable array of stuff available for the scale, HO (1:87) is the way to go. If, however you're like the rest of the denizens of this forum and prefer to have big, fun, loud, flashy 'toy' trains? O gauge is the place to be.
Good luck and welcome!
