Dennis: You are a most talented and creative restorer and I respect that! I, on the other hand, like "new and shiny" and my OCD is a factor here. When I was much younger (mid '70's), I purchased and restored several original boxed Lionel standard gauge sets and ran them on the original track with those "button" style transformers. Guess it was a phase I very much enjoyed at the time but eventually grew out of. Engines were mostly #8's, #10's and 318's.
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