@OGR CEO-PUBLISHER posted:Well...it took me just about 10 seconds to find what this is on Google by putting in "General Machining Works model 5402". Rick is correct...it is a re-railer and in fact the image that you will see when you search Google as I did is a picture of 3 "Electric Train Re-railers" that were apparently offered on ebay some time ago.
Well that's odd, because I pasted in "General Machining Works model 5402" and got nothing except a link to this page. Taking off the quotes and adding Marx and Lionel did nothing either. How is that possible? Did you possibly type in something else, or do you have some Google trick I am not aware of?
Edit: Okay, did image search again- no quotes and there is a photo. About 20 images from the top in the midst of photos of machinery. Good eye Alan.