Re: Olsen's Toy Train PDF library

Dan BreitweiserOGR Forum Member

I am new to the forum, I don’t know if this is the right place to post this since the other forum doesn’t seem to be the right place.

I am looking for the PDF’s from Olsen's Toy Train that some people may have downloaded from his site. Since the quarantine last year, I have been working from home. So, I started to remake the part manuals. Starting with the prewar stuff. I only have some of the prewar motors and miscellaneous items PDFs. If I knew Olsen was going to lose the library, I would have downloaded all of it. I am posting a sample here.

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1/17/211:43 AM

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Dan BreitweiserOGR Forum Member

Never mind I did not know they had a CD. I have ordered it.

After I get it I will be able to fill in the missing part numbers. After I make enough pages I was thinking of setting up Wikipedia pages for the lionel manuals. This will prevent what has happened. And give the community a permanent online resource. Here's the next set of pages,

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MikestrainsOGR Forum Member

That will be great Dan. I was looking for Olsen’s library, but I can never connect. Seems like the link to the pictures library is gone. Can seem to find the store either. Do not know what happened.

2/21/2111:39 PM

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Virginian65Member

I used to visit Olsen's library for info on this and that, but I found that once I'd purchased Greenberg's Postwar Lionel Repair book (about $25), almost all diagrams and parts breakdowns for postwar Lionel was there, in clarity and fullness. Don't know about prewar or postwar after the 60's...

2/22/215:46 AM

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gunrunnerjohnMember SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

@Mikestrains posted:
That will be great Dan. I was looking for Olsen’s library, but I can never connect. Seems like the link to the pictures library is gone. Can seem to find the store either. Do not know what happened.

Their server crashed and they stated they lost the data, it doesn't sound like it's coming back.

2/22/2110:33 AM

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MikestrainsOGR Forum Member

I have tried to find them online with no results for the store. The only information I find is from the BBB that they are no longer in business.

https://www.bbb.org/us/oh/lake...-parts-0312-29000512

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Dan BreitweiserOGR Forum Member

@Virginian65 posted:
I used to visit Olsen's library for info on this and that, but I found that once I'd purchased Greenberg's Postwar Lionel Repair book (about $25), almost all diagrams and parts breakdowns for postwar Lionel was there, in clarity and fullness. Don't know about prewar or postwar after the 60's...

There are plenty of lionel service/repair manuals floating around for post-war to present.

I am mainly doing the prewar stuff since there is a lack of diagrams.