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Originally Posted by lionmaster:

Great, Chris! Where do you mostly get your trains? I have not seen any B&O F3's or Milwaukee GP's at any local shows.

 

The postwar stuff I have had for ages were all bought at shows & local hobby shops.  I would say the majority of the postwar stuff I get is bought on eBay.  There are not really any hobby shops near me. Couple that with the lack of time I have & eBay is just easier

One of the most enjoyable facets of the hobby for me has been resuscitating decrepit pieces by either customizing or restoring as close to original as possible.  The Marx E7 plastic diesel is one of my favorite engines, and the common 1095 (pictured first) has provided me with several custom projects, as below.

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L I Train that Rio Grande is nice thanks for the videos.

Bill T never paid much attention to Kusan but they did make some good looking rolling stock.

Here's my postwar addiction, finding them at garage sales, yard sales or estate sales.

Then cleaning them up and running them.

 

 

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I found this on one of boxes that I picked up. Ownership transfer!  

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The king of postwar!

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here's some of my junkbox rebuilds.

2037 came in an e bay box, and the tender was a $1 at a train show

1664 was found as a bare shell(as all these were) at a local flea market. I changed it to a 2-6-2

the Postwar 1666 shell was in the same box as my 225E shell,1666 tender and slobe back tender(both complete)

224E was in a box at a show

my gunmetal 225E along with my home made Vanderbilt tender,with three axle Prewar trucks

a 4-8-4 project made from two bad 1666 shells

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yes I do and thanks! I could probably find these same engines complete, and maybe for a comparable price, but I have plenty of ready to run trains, and I love bringing the junkers back. This is my P Company Diner I made from a junk 1630 body, some scrap material, and a 442 Diner base pattern from a fourm member.

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that picture was taken today, so that's where it sits. There aren't many shows around here, and the few that are I usually miss by working 21 turn, so I haven't been able to gather parts.

and don't sell yourself short, all I did was cut the bad ends off of two shells, and put them together. Give it a try. If you mess up, all you've messed up is junk parts anyway!

Lionmaster, I hope I'm not insulting your intelligence or competence, but has the armature shaft received a drop of oil?  High-pitched squealing on postwar sounds like that, to me.  Perhaps posting this problem in a thread by itself would attract help from the repair guys who may not be reading this thread, eh?

 

Here is a Marx 666 custom painted and with a Lionel tender equipped with scale trucks but Lionel fast angle wheels.  I painted it up to run the Lionel 2400-02 green coaches.  Also, a couple Lionel operating cars.

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Trains that 666 looks fantastic! might have to pick up another one to do that myslef.What paints did you use?

Lionmaster I was thinking the same thing about the armature. The thing about the internet and some avaitar pics we just don't know who the person really is. I have over 20 Pre and Postwar steamers. Out of that number, only my 675 with the sintered wheels does the squeeling noise you describe. I oiled it like normal, and it still did it. I pulled the shell and made sure to do both ends, a tad bit excessive since the engine looked like it had spent some time in a damp basement, and it stopped and has never done it again.

Well thanks for the kind words, gents.  I did do the work myself and, it is Humbrol enamel brushed on.  The gold bands on the domes I made by painting the domes gold, then masking off the 1/16" line when painting the green.   It was done years ago and I was thrilled with the results.  I don't recall what I used for the clear flat overspray, but probably Testor's.

 

I mixed the paint myself, so there is no paint stock number to give out.

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