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Cleaning Lionel trains: A hobbyist’s advice

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 12:00:57 +0000

It’s that time of year again, when people start thinking about getting their Lionel trains out and setting them up, and sometimes, cleaning Lionel trains to make them presentable is necessary first. Fortunately, Lionel trains aren’t hard to clean. The

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Types of Lionel knuckle couplers

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 11:00:50 +0000

There have been three major types of Lionel knuckle couplers produced since resuming train production in 1946. Lionel knew it would have to make a splash when it brought its trains back after the end of the War, and the knuckle

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Clean up the white goop on postwar Lionel and American Flyer with a hair dryer

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 23:45:44 +0000

I picked up some dilapidated postwar American Flyer wheels at the local train store this afternoon to fix up some stuff from my junk box. The wheels were covered in milky white goo/powder/gunk/residue/stuff–whatever you want to call it. Almost anything

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The unheralded bargain in O gauge trains

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 22:34:20 +0000

Toy trains are a funny thing. Vintage Lionel trains are almost a status symbol, and their value has almost taken a mythical quality. Marx, on the other hand, was the working class brand in the 1950s, the company that had something for you no matter how much you had available to spend.

For the most part, today's prices reflect that. Lionels are expensive and Marxes are cheap.

Sort of.

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