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How to disassemble a Marx 999 locomotive

Dave Farquhar — Sun, 13 Dec 2015 12:00:48 +0000

Disassembling a Marx 999 locomotive isn’t too difficult, and it’s easier than the Marx 666, but it helps to have some instructions. The nice thing about the 999 is that if you can disassemble it, there’s a long, long list of

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How to disassemble a Marx 666 locomotive

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 12:00:26 +0000

Disassembling a postwar Marx 666 locomotive, or its plastic counterpart the 1666, isn’t too difficult, but it helps to have some instructions. Marx designed its trains so that a father or older brother could service them, so it comes apart

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How many Lionel CTC lockons you need

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 05 Dec 2015 23:39:49 +0000

You usually need at least two Lionel CTC lockons, but most Lionel O and O27 train sets came with a single CTC lockon connector. If your train slows down as it gets farther away from the transformer, that’s the biggest

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Lionel train light bulb chart

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 22:41:27 +0000

Lionel used 15 different types of light bulbs in its O gauge electric trains in the postwar era, but in most cases–87% of catalog numbers, and a lot more than that in actual number of items produced–you can get by with two.

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