You’ve obviously spent a lot of time on your videos. I appreciate and enjoy them all
@haydenwilson5189
Жыл бұрын
Have two of the hand cars. Love them!
@martinantoniobenitez332
3 жыл бұрын
fantastic video thank you very much, for rescuing part of the history of these wonders of the golden age, of the Lionel brand.
@trashtrainpunk1542
3 жыл бұрын
The technology is still unbeaten! My grandson has a little toy-car that works with exactly the same mechanism. I didn´t know it is so old. I saw the toy and was already thinking how to use the same technique kitbashing one of my Fenfa engines.
@davestrains6816
3 жыл бұрын
Man to have had those a kid would be heaven. Thanks for sharing. Dave
@winnepoo9788
3 жыл бұрын
Your videos are very relaxing. Love the layout and your collection.
@tony8074
3 жыл бұрын
The two bumping into each other was comical.
@DesertSenior
3 жыл бұрын
I had a section gang car and also the trolley. The trolley was cool because we had them on White Plains Ave. in the Bronx which were replaced by buses.
@robertlucido3686
3 жыл бұрын
You should do a video on Lionel's postwar steam locomotives
@leverettrailfan5414
3 жыл бұрын
I have one of those Lionel reproductions of the 69 Maintenance Car, they're notorious for being poor runners out of the box, however this is mainly down to a painted base causing poor grounding (as opposed to a chemically blackened frame like the original bumper-reverse motorized units had) and if the car has not been serviced since it left the factory (like mine was), then the lubricant will have congealed into something that gums up the motor. carefully sanding away the paint on the frame, where the bumper slider moves across it, will solve the grounding issues. And of course, cleaning out old lubricant and putting in fresh stuff fixes the gummed up mechanism (the car may still run with the old lubricant, but the car will overheat prematurely). One interesting design change I like, is the change to standard sized brushes for the car, instead of the slightly smaller kind used in the original bumper reversing cars. Also, the top bearing of the armature has an adjustable allen screw, so you can fine tune the play in the armature to where it performs best. From what I've seen, it's a million times easier to find the reproduction than to find an intact original.
@trashtrainpunk1542
3 жыл бұрын
Liiike!
@albanymonsterjamfan3481
3 жыл бұрын
Do shark nose next
@War1109
3 жыл бұрын
My papaw has the number 50 gang car and we used to put it on the loop on our layout and run another train at the same time and just watch it hit the train and go back in the other direction and hit the end of it.
@DesertSenior
3 жыл бұрын
In slow mo it looks like the pantograph pole is reversed as it should be trailing the direction of the trolley.
@leverettrailfan5414
3 жыл бұрын
the pole is indeed backwards- in standard trolley car operations, the pole faces in the "trailing" position. Occasionally a trolley would briefly operate without turning the pole, but usually this practice was just for yard moves and short back-tracking.
@DesertSenior
3 жыл бұрын
@@leverettrailfan5414 I grew up in NYC and rode the trolleys until they were replaced by buses in the late 1940s/early 1950s. The poles on those trolleys were connected to the overhead electrical supply at the rear of the car, and when the trolley got to the end of the line, the driver would reverse the pole, walk down the aisle and reverse the seatbacks, and then operate the controls from the forward direction of the trolley. After seeing the trolley in the video, I began to wonder if I was wrong. However, today I was reviewing a video of Brooklyn which had two images of trolleys, and the images showed the pantograph connected at the rear with the driver at the front direction control set. Sometimes the driver would let me ring the trolley's bell.
@brandtfj
3 жыл бұрын
Did the burro crane also switch directions?
@classiclioneltrains5977
3 жыл бұрын
One can manually switch directions
@brandtfj
3 жыл бұрын
@@classiclioneltrains5977 okay, now I remember, I had the borough crane when I was four I have fond memories of my train set when I was little
Пікірлер: 19