My grandmother who grew up in England received this 1951 Rivarossi Hiawatha as a christmas gift along with many other trains sometime in the mid 50s, the trains were put into storage not long after and were moved to many different places around the world. She found the trains later and brought them back home to Canada. Unfortunately almost all the trains had developed zink rot or zink pest, this caused the chassis of the hiawatha to fall apart rendering it broken almost beyond repair. In 2008 when I was fairly new to the hobby she gave me the hiawatha in hopes that some hobby shop would be able to repair it but non were successful. In 2012 when I was starting to learn how to repair trains I decided to take on getting it back together, I remember spending countless nights trying to glue the chassis back together but I could never get it to run. I took a second attempt in 2016 and managed to get it to run around 15 feet under its own power but the chassis still eventually cracked so in 2017 parts were ordered and it was running by that christmas. After all these years, she finally got to run it again. Dec, 25, 2019.
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My Grandmother Runs Her Childhood Train for the First Time in Decades
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