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 Posted - May 05 2014 : 6:53:42 PM
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Basically post pictures and stuff about your oldest model train. It can be a locomotive or rolling stock. Or both if you managed to put a rolling stock case on a motor somehow. Anyway, here's mine. An old 1963-1964 Arnold Rapido New Haven switcher with some cars that I got at my local train show earlier this year for $15.
-Steve
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Posted - May 05 2014 : 7:05:39 PM
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mm I'd say that'd be my now completed Marx Rock Island set 
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Posted - May 05 2014 : 7:18:35 PM
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I would say these are my oldest pieces, a couple of Mantuas that belonged to my dad. I still have the original trucks and hook/loop couplers.
 
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Posted - May 05 2014 : 9:26:40 PM
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My oldest engine would be this '49 Marklin HR800...
...my oldest car this '47 Mantua 'boose...
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Posted - May 06 2014 : 05:44:26 AM
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Lionel 1668 Torpedo, in Gunmetal. Dates to 1936. Fully functioning, with e-unit. All original. One of my favorites, and only runs a few times each year.
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Posted - May 06 2014 : 10:36:53 AM
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quote:
Lionel 1668 Torpedo, in Gunmetal. Dates to 1936. Fully functioning, with e-unit. All original. One of my favorites, and only runs a few times each year.
Originally posted by fritdude - May 06 2014 : 05:44:26 AM
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I don't blame you for not running it much, man. It looks so good it's unbelievable.
-Steve
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Posted - May 08 2014 : 12:12:58 AM
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My 2 oldest model trains are a Lionel Blue Streak set from the late 30's and Lionel torpedo locomotive with freight cars. They were given to me by my grandfather who had them in storage for many years, in very good condition with the original packaging as well. As I recall the set came with some track and an operating gateman accessory.
photo is not mine, from the internet as my old Lionel trains are safely packed away for the moment.
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Posted - May 08 2014 : 12:58:13 AM
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| Cool vintage trains. Jerry, that is so fine that those cars were your Dad's.
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Posted - May 08 2014 : 09:56:12 AM
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quote:My 2 oldest model trains are a Lionel Blue Streak set from the late 30's and Lionel torpedo locomotive with freight cars. They were given to me by my grandfather who had them in storage for many years, in very good condition with the original packaging as well. As I recall the set came with some track and an operating gateman accessory.
photo is not mine, from the internet as my old Lionel trains are safely packed away for the moment.
Originally posted by ChessieRRÂ -Â May 08 2014Â :Â 12:12:58 AM
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Man, I love those vintage Lionel trains. They're so cool.All Lionel makes in their regular product line is cheap, junky, and over priced trains. There's actually someone on Youtube who ranted about the 2014 Lionel catalog. On Youtube, search Tomixnscale89, go to his channel and you'll find it. It's one of his newer videos. Anyway, he pretty much sums up how Lionel is doing these days.
-Steve
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Posted - May 08 2014 : 11:17:18 AM
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me too! I may not want Lionels except the years when General Mills had them but any Lionel still cool
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Posted - May 08 2014 : 7:44:44 PM
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The oldest thing in my collection is a set of aluminum streamliners made by a Canadian company called Grant in the mid 50's. I have six of them.
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Posted - May 08 2014 : 7:48:05 PM
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Cheez - those things are BEAUTIFUL. Those older aluminum streamliners are a definite favorite of mine.
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Posted - May 12 2014 : 01:16:02 AM
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| 1937 Lionel model 263-e in gunmetal grey. picture coming soon.
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Posted - May 12 2014 : 09:57:53 AM
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quote:1937 Lionel model 263-e in gunmetal grey. picture coming soon.
Originally posted by metalsmith1Â -Â May 12 2014Â :Â 01:16:02 AM
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Looking forward to seeing your photos.
-Steve
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Posted - May 13 2014 : 8:40:10 PM
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Mine's a tie, I'm not sure what car is oldest.
I've got a Walthers outside-braced 40' box from either 1937 or 38, I'm pretty sure 37, which makes it the FIRST year of Walthers HO.
There's also that 1938/39 varney tinplate observation that I got for 50 cents, I was able to salvage all the parts except the actual tinplate shell - the sprung trucks were still good.
Just last weekend I found something new, an early Walthers wood-and-metal heavyweight Pullman that I'm guessing is from somewhere between 1939 and the end of the war, not too sure.
Finally there's that scratchbuilt C&NW quad hopper that I'm guessing is 1930s/40s but I'll never know.
I've also got a whole fleet of rotting, rusting cardboard-side reefers some of which are probably at least as old as 1940 but I haven't looked any of them up yet. There's like 50 of them around here.
Pictures someday maybe not. Y'all know I'm not good at pictures.
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Posted - May 14 2014 : 09:59:48 AM
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quote:Cheez - those things are BEAUTIFUL. Those older aluminum streamliners are a definite favorite of mine.
Originally posted by JNXT 7707Â -Â May 08 2014Â :Â 7:48:05 PM
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Mine too. I know the details are lacking and the windows are punched crooked, but to my eye they look much more realistic than any plastic cars.
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Posted - May 14 2014 : 10:07:37 AM
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quote: quote:Cheez - those things are BEAUTIFUL. Those older aluminum streamliners are a definite favorite of mine.
Originally posted by JNXT 7707Â -Â May 08 2014Â :Â 7:48:05 PM
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Mine too. I know the details are lacking and the windows are punched crooked, but to my eye they look much more realistic than any plastic cars.
Originally posted by DaCheez - May 14 2014 : 09:59:48 AM
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I know, right? I've actually seen metal coaches similar to those at train shows and they feel oddly realistic and Kadee couplers only make them more realistic.
-Steve
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Posted - June 11 2014 : 12:46:36 PM
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My oldest is an incomplete Walthers Baltic 4-6-4 steam locomotive. It was HO scale's very first kit constructed engine. Produced ~1937
Been absent a little while!
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Posted - June 11 2014 : 1:02:10 PM
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quote:My oldest is an incomplete Walthers Baltic 4-6-4 steam locomotive. It was HO scale's very first kit constructed engine. Produced ~1937
Been absent a little while!
243 Active Topics!!! LOL!
Originally posted by Mustangs_n_Trains - June 11 2014 : 12:46:36 PM
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That right there belongs in some model railroad museum somewhere. Very neat piece of H0 model railroad history.
-Steve
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Posted - June 11 2014 : 4:54:00 PM
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quote:My oldest is an incomplete Walthers Baltic 4-6-4 steam locomotive. It was HO scale's very first kit constructed engine. Produced ~1937
Been absent a little while!
243 Active Topics!!! LOL!
Originally posted by Mustangs_n_Trains - June 11 2014 : 12:46:36 PM
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That is one AWESOME find there! Walthers' 1st year of HO kits... I'm jealous
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Posted - June 12 2014 : 09:51:42 AM
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This is a very rare engine. So rare, most of those that knew about it are long gone. A friend of mine who is in poor health and up in age told me about it some 5-6 years ago. Since then I have be the hunt for a complete model. I managed to find the shell to this one in a pile of scrap, but I recognized some unique features about it and held onto it. Then i found the chassis attached to a boiler that was not original. When I combined them, I realized I had a matched set.
I bid on and lost the bid (Bid ~$400) for this model a couple years back. It was a complete engine and in awesome shape. It was not properly listed, but it was clearly the Walthers Baltic:
It has kind of been my personal mission to not let these old classic be forgotten. That's why I post photos with descriptions to flickr.
Sean
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Posted - June 12 2014 : 10:35:29 AM
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quote:This is a very rare engine. So rare, most of those that knew about it are long gone. A friend of mine who is in poor health and up in age told me about it some 5-6 years ago. Since then I have be the hunt for a complete model. I managed to find the shell to this one in a pile of scrap, but I recognized some unique features about it and held onto it. Then i found the chassis attached to a boiler that was not original. When I combined them, I realized I had a matched set.
I bid on and lost the bid (Bid ~$400) for this model a couple years back. It was a complete engine and in awesome shape. It was not properly listed, but it was clearly the Walthers Baltic:
It has kind of been my personal mission to not let these old classic be forgotten. That's why I post photos with descriptions to flickr.
Originally posted by Mustangs_n_Trains - June 12 2014 : 09:51:42 AM
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That thing looks so good you can't even tell it's old.But yes, I have to agree with you. We can't let the history of model railroading die. We must preserve our model trains of the past like for example, the Walthers Baltic. But the Baltic is not the only model railroad equipment that needs preserving for the next generation. There's also other engines and rolling stock for all sorts of different scales that need our help keeping them "alive" and in operating condition. I'm essentially a collector, but I run the stuff I collect and have fun with it.
-Steve
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