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Snagged this postable building/accessory out of the trash today, boss threw out this slightly used and abused Lionel gate crossing building, has some rust on it, some dents, but mostly whole. Will see if I can get it to operate. I've been scoring big time the past couple weeks, boss sorting out the junk, and tossing stuff that is worth nothing to him, but that I think can be used and salvaged. We'll see.
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Posted - August 09 2015 : 11:04:07 PM
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That's a neat little building! Why doesn't your boss just have a 'free' box to give others the oppurtunity to use stuff like this? They may not have any value but that doesn't make them worthless. I'm sure some kid passing through the store would love an extra building for his trains. 
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Posted - August 10 2015 : 12:12:05 AM
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| I'm guessin' that has real good value to a Lionel collector. Is that O gauge?
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Posted - August 11 2015 : 11:17:58 PM
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quote:I'm guessin' that has real good value to a Lionel collector. Is that O gauge?
Originally posted by Barry - August 10 2015 : 12:12:05 AM
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yes its a Lionel Gateman, you freak! 
Am getting one from the same era Sans dude 
This is the pre-WW2 one or just after WW2
Can't believe he threw that out! 
The old Gatemans are worth a few buck these days
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Posted - August 12 2015 : 1:47:16 PM
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IT'S HERE!! 
Close up detail on the side
Chimney bent but a easy fix
dude is missing but What do you want for $4 + $12 shipping?
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Posted - August 12 2015 : 2:02:50 PM
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just a little bending needed to raise all 4 lips
Edited by - catfordken on August 12 2015 2:06:50 PM
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Posted - August 12 2015 : 2:30:58 PM
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Exterior of El Paso Model Train Club. We are in the process of scraping of about
six layers of old paint and repainting it. We'd like to get a train mural on this wall,
but no one likes to work for free. The cross buck is home made, we are going install
flashers on it using trailer brake lights set to a flasher unit.
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Posted - August 12 2015 : 2:55:30 PM
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yep, ken
Course now I wanna build a 1:1 Gateman shanty since I has the correct crossbuck
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Posted - August 12 2015 : 2:58:35 PM
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away you go ben,have fun lol
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Posted - August 12 2015 : 3:20:47 PM
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quote:We'd like to get a train mural on this wall, but no one likes to work for free.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â August 12 2015Â :Â 2:30:58 PM
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Years ago, a friend of mine projected a slide of the Great Seal of the United States on the side of a building for the bicentennial year, and someone traced the projected image on the wall and painted it. I'm thinking that such a technique might allow the club members, themselves, to make a mural without being expert mural artists.
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Posted - August 12 2015 : 5:44:26 PM
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quote:away you go ben,have fun lol
Originally posted by catfordken - August 12 2015 : 2:58:35 PM
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Oh I will build it someday but it will be the later clapboard siding type 
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Posted - August 12 2015 : 11:42:04 PM
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Never thought of that, I'll toss it out there and see what bites.
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Posted - August 13 2015 : 9:02:06 PM
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Some vintage stuff this week. I remember (barely) one of those on my brothers' and mine Lionel layout before I went HO.
This week I'm featuring a Walter's Rocky point lighthouse. A really nice kit but a little pricey. It replaced a plaster casting I painted myself and was never really happy with. This one looks much better, and it even has working lights.   
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Posted - August 13 2015 : 9:31:19 PM
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O.O Lighthouses!
I love those!
Theres even one near where I lives
My 1st & still want it was a Heljan lighthouse
The way I made it work was I used a Xmas blinky bulb so it would flash
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Posted - August 14 2015 : 02:29:54 AM
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Gary, that's a really nice lighthouse scene with the keeper's cottage, the rocky shore, and the steps leading down to the docks. But it looks lonesome standing there all by itself with no scenery around it; you need to get started senicing the rest of your layout!
Glenn
I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"
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Posted - August 14 2015 : 9:56:00 PM
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Glen, Thanks, but I guess I'm just a Minimalist
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Posted - August 14 2015 : 10:28:05 PM
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In another 20 years some of those trees will have to come out. Can't have them growing up to block the beacon.
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Posted - August 15 2015 : 07:28:12 AM
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my building this week is a jouef school,those manhole like covers are watering bed for trees that go in the centre hole
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Posted - August 15 2015 : 09:18:23 AM
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Looks more like a prison than a school, but a cool building either way. I don't think I've ever seen one before.
scsshaggy - Funny I've never had a problem with my trees growing on my layout. Maybe I need to water them?
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Posted - August 15 2015 : 09:21:28 AM
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not a very secure prison,it would be empty in minutes lol,its a typical french village primary school
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Posted - August 15 2015 : 5:57:28 PM
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quote:not a very secure prison,it would be empty in minutes lol,its a typical french village primary school
Originally posted by catfordken - August 15 2015 : 09:21:28 AM
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Do they educate le boeuf, or is that not really a cattle shed across from the school?
You know they have to be able to get in and out of the fence easily, otherwise, you'd have to be way better than I at basketball or lose the ball.
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Posted - August 16 2015 : 12:54:47 AM
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