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 looks like a diesel that was converted to electric  I think the 1508 numbers are abit crooked Just a observation  We all can't have perfect engines now Can we? hehe
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| Cool engines Frank. I think I like it in the maroon scheme a little better. Did the PRR have those in real life?
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If anyone has a junk shell (with an intact rear pilot) and/or a spare truck for the GE drive, let me know?
Finally, my enigma loco:
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When did they put these Geeps on GE U-Boat trucks? I've never seen that before. The sideframes and horn look diecast, so I take it this was one of their early versions. Were they Roco drives as well?
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OK GIC, that's one odd-looking NP geep!
For starters, it's running on the frame and AAR trucks of the Virginian Rectifier. (Look at the Rectifier pics above - notice how from the walkway down, they're identical to the GP9 shell?)
It's definitely an Athearn knock-off, but what's up with that way-too-tall cab? The 1970s Lionel GP9 cab is undersized compared to the Athearn shell; this one is markedly oversized even though both shells seem to have a molded-on cab unlike the Athearn shell.
And is yours all original or has it been damaged somewhat? The front pilot is closed a la the Athearn, but the rear is open and looks like it accomodates a swinging coupler. Weird design.
Something I've learned from Lionel HO - the Athearn GP9 running gear will breathe new life into an old Lionel loco. The Lionel GP9, Rectifier, and U18B all fit on the same frame, which - coincidentally enough - matches the dimensions of the Athearn Geep. If you're not worried about originality, pitch the Lionel and especially the Kader drive and replace it with the Athearn.
I give the same advice to people with a Cox or Model Power GP9 lownose (seeing as how these shells are also Athearn knockoffs).
A Walthers GP9M drive will also fit, for the same reasons.
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I painted the light green one. It had a useless Virginian paint job. Those are just rube on numbers. You cant see it crooket when it goes wizing by.
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quote:Cool engines Frank. I think I like it in the maroon scheme a little better. Did the PRR have those in real life?
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The maroon paint is factory done by Lionel. The light green is done by me. Pennys didn't have E33s. They purchased the more powerfull E44s. The light green one came out of my parts box. It has a Athearn GP7 drive and a tyco pentagraph. I still have another E33 body. Maybe I'll make another Pennsy E33.
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| I'm not Cheez Do that Poultry Car have real springs on it? Those things are HARD to put on You try to put one in & ZING Lost in the carpet
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quote: Yeah microbusss, you ain't got to remind me about that. I've had my own experience with those sprung trucks. If I get one that has a missing spring, I just break the whole truck down, and if I have enough of them, I use them as junk loads for gondolas. BTW, another item that is just as tricky, if not more tricky, that's putting springs into the knuckle couplers, like the Kadee No. 5s and so forth.
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quote:post 10
Lionel #0636LTS, with light and smoke.
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Hey toptrain! I have one of these Lionel HO Pacifics that needs a motor for it. What type of can motor would work for this engine and how much modification is involved? I'm not sure what number it is, but I think it is either a 0635 or 0636. Next time I'm out at the farm, I'll look at it to see. I would like to see this engine run.
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quote: quote: Hey toptrain! I have one of these Lionel HO Pacifics that needs a motor for it. What type of can motor would work for this engine and how much modification is involved? I'm not sure what number it is, but I think it is either a 0635 or 0636. Next time I'm out at the farm, I'll look at it to see. I would like to see this engine run.
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Gary : you need to test your motor. You'll have to remove the body, boiler and cab portion, to test motor. Do you know how to do this. PM me.
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THe LIONEL 0865 225 Gondola Michigan Central
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I just bought one of the Lionel Hustlers on Ebay on Sunday, a blue one, those things are hard to get under $20! And the AEC ( Atomic Energy Commision ) 0056 and 0057 Hustlers, OMG, I saw one mint in a box sell for $150+ this past weekend ! Yikes! It's white and red.
I have the radioactive waste car, in HO, would be nice to get the AEC Hustler, but at those inflated prices, I"m not bidding. Too rich for my bank account right now.
Seen a few of the gold 50th engines on Ebay, some in lots, and others by themselves. Should look for them, they're out there and not just a few, from the auctions I've seen in the past week. And not expensive, either, for the most part.
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quote:I just bought one of the Lionel Hustlers on Ebay on Sunday, a blue one, those things are hard to get under $20! And the AEC ( Atomic Energy Commision ) 0056 and 0057 Hustlers, OMG, I saw one mint in a box sell for $150+ this past weekend ! Yikes! It's white and red.
I have the radioactive waste car, in HO, would be nice to get the AEC Hustler, but at those inflated prices, I"m not bidding. Too rich for my bank account right now.
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Jerry; Never look for a speific car on ebay. Search tro the car lots. A couple days ago I looked thro them and a few Lionel ho were mixed in with other trains. One of the cars was the Poultry dispatch car. They are there mixed in.
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Here is another Michagan Central Gondola. This one is red with a different # 0865 250
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Posted - March 30 2010 : 8:43:43 PM
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Hey Gremlin Man:
A couple years ago I saw on ebay a 1958 or 9 Hustler AEC unit on a base with a LH #4 switch from Lionel that said "Make the Switch to NBC" commemorating the NBC affiliates going national in that year for wait for it....
$10,000.00 YUP, that was TEN-THOUSAND DOLLARS!!! The comma and deciaml are in the right places...
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quote:Hey Gremlin Man:
A couple years ago I saw on ebay a 1958 or 9 Hustler AEC unit on a base with a LH #4 switch from Lionel that said "Make the Switch to NBC" commemorating the NBC affiliates going national in that year for wait for it....
$10,000.00 YUP, that was TEN-THOUSAND DOLLARS!!! The comma and deciaml are in the right places...
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Tell me Gareth, how many replicas have you made since then?! 
    
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Posted - March 31 2010 : 9:12:52 PM
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"The Near Occasions of Sin."
As my dearest friend Father Bill Swift oft reminds me it''s impotant to avoid the NEAR occasions of sin, lest we fall into actual sin... so i haven't told that story in a while... 
And here you are, sorry I idn't save the auction page....
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Gareth, didn't that NBC Hustler (insert your own joke here  ) go for $22,000? That's the final bid that sticks in my head. That auction appealed to a number of different types of collectors, not just us train guys.
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Posted - March 31 2010 : 10:59:50 PM
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Hi Guys. I printed out a copy of that auction. Nelson is right. It sold for $22,009.09. on 6/10/07. I have all the pictures that were posted for it. That had to be the most any HO item ever sold for on ebay, have not seen anything even close Carl
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Posted - April 01 2010 : 06:39:26 AM
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I will defer to Carl's printed page. Coulda sworn it was $9,999.00 but it was what 2-3 years ago....
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Posted - April 03 2010 : 10:02:57 AM
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Recently Another of the AEC WNBC Husky was sold on eBay. The engine was in very poor condition (Look at the pictures) and the winning bidder paid $500. 
Also the winning bidder was the same guy that paid $22,009.09 In 2007.
I guess he wants to cornor the market no matter what the condition.. Carl
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Posted - April 03 2010 : 10:49:07 AM
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Wow! Somebody sure is specializing.
Does anyone know where I can get a "bottom" plate for my Lionel HO Erie Centercab? It's the same one used by the Husky..
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Posted - April 03 2010 : 9:36:54 PM
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Hi Gareth. The plate is what makes or breaks the value. Most of them Break and go missing with age. I have made a cover from styrene. So that nothing gets into the motor. But, the collectors look for the original cover. There have been times when I would purchase a beater. Just to get the cover. Carl
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Hi V-Ho:
Yeah would like to complete an otherwise pristine Erie Center-cab. Glad I bought it, just didn't realize how critical the bottom cover was....
Like you I'll probably buy a rat to get the cover. Oh, well....
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post 78
0870 Pennsylvania RR Work Platform car. The platform will rise up about a inch, and rotate 360 deg.
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Posted - May 03 2010 : 09:59:43 AM
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| am LOVING this thread Neat cars Lionel made They are almost like their 027 counterparts
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* 0850 US Army missle car
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Here is the Lionel 40' stock car. The "Southern Rail Road"
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Posted - May 16 2010 : 10:50:25 AM
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| very nice piece to frank,is this the one with missing bit ken
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No ken. the one with missing doors and slides is the Lionel REA reefer. "Railway Express Agency"
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Posted - June 08 2010 : 08:34:16 AM
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0889 IC Maintance of Way work crane
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Posted - June 08 2010 : 10:10:35 AM
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well since this is a Lionel thread Though I'd show my 3 finds
BN caboose has a broken step 
ok I was lazy & didn't put on the missing wheels
on the MKT cattle car Why do it have these odd couplers?
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ok I was lazy & didn't put on the missing wheels
on the MKT cattle car Why do it have these odd couplers?
Originally posted by microbusss - June 08 2010 : 10:10:35 AM
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Lionel designed there own couplers. There has to be 5 or 6 odd ball couplers.
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Posted - June 08 2010 : 1:13:35 PM
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Though I would add to this: Lionel HO 6100 Auto Raceway Set - 98% complete.
This is just a sample, I have a boatload more so Ill post some more pics soon..
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| oh wow senselessfool thats different Hirailing race cars!
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Posted - June 11 2010 : 12:08:59 AM
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That is too COOL!!!!
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Here's my pair of Athearn made Lionel HO units. The WAB GP7 and DRGW Hustler (very rare yellow cabsides) with orange snow plow.
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# 8175 ATSF 40' "El Capitan" reefer made by Rivarossi by sale by Lionel.
* Notice the little lionel L in a circle, lower right hand corner.
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Post 92
The Lionel Box car # 2042 LINDE Union Carbide
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Lionel IC reefer # 51604, again a L in a circle marks this as a Lionel car.
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0862 200, gondola, Michigan Central, black
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| I like this thread, and I like the Lionel HO equipment. But some of the prices people pay are ridiculous. I don't think most people....at least around here....bother to look at who manufactured HO equipment. At every flea market I go to it's all lumped in together and treated like junk, unlike the "real" Lionel in O scale, which they think is worth its weight in gold. Anybody else see this? Even the train shows around here sell HO cheap.
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Here is my near mint Northern Pacific GP9
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quote:Here is my near mint Northern Pacific GP9
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It looks good. A nice Lionel GP7.
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quote:...some of the prices people pay are ridiculous. .At every flea market I go to it's all lumped in together and treated like junk,.... Even the train shows around here sell HO cheap.
Originally posted by burlington77Â -Â October 18 2010Â :Â 11:46:51 PM
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Not in the northern Virginia area. Any unusual HO is usually marked up at train shows, the guys know their stuff around here. There's some "cheap" HO, but not like $1-2 apiece. Usually 3-6 minimum...and the opposite is true at the local Fleas, often they want $10-20 for a Tyco car, they think they're gold like Lionel because they're "trains". Even after being banged up and the boxes are junk and moldy, you can't get'em down much sometimes. I usually don't get deals at Fleas, even if I find them, because they're marked up and won't drop the prices. Occasionally I find some deals, but it's not often. I'll get better deals from my club buddy who's cleaning out his shed of stuff, I intend to go by on Friday and maybe buy his entire Tyco junk box collection. We'll see. I've got some stuff he wants too. :) Most of my great deals come thru Ebay from sellers who don't know what they have, and list it without good descriptions, so finding them is luck as far as the search goes ( I sort thru lot listings, occasionally you get a good piece when they have bad pictures and no good descriptions, but you can see it's a Lionel Hustler or a Boxcab by Roundhouse ).
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Now a lionel GT box car # 58614
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Posted - December 25 2010 : 1:00:13 PM
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Merry Xmas to all!!!!
Hey GiC....I was looking around at U-18 stuff and came across your geeps...
The tri-color Chessie GP looks like it has Bachmann trucks...the one pc molded kind...you drop in the axles and go...the GM 50 looks to have metal sideframes, and the NP has AAR type B trucks...and the roof of that NP cab is much higher than the others...some of the air tanks differ as well...is the NP an older unit????
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Lionel HO
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Posted - February 28 2011 : 3:19:16 PM
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First off let me say Im not really a Lionel collector - however I'm very intrigued by the things Athearn made for them in 1958-59 as well as by the things either tooled or copied from them. That said the Husky is a favorite of mine since the Athearn Hustler is also one of my all time favorite Yellow/Blue box kit era locos. I just got this AEC Husky - complete with entire train set (box, individual boxes for each piece etc). I havent seen a Husky this mint before - not a scratch on it, clean, Lionel plate on bottom is intact and in mint condition. Came with complete box/insert and instruction sheet. I havent test run it yet. Caboose pictured with it needed a few minor little things - and still needs brakewheels.
Larry
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Posted - February 28 2011 : 5:17:26 PM
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Atomic Emergy Commision. A nice set. Got a photo of the whole set.
frank
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" It's a Heck of a Day " !!!
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