How I Found Lionel Trains Bargains (And Rarities) On Ebay!
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- Episode 126: I paid less than $45 for all these Lionel train items and more - including a RARE Algoma Central gondola made exclusively for the Lionel Collectors Association Of Canada! I also acquired 3 cabooses, 2 boxcars, a tri-level auto carrier, a piggyback flat car, a log dump car, 2 additional gondolas, parts for an MTH Flying Yankee, and more!
I often find useful items for my train layout at bargain prices by searching For Parts Or Repair listings on eBay. Often, the items are in better condition than you may think.
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Lionel 6-9129 N&W Auto Rack: ebay.us/CA6yx2
Lionel 6-9284 Santa Fe Gondola:
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Just watched your video on your e Bay haul. From the auto rack car to the log dropping car, enjoyed seeing what you found and your value of it. The brown caboose you got is supposed to have ladders on it. We have the exact one and it is in good shape. We did good on e Bay with it, paid $10.50 for it. Merry Christmas to you and your family. God’s blessings to all.
Thanks for watching!
Nice buy. I have bought a lot of trains of all sizes from eBay. Rock island set. All red is beautiful running around track. Another lot got some with the pins underneath to uncouple them. Even ho scale. Bought 33 in a lot. 2 were atlas dcc. Couple were athrean. Rbd's to. Needed parts for 3 or 4 but out of 14 that worked had all running i. Less than 2 hrs. Going to a show in Farmington hills on 22nd. Can't wait.
Very cool video , I sometimes buy and sell on EBay .
Very good purchase .
Mike .
Thanks!
Great video! You can find deals on those repair / restore buys.
Thanks for watching!
Very nice
Your channel is a gem man! Keep it up!!
Thank you!!
I saw that c&o caboose irl. It’s a real one, but it’s not used by c&o anymore. It’s at the class scenic railroad, and you can rent it for a night or two, just like a hotel.
Great deal you got
Thanks!
Nice train set
Thanks!
I’ve bought at least 8 Lionel can motor 4-4-2 steam engines, some for parts. I bought 3 Chessie versions years ago to rebuild the drive chassis with the motor hanging in front of the drive wheels and make an articulated engine that could run on sharp curves, maybe even having another powered set of wheels under the tender. I just don’t have time right now.
Sounds like a fun project!
Well done!
And, I never thought about doing the search that way. You taught me something, thanks!
Thanks for the feedback. Now I guess I will be bidding against more people, eh? ;-)
Fun box of bargain treasures. I appreciate the background info you include👍👍
Thanks for watching!
Diecast Direct which advertises in classic toy trains has cars from the 1950s that are smaller than 145 but bigger than a matchbox or a Hot Wheels car and they will slide into your auto carrier car. I went to a train show and I was lucky enough to get three or four Penn Central car carriers which are now all filled with cars that I got from Diecast Direct if they weren't stored away for the time being I could tell you what brand they were. But the Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars look too small agreed. I have a picture in an old trains magazine of a Penn Central train pulling nothing but open auto carriers. But that was in the days when people didn't throw rocks and smashed the car windows. Now brand new cars have to be you know practically in an enclosed boxcar. What's good about MPC cars is that what the plastic truck you could just take out the lion 03 rail wheel and replace it with a scale to rail so you can run it on DC. I like to keep all of my Rolling Stock and locomotives was in my time. Which is the bicentennial of course on my railroad nobody goes broke. I have the K line PT one that when you press the horn button it says God Bless America. I also have the Williams scale gg1 in the Conrail Bicentennial and when I take it out of the box I'm going to paint over the CR letters. If this country had stupidly gone over to oil instead of coal all of the Northeast coal railroads would have still been in business. Since I model the 1970s a lot of the old smaller cars were still around. If you model the 1930s and stuff the Old 27 cars which are like 36 ft long fit. I just wish that they would use a little sense and not put roller bearing trucks on a 1930s car. I got a Lionel SP caboose which has been repainted to New York Central with gold leaf lettering by hand and the car was weathered by the original owner I guess. I have a layout with all 027 so the undersized locomotives and cars fit. You can have a smaller engine in O scale like the March 666. And the old 27 track is much more better in profile than the old 31 which is really standard gauge Rail and ties 2031 radius. For my old gauge layout I like the old style MTH track with the road bed that was solid rail just like all the other scale rails are I hate template rail. I think the new Lionel Road bed track with the u-shaped thing that's supposed to represent a train rail is absolute garbage but the Lionel guys buy it anyways. The good thing about the MTH track is at its brass so it does not rust away. I don't care for eBay but I don't know how to do it anyways I'd much rather go to train shows and talk with people meet people find stuff, find bargains and chat with other train people. I collect orange trains and this guy had a whole set brand new in the plastic and as I had spent all my money that I had on me I told him I would come back tomorrow. I wrote back down on my motorcycle to the train show the next day and I gave him a check for $125 for the train set. His wife looked at him and said you're really going to take a check from someone you don't know? And I looked at him and I looked at her and I said we're train people I wouldn't write a bad check. She just didn't understand but that she's not a train person she's his wife. We're not regular people. And I gave him the check and he gave me the train set and I still have it and as soon as I get my train room fix back up from after the hurricane my God I'm going to take it out of the box and paint the roof of the cars Orange and I will have an orange set a passenger card behind an orange Union Pacific fa and I will have one behind the 442 steamer with the mighty sound of steam in the tender. Some people g a s p when people take New Old Stock is actually run it on their layout but that's what I love to do and I love having an All-American train with American-made cars cuz Weaver made great stuff cheaper than Lionel and MTH could make in China. I understand Lionel bought some of Weaver's equipment after he retired and they're using that for their American made trains. It's funny how you buy the gondolas and the hopper cars and the load that goes on top of the car is more than what you paid for the car. I bought the MTH Subway set and filling it up with people cost more than the subway cars did. When they came out with their bag of passengers unpainted I told them they should mold them in plastic so this way it would be easier to paint them. The guy at mph said that they would go do that they never thought of that before but that's because I'm a trained person and they work at a train company but they they're not model railroaders. I hope you enjoy your bargains. I just don't understand why all the cars came without trucks. I love the nice friction bearing diecast Lionel trucks with the flat plate because the ones with the Thumbtack sometimes you can get caught between the rails on a curve. I generally cut off all the thumbtacks and blew all the couplers shut making them dummy couplers in reality because I'd rather not have the car separate and the train running into the back of its own train. I ran one of my dad so 27 Steamers off the train table when I was a kid and broke the pilot off and never owned up to it up to the day he died my brother bought a box of what he had left over and there was the steam engine with the broken pilot I had them all sent to a guy to get them running and I thought he was going to use the broken one for parts but he just oiled it up and it runs great.
You have a great library of videos. By chance do you have a video that walks you through lubing cars and locomotives? Or smoke replacements or anything similar? I have a Union Pacific 1943 Camo engine thats legacy and want to keep that in best working condition.
Not yet
Not a bad buy. Some people complained you received cars without parts but you did buy a box listed as a parts or repair mix. So I feel you got a good buy. I agree there are some good buys available on e-bay. I had a friend as me to search for a car and I found it at a good price. But as I searched for that car I came upon a 3 car deal for cars in mint condition at the price for one. I kept the car I wanted and sold the other two at a train show for a good price that basically paid for my purchase. So keep on searching for those good buys.
Two if those "cars without parts" were fixed in this video. th-cam.com/video/6GCBqMwq1v0/w-d-xo.html
Good haul, looks like. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
You made a pretty good haul for the money. I have 027 Lionel too and am always looking for a bargain. W Rusty Lane K9POW in eastern Tennessee
I was happy!
Mike, if you could, please tell me which Greenberg volume provides the most information on Marx individual locomotives, and cars? I own vol#3, but not the other three.
I wish I could help. I don't own any of the Greenburg guides. I DO have 30+ years of CTT articles, though!
GOOD INVESTMENT!
Hit the jack pot!
I have the one coupler # 6057 caboose. Some years back got a LIONELpart a mental dummy coupler attached to a metal pad with 4 tabs. You folded the tabs over the axle to keep it place. You can run the caboose either end plus in train consist.
Old caboose shells sure are use full!
I have stored away reproduction Lionel parts, & service manuals. Sure I saw the coupler listed in parts manual.
Those coupler parts were made for a while. They were also useful for converting Scout couplers to standard.
@@ToyTrainTipsAndTricks Used same couplers so as to run my Marx Sunoco tank car with my Lionel one.
Great video. How did you attach the trailers to the flat car? I have both but no obvious way to keep them on the flat car. And on a completely separate question have you ever diagnosed/repaired a liquid mechanical baffle driven smoke unit. Both my 233 smoke units are not working. Thanks
Gravity alone holds the trailers. The metal rack on the original piggyback cars prevent the trailers from sliding off. As for the smoke unit, check the wiring connections. That's the usual culprit.
@@ToyTrainTipsAndTricks Thank you
Is their any way o can exchange the marx 4 wheel truck assembly to Lionel 4 truck assembly
You would have to completely remove the old Marx trucks and then secure the Lionel trucks with a rivet, or machine screw, or similar method. It's not a perfect exchange because Lionel wheels are bigger. The Marx car would be taller with the Lionel trucks added.
Congrats on the ebay haul. I like the box car decoration.
Thanks for watching!
How do you stabilize trucks on the autorack.mine are prone to derailing
The cars have a high center of gravity so it is best to keep them near the rear of a train and try not to do any reverse moves. Otherwise, mine all run fine - even on O27 curves.
Also how do you get trucks at a reasonable price cause the new ones are super expensive
I buy scrap cars and steal the trucks.
I’m planning a tribute to Right of Way Industries, hopefully soon I’ll make it.
I know it’s off-topic, but why does 671 4-8-4 have 6200 on the boiler front and not 671 ?.
This is your answer; www.google.com/search?q=prr+6200&oq=prr+6200&aqs=chrome..69i57.4464j0j4&client=ms-android-cricket-us-revc&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=x4gKSjcazcU2HM
On the auto carrier, generally what scale autos will it receive? I`m on the Marx end of E-bay most every night and have come up with collections like yours.
Some use Hot Wheels (1/64). I think those are slightly too small. I have 3D printed some that are around 1/55 and I think they look just right.
That mpc era Mighty Sound of Static is really annoying. They should have adapted the A.C.Gilbert choo choo unit. Much easier on the ears.
This one is particularly bad. I may have a bad capacitor on the sound board.
You're lucky that they work at all!
Can you do a video on Lionel’s 1025 transformer
I don't think there's enough unique information on that to justify a video. About anything there is to know about them is here: www.tandem-associates.com/lionel/lionel_trains_1025_transformer.htm
@@ToyTrainTipsAndTricks could you do a repair video on it one of my terminals on the top came off
@@nightisright1873 I generally don't do transformer repairs. There's too great a liability risk if something goes wrong. I don't want to be responsible for burning someone's house down.
That reefer is a kit
Do you have any more information about it? Who made it? When? I have not had any luck in tracking it down.
The mighty sound of scream. Seriously fingernails down a chalkboard. Not a bad project haul.
Thanks for watching!
What steam engine and tender is that
Lionel (MPC) 8204 from 1971-73. It's not part of the eBay haul, but as a small steamer it looks good with the cars.
@@ToyTrainTipsAndTricks thanks just wondering, didn't get a good look at it but heard some chugging sounds
@@matthewwilson9832 It has the "Mighty Electronic Sound of Steam" - Lionel's early sound system.
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Maybe you could turn that weird observation car into some kind of doodlebug? This was a pretty good deal. I have mostly had good experiences with ebay. One time I was able to snag 3 nearly brand new semi scale Amtrak coaches for only 50 dollars including shipping.
I am having similar thoughts on the passenger car since it's powered. Maybe a freelance jet-powered "Black Beetle"!
These "bargains" are not my cup of tea. To me, their only value is to create the scene of a train wreck.😮😮
Not trying to be a Debbie Downer, just calling it the way I see it.
As long as you're happy, that's all that matters.
Thanks for sharing.
If you're a regular viewer, you may notice that most of these "train wreck" items have already joined my regular operating fleet. One of the great things about the hobby is that there is room for every taste - from Marx mechanical trains to Lionel Legacy. Thanks for watching!
Honestly the purchase was a bust, nothing of any value. Sorry but, worth watch entertainment though.