From Russian with love, my Moskabel Pionerskaya set arrives

Nice find!  Looks like it's in pretty good condition.

Its in very nice shape train part wise.  The box car has some paint loss on one side, the operating gateman, bridge/approaches and crossing gate have some paint loss and rust.  But nothing that makes them not usable on a operating layout.   The door for the gateman is the worse with lots of paint loss.  I may try to match the eggshell white and respray just the door part.   

Great pick up Mike !!

My Dutch connection is currently in Minsk visiting his wifes relatives .. I have asked him to keep an eye out while he is there for me , but I doubt he will find much lol ( Belarus .. where everyone has already sold everything for potatoes !!! )

Or liquid potatoes! LOL!

I have one street light found and being sent to me.  The station will cost me the most $$ to get a nice one without missing parts, and the wiring harness to make it all work correctly will be the hardest to find.    Its a really need set, postwar era yet the design harkens back to the prewar Lionel era for the most part.   AD

You all missed my liquid potatoes (vodka!) Joke! LOL!

Yepper, probably because I don't drink.   AD

@Tinplate Art posted:

You all missed my liquid potatoes (vodka!) Joke! LOL!

Potatoes, not grain.  Yes.  The best vodka. 

When you say "the station with its sign and glass bulb covers intact" I'm assuming you mean intact station lamps - correct?

Correct, many of the less expensive stations have the glass globes missing off the street lights and the sign missing from the station roof.   Same for the seperate street lights, many have the glass globes gone and there are no replacements out there.  So, I will have to pay the piper and buy nicer examples.  AD

Keep an eye out, as the missing parts you need do show up periodically.  Something you’ll need to know for later is that all the track has number tags so you connect it correctly.  Besides the wiring harness, the other hard piece to get is the instruction booklet.

(pics of my set below)

The little tanks/vehicles came in the box with it, and there were several extra cars for whatever reason. 🤷🏻‍♂️ All the buildings, tracks, etc is packed up. Someday maybe I’ll feel like a challenge and set it all up correctly.

Looks great. I saw on another thread that you built a layout that folded up/down. Do you still have that layout? I know I see you a lot on the Gauge-1 forums too (elsewhere on the web).

I knew about the precise order for the track set up.  I think that relates all back to the core of socialism.  The goverment telling you exactly how you will do something, even setting up a train set!  Thankfully there is a website that has a pic of the diagram of how it should look when set up correctly, alas, I do have all the correct track, so its just a matter of numbers!   Yes I do mess with gauge 1, or did.  Kind of burnt out on g/gauge one as the live steam locos I would like to have, are getting into riding on(diesel style) price range.   So right now, G scale is parked, saving for a 7.5 gauge locomotive and tinkering with a 5" gauge UK engine I was given, I am taking it to someone to see if they can redesign the drive so the wheel gauge can be narrowed up to 4.75, the common track gauge for 1" scale in the USA.    AD