Lionel # 77 Crossing gate operation

I think you should switch to one of Lionel's 1930 competitors.  Oh wait, none of them are still around!  Oh well....super glue.

 

John

I was ruinning my O-gauge layout and my 50s crossing gate worked so good  The only thing I did was add a flashing circuit to the cross bucks. The same circuit I put in all my 120 tunnels and sell them worldwide.

Brakeman,

   Ya I can understand your anger, only 82 years old and broken, Lionel should be

held accountable for this no doubt about it, had one of my fathers Lionel 711 switches, that came with his original Tin Plate 263E train set, fail this past year, good Lord it was only just over 100 years old, Lionel needs to replace both my switch and your crossing gate, the nerve of some American Companies and their orginal American made products.  Wish like heck all the new Lionel stuff was made  with this kind of quality, and in America again.  The young boy with the Lionel PE that would not function at Christmas time, really shows the difference in the over all quality, all my Lionel trains in the 50's and 60's ran perfectly right out of the box at Christmas time.  The young boy will never forget his brand new Lionel train failed the Christmas it was given to him.   Not a good thing for Lionel, you can believe that.

PCRR/Dave

 

 

I would venture to guess nobody is running any 100 year old Lionel O Gauge equipment this Christmas.  It should all be repaired under the 100 year warranty.

As Lou at Madison Hardware once said (in his best NYC snarl) to a customer who inquired about a warranty, "Yes, indeed, it does come with a life-time warranty...my lifetime, not yours, and I'm 83 years old."

I think I am going to email Lionel about some e-units that do not cycle properly anymore. I mean they are only about 80, they should have plenty of life yet!

Dear Lionel customer -

Please return all of your defective 80 to 100 year old trains and accessories to me and I will gladly refund your original purchase price!

Yours,
JLC

Brakeman,

   Now that was just plain nasty, heck the return shipping price alone for an old 711 Lionel switch is probably more than the original purchase price of the switch.  Now if you wanted to drive down here and over haul the old 711 switch for me that would be just fine.  The 072 Lionel switches are nice but the old 711's were better.  Course they took some serious power to run.

PCRR/Dave

 

Merry Christmas everyone

 

A pair of the original Life Time Warranty Lionel 711 switches, that still work perfectly even today, it was a shame about having to repair one of the other originals, but it has been used hard for many many years. 

 

They don't make them like they used to