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I've never been really comfortable with the forum organization.  I'd like to get opinion's on which forum is most likely to get a good discussion of a question about the Lionel 675.

We have 3-Rail Tinplate, but I wouldn't think of a die cast model with scale features as tinplate.

The other is 3-Rail Traditional.  To me "traditional" means the opposite of modern, but it seems to get an awful lot of modern O Gauge toy train items.

So on which forum should I start a topic about maintenance of Lionel locomotives made the original Lionel company ?

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It's a maintenance question, but what is the Lionel section that you mention ?  The current Lionel company is very different from what I would call traditional.

Traditional toy trains were affordable by the average middle income family, even those on the low side.  The prices in today's Lionel catalog take it way out of that category..

The 675 is *post war*... i.e., 3-Rail, Traditional, and Toy ...you are in the correct forum.

You mentioned 3-Rail Tinplate and that would be the 3-Rail, Tinplate forum.

The era you are inquiring about is the *post war* era 1945-1969...

https://www.tandem-associates.com/lionel/lionel_trains_675_loco.htm

What do you need to know about the 675?

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This is the correct category for a discussion about the 675 because this is not a modern piece, it is not a scale piece, and it was produced prior to the so called modern era of Lionel production which is generally considered to be post 1970.  I agree about the confusion in some if not most of our Lionel categories and we are currently working on restructuring and renaming/defining our categories to better suit and make less complicated where to post certain topics.  Heck, one could get confused over where to put a discussion about traditionally sized current Lionel production!  Does one post in the modern Lionel categories or in the traditional category?  Who the heck knows?

I get it guys and agree with you.  Hang on, we will get there in the next few weeks or months.  Give us time.  I am going to close this thread because it will divulge into a long discussion about categories and we have already had several of those including one that I asked you all to contribute toward since we wanted feedback for all of you about the different categories.

To the original poster, you can re-post this in the traditional category (just as you did here and ask your maintenance question without the question about where to post it....you got it right!

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