Looking for Lionel prewar 150 parts diagram

My suggestion is find one of these, on eBay or similar as I did, (or the traditional book version of it, available on Amazon):

Mike

Thank you. Where can I purchase those? I’ve seen the book for sale +$100 everywhere. Have never seen the CD/DVD version.

Did a little looking and saw the CD. I don’t even know if what I’m looking for is in there. So you’re thinking I spend $50 to $150 so I can see if if what I need is in there?

James,

I just scanned quickly through my copy, looking for Model 150.  It's there but being an early model there is neither an exploded diagram nor a dedicated parts list.

What you find are Lionel's master parts lists, covering all models, by year.  In them are line items that apply to the 150.  (In other words you have to do a manual search through an entire master list, one line at a time, in order to find the parts that specifically apply to the 150.

However, there are other sources other Greenberg, and the folks responsible for these (ttender.com is one of them) may have gone through the extra trouble of generating a detailed and dedicated 150 parts list from the master list at a more recent point in time.

I can't find any.

So, you may have trouble finding a concise summary of what parts make up a 150.  The parts appear to be available, just not summarized concisely.

You've come to the right place though.  There are folks in this forum who know the details, even if those details are not written down for convenient access.

Any comments from our experts?

Mike

Jim, picture of the loco where parts are missing or you want to replace would be helpful. Those of us that have the book may be able to look them up for you.

John A in. NC

Have found this for the other prewar I have. Was thinking somewhere there must be one for other models of the same era.

BTW - thanks for all the replies. Not as easy to find as postwar docs. I did order the $20 CD referenced above.
I like to have everything available before I start looking at something I know nothing about. All of you have pointed me indirections I hadn’t found on my own. I am grateful. Keep the coming. Going from no knowledge to some is a hard.

@James6406 posted:

Have found this for the other prewar I have. Was thinking somewhere there must be one for other models of the same era.

Yes.  This exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about.  It appears to be constructed from earlier data, but at a later date.

Bravo to Olsen's, for the 264E at least.

The biggest problem coming out of this, of course, is that Olsen's has apparently shut down in the recent past and neither this 264E parts list, nor any others, are presently accessible from them.

Mike

Don’t know if anyone on here personally knows Mr. Olsen’s daughter but it would be interesting to know if she would have any interest in selling a copy and the copyright to all of her father’s hard work.

Have items coming as per suggestions. Also watched a few YouTube videos. Going to just start digging in. As suggested if I see something that needs replaced I will post a pic as suggested.
I’m old and used to hoarding up documents on items of interest. When I couldn’t even find anything on google it occurred to me if it’s not out there to find the knowledge dies with us.

With the aide of the resources I purchased, I find what I have is a actually a Lionel 156x.