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Restored, Redecorated Marx or Other Examples?

electrolinerelectrolinerOGR Forum Member

I received William Crooks in pieces as well as having many pieces missing. After what seemed to be a endless supply of plastic putty being applied in coats, the cab with it's missing roof was restored as well as the cab windows made from Plastistruct, a Lionel pilot was applied along with new handrails courtesy of my favorite supplier. I found decals on Ebay. I thought the engine deserved a new look not originally used by Marx. Below is the result. Anyone else out there do something similar in terms of restoration or redecoration? I have not seen any threads\pictures of others handiwork. Any out there?

 

 

This comes on the heels of this one below which had to be stripped down to bare metal.

 

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LW Lee WillisOGR Forum Member

This is just beautiful. Wow!

 

It was not the same league with yours but I restored the train below and two other locos like it.  This is a wind up from around 1935 - it was my father's.  The old "kodak" shows me on the floor with it, in 1953. 

 

The cars and caboose were cosmetically in good chape but lacking some wheels and axles and the loco was scratched, dented, and did not run.  I rebuilt its motor and fixed and painted it and replaced the wheels or the cars and all.  It does run - the loco will pull the cars about 90 - 100 feet, but I never run it. 

 

I bought two other identical locos that needed rebuilding and a set of the same cars, then rebuilt one one loco as a wind up that I do run once in a while on my layout, and powered the other with the guts of a Lionel Percy (with the wheels painted so they are no longer green!), so it is electric - I run it once in a while, too.

My Father's Train Set

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