What's on your list for must have O gauge accessories
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A Wolverine coal loader, having seen one via Youtube. So simple, yet so effective.
Graeme
A Marx Glendale Depot with accessories and an operating gate.
The Wolverine Coal Loader is my favorite newly acquired accessory. Picked one up at York. A marvel of engineering!
You need the Wolverine crane to go with the coal loaded 
It's a big one.
Steve
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I have 3 of them with different color bases. The hard and $$$$ part was getting track trips and the small suit case for each one.
Steve
Originally Posted by Doc Davis:
A Marx Glendale Depot with accessories and an operating gate.
Lionel or MTH villas or houses
i have too many accessories as it is which have no permanent home, but one thing i look for now and then are an original set of Lionel #205 containers in C7ish condition. they typically sell way over auction estimates.
Originally Posted by Graeme, Scotland, UK:
A Wolverine coal loader, having seen one via Youtube. So simple, yet so effective.
Graeme
Here is a video of my "improved" Wolverine Automatic Coal Loader. I made an insert in the loading bin so that more marbles could be loaded and I also changed to black marbles. Nine marbles are enough to fill up my Hafner gondola.
I just finished purchasing this crane from the U.K, a clockwork crane mounted on a barge, that looks like an interesting toy that moves vertically and horizontally. I have no idea who made it. It's coming from across the big pond. Ill post a video of it when it gets here..You can see the water line at the bottom along with a small boat tied alongside it.
bruce
Bruce
Wonder if it could be British Marx? Here is a Marx/Linemar one.
Steve
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The next one I want to acquire is the Lionel magnetic crane. I don't have room on the layout right now, or at least I don't think so, but if I do ever get one, I'll have to figure out someplace for it.
Steve
On the surface, that looks to me to be a match for Marx, and, again, I found it ( like several others) under "vintage tin toys" rather than trains on Ebay. Ill look for any markings to see what it is. As a sidebar, this is how I found the Marx Lumar sand\coal loader that fits into both a G gauge and O gauge tinplate setting, that I am pondering selling as it does not fit in the main layout anymore,, and is too big for the clockwork. It's funny how the usefulness of this or that seems to change ( at least in my experience ) as a layout evolves. Lately my philosophy has changed where if I can't use it off it goes..it could be I just have too much.
bruce
