Yardsale treasures

Looks good to me.  Great find.

Every day buying trains or running trains is a good day

1.  Lionel #445 Switchtower

2.  Lionel #195 Floodlight Tower.  Silver is most common, green the least.  Yours is somewhere in between.

3.  L-T-I Era Whistle Station

4.  Lionel Corp.  #132 Station Stop Station

5.  Lionel, MPC Era Engine House kit.

6.  Lionel, MPC 6-2312 Mechanical semaphore.

7.  Lionel, MPC 6-2175 Sandy Andy Gravel Loader Kit.

8.  I have no idea!

Jon

Odenville Bill,

You did very well with your purchase. I don't have very good luck in yard sales myself.

I don't know if you'll be able to find the Lionel engine house doors but I believe Mr. Muffin has separate sale wooden doors for the Korber roundhouse that may work.

Check parts bins at train shows or under the table deals for junker kits that are broken.

The Semaphore is designed to snap under O-27 tubular track (not nailed down).  That's all the parts there are.

Jon

Odenville Bill posted:

Is this Lionel?

All this and more for $50.  What a day.

That's a Bachmann/Plasticville HO coal tipple.

Thank you all for the help.  This morning I looked up instruction sheets and began testing.  The #445 switch tower works.  The #195 floodlight tower is great.  The whistle station sounds better than my whistle tender.  The #132 stop station will be tested later.  I will check Korber for doors or make my own.  The #6-2312 Mechanical semaphore just needs cleaning.  The #6-2175 Gravel Loader Kit is missing two parts .  I also got a #310 billboard and most of the #110 trestle set.  There are several pieces of HO stuff.

Do any of you have a "slip chute" you can spare?  That and the small roof #44 are missing.  I will put the HO stuff somewhere on the forum as 4 sale or trade. 

I know what I'm doing today......  I'm going to play with new-to-me toys.

Bill

the slip chute goes here

roof #44 goes on the left

Oh Boy!  What a fun day.  It was too hot in the train building so I worked on "Sandy Andy"  I replaced the bent pulley axle.  I glued two broken locating tabs.  I searched the interweb high and low for the two missing parts.  No luck finding anything.  I am sure it will work.  Now I need something to put in the hopper so I can see it in action.  Any suggestions?  I put a piece of track on the #6-2312 mechanical semaphore.  Even with my switch engine sitting on the track, it did not work right.  The Lionel site provided the answer.  I took most of my new treasures to the train building this evening.  It quickly became obvious that I do not have enough open space for everything.  My lovely bride hinted that I might need to move it all back to the big house.  I think she likes the #445 switch tower.  I spent a little time looking over the HO scale pieces.  I think they will reside in storage for now.  Is it too soon to measure the spare bedroom?  I think I'll bring a transformer and the switch tower back in for inspiration.  Yes, I would be glad to start over to get almost four times the space.

We had that gravel loader, and never got it to work quite right. The problem was that the counterweight would pull the cart back uphill too quickly, and it would derail when it hit the trigger to open the loading chute. Only years later did it occur to me that you might be able to rig a spring to slow the descent of the counterweight.

Ours shipped with rust-colored gravel, in size, about 1/16". Maybe it was aquarium gravel? (Never had an aquarium.) It had some weight to it, which caused the cart to move pretty quickly down the ramp and tip up at the bottom to empty into the dump chute. The gravel was pretty reliable in dropping down--as opposed to flying horizontally across the layout--when it was dumped, probably because it was heavy.

Bill,

You might put the HO items toward the back of the layout for some forced perspective. They might look ok as long as they are not too near to the trains.

NICKAIX,  I will try your idea.  Late last night I tried bird shot.  It was too small and too heavy.  I hope my wife doesn't find any I failed to clean up.

TNCENTRR,  The HO pieces rate high on the cute scale.  The coal loader and automated crossing especially so.  The distance illusion is a great idea.

Thank you both