04-18-2014, 11:16 PM
Good evening all, got some bad news from work I am scheduled for first shift this Sunday 
2nd on Monday. I was supposed to go to one of my sisters house for Easter............oh well.
Good news someone gave me some Lionel stuff some old track, a transformer a FA ALCO "dummy" loco lighted with coil coupler and four cars for the MPC era (1970's) It was fun looking them up to see what they are. First thing I noticed was the Alco had a coil coupler got excited it is a 2032 ERIE FA A unit gave it some power and it lit up but no go. I looked at the bottom of loco Made in New York that is when It hit me there was no reverse unit lever there for no motor as it was from the 50's and it was lighted looked up the number it is part of an AA set
The paint scheme is pretty well worn but other wise nice condition. I have 3 options:
1)Look for a motorized matching mate for it
2)Run it with a modern production FA unit(powered)
3) Find a running FA with equally worn paint scheme re-paint both for the BFT
As for the cars I have some MPC era freight cars plastic wheels and trucks one operating coupler on one end and a fixed coupler on the other. The cars are follows:
9011 GN Hopper BLT 7-70
9136 Republic Steel Gondola (missing canister load) BLT 2-72
9300 PC log/pipe dump car no BLT date on car (missing load) produced from 1970 - 1977
And a mystery flat car no number or BLT date only markings are DTI and molded in MPC marking looks like same ERA as the other cars and in my books the closest thing to a DTI flat is a DTI work caboose but of course no pic to compare it to. Researching even the less collectable stuff is fun
2nd on Monday. I was supposed to go to one of my sisters house for Easter............oh well.Good news someone gave me some Lionel stuff some old track, a transformer a FA ALCO "dummy" loco lighted with coil coupler and four cars for the MPC era (1970's) It was fun looking them up to see what they are. First thing I noticed was the Alco had a coil coupler got excited it is a 2032 ERIE FA A unit gave it some power and it lit up but no go. I looked at the bottom of loco Made in New York that is when It hit me there was no reverse unit lever there for no motor as it was from the 50's and it was lighted looked up the number it is part of an AA set
The paint scheme is pretty well worn but other wise nice condition. I have 3 options:1)Look for a motorized matching mate for it
2)Run it with a modern production FA unit(powered)
3) Find a running FA with equally worn paint scheme re-paint both for the BFT
As for the cars I have some MPC era freight cars plastic wheels and trucks one operating coupler on one end and a fixed coupler on the other. The cars are follows:
9011 GN Hopper BLT 7-70
9136 Republic Steel Gondola (missing canister load) BLT 2-72
9300 PC log/pipe dump car no BLT date on car (missing load) produced from 1970 - 1977
And a mystery flat car no number or BLT date only markings are DTI and molded in MPC marking looks like same ERA as the other cars and in my books the closest thing to a DTI flat is a DTI work caboose but of course no pic to compare it to. Researching even the less collectable stuff is fun