Anyone do model railroading?

connor9988

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Central Iowa
This is in our barn. We will never use it and would like for someone to get it rather than junk it. It's free to anyone who would like it. Located in central Iowa. It is just those tracks on that board.
Figured someone here might like it.

Thanks!
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If some of the components in the foreground are Lionel, and old, they might be worth something, The board and tack are worth 20 bucks to a local person, but not worth driving 20 miles for. (have been and helped my son become a modeler) Jim
 
Can be "O" or "O27" THey look so much alike. Looks like an old abandoned rail road out in the woods or something. Hear the lonesome whistle blowing.
 
Suggest instead of asking on a farming board you google or search for a model railroading club in your local area. Then ask the club if anyone wants the layout.
I am giving away a radio-controlled model sailboat and that is what I have done. It will go today.
 
it would take so much work to make those tracks usable again that it's probably not worth the effort.


American flyer is S gauge and only used 2 rails
027 and O gauge are the same width and can be used together but rail heights are different and shims might be needed
 
Connor,

I used to have a very extensive layout of Lionel O gauge and O27 gauge equipment. I had collected it from when I was kid on up through my late 20s. Due to some unusual circumstances, I had to break the whole lay out down and put it into storage when I was about 30 years old.

A couple of years later, someone broke into the storage unit and stole my whole lay out. I was so broken-hearted, I never re-started the hobby.

I hope that someone will respond to your offer. I spent many, many hours "traveling by train" in my basement.

Tom in TN
 
It would be of more value to a collector. Most train sets come with the track on the board that would be useable now.
Back in the mid 1940's Mom and Dad started buying train stuff for my brother and myself for Christmas each year. We had track and switches that would run thru and around three rooms of the down stairs. We set it up in winter months only and had to pick it all up once a week for Mom to vacuum. Usually on a Sunday before church as we had company drop in on Sunday afternoon. The weather was bad one Sunday morning and Mom said we could leave it because no one would be out that day. Surprise! Mid afternoon a Uncle, Aunt and three cousins came in. On cousin decided it would be fun to walk on the track all the way in. It cut our track down to one room in a few minutes before we could get it up and in box Dad had built for it. We never had it on a board. I still have what was left of it in my attic still in the box Dad built for it. I bought train sets and stuff to put up in the toy room before my late wife died but it is all still in the boxes.
I built boards for both of my Sons for Christmas when they were around 8 or 9 years old.
 
I have the Marx O gauge set my Dad bought for my sister before she was born (thinking she was a boy) just after WW2. The switches I have look like the one at the top of the board. Are there any markings on it? Not that I want it, just curious....
 
The track is all rusty and realy isnt worth anything as all the connections would be junk just no way to make it work again. Could be painted and used for a display but never would run a working train.
 
Thank you all for the information and help. I apologize for cluttering up Tractor Talk with it.
In an effort to keep it tractor related:
I'm cleaning it up after some time being left to get VERY cluttered and messy. I've backed our Cub Cadet 72 and rear cultivator in that side of the barn so that I can use it on the garden next summer.
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Like you I had an American Flyer train that circled around the whole downstairs, kitchen, dining room, front entrance, living room and back to the kitchen. Dad MADE several long sections of straight track rather than buy it all...
 
She's from Tennesee boys, She's long and she's tall, She came down from Birmingham on the Wabash Cannonball.
 
The three rail track should be Lionel. I do not recognize the switch though. I was a big time Lionel collector at one time. Still have them all. I pulled a board just like that one out of a barn...must be 30 years ago now. Track was rusted but you can dress it with some fine emery cloth and bring a shine back to the tops of the rails and restore conductivity. Switch has to be completely disassembled and cleaned/lubricated to get it back into function again. It can be done. I used to buy all this old stuff and restore it. Got too expensive and trendy at one point and I dropped out. I downsized my layout a couple years ago but the original (barn found) 4x8 plywood sheet and it's track is still part of the layout. I hope I live long enough to have time to run trains again.
 

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