Restoring and Repairing

• Building a 10E Bild-a-loco. After a frame for this engine was discovered, it was built back into and engine. By Bradley Kaplan September 2002
• 156 Set Restoration Lester Kramer shows how he restored the treasured set. August 2002
• Lionel Prewar Factory Samples: Paul Pullen creates his own "factory samples". Dec2002
• Louis Marx gets an Empire Builder. - creating two Great Northern Alcos.
  By David Hess       Spring 2005
• Marx 3/16 Slope Back Tender -"Wouldn't a slope back tender look really great behind a 999?"  by Dave Hess   Oct 2003
• Restoring Prewar Lionel Trains: A 514 Ventilated Refrigerator by Bradley Kaplan - Learn restoration techniques that will apply to restoring any tinplate piece! May 2002
• Saved from the Dumpster! Restoring a Lionel 402 Engine.by Mike Isenberg. Dec2002
• Will It Run pt 1 by Bradley Kaplan - An acquisition of a beat up thin rimmed #5 from York April 2002 and the challenge to get it to run again! May 2002
• Will It Run Pt 2. More on this rare thin rimmed #5 found at York! June 2002
• Will It Run Pt 3. The third part of the resotoration of this piece! July 2002
• Will It Run Pt 4. The final piece in this series...the #5 is finished! August 2002