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12-15-2010 07:45 AM #1
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Christmas Trains?
A few years back I noticed my old Lionel electric train in a box in the basement, and after we set up the tree I pulled it out, took the engine apart and cleaned up the motor of old grease and grime, put it back together and it ran!! Thinking back, our house burned in the summer of '57, and this train was under the Christmas tree that year, making it 53 years old this Christmas! Says something for good QA/QC at Lionel, and setting it up under the tree has become a new tradition, a part of "transformation Friday", the day after Thanksgiving when the house is transformed for Christmas! The old guy takes a bit to get moving (like me
), but once you get the motor turning and warmed up a bit it pulls the train just fine - enough to fall off the track on the corners if you leave it at full throttle 
Any more old Christmas trains out there??Roger
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