What's The Oldest Working Locomotive In Your Yard?
#1
I really love checking out all the old antique O gauge engines that are out there.
What's the oldest working locomotive you have in your collection?

Mine would be my Marx 666 diecast.
Although "working" is a pretty loose term for that one right now. Sad
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#2
My LGB Stainz from about 1980...

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#3
That would be a toss up between my Marx 999 and my AF #350(sometimes works) Icon_lol
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#4
I have an old prewar AF boxcab electric (I can't remember the number right now) that dates to the late 1920s/early 1930s. Also a Lionel 259e which probably dates to the mid 1930s.

I have an Ives 3250 which could date as early as 1918 but it's not currently in working order. The original paint is all gone so it's impossible to know exactly how old it is. It's on the project table but has a few things ahead of it. But once that's running, it'll be my oldest operator.
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#5
Are you asking specifically for O/G size or any scale in general?
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#6
Bob, if you have some HO scale stuff from the 1930s or something up your sleeve, I certainly would like to hear about it. Whatcha got?
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Dave Farquhar Wrote:Bob, if you have some HO scale stuff from the 1930s or something up your sleeve, I certainly would like to hear about it. Whatcha got?

As a matter of fact...I was going home from the club one night when the treasurer asked if I would be interested in "some European junk" somebody left. I said sure and tossed it in the car, not knowing that I'd be thoroughly stunned within the hour once I got home...

In the box, one HR800 4-6-2 that runs like a watch, both headlights too...

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...3 near mint coaches---with boxes...

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...1 near mint Schlafwagon with the WWII era markings...

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...and an Esso tanker...

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It came with a large amount of track and cars that I've since pared down to just these and a nice loop of track. The HR800 and the Esso car may go as far back as 1939, the coaches are post war, about '46-49. They're all tin with zamac castings, only one wheelset on one coach has a slight touch of the dreaded zinc-pest. The Schlafwagon's markings are obviously the most interesting as they represent the German Railway markings with the swastika in them, slightly modified for post war sentiments. I'm thrilled to own them as I had family on both sides of the beach at Normandy, as well as one who was sentenced to and survived Auschwitz for hiding Jews. My son calls the train when running the "sparkle train" for the arcing that happens as it clangs around the layout.
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#8
WoW Shaygetz....!!! You must've gotten up on the right side of the bed that day... What a catch....!!!
Gus (LC&P).
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#9
Those are amazing! What a haul.
Mark

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#10
This is the oldest running engine that we have at the museum. It's a Lionel #150 from 1918.

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and a see it running Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KzUsBwVZS8
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#11
Wow, 90 years old and still flyin'...betcha BLIs and MTHs won't be singing like that in 90 years. Thumbsup
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#12
Bob, that's a cool story. You could win some bets with that too--prewar 3-rail HO? How many people know THAT exists?

Spankybird, I have the 6-inch early 600 coaches that go with that 150. They've been overpainted badly several times so I'm in the process of restoring them. I've had them several years. I turned down the last 150 I was offered, three or four years ago, because I thought the price was a bit high and I figured I'd see another one soon enough. Soon enough just hasn't come yet...
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#13
For me that would be a 249E with a 2225T tender, and has frieght cars that came with it.
Second oldest is a 224E & tender with two 2640's passenger cars and one 2641 observation car.

Lee F.
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#14
Wow sure sounds like you guys have some old locomotives. Thumbsup
Matt
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#15
I can't resist replying here, even though I don't currently have any O-gauge stock.

I do, however, have a large collection of British 00 gauge, which is similar to our HO. I have one British tank engine made by Hornby Dublo (which went out of business in 1964) that my Dad and I ran together in the mid-1960s. It was probably made during 1962-64 -- my Dad and I were definitely running it in 1964. And it still runs like a charm today.

I also have 3 other Hornby Dublo locos from 1962-64 that I often run -- two of these were fairly recent acquisitions.

I'm so amazed that these locos because they're almost 50-years-old. Quite a testimony to their quality. There are even HD locos out there from 1938 that still run! (although I don't have any of these pre-war ones because they're 3-rail).

Rob
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