Model Train Journal

Posted: **Mon Sep 21, 2020 3:03 pm**

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Lionel-Custom- ... 4717873175

So, here's a good idea. Let's destroy a Lionel 646. Grind and fill, then use 80 grit sandpaper to "finish it for painting". Pay special attention to the steam dome while we're at it. And taper the boiler WAY down as it approaches the smokebox, too, and that Belpaire shape.

Not even sure it started life as a 646 as claimed.
Compare:
https://www.tandem-associates.com/lione ... _ident.gif

Again, any shipping would exceed value, unless you need this for the section of your museum to show how NOT to do it.

Posted: **Mon Sep 21, 2020 3:16 pm**

Offer him -$22......

Posted: **Mon Sep 21, 2020 8:00 pm**

It's a Bellaire, not a Belpaire, that's why it's so rare.

Posted: **Mon Sep 21, 2020 9:08 pm**

chuck wrote:It's a Bellaire, not a Belpaire, that's why it's so rare.

Made by Chevrolet, no doubt.

Posted: **Tue Sep 22, 2020 9:46 pm**

Hey now. I'm from Bellaire (Ohio) and NEVER saw anything like that around town.

Posted: **Thu Sep 24, 2020 1:41 pm**

Posted: **Thu Sep 24, 2020 1:43 pm**

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:

Is that from your personal collection?

Posted: **Thu Sep 24, 2020 1:57 pm**

ScaleCraft wrote:
Rufus T. Firefly wrote:

Is that from your personal collection?

Nope. Merely an example.

Posted: **Thu Sep 24, 2020 1:58 pm**

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
ScaleCraft wrote:
Rufus T. Firefly wrote:

Is that from your personal collection?

Nope. Merely an example.

Ah. I was wondering why it was drool-free.

Posted: **Thu Sep 24, 2020 1:59 pm**

ScaleCraft wrote:
Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
ScaleCraft wrote:
Is that from your personal collection?

Nope. Merely an example.

Ah. I was wondering why it was drool-free.

One does clean their toys, or they quickly have no one to play with....

Posted: **Thu Sep 24, 2020 2:54 pm**

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
ScaleCraft wrote:
Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
Nope. Merely an example.

Ah. I was wondering why it was drool-free.

One does clean their toys, or they quickly have no one to play with....

Wouldn't know, personally, altho I have read that it's more difficult to keep the leather clean.
Amazing the extraneous data one can find on the algore.

Posted: **Thu Sep 24, 2020 5:33 pm**

ScaleCraft wrote:
Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
ScaleCraft wrote:Ah. I was wondering why it was drool-free.

One does clean their toys, or they quickly have no one to play with....

Wouldn't know, personally, altho I have read that it's more difficult to keep the leather clean.
Amazing the extraneous data one can find on the algore.

Leather is so old school, :lol: