Grandma's Treasures

[kwalker421]

Well, it's a lazy rainy day so i took a few photos of my grandma's trains she gave to me about a year ago.

the trains are about i'd say 70-75 years old. Remarkably, they just stopped running about 6 months ago.

the set is...

- A cast iron 0-4-0 steam loco and tender with 'Lionel Lines' painted on it

- A Baby Ruth boxcar

- A Sunoco Tanker

- A Caboose with 'Lionel Lines' painted on it


here's some pictures

So, what do you think?

i also have a variety of antiques like that Sucrets tin in one picture. it seems i take after my mother

 

[Selector]

What a treasure!! I think of how much pleasure and fascination it brought to your Grandpa, how proud he was of it. More than a little nostalgia there, wouldn't you say?

-Crandell

 

[UP2CSX]

Beautiful old set you have. Take good care of it. In addition to the fond memories, it's worth some money.

 

[kwalker421]

yep! i remember being like 9 or 10 and playing with them on the carpet floors of their old home!. my grandma was 5 when she got them for christmas and i was always so, so careful not to hurt them! and then, she gave them to me during the summer and i almost died!

 

[kwalker421]

i take the best pride in these old models. always checking them.


wasnt thinking of selling them though. not in a million years

 

[Selector]

I had mistakenly assumed that your Grandma had given you her husband's toy trains. It was good of her to keep them so long and to pass them on to you on her own accord. Enjoy.

 

[kwalker421]

haha yeah thanks. when my grandfather died however, she gave me his watch. wear it everyday.

 

[DakotaLove39]

Nice. Very nice.


OT: I totally don't get how those couplers work..

 

[kwalker421]

the couplers work like this

they work like those cheap G scale couplers with the hook sort of contraption. to hook them up, simply push them together. to uncouple them, you lift the black part up on both cars at the same time and pull them apart. i know its a bit hard to understand.