ANY SERIOUS LIONEL COLLECTORS HERE?

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ANY SERIOUS LIONEL COLLECTORS HERE?

Post by Joe Gopan » Wed Sep 15, 2010 5:10 am

I will be offering some rare items in the future.
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Post by Joe Gopan » Sat Oct 09, 2010 5:47 am

BTT
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Re: ANY SERIOUS LIONEL COLLECTORS HERE?

Post by wingnut1 » Sat Nov 13, 2010 2:27 pm

Hi.joel not me but my neighbour and good friend has a lionel set that he has owned since he was seven years old. He will be be seventy next january and still runs it once a month at the local model railway society meet. it was sent over to him as a gift from an uncle .It must have inspired him at that young age as he is a accomplished model engineer with many five inch locomotives and smaller gauge under his belt.
best regards and many thanks for sharing your knowledge.
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Post by Joe Gopan » Sun Nov 14, 2010 3:53 am

They are fun, I still have my original Lionel from 1949. A close friend of mine recently passed away and he had a massive 60 year collection of Lionel dating from 1900 thry 2000 era which I am slowly selling off for the family. I gave up interest in Lionel in the early 50's to concentrate my interests in Army Vehicles and Military Aircraft of th 40's and later.
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Post by Mark Baker » Thu Nov 25, 2010 1:13 pm

Joel,

Thanks for the info, I will pass this on to a friend who is a Lionel guy!

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Re: ANY SERIOUS LIONEL COLLECTORS HERE?

Post by Joe Gopan » Thu Nov 25, 2010 6:23 pm

I will be offering a few pieces here and there of Pre War Standard Gauge and smaller locomotives and rolling stock, and a few Post War O Gauge Locos. All are in mint condition, All one has to do is contact me to go over what I have. These are not the typical Christmas gift variety.
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Post by n2_ships » Fri Dec 10, 2010 3:54 pm

hello, i'm darryl averett, i'm restoring dukw # 353-19804 , i'm in full swing restoration, and yes, i love lionel train, tca member, wanna talk trains , gimme a call, i'm always buying selling and trading, i also , got one of roy grummans toy trains from a action a few years back, love it, call me 1-225-305-3232, have some dukw parts for sale too!
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Re: ANY SERIOUS LIONEL COLLECTORS HERE?

Post by Joe Gopan » Fri Dec 10, 2010 6:02 pm

Will call within a day or two. Thanks.
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Re: ANY SERIOUS LIONEL COLLECTORS HERE?

Post by Lee Bishop » Tue Dec 28, 2010 7:42 pm

I know RobL is a big-time Lionel collector, you might want to contact him direct if he hasn’t seen this already.
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Re: ANY SERIOUS LIONEL COLLECTORS HERE?

Post by Joe Gopan » Wed Dec 29, 2010 2:24 am

Thank you, I will do that. This is a large collection and I have not had enough time to spend on it.
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