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How To Restoration & Repair How to maintain Lionel toy train operating cars

How to maintain Lionel toy train operating cars

By | April 2, 2020

Maintenance and trouble-shooting tips for milk cars, searchlight cars, barrel loading cars, and more

The operating mechanism of a Lionel milk car without the shell and several callouts together with an inset photo showing the assembled milk car, stand, and milk cans. Inset text: Lionel’s postwar operating milk car added fun and excitement to the simplest loop of track. CTT expert Ray L. Plummer offers some tips to keep this and other operarting cars rolling into the future.; Can inserted with bottom toward camera; Cans roll down chute; Line from power pickup roller; Worker “ejects” cans; Cans ejected on this side

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