hello & welcome to my channel it is about the history real rail roading & 3 rail O gauge electric model trains & me as a collector of O gauge train sets just like many other growen men & women today that are involved in as there hobby for there & there familys injoyment in O gauge model trains and the lionel trains company is one of the names that aways comes to mind eith train started it all with haveing an electric train set under the crish started in the PREWAR era from the year 1900 to 1942. and then there was the POSTWAR era 1945 to 1969 and then there was the MPC era 1970 to 1986 the MPC era was mostly made in the U.S.A but for the first time in 80+ years for a short time period in the 1980s lionel had the assembly line moved to make everything in a plant that was in mexico which i myself think they did a pretty nice job over there but alot of collectors didnt like it and did not want there trains being made outside out the U.S.A so sometime later lionel moved back to the U.S.A before the MPC era had ended and then the MODERN era 1987 to todays made lionel trains in the MODERN era lionel was all made in the U.S.A from 1987 to 1995 and then lionel made in the U.S.A and in china from 1996 to 2001 and then the in 2000 last U.S.A lionel plant was closed up in 2001 and now all of the lionel assembly lines as of mid to late 2001 where split up between two countrys to make everything for lionel one lionel was the plant in china and the other lionel plant is in korea lionel is still to this day owned in the U.S.A and they did all of this so they can get everything made alot cheaper for them but yet we still pay top doller for them?!? but i do like & want other 3 rail O gauge sets theres marx american flyer ives, hoge mth williams all of them have made or make 3 rail O gauge trainsl but here at this time what i do have and you will see in my & my kids collection of lionel train sets there are sets lionel made from as early as the 1930s and you will see lionel train sets made as new as the year 2010 all the prewar & postwar era train sets is my collection i do have one late modern era lionel train set its a santa fe el capitan A-B-A FT diesel with 4 streamline passenger cars made in 2009 all of the other modern era lionel sets from 2007 to 2010 all belong to my two kids now some of my old sets you will see here are somewhat rare & hard to find sets today and some of them you will see are still old sets but are a common to see around sets to this day now for makeing smoke i sometimes like useing 3in1 oil in my steam engines i like the smell of it but i mostly only use JT,s mega steam smoke fluid in my engines my favorte is the smoke pellet sented smoke fluid which smells just as good or better then the postwar smoke pellets but they have many other sents to pick from JT,s even has a non sented smoke fluid and it performs just as well but not only will JT,s mega steam smoke fluid smell just as what it says on the bottle you get you will get a much thicker vision of smoke comeing out of your steam or diesel engines over the years iv tried many diffrent brands of smoke fulids but JT,s has came out on top in both sent of smell and smoke output comeing out our engines now for serviceing i mostly use liquid bearings for a very good reasons its a 100% synthetic oil for model trains i use it on my engines freight & passenger cars i think it lastes longer then other oils iv tried out i found it to work wounders on old engines that have not been run in many years for one my 1946 #2020 6-8-6 S2 steam turbine set the drive wheels where frozen and the front and rear trucks where hard to turn but the main 8 drive wheels could not be moved by hand the guy that sold it to me told me said his father & uncle took the layouy down and put it all away in 1965 so that set was in the set box for over 40 years without being use or oiled so i first tried to use some 3in1 oil & tried wd-40 i let it sit for a while but it didnt do much so i then use the liquid bearings oil & let it soak for about an hour that oil freed up all of the wheels and then i cleaned & serviced the engine and it runs great like a new postwar engine i dont think any other oil would have worked better then the liquid bearings oil did i highly recommend it you can get both of these items the JTs smoke fulid & the oil for about $6 each on ebay all of our train sets are made useing a fuji finepix E550 digital camera it works pretty good for a not being a HD digital camera the are all powered off a lionel CW-80 transformer that is 80watts 5 amps max within 2ch so only 40 watts of power is going to the tracks which is now alot but its enough to run them & they run not bad off of only 40watts even my twin pullmor motored engines run fairly well with it & its on a 4x5 sheet of 1/4" plywood & a loop 40"x60" i believe be to 0-31 curves fastrack so if you like what you see so far please.feel free to rate commet & !!!SUBCRIBE!!! checkout my other subbers trains collection

im a single dad raising my two great kids one girl and one boy im just happy with just being around family and friends i beleave the pepole you love and care about are without a doubt #1 in our everyday life i guess you could say im more of a old fashioned type of guy that just believes in familys being close together as i think familys should be and not apart and always fighting with each other life is just to short for any of that but that they have respect for them selfs and that they take responsibilty for there daily dutys actions & choices they make through out there days and have respect for one another but at the sametime not takeing any crap from pepole who disrespect you i very strongly! believe if you find out somone has hurt or is hurting you or somone in your family you make sure they dont get away with what they have done to no end you do not stop even if it takes your last breath of air to get the words out and have it stopped and have it lawfully takeing care of not only will you be stopping them from hurting you and or your family you just maybe saveing others or someone eles later down the line i also believe in the old term on what gos around comes around meaning if you have done neg- things to other people in any way those neg- things you did and it could be from the wost of badly hurting someone to liying & messing around with someone eles paper work to harbor those wrong doings that somebody has done to you or other people in there life it will and i mean it will! return in one form or another back on to you in your life no matter what there power status in life is i believe its just another way our lord takes care of things so remember treat & respect others the very same way you would want you or your family members to be treated and if you ever get that gut feeling that seems miles away but is there that something maybe wrong or someone maybe hurting someone in your family trust what your feeling and dig for anwsers sometimes it may be nothing but in most cases something is up for pepole like my self who have kids you need to be close to them and tell them what are the right things to do and what are the wrong things to do in life and have there trust so they feel that they are protected and can come to you for help or anwsers if somthing is wrong dose happen and or who there around when there not at home with you i cant stress that enough