What are these Lionel Accessories Worth Today?

On your cattle corral, you'll find 2 sets of slots on the platform base. The upper set of slots is for use with O-27 track and the lower slots are for use with the taller O-gauge track. When everything is in it's correct slots, the operating corral platforms will sit level with the car and the cows can enter the car without tripping on the thresh-hold. Also, this accessory came with 2 sets of track contact blades, short ones for O-27 track and taller ones for O-gauge track. LOVED the video!

Loved this one. Not a Lionel fan, but love accessories. Also loved that you just talked through everything and no music. I would always rather hear the model or accessory in operation. Please don't feel the need to jazz up your content or apologize for "too much detail." I think most modelers want your insights and the model of course, especially those Classic Models.

Those Marx Girard whistle stations are workhorses. Old but well built. Great video, lots of nice accessories.

Great video Ron the Marx stuff was in my opinion great condition nice finds.

That's some awesome items for sure. Very cool. ❤

One thing that I learned today is that you need an O Guage layout.😅

Great finds. Loved the price comparison. Keep them their videos coming. 33%

I've been into Lionel trains since I was 5 and when I got in, the prices were at an all-time high, but now that many of the older generation collectors are getting older and passing and their collections are being sold off, there is a huge flood in the market with the older pre and post ww2 eras of these which is both exciting because I can get pieces that I've always wanted for cheaper than before but its also sad that there are less people who appreciate the antique toy trains.

Another great video. Love seeing you bring stuff back to life. I have a 1948 2-6-2 '675' that I need to take apart and get running again and watching your videos has given me the confidence I need to take it apart. Thanks for sharing.

Great video, I'm always looking for train in the second hand stores....

Prices on certain older trains have gone down because so many older collectors are in their 80's or even older and their collections are hitting the market making the supply outpace the demand for many items. It never ceases to amaze me that toys...children's toys...built in the 1940's, 1950's, and 1960's were made so well that they still look great and operate really well. We won't be able to say that about most of the stuff being made today 60-70 years from now.

Be careful, Ron, or you'll get sucked into O. There's a reason hobbyists get sucked into this scale. It's by no accident that this offering gets one hooked because it's considered the toy train scale offering with an extensive long history with so many offerings to choose from. That was purposely designed to be fun to hook the hobbyist. There is literally an offering to suit any era for any version of layout one could build. Prewar, postwar, MPC, to current modern-day eras. In every price range possible. Typically, it is designed for fast and easy set up and to run anywhere and easily maintained and built rugged to last a lifetime and all run on a consistently designed 3 rail track type. Good luck. Once you go O track, there's no going back. Great score on those historical postwar accessories. Something you can't say or collect in any other scale within this hobby. Regardless of what you paid for such nice pieces, it's priceless. It's interesting how the first thing we as O-gaugers do is to clean off years of grease and grime to make them shiny and new, while others intentionally put it on brand new purchases and call it weathering😊. Happy rails.

Good scores Ron. Watching your other videos of shipping mishaps, sometimes buying local and hands on looks like a good way to go when you find them. Watching the guardman swing out was a hoot, he could fly a distance under the work bench..lol. Thanks for sharing.

Again, glad to see you repairing Lionel!

I’m not found of this kind of accessories, but I have to admit that you have a nice collection. Kudos for this!

You got yourself a nice deal. Ebay can be a crap shoot. Some deals aren't so good after you add the shipping cost, which I'm glad that you did in your examples. I only buy stuff that I am familiar with and buy mostly at shows so I can see exactly what I am getting. It is nice that you used the regular Turtle Wax. No abrasives to dull the finish. Keep up the great and informative videos.

I only got into Lionel a few years ago, and stuck with newer stuff. Seeing these makes me want to get into operating accessories

I have my dads Lionel set from when he was a kid. Including a #624 C&O switcher, a 3482 operating milk car, with the platform, car, track, and milk cans. A cement car, gondola and a few others. I just powered up the switcher for the first time in 30+ years. The last it was run, a faulty power supply overheated the 3 position unit. I replaced that the other day and I'm working on get the rest clean up a bit to set it up.

Wow Great Find! Really cool stuff. Thanks for sharing!

Great video on a lot of cool finds. As these baby boomers pass away these items will turn up more often at estate sales. Since I didn't want my stuff to end up with some hoarder and my sons don't want it, I donated everything to the Illinois Railway Museum, Union IL. They will display it, sell it but at least eventually the stuff will end up at good homes and not landfills.