Lionel 249E Restoration

[@northpennvalleysteamrailroad]

Awesome job!!!

[@billderby7150]

Good job CW! I liked the other comment that you got back about restoring tin plate and soaking them in tide detergent.

[@RichardJR1361]

I would keep it. It's really nice.

[@larryberger9440]

I see that you are young and probably not too well informed about collection toy trains. When you go and want to restore tinplate you do not have to take the whole tender apart. All you need do it to remove the various trim parts and start with a good soaking in hot TIDE detergent. This soaking after a day will remove the paint. Then you wash it with a brush to get ll the paint from the cracks and corners. Then a good under coat will do and then the final coat. Your paint job shows a lot of fine specks which is not good. But then you ae learning and soon will discover the proper methods used to restore tinplate. good luck as you will need it as you go along.