Here is a Lionel 165 Operating Gantry Crane with Electromagnet from 1940-42. Gantry Cranes are one of Lionels greatest accessories. You can rotate the cab .
However, the consumer catalog for this year showed an illustration of the pre-war No. 165. spacer. Lionel kept the electromagnet that was engraved with the "
The postwar Lionel # 282 Portal Gantry Crane on the left can be manually moved on its own set of tracks, which I cut and made from some rusted O27 track.
The M.O.W.(Maintenance of Way) Gantry Crane is Train Master Command Control system equipped (TMCC CAB-1 Remote Controller and TMCC Command Base required for