Adding engineer figures at low cost.

Classic Toy Trains Forum
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I posted this in another forum for Doug and thought some of you may like to see it to.

Here is the Thomas engineer figure install.
I used a regular Lionel figure used in most any of the late model engines. They cost like $2.50 each I got 8 of them awhile back. They have a hole in the bottom so I cut off the pointed end of a skewer stick the right height to be a pedestal. Jammed it in the hole with a dab of glue and painted the stick black. Here some pictures of the figures prepared.
Lionel Part Numbers are.
6108354014 Gray shirt 6308071014 also Gray shirt
6101190014 Brown shirt
I got 8 of them with shipping from Lionel for under $30.00

Here is one placed in Thomas, All I did was put a dab of hot glue on his side to hold him in place. Can be easily removed and cleaned up as if it was never there.

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Nice, great idea!

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Thanks for posting. I’ll look into this for my postwar steam & diesels.

wyomingscout

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I had to fab up the I beam seat support for the postwar 2065 out of a piece of plastic beam I had to get the sit height correct. But the others were just fine right on the Locos

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Looks great! Not at all like those out of scale folks found inhabiting cars and cabs.

Bruce

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Fantastic!

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Guys, I have also removed the Giants from the K-Line speeder. I replaced them with Tom Hanks and the mechanic from the Polar Express set. Still kind of big but way better.

Then some weathering.

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This is WAY cool ! I like the idea, they look great !

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I can see it now - enough folks like this idea that the Lionel Service Department will wonder where the run on replacement engineer figures came from!