Thanks I really like the postwar 1950's operating accessories. They just make the model train hobby more fun. and there's so many accessories to choose from.

DrFrankensteam thanks it tooks a lot if years get them fun stuff.

+Jl Smith True, Lionel also had the (164 log loader) & the No.97 coal elevator. & the No.165 magnetic crane All cool fun operating prewar accessories.

+Jl Smith Those are very nice steamers, That's cool that you have original sets!

I got a lot of train stuff from a estate sale last February I don't always have the coal ramp on the layout. it's not that easy to fined a place for it. I just changed my layout today and the 456 coal ramp is not on the layout. maybe later it will be. It's fun to see what layouts I can come up with. so I make a new layouts often.

+CollectorDavid o thanks I'm thing of picking up one do they work good and have you had any issues with yours. And thank you for the reply

I have the first type of the 456 with dark gray base with (braided wire railings). that being said, the metal braided railings can catch the train cars easier than the fishing line railing they later came out with. I never had any issues with this accessory. You do have to wire it up right. I wire it to a RW Postwar transformer, than hook a 2 and a half inch track to the ramp. I insulate that track from the rest of the layout. The 456 uses fix voltage. when hooked up to a RW you want to make sure that fix voltage doesn't go to the rest of the layout or you be feeding the track 2 different volts. (AKA bad) The only thing to learn is the speed going up the ramp. not very easy. it will take time to learn. here's a link of it www.tandem-associates.com/lionel/lionel_trains_456_acc.htm

+CollectorDavid ok thank you so much for all the help and yours is in very good shape thank you and happy railroading from Illinois

roblox84 frist sorry for the late reply. I don't have any fast track, but I am positive it would be the house Corral, all you need is a operating track that has the extra rails, that the gliding shoe, aka the electric pic up, of the house car would come to contact with. Then put the track the right amount of distance between the horse car doors when down, and the Corral and if electric is hook up the right way, this should work. Basically you have a operating track/ track remolt operating the car, and your 8-12 volt transformer powering the Corral. You should have a on / off switch for the Corral, so you can have the horses go and stop on the corral or in the car, when you please. And about the cattel car & Corral, This I know wont work. You see the 3656 cattle corral has two metal pieces in the middle of the corral where the track is, both left and right of the middle power rail. Those are the positive and negative electric that makes the car work at the same time as the Corral. So because of this. There is no way to put the fast track in the green base of the cattel car carral. Where the track normally gose.

CollectorDavid Thanks

+Jl Smith Very cool

The Lionel 681 Turbine's tender has a watering shoot in the middle on the bottom of the tender. in real life, that is the way trains get water at high speeds. also the train gets water when needed.