Lionel Train Manual
Did you read the sticky at the top of the O thread??? Online Postwar would be Olsen's.
Old Lionel Train Manuals
Greenberg has a good book. The best is the three volume set. I don't think it is worth that much. Over 100 is too much.Parts dealers know thiere parts. You ask they supply. I used a blue book that went by various names.
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The latest is The complete Lionel Service Manual by K line The original instructions are found on the service disc. 1953 and 57 were two extensive manuals. Another one that was in the forties. They cover transformer hooking up accessories and basic layout wiring. Much t like the basic 027 manual Take a close look at the MPC era supplement 1-9.
With that information not much is left. Lionel has all the manuals for the zw transformer and switches.
Olsen has it too. I am a glutton for information but I have had no need to purchase a Greenberg set. I've been wondering the same thing. I have some original instructions for the old 022 switch, 153C contactor and other components that I've never seen online. I'd be glad to scan them and post them for all to see. Likewise, I'd love to see instructions for the old 313 bascule bridge and other stuff, even if it was only a scanned copy.
Barring any copyright problems, a library of lionel 'instructions' would be a neat tool for when we bring that 'thing' home from the train show and want to know how to use it. For the hell of it just ran a search for 'instructions, lionel 313 bascule bridge' and got: so just alter you search for whatever you are looking for.
I have found some other lionel instructions this way. B I found that too. That is for the new 313 bridge Lionel put out, not the original one, I was going to check in my book to see if it was the same as the original bridge. The wiring terminals are placed different on that one? I don't know if he was talking about the original bridge or a new one?
I bought the greenberg version, rather cheap - under 20 with s/h - on ebay. Keep in mind it is no more and no less than the instruction sheets that came with the accessory/train assembled in one manual in shrunken size. There isn't more info in the book than you may already have on the sheets. As for post 69 info, i have found it very difficult to find diagrams or info for these items.
Maybe it just me, but i think the site STINKS and the help on the phone - except for one guy -helpless. The most complete reference for Postwar trains (and of course, out of print) is the four-volume Greenberg's Lionel Service Manual. I kick myself because I didn't get one while they were still in stock and the fact is that the set in my office is the only one the magazine possesses.
This is the big one, but even so, I've been surprised that there were many items for which there were no disgrams, just parts listings. For modern era trains, the available info is pretty mixed or doesn't exist in a form for public use. The Greenberg version of the Post War material is the half page format of the complete compiled original service bulletins for 1945-1969. It includes all sorts of repair tips as well as exploded diagrams and part numbers. The K-Line version is in original format (8.5x11) but is not the complete service manual. The PDF files on the Lionel site cover Modern Era Service Bulletin Supplements 1-47. This means a) they are about 18-24 months behind produced items, b) they make heavy reference to previous SB's that are often hard for a non tech to decipher, c) There are no repair tips or extra infor, these are straight orthographic projections of the exploded item with ocassional photo's, circuit diagrams and occasional block diagrams of system components (aka you have to know what you are looking at to make sense of it).
This is why Dick Teal's book is important if you are going to try and repair a modern electronic locomotive. If you only get one or two, get the Greenberg 1945-1969 and the Dick Teal book if you are working on new stuff.
K-Line is easier on the eyes and if you can get it cheap, great. Olsen's site does have this info and they also have the Pre-War but the site isn't always up/easy to navigate and some of the diagrams won't print.