I've got a chance to pick up a set of the Lionel Conventional Classic Wabash AB F Units. This is a road name totally off my radar but they are such a great looking combo that it's tough to pass up. Anyway, what do you run with these? Did anybody make a decent set of passenger cars?
Looking for suggestions.
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Well Williams made a passenger set in plenty of roadnames, it's a good bet they made a Wabash one since they remade most if not all of the Lionel postwar F3s. It is a sharp looking paint scheme. I think it would look good pulling typical postwar mixed frieght: lots of different colors.
Wabash F units mainly pulled freight; they depended on E units and a handful of PAs to pull passenger trains; I believe they also had some Geeps that were boiler equipped as well that were generally tied to Chicago commuter service duty.
That said, Williams made a string of Madison style 6 wheel truck heavyweight cars that are blue with silver roofs. Lionel made a string of their MPC era heavyweight passenger cars for a Fallen Flags series they produced, a Madison car sized heavyweight set, as well as a set of shorty plastic streamlined cars that comes with their FT diesel in a starter set.
I have a four car Wabash Madison Car Set from the 90's.
The series is 6-1906. this would make a nice Wabash
Passenager Set with the AB F-3 units.
I believe you can pick up a set of these Passenager Cars
at Train Meets or with some Forum Dealers listed above.
From my prospective the Lionel Conventional Classic Series
is worth the cost for great looking, and running sets from
years past.
I hope this helps you in making your decision.
Many thanks,
Billy C
Wow, thanks guys. That was fast!
Some great options to consider, passenger and freight.
Appreciate the feedback!
I have the ABA with TMCC set from the PWC series set. Also the triple lashup TMCC GP7 set. Beautiful, great running engines. I love that color scheme. Looks good with anything.
Agreed. As I mentioned above no experience at all with this road name but the colors are great looking. Very eye appealing.
Doing a little research on these Wabash units -- the Lionel originals, that is.
Appeared in the 1955 catalog along with the Illinois Central F units. Noticed that they were cataloged with the 2500 series silver Lionel Lines cars (Silver Dawn, etc.). Too bad Lionel didn't do repros of those in the CC series to go along with these locos.
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