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Reply to "Lionel Pre and Post War big Steam"

Eddie G is correct.  Big articulated steam engines like the ones you listed were not produced by Lionel until the modern era starting around the mid- 1990s; long after the pre- and postwar periods.

 

Only other Lionel "big steam" apart from examples from the postwar era that Eddie mentioned are prewar tinplate Standard Gauge sized trains like the 384E and 385E for example.

 

During the entire postwar era Lionel was always looking to find ways to produce trains more economically, and a big articulated steam engine would certainly not fit that ideal.  Most layouts back then would have been hard-pressed to be able to run them as they mostly had O-27 or O-31 curves; high-rail layouts with wide curves to support large steam engines didn't really begin to gain notice until the 1990s.

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