Bob Severin posted:breezinup posted:I'm curious - you said you bought Lionel cars 19122-19127 (a six car set, but you say you have 8 cars - apparently you bought two duplicates). However, the passenger car you pictured in your opening post is not from that set. Did you list the wrong numbers, or did you display a picture of a different car?
OOPS! The numbers are correct. The picture was wrong. I do have two Silver Pony cars, and a total of only 7, not eight. I had thought that there were two Silver Sky cars. The picture below is the correct representation of the cars I have. I hope that this clears up any confusion.
Yup, that clears things up. Looks like you pulled your original photo off Ebay, but that car was from a different (and somewhat more expensive) set. The 6-car set set you have usually goes for 300/350-500, so you did fine. As far as Burlington engines, Lionel also has made a Legacy Burlington F-3 set, No. 38597, which looks like this.
There are a couple of these sets on Ebay now. There is also a B unit available.
As GG1 mentioned above, the California Zephyr was pulled by engines from three different railroads, Burlington, Rio Grande, and Western Pacific. Burlington took the trains from Chicago to Denver, where it was handed off to the Rio Grande. Lots of nice engines available for all those lines. I have the Lionel Zephyr set that the car you showed in your original post is from. I prefer to think of the Calif. Zephyr as it was when running through the Rockies, so use Rio Grande engines. For various reasons, I use the Lionels pictured below. MTH has made something similar. Among other things, I wanted to emulate Howard Fogg's painting of the Zephyr going through the mountains west of Denver.
The Calif. Zephyr is fun to model because there are lots of choices to use as far as motive power.
