@TrainFam posted:Hi laming, I am 95% percent sure that I know about what set you are referring to in your posts.
This might be it, the set shown above is a 25225 freight set.
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The only thing that keeps me from saying that I am 100% sure that this was your childhood set is you mentioning a black gondola, however this could just be chalked up to confusion.
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Well, you may be right! Do you know what years that set was on the market?
As for the black gondola: Could be that my mind replaced the gray B&O gon with photos of black Nickel Plate or PRR gons I've seen many times since? I also don't recall a tank car (which may not have survived, thus not a part of the set by the time it was given to me), but my lands... that was so long ago and those details/features just weren't important to me then.
SO... yup... "confusion" reigns supreme in my pea-sized brain! 
That's very likely the set. Interesting!
I shall resist the urge to find/procure such specimens to build a replica "set". 
Andre
