@Chuck242: That is really a nice set, someone with real skill matched the numbers and colors to produce a "mini" state set. Some other "oddities" that I noticed are that the cars are definitely pre-war and have pre-war trucks and couplers. The engine (#675) and the tender however are post war, variations of which were made from 1947-1952 - one of the best post war steamers by the way (at least in my opinion). So someone must have mounted pre-war trucks or at least couplers to the tender at the end mating to the train. I have a similar set of expert re-paints, they are two 610 Pullman's and an 612 Observation from the 1920's that should be Mojave for their year of manufacturing but someone (very expertly) painted them green and re-did the number plates and name plates. Why did they do that? My guess is that they did it to match the green #253 locomotive that came with the cars. However, they look great and run well and no one can notice the difference unless you are a pre-war collector like me who just had to look !! So you didn't get rich except in having a great running and good looking passenger set for your personal railroad...not too bad a pay off anyway.
Don
