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Reply to "Weekend tinplate photos/videos 12/14/18!"

Thanks for all of the great posts again this week folks.  This thread is one of the things that I always anticipate about the weekend.

My offering again this week is some Ives.  I have had these two cars sitting in a box for awhile waiting for the appropriate engine to drop into my lap.

 

They are a #62 Parlor Car in Cadet Blue

and a #68 Observation Car also in Cadet Blue

While doing research on The Ives Train Society website I discovered that they are part of Outfit #480 from 1929.

(The following photos are borrowed from The Ives Train Society website.)

The set is known as the Blue Comet Express. I am missing the No. 3260 Locomotive - which is actually a Lionel 248 body.

However, I came across a second #62 Parlor Car and a #3255R Locomotive that was produced in 1927.  

I am fairly certain that it is a repaint because it's condition is just too good. I do think that it might have originally been Cadet Blue from what I can see of the inside of the engine.

So until a #3260 in Cadet Blue comes along what I have is the Northwoods Blue Comet Express 

Have a Great Tinplate weekend

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Last edited by Greg J. Turinetti

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