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attached is something i picked up at the Allentown show. 1938 Lionel display board for the Hudson. cool in itself but the only reason i even looked at it is because of the stamping on the bottom. in three places stamped is TREASURE HOUSE LIONEL TRAIN CENTER 27 PASSAIC ST GARFIELD NJ. those of you who know me know i love this stuff from the Treasure House. great piece of local train collecting history.Lionel 700e Hudson board

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Norton posted:

Kevin, are the pictures, different views of the same item? The name plate in the center that is not overexposed says cab number 5340. That is number on the 1990 700E. 

Pete

Hello Pete,

i should have mentioned that the picture is a collage of the same item.  as far as the number 5340 is concerned that is the number that is on the 1937/38 board. if you google it you will find pictures of it from  previous auctions. 

thanks,

Kev

When the 5344 was reproduced and introduced in 1990 as the 5340 by Lionel under Richard Kuhn, great pains were taken to come out with a model that closely mirrored the original right down to the display board. There are very small differences but they are barely noticeable. What is different is the addition of a smoke unit and the rail sounds. While I would not feel comfortable running and wearing out an original 5344, I enjoy running one of my 5340's. It pulls 8 NYC 20th Century Ltd passenger cars with ease.  The choice to run a $550 engine (that looks nearly identical) and a $3000 antique that collectors always just sit on a shelf, is not a hard one to make.

This display itself is quite large and really we had used for probably in store as little interest from an owner or operator of these strange. This was reconstructed from images from Lionel and their description. I think they need us aspect is that the top shelf rotate and allows the scale Hudson to be viewed from all sides without having to pick it up.

Hello gents, this is an old post and was doing some research on Lionel 700e display boards and came across this post. The name plate for the Lionel 700e display board you have is correct. 5340 is what was used for the description, and 5344 is what was actually used for the cab number of the model. There is much debate as to why Lionel did this, but I cannot find an answer. Your board has two straight T-Rail sections bolted together. This is incorrect, it should be one solid piece. It looks like someone got a hold of a reproduction name plate (or original) and a piece of oak and cut to same length as original and placed two T-rails straights together. The wood could be original, not sure without a close up inspection. The reason I bring this up as I just purchased a display board (almost $1000.00 for it).

This is my second one. I bought a display board about 6 years ago with the hope of one day buying a 700e. That never happened and I sold the display board for $900.00 ( I paid $775.00 at an auction house). Display boards are rare as Lionel made very few for their new 700e in 1937. Depending on condition, you can get one for around $700 on the low end to $1000.00 plus!



Here is a picture of the one I just bought (note the single piece of straight T-Rail).

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