Lionel outfit# 1435WS

On liveauctioneers that set sold between 220 and 1050 .

Low: 2025 Loco, nice lettering & patina w/nickel stack; 6466WX Tender, very light mildew film; 2465 Sunoco Tank Car; 2452X Gondola; 2257 Caboose, o/w clean, SP pellets soft; S Transf.; obs clean, but some wear w/inserts, gondola missing 1 flap; Peripherals, osb worn and torn, o/w C7

High: Lionel set 1435WS with a C7+ set box and a strong label. 2025 steam loco is aluminum stack variation with the number on the boiler front, 2466WX tender, 2454 PRR Baby Ruth boxcar, 2452X gondola and a brown 2257 caboose with painted stack. Trains are C7-8. Boxes are C7-9 with inserts. Includes a boxed S type transformer, boxed 1019, some track, loco inst. sheet, transformer inst. sheet, couplers, lube sheet and inst. booklet.

MR_P posted:

On liveauctioneers that set sold between 220 and 1050 .

Low: 2025 Loco, nice lettering & patina w/nickel stack; 6466WX Tender, very light mildew film; 2465 Sunoco Tank Car; 2452X Gondola; 2257 Caboose, o/w clean, SP pellets soft; S Transf.; obs clean, but some wear w/inserts, gondola missing 1 flap; Peripherals, osb worn and torn, o/w C7

High: Lionel set 1435WS with a C7+ set box and a strong label. 2025 steam loco is aluminum stack variation with the number on the boiler front, 2466WX tender, 2454 PRR Baby Ruth boxcar, 2452X gondola and a brown 2257 caboose with painted stack. Trains are C7-8. Boxes are C7-9 with inserts. Includes a boxed S type transformer, boxed 1019, some track, loco inst. sheet, transformer inst. sheet, couplers, lube sheet and inst. booklet.

 

George:

That’s my favorite set because that’s my original Lionel train set received in 1947!  You’re right it usually came with all common items as it was shown in the 1947 catalog with a 2025, 2466WX, 2452 gondola, 2454 Baby Ruth box car and a 2472 tinplate PRR caboose.  However mine came with a red #2257 SP plastic caboose instead but that set is known to have come with either caboose.  Which caboose does yours have?  I still have my set and ran it again this Christmas although I have upgraded the cars.  The engine is my original engine but everything that’s replaceable on it has been replaced!  However the original set box and the individual component boxes for my set wore out a long time ago. 

I’m not sure either of the two examples given above are representative of the usual contents of that set.  The “low” set has a tank car instead of the box car and the “high” set has the very rare brown #2257 caboose with a smokestack which is obviously why that set sold so high. 

Bill

My set contains the 2025 (the box is marked 675), a 2466WX, a 2472 red sheet metal caboose, a 2454 Baby Ruth box car and a 2452 black gondola with barrels.  There is also a Type S transformer with a nice original cord, and a decent instruction manual. 

for the high price example, note that the locomotive is a version with the number on the keystone. The very first examples of this engine would have a black keystone with the engine catalog number on it in white letters, ie 675 for the O gauge locomotive and in this case, 2025 for the O27 version. This engine variation was produced in small quantities before Lionel revised the keystone to red and gold trim with the number 5690 in it. Think that was a number of an actual PRR K 4 locomotive. 

So this locomotive variation, the brown 2257 with paineted stack caboose, the high quality set box nd individual component boxes plus what looks like to be a complete set of paper peripherals supplied with the original set makes for a very cpmplete and nice package of what seems like an early set in the run and so it generated a premium for collectors interested in the rarity aspect. 

Sets in this nice overall condition with complete paperwork and nice plus boxes do attract that attention.