Lionel Sets from 1970-2000

That CSX set is very nice. Anyone have any better pictures of that bay window caboose?

Lionel PN 16518 is the caboose from the CSX set.

Anyone watch TV on one of these??
Joe

Mine broke . It's gone.

In the age of Emmett's Fix-It Shop (the Andy Griffith Show), I would have had it fixed....Nowadays, to the landfill.....

Peter

Joe,

The image of the TV looks like its filled with popcorn. Talk about a different collectible!

Ed Boyle

Lionel stopped stocking parts for the system years ago.

Ed Boyle

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Joe,

The image of the TV looks like its filled with popcorn. Talk about a different collectible!

Ed Boyle

Actually Ed, Lately I've been using it to watch my stocks turn into popcorn.
Joe

I got the set when I was 8 years old in 1973 for christmas.
I wanted an HO set, but my father insisted to get a Lionel.
Altought I played a lot with the train set mostly made from plastic, it still in very good shape.

I tought about selling it a couple of time but the nostalgic factor made me kept it so far.

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Originally posted by Steph-x:


I got the set when I was 8 years old in 1973 for christmas.
I wanted an HO set, but my father insisted to get a Lionel.
Altought I played a lot with the train set mostly made from plastic, it still in very good shape.

I tought about selling it a couple of time but the nostalgic factor made me kept it so far.

Wow, I did some horse trading with a fellow LGB collector for that very same set, good condition with box just this week....I think I have about $20 in the set.

A mutual friend and I got to talking, an HO RTR set from 1973 or this set....which has a better shot of existing in operating condition today?

Another pic from my set.

After numerous derailments, shorts, crushing plasticine figures on the track (lol) and other torture test my old Alco is still in very good shape.
Tough MPC plastic.

I remember those Bluebonnet ATSF Alco's. The ATSF did have some EMD F's painted that way after Amtrak.

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Originally posted by DominicMazoch:
I remember those Bluebonnet ATSF Alco's. The ATSF did have some EMD F's painted that way after Amtrak.

They did some of those in D&H markings also. I always liked the blues more than that ATSF red/silver combo!

I too also had the 8351 Santa Fe blue/silver Alco growing up. Second photo below was taken around 1978-1979.
Remember purchasing the engine from Trainworld in NY, was something like only $20 at the time.

Mark....as promised (sorry it took so long)

the JB Hunt trailer 2 pack with ETD: the set is from the 1999 Preview Catalog 6-36026 list price $99.95.

Peter

Thanks! I have the set, just needed the add on;s
This set looks great next to my NS TTUX train from 1993.

Joe......that RailScope TV brought back lots of great memories!!!

I'm off today. I plan to go up to the attic and find more relics of this era.

Peter

I was not in the hobby until 1995 and shortly thereafter I acquired a Lionel Santa Fe work train sss set #1632, produced by Lionel in 1986. I have it packed away except the loco and tender are on my mantel. It was a fun start to the hobby. The crane car is cool and the bunk car and tool car were somewhat unique. There is a set on ebay with photos.

If anyone has 'em, I'd love to see pix of the FARR and Fallen Flag Sets. This is a great thread, Pete.

Joe,

Ouch, that is not very tasty "popcorn". Mine doesn't taste any better.

Back to MPC and LTI train sets.

ED Boyle

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Originally posted by Mark V. Spadaro:
If anyone has 'em, I'd love to see pix of the FARR and Fallen Flag Sets. This is a great thread, Pete.

Mark on page 4 of this thread there are pictures of the Fallen Flags Milwaukee set. On page 5 there is a picture of all 5 FARR sets.

Bill

Mark - This photo from Carail has the FARR sets:

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Back to MPC and LTI train sets.

Heres one pretty LTI steam from the beautiful C&O set made in the mid nineties..
Hard to believe this last LTI steamer is already 15 years old.. The very first with TMCC and RS-2. A nice engine in its time, this one has entered static display status as one of the last American made shelfqueens.
Amazing to see and hear how far detailing and sound quality has come over the years..
Joe

Here's a pic of the FARR # 3 engine - (I'm working on getting the cars)


FARR # 1 -

The FARR series was one of the best ever from Lionel.
The Santa Fe is still one of my favorites.

Sorry I'm so late....the rest of the overstamped boxcar sets:







I sometimes add these 6 cars to the Conrail SSS.

Peter

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Originally posted by kling.klang:

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Originally posted by DominicMazoch:
I remember those Bluebonnet ATSF Alco's. The ATSF did have some EMD F's painted that way after Amtrak.

They did some of those in D&H markings also. I always liked the blues more than that ATSF red/silver combo!

Tradition Warbonnet is over rated!

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Originally posted by Putnam Division:
Sorry I'm so late....the rest of the overstamped boxcar sets:







I sometimes add these 6 cars to the Conrail SSS.

Peter

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Great! I like to run these with the 4 different PC 9700 series cars MPC made.

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Originally posted by ed h:
Mark - This photo from Carail has the FARR sets:

Love this photo, I have everything in this shot, Nice seeing them all grouped together like this, instead of sealed in some boxes like mine are now :-)

This shot is one of my favorites from Carail. Lots of great sets from the late 1970s / early 1980s.
I'll have to dig through my photo albums to find some more shots from Carail.

How about this baby:




A lot of promise....but it sort of fizzled...It seems that Railsounds and TMCC took over the technology direction instead. I'm not complaining. RS and TMCC were fabulous when they arrived.

I sure miss Carail.







More Carail

Dan --

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AMCDave - Is this the set you are describing ? This was the top of the line traditional set for 1990.

Yes! Thanks.....I like the set. I bought it in 1991 while still in HO scale. Got it cheap and used it under the tree at Christmas. When I bought a MTH RK J 611 I switched to O 3 rail.

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sure miss Carail.

Thanks for the reminder Dan.
I forgot how nice that place really was.
Both times I visited I left the place with my head spinning..
Joe

Two more shots of Carail:

Lionel MPC era trains were more basic that what we have today but as they moved in the Kuhn era they became more detailed. I run MPC engines and 90's stuff on my layout. An MPC NYC F3 engine with two pullmor motors, an old fashioned electro-mechanical e-unit and with an added MRC sounder board pulls a set of eight aluminum NYC passenger cars up and down hills without problems and runs great. The American made trains of this era are like Timex watches. "They take a lickin and keep on tickin".

Just picked this up on the Bay half hour ago, 190 shipped!!!! Last Limited Set I needed, now have them all.

I'm going to finish off this thread with my end of year project....putting out my 6464 boxcar remakes from the 90s. I loved it when Lionel did this. I always treasured the PostWar 6464 cars, but couldn't see paying those early 90s prices for them. The last set was catologed in 2000 and delivered in 2000-01. This weekend I hung shelving. Most of these cars had never been out of the box until this past Friday night.



I am going to copy and save this thread. The pics and the trip down "memory lane" has been fantastic! Thanks to all!

Peter

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I'm going to finish off this thread with my end of year project...

I'm wondering why you'd want this thread to end when posting photo's & passing along information about early modern era Lionel is a never ending story?

Joe

The first Lionel train purchased by me in 1975 was the MPC 8351 blue SF Alco. Ran it for many enjoyable hours before giving it to my nephew. Don’t tell me that MPC items were junk - they kept the Lionel flame burning.

Joe.....I'm speaking figuratively. This thread was seemingly loosing a little interest. As I continue to unpack my collection from my attic (been packed away since Fall 03), I will continue to add pictures. Opening up boxes that have been packed away for 8+ years is like unpacking something new. In addition, it stirs lots of memories from when my son was a youngster and was my buddy in the train room and accompanied me to York.

Here's a pic from that time....and with the Modern Era Conrail Unit train too!



I certainly will try to keep it going with relavent stuff from this era.

Peter