Monthly Archives: December 2010

Back in 1999, MTH brought out a RailKing model of a Pennsylvania RR Doodlebug.  Even when steam was king, it was still expensive for steam trains to serve passengers on small branch lines and secondary mainlines.  One solution to high-cost, … Continue reading →

Merry Christmas!  🙂  I suppose you could call this my video Christmas card.  In 2002, MTH Electric Trains reproduced a very early (1925) Lionel Standard Gauge electric locomotive.  This model of the #10 was done in red and green for … Continue reading →

The Lionel Postwar small streamline passenger car series that began in 1948 came to an end in 1966.  For that year, Lionel improved on the cars from the previous two years, bringing back lights and window strips.  The cars were … Continue reading →

In the sixties, Lionel was going downhill, heading for the end in 1969.  In terms of the small streamline passenger cars that began appearing in 1948, 1964-1965 was the nadir.  The cars were silver, lettered in blue for Santa Fe … Continue reading →

In 1959, Lionel once again changed their small streamline passenger cars.  They remained silver but got a broad stripe of blue, much as the 1956 cars (a video of those is already posted) got a broad stripe of red.  They … Continue reading →

The Lionel small streamline passenger cars in silver with red lettering were cataloged from 1954 to 1958, a total of five years and the longest for any of the small strealine cars, but there was a change.  While the 2432 … Continue reading →

From 1954 to 1956, Lionel offered the small streamline passenger cars in all-silver with red lettering, with cars 2432 Clifton, 2434 Newark, 2435 Elizabeth, and 2436 Summit, once again named after towns here in NJ (I've shown these in the … Continue reading →

In 1952, Lionel brought out a new set of small streamline passenger cars.  These actually looked like the ones pictured in the 1950 catalog which were never issued — silver with silver roofs, black lettering, and no window stripes.  They … Continue reading →

In 1950, Lionel brought out two sets of the small streamline passenger cars.  The first, which attracted most of the attention, was the so-called "Anniversary Set" which had three cars in yellow with gray roofs pulled by a set of … Continue reading →

In a previous video, I showed my very first Lionel train set, which had the silver small streamline passenger cars (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rYFV4K_wjg).  My set dated from 1955, but the series of small streamline cars actually premiered in 1948 with a set … Continue reading →

In 1998, MTH brought out their very first New York City Subway set.  It was part of the RailKing line and was lettered for the "D" train (which I always call the Brighton Express, the name that preceded the letters).  … Continue reading →

Here is the third of my original Protosound (PS1) steam locomotives that I chose not to convert to Protosound 2 (PS2) due to engineering concerns but instead chose to buy a new version that came with PS2 as standard equipment.  … Continue reading →