Roving Sign posted:justakid posted:If you want a nostalgic look in modern material, Legends of Lionel 4 car madison set 6-19074.
If you want NYC scale heavyweights in Pullman livery with silhouettes in the windows . Lionel 6-19060.
If you want NYC , Pullman livery scale heavyweights with interiors and passenger figures, "The 20th Century Limited". Lionel 6-25713
Each of these three are great. From a price point I listed from low end to high.
I'm not recommending anything in the grey/lightening strike livery.
Also, Mth makes several nice NYC sets including one in the Big4 cream and brown livery.
I think that 20th Century Set was sold with the F3s with the bolts.
Its not that obvious - and still looks sharp with the steamer...I've run this combo myself.
But - that set only has 4 wheel trucks.
Lionel did two sets of 18" Green heavyweights for the 20th Century. Nice cars. They also did a set of 15" cars painted for the '38 20th Century. The 773 with its Pullmor motor is best suited for 5 18" cars. Any more and it starts to struggle.
Pete
