@SusieQ posted:
......On the MTH version of the #520 the class lights were on the smoke box, the dynamo was on the front, the cab roof and tender deck were painted red, and there was a "doghouse" on the tender deck. The #520 in the set does not appear to reflect all of these features although it appears the doghouse is present.......then again, this is just catalog artwork.......
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Forgot about the Cumberland Valley Way Freight set with L1 #520. The images of #520 at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania shows it in all its post-WWII glory.
The catalog art does not show any marker lights on the front of the engine, but something that looks like a marker light farther back on top of the boiler? It also doesn't show the dynamo, but it should be behind the pre-1946 headlight.
The catalog art also shows the doghouse, which is only on Lionel's post-WWII models for this catalog. This could be a unique model, the engine still in its pre-1946 configuration but with the later tender with doghouse.
Or the artist just didn't know what they were doing.
Someone else in another topic mentioned that the only way to get the engine (forgot which one) that was preserved was to buy it in the set. Seems like a pattern here.
