1961 Texas Special with # 3370 Sheriff & Outlaw Car

Well Frank,

 Something is not right with your set. The Texas Special 210 was only available in 1958 only as a double A-A set. The 6044 boxcar was only available in 1960. The 3370 in 1961. My educated guess your set was pieced together in 1961, not a cataloged or uncatalogued boxed set.

Hello Chuck,

I have been doing a little more digging and this is what I came up with remember.......

I remember using a Lionel 1010 style transformer, but I also remember a pre-war American Flyer transformer with a cloth covered power cord and a black control knob on the top. These served until the arrival a year later of a LW transformer. This powered my first layout and is still going strong and is today running the Christmas layout. I have several LW's and just love them!

Also, remember that my Grandmother and mother selling my Uncles American La France. We had a pantry off the dinning room and the trains were stored under a cabinet and a man coming one night and taking them away.

Thanks for the info about the stuff. The only thing that  might be a curve ball is that my Alco has no front coupler. I still have all of the parts of what I guess my parents put together for me. The cars have lots of battle scars but its still rolling around the layout!

The Christmas of 1963 Santa brought me my treasured LW transformer and my baby - the 2359 Boston & Maine. This one ran for years and years, then during one of my moves just vanished, never to be seen again!

Thanks for reading this walk down memory lane!

Thanks Peter,

For some reason I seem to be on a quest for any and all info that I can get on these items and the set.

Reagrads