226E Questions

Gandy,

I just took a look at mine. The threaded lamp socket is brass. The drawbar pin was more problematic. I covered mine with shrink tubing to hold on a drawbar I made out of sheet metal so the engine could pull PW tenders. I lifted the bottom of the drawbar up and the bottom of the pin was brass. Most of the rest of the pin is covered in the shrink tubing, but my guess is....it's all brass and not painted. There is the possibility that my drawbar could have removed the black paint if it was indeed painted. As I don't want to remove the shrink tubing, we'll need a verification from another member.

Roger

I just checked mine out and the lamp socket is brass while the draw bar pin is black.  Hope this helps.

Thanks for the feedback. 

Gandy

I would like to chime in here. I have a original 226E and it has been in the family for more than 70 years. I have to agree with Roger1, the lamp socket is brass as well as the drawbar & the pin.

Thanks all. My loco is the later version with black journals on the tender trucks. Lionel in this late period blackened the brass draw bar pin to help it blend in. My head lamp socket is brass but it's been painted black. I'm not sure if a previous owner did it for some reason or if Lionel has painted it that way. The shell does not look repainted, but it might be one of those factory repaints that Lionel loved to do. 

Gandy

I wish I had one to look at!

Steamer(Dave),

Send Gandy an email. Ever now and again he does list on the "For Sale" side. I've bought from him. Would do so again.

hmmmmmm........