Can someone id this engine for me, please? Its tinplate, according to the book's info -I'm guessing O-scale not Standard Gauge?? 
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Prewar Lionel 1700E. Here's my set.
Steve
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This Lionel Junior set is the bee's knees. However, its a set unto itself and one cannot hook other cars with it, right? hm... Would love to run my little Lionel litho tinplate prewar freight cars as a consist alongside this set, just need the right little engine to go with.
Carey, that's my Lionel Jr 1700 outfit that I restored a few years ago. They were made in various colors and some were clockwork.
Steve
Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:Carley, that's my Lionel Jr 1700 outfit that I restored a few years ago. They were made in various colors and some were clockwork.
Steve
oh, Papa Steve, my name is Carey - not Carley!
Yes, the 1700 - which was announced - and cancelled - by MTH/Lionel Tinplate a couple of years ago. I had ordered one, of course. I haven't forgiven Mr Wolf yet.
Why "of course"? This is the only O-gauge "model" ever done of the Gulf, Mobile and Northern (later Gulf, Mobile and Ohio) lightweight streamliner the "Rebel", which was the first streamliner in the South (it was air conditioned!) and one of the first in the country - right on the heels of the Zephyr in the 1930's. There were 2 of them - one to New Orleans and one to Mobile. Both trains were eventually larger and conventional.
The 1700 is not a "model", but an evocation, but I have seen it referred to as the Lionel "Rebel", though Lionel never called it that (but should have - they could have sold the Flying Yankee and the Rebel as a set...)
Anyway, the real thing after some service; the distinctive exhaust stacks (see the 1700) unfortunately cannot be seen; they were ACF-built and Alco-powered
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