For Warbonnet Fans - Lionel 21786 - ABBA F3's and Passenger Cars (video and pics)

Very nice! You can’t have too many F units in the red war bonnet paint scheme.

Thanks for the photos and video--very well done; and, an exceptional layout to boot!!!

3rail 2 posted:

Hey guys. I posted in another thread about my recent "York find". 

Donald

 

 

What is the engine to the left in this photo? Other than the coupler, it looks like a "scale" model...it even has lift rings!

Mark in Oregon

As 3Rail mentioned in the first post, that is the Legacy version from the 2017V2 catalog delivered in 2018.  

Legacy F3  

3rail 2 posted:

Hey guys. I posted in another thread about my recent "York find". Lionel set #21786. I have been searching for this set for 15 years at a reasonable price. I finally found it and it is NIB. All that was missing was the shrink wrap and the seller accepted my first offer. It was my lucky day.

I enjoy collecting the Lionel premium sets. The 15" cars in this set do not bother me. I will run them along side my double stacks and 21" Union Pacific and Amtrak cars. I also included a pic of the 2001 TMCC F3 next to my 2018 Legacy model. I think the 2001 version looks pretty good compared to the latest offering.

Here are some pics and a video. This is my first video so please understand if it does not post properly.

I got it home yesterday, unpackaged and inspected everything, lubed it up and put it on the rails.

Donald

 

 

stunning set,enjoy !

Very nice set, congratulations on a great find.  Your layout looks fantastic, anyplace to see more of it?  Thanks for posting the pics and the video.

J. Motts posted:

Very nice set, congratulations on a great find.  Your layout looks fantastic, anyplace to see more of it?  Thanks for posting the pics and the video.

Thanks.

Mr. Motts.....that is a good question. Short answer = NO. I have posted a few random pics here and there. I would love to post a lot more but I had an agreement with Allan Miller who was going to do a feature article on my layout. The agreement was not to post a lot of pics!  

But the whole process is moving a lot slower than I expected. I plan to talk to Allan about the article and see if he still has interest. My old layout was a cover feature.....Run 255, quite a few years ago. This one is brand new built from the ashes of the old one.

Donald

I remember getting the Lionel catalog that this set was listed in and hoped to buy it one day.  I had just recently graduated from college and couldn't fathom paying that much for a train set.  I model scale 3 rail O gauge currently, but still love seeing this set when mentioned.

Beautiful set. Still kicking myself for not picking up that set . Hobby Town had one at a real good price at the time. Kept telling myself don't need it as I have the set from the early 90's. Thank You for the video.