Help w/ which was my first Lionel trainset??

Hi John,

If it was a catalogued set, the only one with a Hudson type engine, milk car and auto carrier was:

Set 1565WS - 1956 - 2065 engine, 3662 milk car, 3650 searchlight car, 6414 auto carrier, 6346 hopper, 6357 caboose.

The 3662 was the larger, brown roof milk car.

If you know that you had the earlier, all white milk car (#3462, 3472, or 3482), then the auto carrier was not part of the original set.

It was either:

Set 1507WS - 1953 - 2046 engine, 3472 milk car, 6468 double door boxcar, 6415 tank car, 6462 gondola, 6357 caboose.

or Set #1483WS - 1952 - 2056 engine, 3472 milk car, 6462 gondola, 3474 operating boxcar (WP w/yellow feather), 6465 tank car, 6357 caboose

Do any of these combinations bring back some memories?

I went through the same thing trying to dredge up old memories. 

Jim

Set 1565WS - 1956 - 2065 engine, 3662 milk car, 3650 searchlight car, 6414 auto carrier, 6346 hopper, 6357 caboose.

Jim:

TY! I definitely recall the searchlight car.  So I guess I had a 2065 Hudson?  

While I was setting up my 2368 around the Christmas tree this past year (to entertain me & my granddaughter), I reminisced with my wife that I enjoyed as a kid lowering my head down to round-level, just to watch the locomotive come at me.  (Well, at least until the aluminum tinsel fell from the tree on the tracks & shorted everything out! lol)

Amazing that something so old can make you feel so young again!

.........Amazing that something so old can make you feel so young again!......

Isn't that the truth! ...and the main reason why so many of us still enjoy Lionel trains from the 1950s. 

I'm glad we were able to identify your original set. 

Jim