Interesting postwar set I just picked up 2505W

That’s a treasure find ....nice looking set...everything looks to be crispy fresh .....a rectifier is still on my Postwar want list....

Pat

That's really nice

Very nice even the Allis Chalmers car has the hand wheels hard to find that way. Thanks for posting.

I was very surprised that the Allis Chalmers car brake wheels and the airplane propeller were intact.  It was a little disappointing about the soldering iron marks on the 6805.  I'm pretty sure that it came from the factory like that.

Excellent set in excellent condition that is a super great find.  I have the locomotive, boxcar and I think the caboose but not as a set I picked them up piece meal. You really stumbled on to a gem. Congratulations.

Great find Lionelflyer.

Every piece in that set is desirable

Wow, a great looking set, looks new, congratulations, I really like the Virginian rectifiers. A super nice set. I always wanted one of these sets but it just didn’t happen. Thank you for posting this set. Happy Railroading Everyone

Great find with the pockets to pull it off. Congratulations, you're a lucky man. Will you run it, at least a little bit, or put it back in its boxes and store it where no one will see it again until about 2147?  lol  Pls. show a bit more of it, running would be incredibly nice to see.

lionelflyer: Please don't misunderstand me, with NO disrespect intended, but every dog has his day!  A really really GREAT find in 2020 indeed!

Regarding the soldiering iron burn marks on Lionel 6805 flat car: Don't you think that there's a remote possibility that the Radioactive Waste containers leaked that caused the disfigurements...???

Gads everybody: Duck & Cover...!!!  LOL

I have that set. The Lionel Conventional Classics reissue.

Nice find!

I hadn't thought of the radioactive waste containers leaking!  I guess that is a distinct possibility.  Unfortunately, since I run my trains and have all of these items separately, I'll wind up selling the set, probably at the next York, if we ever have one again.  The items in the set and the boxes are probably too delicate to take a chance on opening the boxes again and taking a chance on running them.

This was an interesting collection to pick up.  It had this set and three others in it, along with a bunch of Super O track and switches and a boxed ZW.

The other sets were an American Flyer 4904T set from 1952 (no boxes) with a #282 engine and cars, and two Lionel 1443WS sets from 1947 (no boxes).

The Flyer set is pretty plain jane.  The 1443WS sets are also interesting.  The set included a 2020 w/2020W tender, a 3462 milk car, a 3459 coal dump car, a 2465 Sunoco tank car, and a 2257 caboose.  This was the top of the line 027 set with two operating cars.  The 2257 was one year only and probably dates the sets to very late 1947 as the set is noted to have had the metal 2472 N5 style caboose.  Also, the 3462 is off-white and not the hard to find early 3462 in high gloss white enamel.   One of the 2020 and 2020W tender works well but the other one needs a complete overhaul.  Both 2020 engines have resister smoke units and still smoke like crazy.  Both Type S transformers and track were also still with the sets.  The nephew of the original owner didn't know why they had two of the same sets but I'm sure that would have been an interesting story.

I will probably put up pictures of one of the 1443W sets running when I get a chance.  I can't really run them or use them much since I have all Ross switches and all the cars have sliding shoe pick-ups for the couplers and operating functions and they don't like the Ross switches at all.

LionelFlyer

It won't surprise me if you sell the set to a fellow OGR member now that all the OGR railroaders know about it.  Best of luck.

The usual solution to sliding shoes and Ross/Gargraves switches it to put a pin in the rail where it catches, then bend the pin down. The shoes should glide right up the ramp and keep going, no problem.

Chris

LVHR

I wouldn't sell it on the forum.  Some of the pieces (Allis Chalmers car & Airplane) are just too delicate to take a chance on shipping.  However, the 1947 sets will probably go up in the next week or two, along with a set of trains that have a 2046 in it. 

I call the 2046 set "Poor Henry's" train set.  Although the 2046 runs and smokes well, it is only in about a good condition.  The engine has a broken marker light (although that can be fixed by replacing the boiler front) and the tender has a broken step.  From there the rest of the items range from fair to good in condition.  Overall, with a little imagination, it can be perceived as a train owned by a little RR company that doesn't have the finances to keep everything in pristine condition.

BTW, I tried putting the pins in the switches but the cars are either bouncing up and over and derailing or uncoupling. 

Thanks,

LionelFlyer

2505 is a great set from great catalog.....1958.....but I am biased.....my 1st Lionel set was 2507 from the same catalog (the New Haven AB freight set).

Peter

That 2507 was a nice set.  My first set came the previous year.  It was the Canadian Pacific set with the CP F3's 3 Vista Domes and Observation car.  I still have the set (but unfortunately not the boxes) and since then I've managed to pick up the two separate sale Pullman cars.  Supposedly, my parents bought it for me for Christmas when I was just five years old.  We had a permanent layout in the basement.  I really suspect that my dad kind of bought it for me so he could play with it. But that never happened, did it!