"Legends of Lionel" Madison Car Mistake

I am sure it is worth a millon dollars an you will never have to work again..... 

We don't have 30 years as the asteroid is supposed to hit Dec 21, 1012 - a scant 5 months from now!!!

I have only seen one instance of an error on a modern Lionel Madison car.

It was printed on one side only. When I emailed a question about it to the eBay seller, instead of answering the seller closed the auction early.

I would certainly think that a graphics error will be worth more down the road.

Now you have to buy another one without the error  to complete the set.

Here is a link to an interesting article on postwar Madison car errors:

http://www.tcaetrain.org/artic...g/MADISON/index.html

I have an original set of those cars. The three of them have the regular names but they all have the same number. I believe this was one year only. My dad was great with trains. I got the GG1 with the three cars for Chirstmas.

I have the same car, but mine is lettered correctly.  Personally, I would rather have a correct car instead of one that is missing part of the lettering.  If I did acquire a car with an error like that, I would try to get another to run with the set and keep that one for what it is, an error.

Seems I read a good number of posts that involve misspellings, letter or images reversed, or as in your case, missing entirely.  The all too often mentioned lack of quality control involved in all overseas manufacturers has unfortunately turned these types of factory errors into an almost common occurrence.  My opinion is you may have a conversation piece but odds are no one is likely to pay a lot more for your car.  The more often these mistakes happen, the less anyone sees them as some type of "rare" collectible.  Sorry to shatter your dreams of early retirement.  

Actually, it was almost a thousand years ago, so we are probably safe.

December 21st, 2012 happens to be my 64th birthday, so maybe I should have a big party.

What's the story on the Marlyn Monroe silhouette at the end of the observation car?  I thought that image was copyrighted.

She's not the only famous figure on the window strips of the Legends set.

As far as copyrights I would assume at the time the set was begun it was the power and connections of Neil Young that got the ok for the images.

Marx used Jack Benny, Rochester, Groucho Marx etc on the windo strips on there streamline passenger cars.

Don't have a car in front of me at work, but I remember seeing John Lenon.

There were a couple of others that are subject to individual point of view.

W.C. Fields IIRC too. I will look tonight.

From the album cover, Beatles Lonely Herarts Club Album.

These photos are from My Kughn Madison Car. Can someone identify any of these images?

One may be Cher and one looks like Henry Kissinger.