just wondering if the 224e tender came with two kinds of couplers , mine has knuckle's on it but most of the pics i see of it show the older style. Thanks for any info. Rick
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The 224E never came with knuckle couplers.
Rick, I am pretty sure the 224E came both pre war and post war. In fact it was the first set to be offered in 1945 and would have had knuckles with sliding shoe coils. If the tender truck has sliding shoe pickups then its original. Many put knuckles on their pre war tenders though. Easy swap.
Pete
Pete has is. There are just two basic differences... the cab floor on the prewar (and 1945 version) were squared off even with the cab walls.... the postwar was rounded from 1946 on.... and the couplers. I think there are other changes but the are not relevant to this discussion.
224E is Prewar with box couplers
224 is Postwar with knuckle couplers
must be someone changed the tender to knuckles. the tender looks like the correct one , it has a whistle with two holes in the coal pile rather than the slot and is very heavy. would like to put it back to origanal if i could
must be someone changed the tender to knuckles. the tender looks like the correct one , it has a whistle with two holes in the coal pile rather than the slot and is very heavy. would like to put it back to origanal if i could
Does the tender have a cast metal body with a plastic coal pile?
How about the trucks, are they die cast or made up of sheet metal?
If it is metal, it is definitely prewar, and should have trucks made up of sheet metal.
