How many Lionel trains have you seen in "R" Scale, 12" to the foot? My favorite is this N5c caboose, seen a number of years ago at the Red Caboose Lodge, Strasburg, PA. I do not know if it is still there.
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There was a shortline with a GP 7 or 9 painted for LL!
There was a FEF-3 4-8-4 whose tender was changed to LL for one fan trip out of Denver!
There are several books, probably not currently in print, that go through many of Lionel's postwar production items and show color pictures of the prototypes for each.
Below is one of them, although this isn't the one I was thinking of. That one is was devoted entirely to showing the prototypes for Lionel trains.
The Lionel legend : an american icon /
| Main Author: | Schleicher, Robert H. |
|---|---|
| Published: | Voyageur Press, 2008 |
SUMMARY
An exhilarating, photo-filled journey through the history ofAmerica's favorite toy trains, The Lionel Legend whisks readers through more than a century of Lionel. Veteran hobby historian and author Robert Schleicher conducts us all the way back to Joshua Lionel Cohen's 1902 "electric cheese box"--the train that started everything--right up to the high-tech, meticulously detailed Lionels of today. This thoroughly entertaining book features an astonishing variety of Lionels--the famous and the fascinatingly rare--steam and diesel engines, freight and passenger cars, action accessories and cars, track and transformers.
Lavishly illustrated with modern color photography, vintage advertising, and historic images of the "real" prototype trains, The Lionel Legend charts the course of what is arguably America's most-enduring toy-industry icon.
This one is a visitor center at Olcott, near Lake Ontario west of Rochester NY. I drove through there in 2011. Something you would never see in the western states!
I hadn't noticed before that the cupola has a side vent window like older automobiles, and the cupola side window arrangement is not symmetrical (same on the Lionel versions). Did these cabooses have a preferred "forward" end for operation?
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Ace posted:This one is a visitor center at Olcott, near Lake Ontario west of Rochester NY. I drove through there in 2011. Something you would never see in the western states!
I hadn't noticed before that the cupola has a side vent window like older automobiles, and the cupola side window arrangement is not symmetrical. Is this original?
Yes.
Rusty
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I remember seeing a photo of a bridge, I believe in Chicago, that some artful graphitti fan had painted the word "LIONEL" neatly spaced on the outside of a girder bridge over a highway. Each letter was correctly printed right in the center of the space between two upright girders. Was convincing enough to look almost real!
Paul Fischer
fisch330 posted:I remember seeing a photo of a bridge, I believe in Chicago, that some artful graphitti fan had painted the word "LIONEL" neatly spaced on the outside of a girder bridge over a highway. Each letter was correctly printed right in the center of the space between two upright girders. Was convincing enough to look almost real!
Paul Fischer
I remember seeing something like that in Lewisburg PA some decades ago. Here is an example from internet:
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fisch330 posted:I remember seeing a photo of a bridge, I believe in Chicago, that some artful graphitti fan had painted the word "LIONEL" neatly spaced on the outside of a girder bridge over a highway. Each letter was correctly printed right in the center of the space between two upright girders. Was convincing enough to look almost real!
Paul Fischer
Paul, I'm thinking that makes it real!
(Condoned being another story...)
