Could someone help me with a small mystery (at least to me)? I recently bought a 1957 2293W Lionel set at a local garage sale. The lady who sold it to me said it had belonged in the family for some time. It has a Tuscan 2360 GG1 with the solid gold stripe. As I was checking out my reference books, I noted that two separate references state that GGI production had two separate runs, the 56-58 run and the 61-63 run. They also stated that the 56-58 run had the graduated ventilators while the 61-63 run had the relatively equal ventilators. When I looked at the 2360 that came with the 2293W set I’d just bought, I noted it had the relatively equal sized ventilators. I thought maybe the original owner had had an issue at some point later, taken it back to their dealer and the dealer had swapped them out. But then I checked on-line by Googling “Lionel 2293W” and every set that I could find with the Tuscan 2360 also had the same-size ventilators. Can anyone help me with this incongruity? I think I read somewhere that Lionel had developed the new mold early on but had held off using it until it had sold all of the older versions. Did it slip the new ones into the ’57 set? Thank you! Peter
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