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My recently departed Mother-in-law, had a bunch of 35mm slides in the attic.

While we were going through them, we discovered the train set my wife had as a child.

Looks like a Lionel prewar 224 and associated cars.

 

But the real puzzle is the green and cream trolley under the tree.

I have searched Lionel, Marx and Ives resources but can't get a handle on who made it?

 

My Father-in-law stated in the past that it may have been an IVES trolley.

Looking at the 3-rail track circling the tree, it appears that it may be the banked IVES track that was made for the purpose of  assisting the non-derailment of clockwork trains.

 

That's all the information I have at this point.

 

We scanned the slide at hi-res, unfortunately the original slide was not in real sharp focus.

 

Trolley & 224 - hires

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Is it me or does the engine look like a 0-4-0. If it is a 224 somebody may have pulled the front and rear trucks off. Lionel did make a 0-4-0 in the 40's the 1661, 1662 & 1663 but the tender in the picture didn't come with these engines and does not even look close to what you have in the picture.

 

American Flyer made some banked curves back in the thirties or so.

 

As for the Trolley could it be a Walthers kit?

We're thinking that the photo was taken in 1965, and that the set and the trolley were probably grand pop's set from when he was a youngster, in the mid forties.  I can't speak as to how long Bowser has been around.   I found a Bowser similar to this one, but the passenger door only had two glass panels, not six.

 

 

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