Ok, here is the challange. I like Postwar and the PWC CC etc items. I like to run long postwar style trains. Not the 3 to 7 car stuff that was cataloged.
You are incharge of the postwar set development department at Lionel. You get to decide what items go in what sets. But you have been assigned a specific task since sales of sets are declining. Sets need more play value, be more realistic. So you have been asked to put together new sets, or enhance any of the existing sets.
Now you have some rules, you can only use existing rolling stock and motive power, no mixing of a MPC items in a postwar set. You can only use items that are relatively in the period. Things need to flow, like a 3454 silver merchandise car would not be placed in a scout set. If possible, build the set and post a picture. You can use PWC CC or PW stuff but it all needs to be from the same period. It can be as long or as short as you would like. Or use items that were never in a set. Where would the Monon 3494 or SOO boxcar fit in a set? Or a double headed 520 as a postwar maintenance set?
Here are a few examples of what I am thinking. I always liked the 3469 dump cars. So how about a 2046 2046w 4 or 5 3469 dump cars and a 6457 caboose. That one is too easy, so take an existing set like the 1523 Gandy Dancer 6250 6460 6511 6456 and 6419 and add a search light and or a 3469 dump car. Or, build a new set, what cars would go best with the 624 C&O switcher, using the 6219 caboose? What I think we don't need in this is taking a set like the 3 car Jersey Central FM set and adding more passenger cars, now you could if you added a 36621 milkcar as a head end car that would be what I intended.
I thought it would be somehting different to suggest, I will post some later.
