Over the years I have picked up several postwar Lionel Service Manuals. They are usually well used, not complete, and somewhat disorganized. I recently picked up a two volume set, Service Manual and Parts List from what looks to be around 1956. But this one looks to be in as received from the Lionel condition. I was surprised to find out that it is much more organized than I realized they were. Can someone confirm that the way this manual is set up was standard for Lionel through many of the post war years, or is it a one year effort.
The Service Manual is printed on light green paper. it is three hole punched and in a three ring blue binder marked Service Manual on the cover. It appears to have sections for equipment with instructional text only, no straight part lists. The Parts List is also in a blue bKinder, but with eleven rings. All of the pages in this are on white paper. The pages are punched for both eleven and three ring binders. Some of the part lists are identical to the Service Manual, except the text has been omitted and it is printed on white paper. This Manual is where all the part lists without text are.
I know that the format and page numbering changed some time in the 1960s. But were all of the Post War manuals from 1946 up to the 1960s supposed to be in the format I describe above? I have several manuals with green and white pages mixed together, but I do not recall if all the white pages are eleven hole punched. Thanks for any help on this.
