Show us your postwar trains.

I will have to wait till I get home from College this Friday to post of pictures of my small collection. Here at school I only have two 1970's locomotives my Bangor & Aroostook 1976 GP-9 with matching caboose and a US steel switcher set, Im building a small very small 0-27 layout to fit in a drawer. 

This is what I have at home: 

1) 1950 773 4-6-4 that my grandfather got out of a junk bin at a hardware store back in the early 1960's and my father played Gomez Adams with it :-( as a kid, it was restored well cleaned up by Nassau Hobby Center a few years ago with a conventional classics tender.

2) 1956 621 NW2 Jersey Central bought on ebay for 20 bucks with 2 gons great runner.

3) 1959 1055 Texas Special set anther great ebay find

4) 1666 2-6-2 from my moms dad

I think there is more, I have so much in boxes I have most of the cars for the 1950 773 set that I are either replaced or my fathers. Same with the cars in the 1666 outfit but the tender and the caboose was converted with pre war couplers for so reason.

Mike  

Yep Mike, post if you got 'em!

Ok here is what I have found on my computer/cell phone have not been to my dads house. The tender is a reissue of the 1963 tender.

Mike

773 - what a beautiful classic.

Here's a string of Lionel Lehigh Valley hoppers and Marx auto carriers.

Very nice I have the maroon Leigh Valley from my dads collection and one I picked up in the "junk" bin at Trainland where I got my sp hack as well. I love my 773 it has got me back into the hobby and out of N scale. To bad it has a missing marker light thanks dad aka Gomez Adams. He still to this day if he gets his hands on my transformer will run them at full speed.

Mike  

all great trains guys!

here's my latest score. Not lionel, but postwar. I've wanted one of these Senco Sound Tenders ever since Fred Dole put his in the mag years ago. My Uncle gave me the record set, but didn't remeber the tender. Just need the mixer box now.

I have one of those Senco tenders. I did not know what it should come with. I will have to check whether I have the record and sound box.

Let's here more about these sound tenders.  I never heard of them.  When were they made?  How do they work?

In the meantime, here are Marx E7 Western Pacifics with custom caboose, custom E-L E7s and caboose, and custom Lionel observation car.  In doing the Marx custom items, I stay away from adding detail, preferring to make them as Marx might have.

Fred Dole had found one at a flea market, and had never heard of it either. he posted pics in the mag and asked about info. It was made by the Senco Sound Inc from

Pittsburgh,Pa in 1947/48. It's die cast, so it's not light, and since this was before magnatraction that may be why it wasn't too sucessful. You got two records of PRR trains, and a mixer box. The customer supplied the record player. IIRC you hooked the record player to the mixer box, and the box to the track, and when the train was running the sound came thru the tender.

That's quite something for the time frame in which it was made.  Thanks for filling us in.

Great trains guys! I have never heard of those sound tenders either.

Classic all the way, Christopher!   

Thanks!   You can smell the ozone & smoke fluid through the photos!

Great trains as usual Chris! Looks like something straight out of the 50's!

Here's a modification I did to my childhood Gang Car. I never liked the fact that it jerks it's way across switches and UCS tracks. I added a second roller. Check it out.....works great!

Roger, that's a good idea.  I'm sure it does help.

Here's a Marx work caboose and a flat with Grossman repro trucks.

This is my Lionel 2037 Prairie 2-6-4 steam engine my dad bought me in '59'. This is the last of my postwar stuff. What happened to the rest of my postwar trains is a long story. My table is at the early stages of construction.

Some of my nicer post war locos. 2343s and twin 2056s.

1950 2025

221 with a mid 50s streamlined tender because i think it looks cool with one...

1947 2025 haha there is my dad

1666 postwar version

Rufus, the handcar does bring a smile, doesn't it?

Christopher, your photos are always so clear and colorful!  You have some great stuff in your collection.

I really got to get home Friday to take pictures on my quickly set up layout. I read that other posts about postwar being dead. I am only 30 and only have six postwar engines. The 773 will always be the jewel of my collection. Most of my post war I have bought in the last two years. I have a total of 14 modern engines in my collection. I will still be collecting both for the future. 

Mike 

The 783 is the next best thing, and half the price.  Have you considered one of those?

Great pics, all!

Post War lives!

Here are a few:

Pete

heres some of my post wars (and one prewar). 

just got this jem today....cant believe how nice it is....

I love those!  Nice classic look to them. Now you have to get the 2457 w/ lights!

YAY! Postwar stuff!

I really like my reproduction Williams GP9 and GG1 but here's a few pics of the oldies.

2064 and 2064w Pulling a train (including a couple of PW boxcars) past a 1130 "Scout" Loco with a PW ZW in the back and a bunch of 1121 switches (I have 6):

Rio Grande Snow blower. I bought it because it's funny, a snow blower for a railroad that doesn't really see snow! The scout is in the background:

Not to mention all my O-27 track is second (or third) hand from the PW era.

christopher2035....got one already...not as mint as that one...but it counts lol....its time to look for a brown/tuscan one tho

I thought the brown version was only a prewar issue, unless they added postwar trucks to a few in early 45?

A Brown/red 2457 is listed in the collector guides and usually sells at a premium in good condition. It can be created using a pre war body mounted on a post war frame. Not sure how anyone could tell if one was original or created at a later date. Being made in 1945 it should have at least flying shoe trucks.

Pete

here ya go...

My Dad's 616 -

newest pickup - 

50's plasticville -