Where is the best place to research an old Lionel set??

$11.95 plus 2 boxtops!

http://www.ecrater.com/p/12554...onel-electric-train#

I guess I found the right place!! Incredible Gerry, Thank You very much!!

Here is the set.

http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/6393557

The box is long gone, so is the car, directions and canisters. But I have the rest and it still runs, for about 15 minutes before it starts to smell...

Thanks Gerry! I was 5 when that arrived!!

I found this interesting.

Another childhood memory reawakened by this volume was the electric train that I could have gotten by mailing in $11.95 with two Quaker Oats box tops. Outfit X600 (1961) was Lionel’s second largest PO order with 75,000 sets manufactured. According to Schmid, the $11.95 paid by consumers was the same price that Quaker paid to Lionel. Quaker Oats got spanked by the Federal Trade Commission for claiming the train was worth $25. During the subsequent investigation, Lionel established that the true total list price of its components was $35.40!

Hard to believe I've had that set 50 years now!!

Wish my grandparents would have found a Berk or SF F3's!!

Perhaps the most interesting thing is that only a few short years later, Quaker Oats purchased Marx, while Lionel was purchased by General Mills!

Jon

I happened to acquire the Quaker Oats set items a couple years ago, with no boxes or information. At the time I didn't know it was a set, and discovered just recently that it was an uncatalogued 1961 promotional set. Take a look at this document, page 12.

http://www.projectroar.com/upl...of_book_LPO-SC1_.pdf