Lionel pw-1520w

1954 027 Texas Special Three-Car Passenger: 2245P/C A-B, 2432, 2435, 2436

 

Built 1954-1955. F3 AB units, glossy red painted body with white silk screened lower quarter, louvered roof and typically with open portholes with snap-in lenses. White painted star on nose. Unpainted red lettering shows through white and white painted lettering on red achieved with the use of a unique reverse silk screen mask. Combination MKT and Frisco decal, two piece ornamental horns, cab door ladder, window shell, number boards, and headlight lens. Silver chassis, single motor, magnetraction, three position E- unit, lighted, horn, operating coupler on pilot and diecast fixed couplers at all other ends.
  • There are two basic variations
  • Units with red pilots have a single horizontal motor (which is the early F# motor used in 2343 Santa Fe's) and silver trucks
  • Units with silver pilots have single vertical motor and black trucks
  • There are rumors that there are a few B units in existance without portholes.
  • RED LETTER PASSENGER SET: 2432,2434,2436
  • Built 1954- 58.
  • Lionel introduced the 2400 series molded plastic streamlined passenger cars in 1948.
  • Based on a Pullman-Standard design. The series ran basically un-changed except for color scheme through 1966.
  • All pre-1959 production was designated LIONEL LINES and, except for the 2436 MOOSEHEART all cars were named for New Jersey towns near the Lionel factory in Irvington.
  • The Elizabeth is the rarist in this series.

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