Lionel pw-2378-03 m.r. f3 ab

2378 MILWAUKEE ROAD AB F3 WITH YELLOW STRIPE ON B UNIT - RARITY 4

 

Built in 1956 only. EMD F3 AB units: unpainted gray body with red-painted stripe and yellow hear-stamped detailing stripes. Louvered roof and closed portholes; yellow heat-stamped lettering; large wraparound Milwaukee Road decal on nose; one piece ornamental horns, molded cab door ladder, window shell, number boards, and headlight lens; black chassis with black-painted pilot and chemically blackened side frames; twin vertical motors; Magnetraction; three position E unit; lighted; horn: operating coupler on pilot and die-cast self centering fixed couplers at all other ends. A's and B's came with and without a yellow rubber stamped roofline stipe. Original decals will gradually detoriate and vanish over anyplace where there is an air space under the decal, such as the door outlines and the air intake louvers
  • Regular Milwaukee Road AB's were produced without the yellow stripe along the edge of the roof. Substantial numbers of B units were also made with the Yellow stripe on the B unit, and quite a few AB's left the factory with no yellow stripe on the A but with a yellow strip on the B. A's with yellow stripes are very, very unusual. The yellow stripe is rubber stamped on and must be grainy as characteristic of rubber stamping. It rubs off very easily with handling, so very few are found without some detoriation of the yellow stripe. Units are identical in all other respects to regular Milwaukee Road AB's and include magnetraction, 2 motors, horns, and all the best that Lionel ever offered. The cabs are unpainted Grey plastic, with red painted stripe and heat stamped yellow lettering and a heat stamped yellow border on the top and bottom of the red stripe.

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