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Cordell W. Hodes’ Greatest Find
This is a great article. I have a 1666TS tender which I have never been able to connect with any set and no reference book or collector has been able to identify its origin until this article. This was very helpful. Now I just need to find a refridgerator car to complete this set. Thank you
A very nice story! Cordell, you are right. This is what Train Collecting is all about. Thanks for sharing.
Great story! Being a retired ex-Sears employee and a Lionel Prewar collector, this set would merit my “Holy Grail” rating. I purchased a 229 with 2666TS high-coupler tender in the Chicago area several years ago. I also have a 229 with 02689W small tin tender flat black with stamped lettering and high-coupler. I am guessing that as Lionel wound-down train production in 1941-42 they substituted the small coffin tender in sets with 800 or 2800 series cars. I have always been fascinated with unusual tenders as they are the connection that legitimizes odd combinations of cars and locos.