I will post this on CTT and MR and hope someone may know what I have here.
Well I got a bunch of Lionel stuff from a friend that he got from his brother. Most seems to be from around 1957. Some of the items are, a
Wabash GP7 WOB # 2339, Lionel 1044 Transformer and the other stuff listed below.
And this stuff. Not sure what is with what but thinking some of it came in the box set. The box is numbered # 8643.
Is this some sort of set??? I can’t find anything on this Lionel number.
Well I suspect the folks on the Classic Toy Trains part of these forums would know more, and wax more rhapsosic, about those images than those of us on the scale model railroading part of the Forums.
But that cross hatched box was exactly what I saw when I was age 5 or maybe 6 one Christmas morning and got the gift of my dreams, a Lionel train set, that I loved for years and dearly wish I had not sold as a teen who disdained “toys.”
Of course as a boy I did not know then that it was just about the cheapest (in every way) thing that Lionel offered. All I knew at age 5 is that it was wonderful.
Suffice to say here that having any old Lionel trains IN THE ORIGINAL BOX is what makes collectors salivate. So either enjoy the trains, or look for a buyer with deep pockets.
