Hi,
I picked up a nice gunmetal 224e set at a show yesterday for a $100.
What does the “e” stand for as opposed to a regular 224?
By the way this engine runs smooth and real strong I highly recommend one.
Thanks
In the pre-war locos, Lionel had a switch that you had to flip youself to make the locomotive go in forward or reverse.The E stands for the new mechanical E units that could sequence in forward and reverse and neutral anywhere on the track when the power is interupted. After World War 2, Lionel stopped putting the letter E at the end of loco numbers because all of the new locos had them.
Thanks for the info Berk765!
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Berk765 has it right, but they dropped the “E” from most engines in the very late prewar period – 1939 or '40. By then, for some time all Lionel engines had been equipped with e-units, so the “E” designation became unnecessary.
sounds like a good deal. did you get the tender too? gumnetal is a shap color.I have a black
224E in black, great runner. I have a gunmetal 225E I’m rebuilding.
Yes LL675 it came with a matching gunmetal tender a 2689w.
It is a great looking set.[:)]
I have couple, prewar versions of the 224. The 1938, 224E gunmetal one with the 2689w and the 1941, 224 black version with the 2224W tender.
They are both smooth running engines!
Good luck!
Whoops, thanks for correcting me martinden.[8D]
LL675
Which tender do you have for your gunmetal 225? THe prize on that would be a gunmetal 2245w diecast tender with high couplers to go with the 2600 2601 2602 red passenger cars
Ed
the 2245W is the one I want. right now I don’t have a tender for it.