I am having trouble finding information on a set of Postwar Lionel Southern Pacific Alco engines. Has anyone seen these before? They may have come with one of the space and military sets. Thanks.
I don’t know any postwar SP Alcos; but Lionel made the 8552-8553-8554 set (powered A, dummy B, dummy A) in 1975.
I don’t recall any either. Can you give us the numbers?
Do you have any more information - color, A-A or A-B, approximate year? Lionel made Union Pacific & Missouri Pacific Alcos in the postwar period, but no SP.
You might have a set of custom repaint job that someone did.
Lionel did NOT make Southern Pacific ALcos in the “postwar period” (1945-1969). They DID make a set in the mid-1970s (A-B-A), as a matter of fact. Check www.grzyboskitrains.com – I believe they have a set for sale and photo of it on-line.
Here are some pictures. They are No. 2023 engines. Any suggestions on whether these were painted by Lionel or someone else? They almost seem too good to be a custom paint job.
Those are home-made jobbies, and not very well done either. The “Hydra-Cushion” and “Hy-Cube” logos are from boxcars.
The cab numbers are not part of a Lionel series.
Post War Lionel MIGHT have made something like this as a prototype (cheap decals) but would most likely have numbered them “0000”.
Jon [8D]
They’re not 2023s but (badly) repainted Erie 2032s. Coincidentally, there’s an article about them in the current CTT.