I have a No. 223 Santa fe train with both the front and back both in excellent condition. It is a red/silver color and underneath lionel trains it says blt 8-57. Just wondering how much this could be worth. Thanks in advance
Edit: ive also got in excellent condition a 310 railway mail, a 312 observation, and a 309 pullman. All of them are a light blue with a silver roof. Everything is intact and in good condition but the words are fading on the pullman a little bit.
That depends a lot on who’s buying or where your selling. Acually the best way to figure the value is to goto ebay and search for them and find a one or 2 in the same or close condition and see what they sell for.
As what you say is excellant may be very good to another. I know I use to think some of mine were excellant until I was shown why not by a true collector ( which I’m not I’m more of a runner than a collector but I still like nice trains in nice condition. )
with out pics most will be very vauge on what you set is worth. It also depends which price guide you look at ( and again its a guide not a sound fact there worth that)
just to give you example one book says good $95 excellant $190 my othere book says good very good $125 ex $200 like new $325 scarce rating a 5 so its fairly common as lionel made lots of them which also can bring price down some.
and your passenger cars don’t show up in my books as post war lionel so first are they lionel for sure and second is that the whole number
did find cars to match the numbers in prewar but then the couplers wouldn’t work with what is on the engine unless someone modified them and the cars could be medium blue with dark blue roofs and they would be made out of tin/metal completely and wouldn’t fit on the track the engine fits on as they would be standard gauge trains which its track is about 3/4" wider than what your engine takes so that wouldn’t work either.
Thanks for your reply. The passenger cars that i have i am positive they are lionel. It says The Lionel Lines above the windows on each of the cars. I havnt been able to find anything either and they definantly have a silver roof which dosnt fit the description fo any ive seen so im not sure what the deal is with these
The passenger cars are Lionel “standard” gauge (2 1/8 inch), made 1926-39 (1924- for the 312).
Bob I was thinking that also as it would not surprise me if someone painted the roof silver or lionel used a silver set of roofs from anothe rset of cars but he doesn’t mention the cars being wider than the engine is why I’m confused a little here even after I brought up the idea that standard gauge is all I can find that the numbers match and there wider as in 2 1/4" (I said) and O gauge being 1 3/4" wide.