| Four-car Ivory-windowed Lionel State Set from the North Woods |
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photographs are from the seller. Learning that an Ivory windowed 414
Illinois car was included, I immediately committed. Especially after
seeing the rivet detail on the car ends. It turned out that the 381E
locomotive has never been apart and amazingly the pantographs and
headlamps are in fine original condition. New collectors should know
that it is impossible to take the body off the sub-frame and then
reassemble without tabs breaking. Because of the internal light bar, one
cannot change a 381E's pantographs or headlights without doing this
disassembly.
The 414 has riveted ends, brass journals, but light ventilators. The other three cars have dark ventilators. So this was a lucky kid with a late 409E set whose parents bought a "separate sale" 414 to make a four-car set. The set is cleaning up well. |
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| Here are the cars getting cleaned up in the Wagner Shops. I have other cars to cannibalize for the missing seats. Joe Freeman has the four roofs. Two had their tops repainted by some miscreant many years ago. |
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| The 381E loco has never been apart and the pantographs and headlamps are in fine original condition. I added the original Green acetate flags. This loco originally came with White metal flags (one was still with it). See another with White Flags. |
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