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Post by fabforrest on May 21, 2020 14:51:57 GMT
Shouldn’t it have a dome, also? The dome car in this set is "Silver Range." To my knowledge, a postwar observation with a dome was never produced. If this is supposed to be a CZ set (which I assume is the case, given the “Silver” names), then the obs needs a dome. lionel did this in their 2013 set, too. Drives me nutz. The dome obs was the signature car of the CZ.
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Post by harborbelt70 on May 21, 2020 15:09:08 GMT
The dome car in this set is "Silver Range." To my knowledge, a postwar observation with a dome was never produced. If this is supposed to be a CZ set (which I assume is the case, given the “Silver” names), then the obs needs a dome. lionel did this in their 2013 set, too. Drives me nutz. The dome obs was the signature car of the CZ. I agree with Forrest but the inability/unwillingness of Lionel to produce a dome observation car on anything like a par with Atlas or K-Line is a long-established issue/disappointment. OTOH, I haven't checked every possible source but I couldn't find any CZ dome car corresponding to the name "Silver Dawn."
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Post by JDaddy on May 21, 2020 15:11:40 GMT
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Post by fabforrest on May 21, 2020 16:27:07 GMT
“OTOH, I haven't checked every possible source but I couldn't find any CZ dome car corresponding to the name "Silver Dawn." no Silver Bluff either.
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Post by Yellowstone Special on May 22, 2020 1:41:40 GMT
Nice run by, JD. 👍
fabforrest and harborbelt: Lionel made many recurring mistakes with its “one size fits all” mentality on their early 1950s era aluminum passenger cars all through the last half of the 20th Century. Not putting a dome on the CZ observation cars and the mis-naming of other passenger cars are just a couple of glaring examples.
Others errors with their old-fashioned aluminum cars included using black trucks on the Santa Fe cars when they should’ve been silver, using those wide, picture-windowed coach cars as Pullmans, etc. It wasn’t until the turn of the 21st Century that they finally wised up and did some new tooling to bring their passenger cars up to date. They sure dragged their feet on that one. 😳
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Post by thebigcrabcake on May 22, 2020 2:16:48 GMT
Serious window protection.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2020 3:48:57 GMT
Nice run by, JD. 👍 fabforrest and harborbelt: Lionel made many recurring mistakes with its “one size fits all” mentality on their early 1950s era aluminum passenger cars all through the last half of the 20th Century. Not putting a dome on the CZ observation cars and the mis-naming of other passenger cars are just a couple of glaring examples. Others errors with their old-fashioned aluminum cars included using black trucks on the Santa Fe cars when they should’ve been silver, using those wide, picture-windowed coach cars as Pullmans, etc. It wasn’t until the turn of the 21st Century that they finally wised up and did some new tooling to bring their passenger cars up to date. They sure dragged their feet on that one. 😳 They put a dome car in the 1950s Congressional, but I don't think the real Congressional ever had one. Attention to detail has certainly evolved, but back in the postwar era and for sure in the prewar era, Lionel was making toy trains, and had to keep them at a price-point so they would sell. At 15" long, the cars were also far from scale length, but they are still attractive, at least to me.
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Post by thebigcrabcake on May 22, 2020 12:43:50 GMT
Silver Mercedes.
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Post by thebigcrabcake on May 23, 2020 14:14:41 GMT
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