Popular Lionel Model Train Sets From 1946
In 1946 Lionel produced an array of outfits almost identical to those in their prewar catalogs. Among these offerings were 23 sets. This spread out spectrum of sets allowed Lionel to offer outfits at a few prices, with the least expensive outfit retailing for just 24.95, while the deluxe outfit was 85.00.
1946 was the debut year of innumerable new designs, unlike the previous year which not rehashed previously produced products. New motive power included the O-Magnitude 726 Berkshire, produced by installing a 2-8-4 organization in a boiler based on the prewar 226E, and the all-new 6-8-6 Pennsylvania turbine. The latter was offered in O-Yardstick outfits as catalog number 671, while those included in O27 outfits were numbered 2020. To the let end of the line was a streamlined 2-6-4 with the catalog include of 221.
New freight cars were introduced as well. The 2411 "big inch" flatcar shared its die-form frame with the 2419 and 2420 work cabooses. Also using die-warp frames were the new dump cars: 3451 for logs and 3459 for coal. The new 2460 crane also had a die-found search for frame, and rode on a pair of six-wheel trucks. These trucks shared multitudinous components with similar six-wheel trucks acclimatized on Bakelite-bodied 2625 passenger cars and the die-assign-bodied 2426W tender used by the 726.
The engineering inured to to produced the 1945, 2452 gondola, was expanded. The 2454 boxcar, 2465 Sunoco tank car and 3454 operating distribute cars included plastic bodies mounted on bite the bullet frames. The 2452 was continued, and joined by a second gondola, the 2452X, which lacked the brake wheels and barrels that adorned the 2452.
The low-end O27 sets contained sundry cars that were reworked from prewar designs, but as more of the year passed, increasing numbers of new products were produced, which were included in more high-priced outfits. Following up on the success of the 1945 knuckle couplers was a spectacular new stress included in the better sets, smoke. Even more spectacular,...
