Lionel 1946 726 No whistle.

[jatracy]

Good evning all,

 As you can see im new to the forum, i have been a postwar collector for a number of years.

 A couple of years ago i picked up a set from the oreginal owner. The set had what would be the 2115WS set, granted the boxes were long gone but all the papperwork was intacted including the 25 cycle RX Transfomer papperwork.

 The 726 and all the cars are in great shape right down to having the grey cab crane.  the one thing that i had never seen was the 2426 without a whistle, and even the the oreginal recept only has it as a 2426 without the W. This gave me second thoughts but for the price i went with it.

 This set was sold in eastern Canada in an area that did not see the power grid upgraded till around 1949. I know in all the reading i have done that the whistles would not work on less than 40 cycles. This comming from the 1946 instruction booklet.

 I guess my question to all of you out there is, Would lionel have built a Export set with a set such as this and had a non-whistle 2426 ?   Or would this been somthing done on order or not at all ?

Thank You in advance.

Justin

 

[Firelock76]

Don't know how I missed this one, but...

In answer to your question, I doubt it.  If a whistle was left out of a Lionel tender that was capable of holding one it was usually as a price cutting measure.  Look at a listing of post-war steamers and you'll see they were available "with or without."

Hope this helps.  At any rate, you can always go hunting for a whistle tender if you're not doing so already.

[ADCX Rob]

There would be no reason to put a whistle in that tender if the set was sold with a RX transformer for sale in 25 cycle served areas.

There is no whistle control, and a whistle tender on the track would sound continuously at 25 Hz/cycles.

[jatracy]

Thank you for the replays, I am looking for another tender as I'll just leave the original alone .