I need to begin by saying that I don't know if Lionel has ever made a set like this, or in exactly this color: "true Pullman green in the olive drab shade and labeled Pullman in gold lettering. " The early postwar Lionel Pullmans are a different shade of green. I think I've seen something like this on E-bay, but sometimes these coaches look gray in the pictures (maybe the lighting?)
So many railroads ran these that it was almost a universal coach and color. Has Lionel ever made something like this? Are there any rumors of such a set?
6-19069, made in 1997. Looks like this:
http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/6652759
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Trevor
Thank you Trevor for the referral to the Lionel stock number. I had become confused by the other Madisons that preceeded the 6-19069 4 pack.
So an auction was in progress while I was at a performance of Handel's Messiah with family. There I was, placing my bid during an intermission and then trying to stay on top of it in the auditorium on my I phone. No signal, and I missed out.
Later, around midnight, a separate buy-it-now listing came up and I bought'em just before bedtime.
Spectacular, new-in-the\- box, baby Madison Pullman cars in Pullman green that I can run behind all road names and especially Lionel Lines locomotives and tenders, like my prairie type locomotives. For me it is an early present from Santa. Thanks again. Prairietype.
Somehow, I don't think this was the first time Lionel put out passenger cars in Pullman green. When I was a little boy, maybe six years old, I went to a hardware store with my father around Christmas time, and the store had a wall full of Lionel trains, I recognized them because they looked about the same size as the train around our Christmas tree. This was back in the day when lots of hardware stores sold trains around Christmas. Part of the merchandise was a set of passenger cars in a dark green color which really caught my eye, they looked like the passenger trains I'd see in our area. They didn't look like toys, they looked serious and businesslike, and that impressed me. I'd say this was around 1959 or so.
Maybe they weren't Lionels, but they sure made an impression on me! I haven't forgotten them to this day.
Prairietype There I was, placing my bid during an intermission and then trying to stay on top of it in the auditorium on my I phone. No signal, and I missed out...
You should hire someone to bid for you. I never bid "live" anymore... I use Auction Sniper, have been with them for over 10 years. COMPLETELY worth the nominal/minimal fee for winning.
No charge unless you win... use as much as you want. I spend a few minutes per week setting all my bids for the upcoming week(from my eBay searches) and walk away from the computer to play with trains(or fish, ski, go to church, hike a mountain, well you get the idea).
Rob
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