Trying to create an original outfit

[Skip Lee]

Hi:

I have a 1958-59 Western Pacific 2355 AA and a lot of other freight cards and cabooses in a box that I found at a yard sale.  Does anyone know what an original outfit for the 2355 AA WP might have included?  I have a 1033 transformer and track that I plan to include but do not know what freight cars to put with this.

Thanks for anyone's assistance.

Skip Lee

[dsmith]

Skip,

I can't find any information on a trainset, but in my Doyle book of Lionel Postwar Trainsm,  it states that the 2355 engine was only offered in only one year, 1953.

[8ntruck]

Building on Mr. Smith's 1953 date, you could search e-bay for a 1953 Lionel catalog.   There are usually several listed at any given time.

If it was a cataloged set, it should be pictured.  Lionel did make lots of sets that were not listed in the Lionel catalog for sale through major retailers.

Good luck.

[KRM]

I don't see it listed as something in a set. Nice find!

http://www.lionel-train-set.com/1953/Lionel%20Train%20Set%202190W%20with%202353%20Santa%20Fe%20Twin%20Diesel%20with%20Magne-traction.htm

http://www.postwarlionel.com/cgi-bin/postwar?ITEM=2355

http://www.tandem-associates.com/lionel/lionel_trains_2355_diesel.htm

[phillyreading]

Those engines are a very nice find! According to the Greenberg's guide I have they could sell for anywhere between $497.00 to $941.00, made in 1953 only. But a lot of price has to do with condition the engines are in and who wants to buy the engines.

[tcox009]

I believe it was a separate sale item only.  Shops would then make up their own sets.  I know my second lionel set was a FM with three operating cars and a work caboose something that was not in the catalog but just something my dad had the shop put together.  So put anything from 1953 behind them.

Tom