lionel to plastic

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Anonymous

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lionel to plastic

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, October 21, 2002 9:37 AM

can anyone give me a breif history of linel trains. like what year they went to plastic bodys ?

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, October 21, 2002 7:09 PM

My recollection is that Lionel starting using plastic bodies shortly after WWII. My guess is around 1947 or so. My earliest Lionel catalog is from 1951 and they were clearly using plastic at that time. I have a 1946 American Flyer catalog and the cars in that catalog all appear to be made from metal.

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dknelson

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From: Milwaukee WI (Fox Point)
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Posted by dknelson on Tuesday, October 22, 2002 8:03 AM

the Toy Train forum might generate more responses to this question

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