Post War Will Never Go Away. These are the trains that are the standard. Postwar trains are still running to this day. Many of my friends purchased expensive modern engines that spend more time in the repair shop than on the track.
It is quite a difference isn’t it!? Kinda sad but happy, have sold pretty much all the PW stuff except the SF’s. Sad to see em go, but happy in that they helped fund a lot of the new stuff we have.
Born in 1953 my dad built a 3 level tiered mountain layout in our basement and our passenger set was a 1960 Santa Fe. I do like the look of this KATY / Frisco Texas Special and had been aware of itws existence. Were there Texas Special passenger cars that also can with the engines? What other diesel engine passenger trainsets came complete by Lionel during the 1950s and 1960s such as perhaps New York Central or Pennsylvania? I can tell looking at the old Lionel catalog covers the ones my Dad kept were from 1958 through 1960. Our great train layout he built using mountains that were made from cememnt he painted all came down when I started college in 1971, but is a great memorty for me.
O-H-I-O Porter greetings.🇺🇸 Happy New Year! I’m quite impressed with your 2245 Texas Special!🤩 I got ahold of 211 AA engines when I was a kid..special event. One of them got stolen, but I still have the other. As of yesterday, Monday, I found another one, but it has the forward/reverse gear. I believe these were made about 1966 or so. I haven’t tested it yet. They didn’t have ability to test it where I bought it. I took it apart before I got it home to check the frame, connections, gears. Found some rust & grime, but most of that should come clean. I just haven’t seen too many of these around these last few years and I really haven’t had the desire to match mine up until I saw this other one in the display & decided to take a chance on it. I’ve kept my original cleaned, lubed & run it from time to time & that’s it. I even replaced a coupler & spring at one point a few years back. Showing my original engine to my oldest son years ago was what got him into loving all the trains. We now chase after the real ones as well! Thanks for showing your stuff! I like collecting trains, but I love to run them even more. To me, it’s abuse if you don’t run them to keep them operable, etc! Great stuff! Thanks again! 🥰📢✌️
I have a 2344 A-B-A New York Central. I absolutely love the growling noise from those horizontal motors. BTW, Lionel never used the term Pull-More. That was an A.C.Gilbert trade mark. MPC used it to differentiate from can motors.
I have this engine. It needs the motor gone over. It's very loud and just doesn't run well anymore. I bought it when I was 10. It's missing the rear steps and the paint is worn but I still love her. Gonna get her running right again and put her back on the layout.
One of my favorites as well! Took a while to find a decent one. Was pretty happy to finally get this one. Should be able to get yours back up and running fairly easily hopefully.
I have several postwar engines, including my original Santa Fe from like '55. I have a small layout and a friend is a Lionel only guy all postwar!! You're right!!! Great video! Thanks!
Joe Gennari Excellent! Always great to hear some postwar love! They have definitely stood the test of time. Would love to see your Santa Fe’s and other postwar Loco’s. Should post up a couple videos of them! Can never see to much! LOL
These ones definitely seem to come up more “used and abused” for sure. Seems like they were enjoyed much more! LOL. Hard to find in very good shape. I’m in the same boat. This ones far from perfect but still presentable. I’m sure you’ll find one!
Zach: A bit of 50's trivia here. For those that remember Gene Autry, he was a telegrapher for the Frisco Railroad. He was assigned mostly to stations in Texas and Oklahoma. Bruce Schrimpf
NY Electric Trains on Facebook has live sales and every time the show Lionel Post War it all sells. So yes post war is not going anywhere. People are buying it like crazy. I hear stories from FB groups where people got fed up with the modern O Gauge locomotives with boards burning up and such so they went back to post war..
Thanks for the rundown on the details. My grandfather had all this postwar stuff (turbine steamer, hudson with feedwater tank, santa fe and texas special F units....) and my grandmother sold it all when he passed. Heart breaking. Hope to be able to recollect some of the models.
I’d kill for one of these. Williams makes a fantastic replica with the handrails in the front and other details, but there hard to find and usually $400 or more. You have a fine example of the Texas Special and the video was very informative! I had no idea there where so many variations of the Texas Special
O Gauge and N Scale Railroad I searched for one of these for a while. It took a good bit for the “stars to line up” to get one. They can be hard to find for a good deal it seams. I did find a Williams one in a hobby shop before hand. I almost bought it as I was having a hard time finding a postwar one, but decided to hold off as I really wanted an original. Luckily a month or so later got this one. The PWC series engines seem to command a little more money than the originals. Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video!
I found my Texas special about 11 years ago at an estate sale. The lady running the estate sale wanted 350 she gave it to me for 250 including the original boxes. She told me that people looked at it but they weren’t very interested. I like your elevated track that the Texas special is running on. I’m looking to do something like that. Was is a difficult todo ? Do I take it that it’s made out of wood? Thanks
Sounds like you got a good deal on your TX special!! Thank you! Yes, that one was built out of 1”x2” wood if I recall correctly. Thank you for watching!
Perhaps the misnomer about interest fading in postwar Lionel comes from millenials in the hobby or the fact that more and more of us old guys are croaking every day. All I can say is good friends of mine Joe Algozzini, John Truckenbrod, Rick Dunn, Joe Astorg, Mark Gaffner (all prestige class postwar collectors) would refute that rumor. In fact, to us - POSTWAR LIONEL RULES!
Post War Will Never Go Away. These are the trains that are the standard. Postwar trains are still running to this day. Many of my friends purchased expensive modern engines that spend more time in the repair shop than on the track.
Post war is the best man and I love the post war celebration series from the late 90s early 2000s. That Texas special is a beauty man.
Found this older vid.
Amazing how much that layout has progressed in three years. So fun to see it unfold.
It is quite a difference isn’t it!? Kinda sad but happy, have sold pretty much all the PW stuff except the SF’s. Sad to see em go, but happy in that they helped fund a lot of the new stuff we have.
Thank you for the video. I have this set with portholes on A and B plus the entire set of cars and tracks.
Born in 1953 my dad built a 3 level tiered mountain layout in our basement and our passenger set was a 1960 Santa Fe. I do like the look of this KATY / Frisco Texas Special and had been aware of itws existence. Were there Texas Special passenger cars that also can with the engines? What other diesel engine passenger trainsets came complete by Lionel during the 1950s and 1960s such as perhaps New York Central or Pennsylvania? I can tell looking at the old Lionel catalog covers the ones my Dad kept were from 1958 through 1960. Our great train layout he built using mountains that were made from cememnt he painted all came down when I started college in 1971, but is a great memorty for me.
i will always love postwar they are the best
O-H-I-O Porter greetings.🇺🇸 Happy New Year! I’m quite impressed with your 2245 Texas Special!🤩 I got ahold of 211 AA engines when I was a kid..special event. One of them got stolen, but I still have the other. As of yesterday, Monday, I found another one, but it has the forward/reverse gear. I believe these were made about 1966 or so. I haven’t tested it yet. They didn’t have ability to test it where I bought it. I took it apart before I got it home to check the frame, connections, gears. Found some rust & grime, but most of that should come clean. I just haven’t seen too many of these around these last few years and I really haven’t had the desire to match mine up until I saw this other one in the display & decided to take a chance on it. I’ve kept my original cleaned, lubed & run it from time to time & that’s it. I even replaced a coupler & spring at one point a few years back. Showing my original engine to my oldest son years ago was what got him into loving all the trains. We now chase after the real ones as well! Thanks for showing your stuff! I like collecting trains, but I love to run them even more. To me, it’s abuse if you don’t run them to keep them operable, etc! Great stuff! Thanks again! 🥰📢✌️
I still have my 2245 that I got for Christmas in 1955. I have the portholes in the B unit.
I have a 2344 A-B-A New York Central. I absolutely love the growling noise from those horizontal motors.
BTW, Lionel never used the term Pull-More. That was an A.C.Gilbert trade mark. MPC used it to differentiate from can motors.
Love your vids,just picked up one of these today.
If you haven't already acquired a copy of Greenbergs repair manual,though they are out print,still you will find one most helpful.keep a watchful eye.
I enjoy all my post war trains either marx or Lionel doesn't matter to me I my marx and Lionel together most of the time
I have this engine. It needs the motor gone over. It's very loud and just doesn't run well anymore. I bought it when I was 10. It's missing the rear steps and the paint is worn but I still love her. Gonna get her running right again and put her back on the layout.
One of my favorites as well! Took a while to find a decent one. Was pretty happy to finally get this one. Should be able to get yours back up and running fairly easily hopefully.
Post war trains easy and fun!!
Great video!
The Texas special! Nuff said!!!!!!!!!!
I have several postwar engines, including my original Santa Fe from like '55. I have a small layout and a friend is a Lionel only guy all postwar!! You're right!!! Great video! Thanks!
Joe Gennari Excellent! Always great to hear some postwar love! They have definitely stood the test of time. Would love to see your Santa Fe’s and other postwar Loco’s. Should post up a couple videos of them! Can never see to much! LOL
Nice one Bunk. I would like to get one of these, but I want a nice one. Too many are beat up.
These ones definitely seem to come up more “used and abused” for sure. Seems like they were enjoyed much more! LOL. Hard to find in very good shape. I’m in the same boat. This ones far from perfect but still presentable. I’m sure you’ll find one!
I would like to get a hold of this locomotive
Great video, very informative! Thank you.
Zach: A bit of 50's trivia here. For those that remember Gene Autry, he was a telegrapher for the Frisco Railroad. He was assigned mostly to stations in Texas and Oklahoma. Bruce Schrimpf
NY Electric Trains on Facebook has live sales and every time the show Lionel Post War it all sells. So yes post war is not going anywhere. People are buying it like crazy. I hear stories from FB groups where people got fed up with the modern O Gauge locomotives with boards burning up and such so they went back to post war..
beautiful engine
Gfw Trains Thank you!
I love postwar Lionel trains, and I'm 29 years old!
Great presentation.
Thanks for the rundown on the details. My grandfather had all this postwar stuff (turbine steamer, hudson with feedwater tank, santa fe and texas special F units....) and my grandmother sold it all when he passed. Heart breaking. Hope to be able to recollect some of the models.
A well done film of a beautiful postwar item. I just subscribed.
Lance Boil Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for subscribing! I have some more videos in the plans coming up.
Beautiful engine set. I love the postwar Texas Special. The size is nice and the windshield is sick.
Al's AJM Trains Thank you! She is a great looking engine!
I saw your PBR sign. Did you know that at one time it was brewed in Peoria Hts ILL. ?
I’d kill for one of these. Williams makes a fantastic replica with the handrails in the front and other details, but there hard to find and usually $400 or more. You have a fine example of the Texas Special and the video was very informative! I had no idea there where so many variations of the Texas Special
O Gauge and N Scale Railroad I searched for one of these for a while. It took a good bit for the “stars to line up” to get one. They can be hard to find for a good deal it seams. I did find a Williams one in a hobby shop before hand. I almost bought it as I was having a hard time finding a postwar one, but decided to hold off as I really wanted an original. Luckily a month or so later got this one. The PWC series engines seem to command a little more money than the originals. Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video!
Wow, I love the Postwar F3's! Especially this one! I would like to get the Wabash one someday as well!
I just started with Lionel postwar, and it’s amazing but I can’t find any good repair videos, could you make some?
I found my Texas special about 11 years ago at an estate sale. The lady running the estate sale wanted 350 she gave it to me for 250 including the original boxes. She told me that people looked at it but they weren’t very interested.
I like your elevated track that the Texas special is running on. I’m looking to do something like that. Was is a difficult todo ? Do I take it that it’s made out of wood? Thanks
Sounds like you got a good deal on your TX special!! Thank you! Yes, that one was built out of 1”x2” wood if I recall correctly. Thank you for watching!
Sweet!
Perhaps the misnomer about interest fading in postwar Lionel comes from millenials in the hobby or the fact that more and more of us old guys are croaking every day. All I can say is good friends of mine Joe Algozzini, John Truckenbrod, Rick Dunn, Joe Astorg, Mark Gaffner (all prestige class postwar collectors) would refute that rumor. In fact, to us - POSTWAR LIONEL RULES!
You Forgot dependability (:
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