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Accession # |
2013.48.1.05 |
Item Name |
Set, Train Train, Toy Set, Play |
Description |
A toy train set made with five plastic and metal train cars (.01-.05) dated circa 1950. The cars include a black plastic box car (.01), an orange plastic box car (.02), a red plastic caboose (.03), a black metal locomotive (.04), and a black plastic ore car (.05). The metal locomotive (.04) has two small metal wheels in the front and back and four larger wheels in the middle. On the side is printed "6110". The orange plastic car (.02) has on the side "Enjoy Curtiss/ Baby Ruth Candy." The black plastic ore car (.05) has "Lionel Lines" in gold print on the outside. The red plastic caboose (.03) has on the side "Lionel Lines/ 6007". Stored in a separate location are other accessories that came with the set. They include: a battery to power the train (.06), controls (. 07), curved track (.08-.015) and straight track (.016-.026). |
Date |
1950 CIRCA |
Provenance |
The Lionel Electric Train Set was received by Terrance Luckett (died in 2008) for Christmas from Santa in the early 1950s in Etobicoke. "Christmas morning when we awoke and went down to the tree, the train was set up in the living room, and my brother was very excited. We spent all day playing with the train set and our parents had to force us to leave it to have our Christmas dinner. This was a special gift because most of the train sets were either wooden or windup." This train was a steam engine with a smoker on it to make it look as if it was burning coal. You had to put a pellet inside the smoke stack, and then it would smoke. The smoker has since been removed. |
Person \ Organization |
Luckett, Terrance |
Place |
Etobicoke |
Makers mark |
On the locomotive (.04) is "Built in U.S.A. of America/ By the Lionel Corporation/ New York, N.Y". |