Lionel Speedliner Santa Fe Diesel passenger train Korean vintage, 4 cars, 2 engi

Description

This amazing package represents our early venture into Lionel trains, and is the last of a large collection of Korean War vintage items I am liquidating.
When we saw the 1952 catalog showing the Santa Fe “New Super Speedliner,” we had to have it.
The tattered but complete 1952 catalog is included in this package, along with numerous other Lionel paper goods and physical items listed below-.
I once considered framing the colorful Speedliner two-page catalog spread because it is the epitome of the Post WW II era Lionel designs.
Due to wartime material shortages, the Speedliner set was not available at Bert’s Electric Trains in St. Louis, but we were able to eventually purchase the engines and all cars that extend over seven feet in length and were soon hauling passengers up and over the mountain on our layout.
The powerful worm-drive diesel could handle a long, heavy train.
Rolling stock (including boxes of poor to fair condition):
#2531 Illuminated Observation Car “Silver Dawn”
#2532 Illuminated Astra-Dome “Silver Range”
#2533 Illuminate Pullman “Silver Cloud”
#2534 Illuminated Pullman “Silver Bluff”
#2343T Santa Fe unpowered diesel engine powered engine
#2343P Santa Fe powered diesel with built-in, realistic sounding horn, powered by the twin, worm-drive motors and clinging tight to the track with Lionel Magna-Traction for smooth, powerful, realistically slow starts and stops.
Even t
he detail on the GM trucks is extraordinary.
Condition varies from near excellent to showing the general wear and patina expected of this 69-year-old example of America craftsmanship.
Note that the cars are lighted, the passengers silhouetted, and the entire presentation is one to behold both at night and day.
The add-ons I am including are considered freebie bonuses for the Lionel enthusiast.
See last ohoto.
I have mentioned the tattered 1952 Lionel catalog.
Also, you will receive (almost all 1952s vintage) the Instructions for Operating Lionel Twin Diesel Locomotive, How to Operate Lionel Type ZW Multi-control Trainmaster Transformer, Instructions for operating Lionel Remote Control No 22 Switches, the 64 page Instructions for assembling and operating LIONEL TRAINS, 1951 and 1952 copies, a set of scale people and animals, some older vintage, some 1980s, some worn cardboard billbords for Sunoco, Plymouth, etc, a two button remote controller, a Lionel Operating Semaphore Signal, and a few other odds and ends.
You will be pleased, I am sure.