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Your Favorite Postwar Lionel Loco?

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starfire700:
Although I am primarily a prewar collector, I also collect some postwar. The 2338 Milwaukee Rd GP7 was the first Lionel loco that I received in childhood, so I have several 2338's and like this style loco so also have several other road names.

starfire700:
The 2338 I received at age 5 or 6 was the standard black cab variation. I have several 2338's including 1 that is the orange cab variation.

rogruth:
I have two favorites. A 221 grey with the light blue and silver passenger cars because it is a replacement for my first train from 1946.
Then I was able to get a 675 @ 1950 and it was just a great running loco. The loco I have now is also a replacement.

starfire700:
The 675 and 2025 Pacifics are some of Lionel's best running locos, smooth and reliable. The 675's and turbines are some of the best smokers, also are good runners.

Terry:
I have a 675 loco I put aside a while back because it was drop dead gorgeous, but missing the smokestack.

I just got the smoke stack in the mail from John at East Coast Trains.

I put six wheel trucks from a 2671W tender onto a prewar 2224W tender so I have a slightly bigger tender.

The 2035 is the same as the 675/2025, but with magnatraction. You don't get the neat rims on the baldwin disc drivers so it's much cheaper.

I want to put together a smoke bulb turbine with a later smoke unit. I like the way the early turbines look without the e-unit lever, but don't like the way the smoke bulb units clank and fail to smoke. Until then I have a nice looking, but touched up 682.

Anyone running postwar should have a 2025/2035/675 and a turbine.

I once ran a turbine 13 hours a day for over a month. I had to put new brushes in every few days. I think the miles worked out to be about 1350. That's THIRTEEN HUNDRED and FIFTY MILES.

None of these new trains would last that long.

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