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433E set from 1931
 
Here is an abbreviated email from a knowledgeable collector that found this website. My comments are in Blue. Be sure to see the photos below. The car number plates are below the bathroom windows -- this practice must have begun in 1931.

"I joined TCA in 1967 ... About a year into collecting ... I had an opportunity to buy a 433E set from an old time collector for a $1,000 which at that time was a lot of money. I didn't know anything about Ivory window trim or the scarcity of this set but it sure looked great all strung out on a shelf behind glass. ...

The set was comprised of a 1931 black 400E/T with handrail snivvies, white/red number boards, Newton logo frame and cylinders and no web support on the tender side ladder (yes, 1931 for sure). The cars 412, 413 & 416 had cast, cast, brass journal boxes, ivory window trim and monotone very shiny dark green roofs and end rivets. The boxes had originally been sealed with plain tape
(1931) and the Schifenhaus box logos had no date identifier. ... condition of the set was EXC+/ LN. ...

... in 2001 I was asked to verify a very unusual Olympian set at York. The fellow opened up the back of his car and WOW...a 1932 stamped 381U boxed engine and...you guessed it...3 Ivory windowed cars with cast, cast, brass journals and end rivets. This set has subsequently been verified as factory original by tracking down previous owners to the original owner."

 
412 Ivory windows, end rivets, cast journals, dark ventilators.
 
 
413 Ivory windows, end rivets, cast journals, dark ventilators.
 
 
416 Ivory windows, end rivets, brass journals, dark ventilators.
 
 
The three-car set above came with a Black 400E. The 381U below came "with 428, 429, 430 in dark green. The combine and observation had orange window trim and the coach was maroon. ... the set was acquired privately and was the grand prize at a movie theater weekly dish night giveaway. I didn't care for this mixed trim set so I sold the cars ... I only found out years later that this set has turned up several times and I should have kept it together."
 
  
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