|
2009 Photos |
| |
| Did Lionel use
different shades of Special Green (collectors call it State Green) over
the five years of State Set production? The five cars below were
all photographed sequentially with the same distance, flash, etc. The
first car is very late production 414 with rivets on its ends. The doors are
darker than the body! The roof ventilators are a little lighter than the
body! This car came in a three-car set with a 381E. The nicks in the
set's 412 California car showed that the body was originally State
Brown. See the last photograph below. |
| |
| Cars 2 thru 4 below also came with a 381E
Ivory-windowed set. They are from the 'North Woods' set with roof
upgrades from another set. The fifth car is the Ivory-windowed 414 from
the North Woods set. I don't own any early State cars for comparison so
I shot the North Woods 381E. It has never been taken apart and amazingly
has nice original pantographs and headlights.
The first car definitely is a different shade of Special Green. The
Ivory-windowed cars may be a bit darker than the 381E. My poor
photography makes it hard to differentiate. |
| |
| The last two photos
on this page show car boxes from two different 409E sets. |
| |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| |
| Here's the very late
412 whose body was first State Brown. See the nicks. It's body
color matches the lighter color of the 414 at the top of this page.
Would Lionel make up two coaches just to unload a spare 416 from 1929?
See the second set of boxes below. |
| |
 |
| |
| These three boxes
came with the 409E set whose car roofs were swapped with the 'North
Woods' set. Note the sub-title IVORY denoting window color. |
| |
 |
| |
| Here are the boxes
from the mixed-up 'clear out the warehouse' set. The 414 box marked
P.GREEN (for the window color) goes with the first car above. The
similar 412 box housed the car whose body was originally State Brown.
The 416 was a leftover 1929 style. |
| |
 |
| |
| State
Set Details | Late
State Cars | Sefton's
State Sets | Home
| Back |