1947 Postwar 1435WS freight set with smoke and whistle fresh from the original owner.
This is the first version of the set. The 2025 loco has an aluminum stack and the 2025 number on the boiler front. The box and insert for the loco are missing. The metal 2472 caboose is an early set component. According to the Greenberg sets book, later sets came with plastic cabooses.
The tender is a 2466WX with the extra railings. Oddly, this tender has flying shoe trucks, and is in a box with the American Toys logo. None of the other boxes have the logo. I'd say this was swapped out at some point, but it came from the original owner, and he only had the one set.
The cars are gorgeous. The 2452X gondola is missing the box insert. The 2454 box car is the common Baby Ruth car. All these cars have box inserts rather than coupler protection flaps. Within a few months of this set, the inserts starting being dropped.
This is a neat original train that has never been cleaned. A great example of an early smoking O27 set. It even ran, and the wiring on the tender is still pliable.
Here's some photos:
