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AF Displays - Macy's Toy Department - 4th floor
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The link to the department store layouts - Eureka Stores in Windber, PA has a photo of what appears to be a 5008 set with the Santa Fe 360, 361, and three aluminum streamlined passenger cars, all with unusual black trucks.? What is also strange is that the 360 A unit has the warbonnet paint scheme but the 361 B unit does not and is the simple solid sliver or chrome with no red painted stripes.??
The A unit in the Eureka photo may have the wire hand rails that came with some engines, but the B unit does not appear to have them.? However, Doyle's book on AF does not mention a wire hand-rail version with warbonnet paint, only without.
Usually the 362 combination of 360 and 361 came either with both units with the warbonnet paint, or neither, but not with one of each.? Is this a new variation or was Eureka mixing and matching?? It's strange that with the black trucks they'd have enough to mix and match if that's the case.??
Chris Harding
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开云体育Chris, That photo is a very small section of a scanned 8x10 photo.?
Fortunately the photo was sharp enough to enable it to be turned
into a 25+ megapixel image that could be sectioned out.? On the
actual photo the set takes up only about 1/2 inch of height, so it
is hard to make any hard and fast conclusions from what we see
other than it appears to be chrome, has black trucks and a
warbonnet.?? Actually I am not sure what a warbonnet on a B unit
would be other than the stripe at the bottom edge.? To me it looks
pretty much like I would expect a matching B unit to look.? As to Doyle's book, I don't think that it, or any guide book for
that matter can be looked on as being authoritative.? He has some
HO variations pictured with Aluminum, rather than steel white wall
drivers, and makes no mention that it is a variation.? He
apparently didn't notice, but gilbertho.org and its group of
collector advisors did.? That is why it is important to consult a
variety of sources.?? What one misses, another may catch. We never know for sure what Gilbert produced until one pops up.??
It could be in the collection of someone who hasn't shared the
information and enjoys having something that no one else knows
exists.? I think it is really amazing that this rare combination showed up in a little company store in a rural Pennsylvania coal mining town.?? This photo didn't appear to be identifiable until we did a little research on the store name and then started looking at the details. Dale On 4/24/2018 10:11 AM, Chris Harding
wrote:
The link to the department store layouts - Eureka Stores in Windber, PA has a photo of what appears to be a 5008 set with the Santa Fe 360, 361, and three aluminum streamlined passenger cars, all with unusual black trucks.? What is also strange is that the 360 A unit has the warbonnet paint scheme but the 361 B unit does not and is the simple solid sliver or chrome with no red painted stripes.?? |