| The Wanamaker Railway Lines (1924)
It's been confirmed that just about everything found in the 1924 Ives catalog was also made up special for the John Wanamaker Company of Philadelphia. Some of the equipment, like the litho boxcar, were not specially marked, but did come in Specially marked boxes for the Wanamaker Company. The passenger cars and the electric locomotives all came painted in the unique Wanamaker mahogany brown and carried the "Wanamaker Railway Lines" lithographed in gold script. |
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No 50 Baggage
No 51 Chair Car
No. 550 baggage
No 551 Chair Car
Much rarer than the other two cars in this series is the No. 552 Parlor Car
No 70 Baggage Car
Any question that they made both 60 and 70 series cars in 1924 should be confirmed here. This is a No. 60 Wanamaker baggage in it's original box.
No. 71 Chair Car
No. 61 Chair Car
No. 72 Drawing Room Car
No. 129 Saratoga
No. 130 Buffett
No. 132 Observation
No. 3250 Electric
No. 3252 Electric
No. 3253 Electric
The actual clockwork steam engines sold by Wanamakers in 1924 looked identical to standard production, only the tenders were marked with the Wanamaker logo. This tender may have come with either a No. 1, No. 6 or No. 17 locomotive. Pictured below is a No. 1118 that was found without it's tender. This is the only Steam outline locomotive we've seen with Wanamaker markings.
Wanamaker Railway Lines No. 690 Set box
Two Wanamaker Signal boxes |
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