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This Identification Guide for Lionel Electric Trains covers the "Post-war Era" only from 1945 until 1969.

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Lionel Trains Locomotive No. 2055 LIONEL TRAINS LOCOMOTIVE No. 2055

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Lionel Trains Locomotive No. 2055 Variation A
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Lionel Trains Locomotive No. 2055The Lionel Hudson Type 4-6-4-Locomotive No. 2055 introduced in 1953 and would continue to be available until 1955. Based on a Santa Fe prototype, this engine was equipped with Magnetraction, smoke, drive rod connecting rod valve gear, and there was a whistle in the tender. This locomotive is identical to the No. 685 except for the number change. It shares the same boiler casting with the O gauge No. 665 and the O27 Gauge No. 2065.
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There are two variations:
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Variation A: Rubber-stamped number on boiler sides, with a No. 6026W or No. 2046W tender that have bar-end trucks with a magnetic coupler. Produced in 1953.
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Variation B: Heat-stamped number on boiler sides, with a No. 6026W tender that has bar-end trucks with one magnetic coupler. Produced in 1954 and 1955.
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This locomotive shares that same trailing truck, that has plastic sides, with the No. 2065. It will operate well on both O27 Gauge and O Gauge track.

No. 2055 Box End
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No. 6026W Box End
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