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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. 685 LIONEL TRAINS LOCOMOTIVE No. 685

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Lionel Trains Locomotive No. 685 A Variation

Lionel Trains Locomotive No. 685The Lionel Hudson Type 4-6-4-Locomotive No. 685 was only available in 1953. 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. It came with both rubber and heat-stamped numbering of the cab and it shares the same boiler casting with the O27 gauge No. 2055. There are three variations:
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Variation A: Came with a No. 2046W tender that had bar-end trucks a magnetic coupler. Has raised embossing on the drive rods. Early 1953 production..
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Variation B: The number "685" is rubber-stamped in SILVER on the cab.
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Variation C: Same as Variation B except that the number is heat-stamped in WHITE on cab.

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