Gilbert Catalog
Price in 1946: Unlisted
28 PIECES, 81 7/16" LONG
Picture yourself wheeling this superpower battleship with its string of five brilliantly colored plastic cars. How those eight huge drive-wheels hug the rails. How smoothly the power flows from the mighty electric engine through the precision-built worm drive. How realistically the "choo-choos" rumble and snort — rising and descending in tone as you change train speed. How thrilling to see real smoke pouring out and floating like a long plume over the landscape. And what vivid, spectacular action you get when that mail car flashes by. Automatically a metal arm reaches out and grabs up a sack of mail — while another sack comes tumbling to the ground. From its long-beam Lucite head light to the gleaming guard rail on the observation car, it’s every inch a deluxe limited . . . so perfectly built and beautifully finished that it will delight the most critical scale model railroader. The two magnificent coaches, Pullman and observation car are all illuminated. Two-rail track makes 180" oval. 150 or 250 Watt Transformer recommended.

Set consists of: No. 322 Locomotive and Tender with "Choo-Choo" and smoke. 21 1/2" long: 718-R Automatic Mail Pick-Up Car with Control Box, 10 3/4"; 2 650-R Coaches, 10 3/4"; 652-R Pullman, 12"; 654-R Observation Car, 11 15/16". Track: 12 No. 702 curved, 4 No. 700 straight, 1 No. 705 straight with built-in uncoupling device and control box, 1 No. 711 Mail Pick-Up Track Section, 1 No. 690 Track Terminal.

Price in 1947: Unlisted
28 PIECES, 81 7/16" LONG
Picture yourself wheeling this Electronic Propulsion battleship with its string of five brilliantly colored plastic cars. How those eight huge drive-wheels hug the rails. How smoothly the power flows from the mighty electric engine through the precision-built worm drive. How realistically the "choo-choos" rumble and snort—rising and descending in tone as you change train speed. How thrilling to see real smoke pouring out and floating like a long plume over the landscape. And what vivid, spectacular action you get when that mail car flashes by. Automatically a metal arm reaches out and grabs u a sack of mail — while another sack comes tumbling to the ground. From its long-beam Lucite head light to the gleaming guard rail on the observation car, it's every inch a deluxe limited . . . so perfectly built and beautifully finished that it will delight the most critical scale model railroader. The two magnificent coaches, Pullman and observation car are all illuminated. Two-rail track makes 180" oval. No. 14 Electronic Rectiformer must be used.

Set consists of: No. 322 Locomotive and Tender with "Choo-Choo" and smoke. 21 1/2" long: 718-R Automatic Mail Pick-Up Car with Control Box, 10 3/4"; 2 650-R Coaches, 10 3/4"; 652-R Pullman, 12"; 654-R Observation Car, 11 15/16". Track: 12 No. 702 curved, 4 No. 700 straight, 1 No. 705 straight with built-in uncoupling device and control box, 1 No. 711 Mail Pick-Up Track Section, 1 No. 690 Track Terminal.

Price in 1948: Unlisted
28 PIECES, 81 7/16" LONG
Picture yourself wheeling this Electronic Propulsion battleship with its string of five brilliantly colored plastic cars. How those eight huge drive-wheels hug the rails. How smoothly the power flows from the mighty electric engine through the precision-built worm drive. How realistically the "choo-choos" rumble and snort—rising and descending in tone as you change train speed. How thrilling to see real smoke pouring out and floating like a long plume over the landscape. And what vivid, spectacular action you get when that mail car flashes by. Automatically a metal arm reaches out and grabs u a sack of mail — while another sack comes tumbling to the ground. From its long-beam Lucite head light to the gleaming guard rail on the observation car, it's every inch a deluxe limited . . . so perfectly built and beautifully finished that it will delight the most critical scale model railroader. The two magnificent coaches, Pullman and observation car are all illuminated. Two-rail track makes 180" oval. No. 14 Electronic Rectiformer must be used.

Set consists of: No. 322 Locomotive and Tender with "Choo-Choo" and smoke. 21 1/2" long: 718-R Automatic Mail Pick-Up Car with Control Box, 10 3/4"; 2 650-R Coaches, 10 3/4"; 652-R Pullman, 12"; 654-R Observation Car, 11 15/16". Track: 12 No. 702 curved, 4 No. 700 straight, 1 No. 705 straight with built-in uncoupling device and control box, 1 No. 711 Mail Pick-Up Track Section, 1 No. 690 Track Terminal.