Product Title: Lionel Postwar 3530 Operating Mobile Generator Car O Scale
Manufacturer: Lionel
Scale: O
Condition: Item Condition: C-8, Box Condition P-8
Operational Status:
TCA Condition/Grading Standards: C-8: Like New—Complete All Original: no rust, no missing parts; may show effects of being on display and/or age; may have been run.
TCA Box Grading Standards: P-8: Like New: Complete and all original. Evidence of light use and aging, additional notations since leaving publisher or manufacturer. Contents of box may be missing.
Listing Notes: car is in excellent shape. It has the original pole and light. It has the instructions. Box is in excellent shape. There is no second box (the pieces fit in the box with the car)
Photos: See photos
Manufacturer Information:
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The Operating Mobile Generator Car No. 3530 was introduced in 1956 and was a new design by Lionel. It would be produced for another two years. Produced on a BLUE body with a WHITE painted stripe and heat-stamped lettering.
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This generator car came with a telephone pole No. 3530-50 and a floodlight No. 3530-12. The floodlight would light up with the opening of one of the doors on the car. These were available for separate sale and included both the telephone pole with either a BLUE or BLACK transformer base and the magnetic base searchlight. A YELLOW transfomer base has been found as part of an F-3 Rio Grande Set No. 2291W that was released in 1956.No. 3530 Late Classic Box End
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Power was connected to the light by two leads from the telephone pole. These attached to the roof of the car and the other end of these leads attached to the floodlight.
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The floodlight had a magnet in the base allowing it to adhere to any metal surface. Below we’ve shown the illustration of the two page operating instructions. This operating car has bar-end trucks with tabbed couplers. There are four variations:https://www.tandem-associates.com/lionel/lionel_trains_3530_operating_car.htm