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1978 Train Sets
Cargo King
No. 6-1761 -1977 Release
1978 Train Sets
Chesapeake Flyer
No. 6-1865 -1978 Release
1978 Train Sets
Great Plains Express
No. 6-1866 -1978 Release
1978 Train Sets
Logging Empire
No. 6-1862 -1978 Release
Set featured a Santa Fe 0-4-0 steam engine, operating log dumper car with logs, box car,
flat car with fences and work caboose, plus log loading mill.
1978 Train Sets
Milwaukee Limited
No. 6-1867 -1978 Release
1978 Train Sets
Santa Fe Double Diesel
No. 6-1864 -1978 Release
Set included a powered Santa Fe silver and red Alco A with dummy Alco B, gondola with
canister load, flat car with stakes, double door box car, hopper and square window caboose .
1978 Train Sets
The Steel Hauler
No. 6-1760 -1977 Release
Set included a Republic Steel diesel switcher, flat car with stakes, gondola, hopper, bobber
caboose, Peterbilt tractor truck with stakebed trailer, operatring crane kit, two die-cut buildings, and plastic loads.
1978 Train Sets
Timberline
No. 6-1860 -1978 Release
Set featured a Santa Fe 0-4-0 steam engine, operating log dumper car, and work caboose,
plus log loading mill.
Lionel's 1978 catalog included six new train set offerings. Completely new for '78 were Lionel's
Timberline (No. 6-1860), Logging Empire (No. 6-1862), Great Plains Express (No. 6-1866) and Milwaukee Limited (No. 6-1867).
The Santa Fe Double Diesel set (No. 6-1864) is a revised version of a previous offering, as is the Chesapeake Flyer (No.
6-1865). Returning from previous years, Steel Hauler (No. 6-1760) and Cargo King (No. 6-1761) both from Lionel's Trains n'
Truckin' category introduced in 1977. The other train set found in the 1978 Lionel catalog is the Black River Freight (No.
6-1662) first seen in 1976.
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