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1978 Blue Comet
1978 Southern Crescent
1978 Historic General
1979 Southern Pacific Limited
1979 Famous American Railroad -Santa Fe
1980 Famous American Railroad -Union Pacific
1980 Texas Zephyr
1980 Chessie Steam Special
1980 Collector Series Box Cars
1980 Big League Cars
1980 Cross Country Express
1980 Mid Atlantic Limited
1980 Royal Limited
1981 Famous American Railroad -Great Northern
1981 Favorite Foods Freight
1981 Maple Leaf Limited
1981 Great Lakes Limited
1981 Chicago & Alton
1981 Powhatan Arrow
1981 Rock Island & Peoria
1982 The Continental Limited
1982 Joshua Lionel Cowen Commemoratives
1983 Famous American Railroad -Southern
1983 Twentieth Century Limited
1983 Gold Coast Limited
1984 Famous American Railroad - Pennsylvania
1984 The Overland Route
1984 Erie-Lackawanna Limited
1985 Illinois Central City of New Orleans
1985 Burlington Northern Limited
1986 Jersey Central Commemorative

Lionel The Histoic General

The Historic General
General W&A RR 4-4-0 Steam Engine & Tender
No. 6-8701 -1977 Release

Lionel The Histoic General

The Historic General
General W&A RR Baggage Car
No. 6-9551 -1978 Release

Lionel The Histoic General

The Historic General
General W&A RR Passenger Car
No. 6-9552 -1978 Release

Lionel The Histoic General

The Historic General
General W&A RR Flat Car
No. 6-9553 -1978 Release

Lionel 1978 catalog

Lionel's 1978 catalog features three trains illustrated as sets, but sold individually. These Steam Driven Passenger Trains of '78, along with the Mickey Mouse Express of the same year are very much the beginning of Lionel's Collector Series. By official name the Collector Series would not exist until 1980. Lionel introduces an O27 example of the 4-4-0 W&A Civil War General Steam Engine in 1977. In '78, two passenger cars and the horse carrying flat car of the W&A join The Historic General set.