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Lionel O Gauge Union Pacific

City of Denver Sets

City of Denver (Two-Tone Green) - O Gauge Union Pacic Passenger Set

11-6020-1 Proto-Sound 3.0 $549.95

11-6020-0 Traditional $549.95

Orginally Cataloged from 1936-1939

Introduced in 1936 as the Lionel Union Pacic Overland,

the No. 299W Streamliner was advertised as an “Authentic

model of the Union Pacic Railroad’s new Overland Express

that races at a top clip from Denver to the coast.” By the

following year, the set was more accurately identied as the

Chicago–Denver City of Denver.

With a big front grille and long hood reminiscent of automo-

biles of the period, Lionel’s power car was actually a pretty

accurate model of the City’s lead locomotives. The rest of

the 299W’s articulated consist, however, was borrowed from

Lionel’s Flying Yankee and bore little resemblance to the

prototype. Lionel’s City was cataloged from 1936, when the

actual train debuted, until 1939.

New for 2012, our model recreates the later version of Lio-

nel’s City of Denver, as delivered in the UP’s Armour Yellow

and Leaf Brown livery with all-yellow vestibules connecting

the cars. (Lionel’s initial versions were produced with brown

vestibule roofs.) In addition, we offer the uncataloged and

very rare three-unit set produced around 1937 in Stephen

Girard green with dark green roofs — perhaps intended to

model the Illinois Central’s Green Diamond, a 1936 articu-

lated train that was also painted in two-tone green.

City of Denver (Yellow & Brown) - O Gauge Union Pacic Passenger Set

11-6021-1 Proto-Sound 3.0 $649.95

11-6021-0 Traditional $649.95

Orginally Cataloged from 1936-1939

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