Zarthros and everyone else out there on the Zelot site, for a train set that was made in late 1955 and it is 2023. That is 68 years old. In checking the set all that is missing is the very old tube of glue, 2 couplers, the Atlas snap track, and a HObbyline info flier on the set. I have a lot of atlas track. The box though showing its age did what it was designed to do. Keep the trains inside in good condition and that was done! This is next to the rarest set HObbyline made. The Lloyds B&O freight set is rarer because the passenger set was more popular and most likely sold more set. Hobbyline never released the number of sets made, and Lloyds never said anything. That alone is the reason 2 or three passenger sets seem to come up for sale each year on Ebay or other auctions. I have never seem any of Lloyd's B&O freight set. Though through the years I have seen 15 to 20 of L'loyd's passenger sets. Making the boxed freight set now almost impossible to find and rarer. The 2 loco and the 4-passenger car were only in this set. I dont know of the passenger set locos, and cars being sold separately. The freight set on the other hand wasn't as popular. freight cars in it were not rare but in other sets and sold separately. Even if the passenger-set owner of this set ran the set and after its use would be done and the cars returned to the set box and storage, wherever he stored his sets. I have never seen a boxed Lloyd's HObbyline B&O 7 car freight set, EVER. No one in the last 10 years involved in this discussion here, or and other online sits I have found has either. If you dont see the freight-set and once in awhile see the passenger set, the freight sets never seen is the rarer one.
frank
