For someone who is new to Lionel Trains, or who only dabbles with them, it can be overwhelming to look at the immense variety of available Lionel Postwar era steamers and to know what to look for and what to avoid. One clue is to look at the number of the locomotive.

In a previous episode, we examined Lionel’s Postwar rolling stock number system and unlocked the code to determine the quality of various items.

Experienced collectors know about the 3digit O Gauge, and 4digit O27 Rule of Thumb, but that system doesn’t work for more than a dozen cataloged models. Is there another way of looking at Lionel’s numbers to help us understand them? Indeed there is! The system is not as intricate as with the rolling stock numbers, and no special features like smoke or Magnatraction are indicated in the numbers, but there is a definite plan of numbering series groups of similar locomotives in Lionel’s Postwar numbers.

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