Model Train Journal

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Lionel ... 4226128421

BIN only at $30, plus shipping.
No.

No main rods, crossheads/pistons, all valve gear, smokebox front, trailing truck, drawbar, or smoke unit and headlamp.
Bent cab roof, by volume about half the paint gone.
Those parts are gonna hit the old wallet to obtain, then strip, repaint, and even make it run.

Oh, but it's LIONEL and we sees DOLLAR signs!

Fibre insulator is rusted!
Untested!
Send your monies and takes your chances!

I had trouble recognizing that it was a 2025.
See anything good about it?

I have better ones on my parts shelf.

My first steamer was my 225E, followed by first run 726 (rough), then I bought a 2025 (same as a 675) at the Train Shop at Knott's Berry Farm for $15.00. Cash. With a tender. Then he put it on the track and it ran flawlessly....and still does.

It's my "experimental" loco Any mods I want to perform on the fleet gets done there first. May no make it to the rest of them.

I cut the coal pile out, side sheets, foam pad in the bottom, then coal...so it's half full.
Also pickup rollers on both tender trucks, wired to engine...no disruption on switches.

So, the answer is, I see nothing there. Rust makes motor block questionable, and all the usable parts are gone anyway.
If they'd tested it and it ran, ten bucks if I needed another motor block.
And I have NEVER had to completely replace a Lionel motor block.