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Here is a mint Lionel MTA New York City Transit 4 car set. You get three non-powered (with working interior lights) and one powered unit. Three are in the foam box and one comes in its original box. They all work great with less than 1 hour of running time. What you see is what you get. No tracks or transformers. Makes a great add-on set with the extra bonus of a powered unit! Great holiday gift!!! This set original was sold as: Lionel #6-31794 NYC Transit Authority R30 Subway Set The following are the car numbers: #8556 Powered unit #8557 #8553 #8475 (rare add-on car originally sold in the add-on set)) Here is a description....again I am selling just the trains in the boxes as shown: Lionel has brought us three sets of NYC subway trains among which is this classic R30 from the IND/BMT lines, painted in red as these cars were in the late 1960s. Although most of the so-called "Redbirds" were on the IRT line, the R30's sometimes are considered part of that group as well. From 1967 to 1973, the QJ name applied to trains that largely ran through Brooklyn. Lionel takes us, through the Legacy sound effects, along the line, allowing us to stop, open and close the doors, make appropriate announcements, and operate the horn and conductor's buzzer. All of the sound effects are quite genuine, with the start-up whine, brakes, and buzzer duplicating the original sounds of the R30's. Small incandescent lights are used to light the car interiors, which are themselves excellent renditions of the actual car innards. LEDs are used to light the side and forward destination signs. The four cars included in this set include one powered car and three cars without an internal motor. The four cars connect to one another with a linking-pin and an electrical wire connector. The front and rear cars both have a single coupler to allow additional two car sets to be connected. One could easily add two more cars from the R27 or R16 sets; that would certainly be more like what one would actually see in the NY subway all through the 70s and 80s.