Did MTH ever make one of these boxcars in the style of the "Route of the Big Boys" boxcar in either Premier or Railking?
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Not exactly in the style you're thinking about.
Premier line, 20-93130. It's a dark grey box car. It says, "The Challenger" on the sides.
Don't have a picture for you but I'm sure a google search or MTH's site will have it.
I've bid on the "Route of the Big Boys" Premier 6 car set many times. Usually they go for way more than I'm willing to pay. I imagine now, they'll be even hotter items with all of the 'Big Boy Mania' in the past year.
Actually there were at least two, both of them Premier items. The one mentioned in the previous post is a double door car; there's a picture on the MTH web site. It was an MTHRRC club car. I seem to remember that I got mine at York. I paid the club membership at the MTH booth. There is also an early single door car, in the same dark grey color scheme. This is a very attractive and tasteful color scheme. This was built in the 90's and at one time was considered scarce and collectible. I have one, but it's in another building and it's raining outside so I'm not going to go dig it out to get the product number and take a photo.
I believe both of those cars are styled after real UP boxcars that were used in express/LCL service. I don't know if the specific cars are authentic, but I think the paint job is. There was a scale size K-Line car that was part of a 3-car special run with the "Route of the Big Boys" car in yellow and a car dedicated to the 800 class Northerns with the old Overland logo. K-Line also made a traditional size car with this paint scheme, as did KMT.
