traindavid posted:Well, I think the obvious answer to why the car is made so short is that Lionel is/was too lazy to stamp out a longer sheet metal floor for the car--and maybe their plastic injection machine can't handle a longer die??
Really now... They can make 86' hi-cubes and 89' auto racks in O, 60' long S Gauge Gilbert based streamline passenger cars, 75' long heavyweight Polar Express S Gauge cars but can't handle a 50' S Scale box car?
Rusty