Ever run into something that isn't "Quite Right" or "Not Supposed to be like that?"
When I was little, probably 3 or 4, I got a 2055 engine and some other train cars that my grandfather and dad had picked up for me. I never remember a time in which I've haven't had these pieces. We recently moved, and as a result, all of the train stuff that was out, went back in to boxes, including the engine and other things that I had. Tonight I couldn't sleep so I took out my 2055 and the caboose and put them on our new fireplace mantle with the other trains I've picked up for my two boys until I can get a permanent layout built. (Don't worry no fires here in Ohio until at least October/November)
Now, thanks to this forum and a lot of reading I've learned so much about Lionel and the PW products, and my caboose struck me as looking a bit odd. Or "Hey wait a minute"
Someone, along the way, either my Grandfather, my dad, or the Shop in Erie that my Grandfather bought it from took this 6457 caboose and put all of the lettering and signage on it that you see here and in the next picture. In all my years of looking at this, and playing with it, I never realized that it "shouldn't" be this way.
Just a real neat quirk on my beat up little caboose from childhood and maybe the only one in existence, which I think is pretty neat.
Do you have anything that you've run across that you've had forever and realized that it isn't "supposed" to be that way?
Still have all the train stuff here. :-)
