@StevefromPA posted:Great picks of the tug boats! Thought these looked really cool when I first saw them a few years ago.
Yes, I'd want one, but I have no body of water on my layout big enough for it. And while I could use it as a tourist attraction or something, I'd prefer to use it as shown in the pics above.
I always thought this cancelled Lionel was really cool and would go great with the tugboats- which I believe was the intention. Even has the tracks on it, as described in the embedded link
Possibly because the car floats were ridiculously shortened (21" long) and someone realized that a car float that's 2" longer than their tug wouldn't look anything close to realistic? Of course, finding room for a scale sized car float is even more difficult than for a tug. Walther's HO scale car float (modeled after a B&O float) is 39" long. That's almost 6 feet in O scale!