I find the appearance of the "Peace on Earth" Christmas boxcar on the bottom of the page where the Army stuff is shown ironic/amusing.
I am fairly sure that the 'sprung trucks' is a cut-and-paste typo by 0 gauge centric copywriters. The usual oversized trucks are pictured for the freight rolling stock. A Modern Era Lionel catalog without typos doesn't exist. Looking for them provides for a bit of "Where's Waldo?" fun.
How amusing!
Bob