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Could be wrong...usually am...My understanding was that the car swapping occurred at the point of sale to accommodate customer whims. LHS's were loath to let a customer walk over rolling stock quibbles. That's why you sometimes have wonky sets.

John

I have seen the leftover pickings after store clerks and customers sort through the stock to get what the customers want, and I have no doubt that, sometimes, the leftovers really are slim pickings.

Related:  went to the same Sears store with my grandparents in 1976 in late December to select my train for that year (ended up being my grandfather's last Christmas, and I think he knew it).  Anyway, on the shelves were a few odd cars, some individual track pieces, and a pair of Santa Fe 8351s (I will swear that one of them had a front coupler, but that story is for another day); slim pickings, indeed.  I told Grandpa I would be very happy with the 8351s, but he insisted that I get a full set.  We ended up at JC Pennys with a TYCO Chattanooga Choo-choo.  I will forever be grateful to him for getting me into trains, but I sometimes grouse about the detour into HO interfered with playing with real trains

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