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Big_Boy_4005 posted:
Vincent Massi posted:

Yardmaster, PLEASE post a picture of that Burger King locomotive!

Vince, I have the entire set. It consisted of the Burger King engine, the Wendy's caboose. and six "fast food" billboard reefers, though some of the companies represented, were not really fast food.

  • Pizza Hut
  • Taco Bell
  • KFC
  • Red Lobster
  • Arthur Treachers (fish & chips)
  • Bonanza (steak house)

I believe the last two companies are now defunct. I just grabbed these pix off the net. Interestingly, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC, were part of Pepsi at the time, so they only needed one licensing agreement for all three. Pepsi later spun them off into a stand alone company called YUM Brands. YUM is their stock symbol.

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If memory serves, the set was released over a two year period, with the engine, caboose and three cars coming out in 1982(?), then the other three cars the following year. Even though it was called the "Fast food freight set", it had no set box, and all pieces were sold separately. It wasn't a great seller, which is probably why Lionel dropped it after only two years. People wondered there wasn't a McDonalds car, I suspect that Lionel couldn't strike a licensing agreement with them.

I also heard that people were buying the engine and repainting it at the time.  

Eliot your making me hungry 

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