scale rail posted:When they came out I bought a bunch of them. The 6464 type box cars could be had for well under $10. Remember we were all Lionel Train runners then. No scale look. They were electric toys. We were getting new stuff fast. It had been years with nothing new showing up. New engines, new cars, new standard "O" with fully strung Die-Cast trucks and even new Trutrack. Of course the track never did show up. I liked the trucks, they were different and new and they rolled like crazy. You could pull a really long train for the first time
. Don
Interesting. The ad shows a new premium-quality die-cast sprung truck of a typical freight design, but not roller-bearing. That suggests the plastic Symington-Wayne truck was picked to be something distinctively different for lower-cost rolling stock. It seems both new truck designs were intended to appear different from the standard Lionel trucks of the 1960's.
