scale rail posted:
I have over the year collected a number of 027 box cars. One has never been cataloged as far as I can tell. It's the Southern Pacific #96743. It was made from about 1949 to 52. It came with two types of couplers. A very nice car but never even saw one in a set. Anyone have info on this car. Don
I like these cars SCALERAIL, and have this car too. While it has the 96743 number on its side, it was cataloged with the # x6454.
Other versions that I also have are:
Erie x6454/81000, NYC x6454/159000, Pennsylvania x6454/65400. I don't know why Lionel did this, if they were in sets, or if there were any others in this series. Oddly, the Baby Ruth version of this car sports a x2454 #
They did something similar with the operating versions of these cars, using the x3464 prefix. NYC (both dark and light orange versions) are #'s x3464/159000 (same suffix as the non-operating NYC version) and the ATSF version x3464/63132. Again, oddly the Western Pacific version of this operating boxcar has a 3474 # instead of 3464.
I found all of these interesting to find and collect - are there any more?
