Lionel Scale Stock Cars?

MISSOURI PACIFIC was already made.

What other versions of M.P.?

Texas & Pacific - T.P.?

Andrew

How about the 50' HOGX cars which were used to ship hogs to Clougherty Packing near LA?  They would need to be triple deck with the operating shutters.

MU:  Didn't you pick up some of the Milwaukee Road special club cars made by Weaver a couple of years ago?  They were really nice representations of the real cars.

Paul Fischer

International Great Northern

New Orleans, Texas & Mexico

Rusty

This is the SOO LINE live stock car at the Mid-Continent Museum in Wisconsin.

Lionel can put this scheme on the ACF 40' Live Stock Car.

Andrew

This is one type of Wabash livestock car for railroads. It is almost like the Lionel livestock cars.

Andrew

Lionel did two 40' ACF stock cars in Great Northern.  The 6-17706 was red (vermillion) and was part of the 6-31707 C&O set. It was not offered separately, except through set breakups by some dealers.  The other car is the 6-17710 in GN sky blue, which was a cataloged item.

I would like to see some stock cars with wooden, instead of steel ends.  Many stock cars were rebuilt with steel ends but some had wooden ends until the 1960s. I belive the steel ends were called dreadnaught ends. Lionel and Weaver both make cars with steel ends but no major manufacturer makes wooden end cars which were more common.  The steel cars had major corrosion problems on the inside near the floors caused by momentos left by the occupants.

MILWAUKEE Lionel Model Railroad Club livestock cars.

Andrew

Missouri Pacific with wood ends is a livestock car that Lionel has not made.

This is a variation that Lionel has not made.

Andrew

Missouri Pacific was way down the list on number of stocks owned.

NORTHERN PACIFIC wood live stock car

Northern Pacific for the steam era.

Andrew

How do they compare to premier MTH?

The MTH stock car is a larger, post WW II car with dimensions similar to an AAR box car.  Unlike the similarly dimensioned Trainman and Weaver stock car models, the MTH stock car does not share roof and end tooling with another model.  The MTH stock car has a Stanray diagonal panel roof, unlike any MTH 40 foot premier box car.  It is an interesting model.

While a stock car with wood ends would be a nice addition to the O scale options I would like to see a stock car with Murphy ends.  Many USRA type box cars were rebuilt into stock cars and sported 5/5/5 or 7/8 Murphy ends.  Hopefully MTH or Atlas has USRA box car tooling that can accept different sides and make a new stock car an inexpensive product to develop.

The MTH PREMIER Live Stock Car has a stamped steel floor like 1970's Lionel MPC box cars.

Andrew

The MTH PREMIER Live Stock Car has a stamped steel floor like 1970's Lionel MPC box cars.

The MTH Premier stock car has a stamped steel floor and injection molded plastic underframe like the MTH 40 foot PS-1 box car.  

The Lionel Standard O stock car has a diecast floor and underframe.

Lionel has a Wabash Live Stock car in the American Flyer 2014 catalog.

If enough people e-mail them or post on Facebook, they will have the O scale Wabash live stock car in the 2014 Volume 2 catalog or Fall 2014 catalog.

Andrew