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Barry:

Like Arthur said the box car is made from the AMT/KMT box car mold but it was made by Kris Model Trains in 1971.  It was apparently made for the 10th anniversary of the METCA Division of TCA as the 1971 TCA Convention was in California so it was not the TCA Convention car for that year as inferred in Greenberg's Kusan book.

The TOFC car was made by Frank’s Roundhouse in the 1980’s and is shown in the Frank’s Roundhouse section of the Robert’s Trains website linked by Arthur above.  However it has no ties to previous AMT/Kusan or Kris tooling.  Mike Wolf was involved to the extent that he provided the Bettendorf trucks for these flat cars which Frank’s also used on many of their box cars plus Mike also supplied the trailers for the TOFC cars which were made by Yatming, a manufacturer of die-cast model vehicles in China.

Can’t help on the caboose which also has no ties to AMT/KMT tooling.

Bill

Bill, nice sleuthing.  I forgot to put the "Kris" in the "AMT/KMT/Kusan/Kris/Frank's/Williams" lineage. So many people had their fingers in that recipe, it's hard to remember them all.

For anyone interested, if you look carefully at the sides of the boxcar, there is a small triangular gusset molded into the lower edge of the car side. In this case, you can see it in the last photo, directly under the "444" characters in the weight stamp.  That's the way to tell, even from a distance across the aisle in the York Halls, that a boxcar shares a branch on the aforementioned A/K/K/K/F/W family tree.

Another clue is the unique uncoupling device, made to look like a brake hose. That's an AMT invention.

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