Need Help ID'ing an O Scale Car

Does the shape and size of the car look something like this:

Bingo, that's it. Who makes it, and if you know what is the number (i.e. Lionel 6-xxxx)

Frank's Roundhouse is responsible for these cars according to the following link:
Frank's Roundhouse

The way I read it, these were Lionel flat cars decorated by Frank.

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Originally posted by DennisB:
Frank's Roundhouse is responsible for these cars according to the following link:
Frank's Roundhouse

The way I read it, these were Lionel flat cars decorated by Frank.

I got one of his flatcars. A brown OBX with two white UN Humvees on it. Only $24 for it as the LHS said it was on the shelf far too long.

A brief internet search shows that these were called 9100 Series cars and came in a number of railroad names. I would guess it's Lionel. It looks to be in the style of a car made for the Lionel Railroader Club in the late '90s. But I don't remember ever seeing one locally. I'll venture another strictly wild guess that the trailer is probably not 1:48 scale. I say that because the trailer resembles the semi-scale trailer I have on a K-Line Rock Island flat car.

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Originally posted by Michael Hokkanen:

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Originally posted by DennisB:
Frank's Roundhouse is responsible for these cars according to the following link:
Frank's Roundhouse

The way I read it, these were Lionel flat cars decorated by Frank.

I got one of his flatcars. A brown OBX with two white UN Humvees on it. Only $24 for it as the LHS said it was on the shelf far too long.

Dennis B is correct as it’s definitely Frank's Roundhouse except there is NO connection with Lionel. The photo provided by LionelLLC is the photo from the Frank’s Roundhouse section of Robertstrains website.

According to Jack Rash, Mike Wolf was involved in helping to source the trailers from Yatming and also provided the plastic Bettendorf trucks with brake shoes. Lionel never used those trucks. This was before Mike started making non-tinplate O gauge trains under the name MTH.

Mike: Are you sure your car is Frank’s Roundhouse? They never made one with any load other than a trailer. But obviously the load could be from something else. What’s the number on the car?

Bill

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Originally posted by Michael Hokkanen:
I got one of his flatcars. A brown OBX with two white UN Humvees on it. Only $24 for it as the LHS said it was on the shelf far too long.

Sounds like something from Geller. Check out

http://gellertoytrains.com

and

http://gellertoytrains.com/mca...TARY+TRAINS&pgidx=14

Stu

Bill,

By the word "decorate", I assumed Frank had added the trailer. I didn't know about the car's Bettendorf trucks. But isn't the flatcar casting made by Lionel?

Guys, I didn't bother to link it, but there is a site that shows the same flatcar and says it was a special car made in 1997 for the Lionel Railroader Club.

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Originally posted by Ginsaw:
Guys, I didn't bother to link it, but there is a site that shows the same flatcar and says it was a special car made in 1997 for the Lionel Railroader Club.

If this were a Lionel car, it would have Lionel markings on it. Lionel 9112
is a Rio Grande Hopper. Several different different companies make a copy
of Lionel's flatcar. Also the "Fifth Wheel" hitch is not the same as Lionel.
I too would go with Frank's or Geller.

I know about the Lionel 9112 hopper. This obviously is in a different numbering system, probably a private label. The car I was looking at had the same structure sticking up on the right side of the car bed and the same structures between trailer and car bed. And those simulated perforated flat plates or whatever they are on the ends of the car bed were the same. And so was the side frame detail.

Unless Frank or Geller had their own tooling I really think it's the same product.

Menards sells a non-Lionel O gauge flat car from a contractor that looks the same. So there is one example.

Andrew