Daniel / Peter : Wow, Buco is the one mfr that I have never been able to connect with. Its super rare here in the US at least in the places that I can access. They really are neat looking and thanks to both for posting.
Arne - the Cattle wagons by Bing are really neat, its amazing that the pigs are still with the car. Those kind of add on items are so easily lost and we are talking quite a long time. Daniel thanks to you too for showing those Bing items, the loco is really neat and made for the "New York City and Harlem" RR ...
I am expecting delivery of a "rare" (at least in my view) cattle car that I have ordered from e-bay. It is the "Ives" (actually made by Lionel) lithographed #1708 Cattle car. This was one of several lithographed sheet metal freight cars that Lionel made when they took over Ives about 1930-31. They continued to produce these cars (All except the Cattle car) up until the War Production Board stopped toy manufacturing and re-did the lithography making over the IVES logo into the Lionel name but they did NOT bring across the Cattle Car (why? - who knows) and so the Cattle car was only marketed and available for one year, 1931. As you might imagine this makes it quite unusual. So when I get it I will post pictures.
Best Wishes everyone. Glad to see you all back on the forum.
Don
