Don’t know if others missed this like I did first time through. But on pages 72 and 73 there is a pair of Pennsy X31C’s, Double-Door Round Roof Box cars. Last catalog when the X31A was introduced it became the talk. At that time as I recall many opined their wish for the double-door version. The thread on what members will be ordering, only one other was ordering these beauties.
Is no one else interested?
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Yes I'm in on these. In the post war years, Gordon Varney had an HO version as a plastic kit. Varney was the only manufacturer to do a version of this car untill Bowser did it in HO many years later . The LIonel car will be a nice addition to your O gauge rolling stock.
Note also that the Santa Fe Reefer set is and additional set to the one listed in the prior catalogue. There are new numbers and additional train slogans offerred to the original.
I have one of the single door's on order previously. I am in for the DT&I as well as at least one of the Penn double doors. I may even go for two of the DT&I. They will look good mixed in with all of my standard brown box cars.
Now if I could just get a DT&I Mikado. May have to do a reletter.
Dan
According to the shipping schedule these Double-Doors will be on the way in September (2012) and Single-Doors still for July. This will be a very good year.
Now if I could just get a DT&I Mikado. May have to do a reletter.
Dan
It can be done 
Former Lionel SP&S 0-6-0T, now DT&I #600. The logo may not be prototypical for a DT&I steamer, but as far as I know they never owned locomotives like that one.
Round roof single & double -
I always support new type boxcars!
There’s no excuse for the S.O. cookie cutter complacent and lazy offerings we often see.
I always say, produce something we don’t have in O yet.
Weaver’s new horizontal rib cars and wagon tops add to the variety as well.
In the last catalog, Lionel mentioned in the blurb for the single door round roofs that the double door versions would come soon, too. I'm pretty sure that's when 3rd Rail deep-sixed their plans for their versions.
As for other boxcars, we still don't have a good 6 panel single sheathed ARA boxcar. The Weaver tooling is ancient and from what I can gather, it doesn't follow a prototype. There's also the 1937 AAR Modified Boxcar. Protocraft is doing these in 2 rail brass:
http://www.protocraft.com/category.cfm?Categoryid=30
A 3 rail model up to the level of Lionel's PS-1 would be welcome.
Brian
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