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This week, I ran my  MTH Premier model of New Haven #3400, a USRA 0-8-0 switcher pulling three New Haven boxcars. New Haven #78000 and #78006 are recent MTH models of wood-sided cars designed by the USRA during World War 1. New Haven #33406 is an MTH model of a steel car built in 1945 that seems to have some unauthorized passengers aboard.

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Here's a Lionel B & M scale 40' boxcar from 1998 with a die-cast frame AND floor:

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I got this car from Forum sponsor Trainz on clearance. I've never seen this feature from Lionel before. Others from 1998 from the 9464 series with the exact same shell have plastic frames and floors that look identical to the die-cast ones with the exception of rivet count. I've even seen some PS-1's with a die-cast frame and plastic floor. If you magnify the photo you can see a "Lionel Steel" insignia on the lower left of this side of the car that might indicate that this was a "sub-series" of the 9464 series. The box end flap states "NEW DIE-CAST FRAME" so there's that.

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"Going to school on @VistaDomeScott"  here are some automobile cars that you might have played with 80-100 years ago.  These are American Flyer (Chicago Flyer) cars from the late 1920's early 1930's.  However I think these represent (I can't say "model" they are so far off scale as to insult the word model) cars used to transport whole automobiles not just parts.  OBTW in accord with Flyer's listings, the 1112  was supposed to be a 4 wheel car and the 1115 an 8-wheel.  However as is common with early Flyer, either number could end up on either car...no one really cared at the factory and I suspect it depended on how many bodies they had on hand for a daily run.

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Happy Boxcar Sunday everyone!!

Don

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