a boxcar and a hopper
they came in just white boxes and I'm trying to find out a value and where they came from so I can sell them.
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I may be wrong, but it looks like they came in a set. Probably $40 each or so.
just a guess.
Looks like a Crown box?
Darren: The box car is a Frank’s Roundhouse stock #66 which used the AMT 40’ box car mold. Frank’s was located in Wilkes-Barre, PA. They used plain white boxes like that and usually identified the contents using a dark gray rubber stamp.
Frank’s also made hopper cars using the original Kusan K-series hopper car molds but all of their documented hopper road names were railroads that operated in Northeastern PA. Could those Great Northern graphics be decals? What does the end label for that car’s box say?
Bill
They look nicer than $10 items. You can't buy 2 Big Mac combos for $10. And where do
those wind up?
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I am gratified that no one responded "whatever someone will pay for them".
rattler,
When MTH first made "O" Gauge freight cars they did about 5 or 6 flat cars all painted yellow. They also did the same with tank cars painting them silver, the gondolas were printed green, the reefers were painted orange, the box cars were painted brown, hoppers were painted black and the cabooses were painted were red. I believe they came in purple boxes trimmed in yellow.
I almost took the Great Northern Boxcar in the Auction for the AGTTA. We sold it at 19 dollars but it would be worth around 20-25 dollars. The Hopper looks like a KMT but I think it could be Lionel because I have one as Union Pacific. I would value that car at 20 dollars.
If the car is worth twenty dollars, then its kind of hard to realize any more than the ten dollars Darren mentioned. Shipping is going to take up most of the balance.
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