I stopped in a hobby shop today and this spine car set was available.
The owner said it was from MTH, but did not come with a purple box. It did come with a brown shipping box with a 5 car insert set and bubble wrap packing.
We couldn't ID this set as anything catalogged by MTH at any time.
All that was known about it, is that it's new from MTH, it's new enough to have the airhose/hidden tab couplers, and it has a 40' Hanjin container, 48' BNSF and BN America containers, a 45' APL container and 2 20' CSX containers... No trailers.
The oddest part is that they look incomplete.... They have no car numbers (TTAX _______).
They weren't marked as production samples, but I think this might be what they are. If not, then it seems like some sort of hodge podge set.
Anyone have any ideas?