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I recently picked up one of these nice reefer cars without knowing too much about it.  I was pleasantly surprised at the detail, quality, and substantial die-cast chassis it was built around.  At 11.5" it seems to be a good scale match to my larger steam engines as well.  I'd like to get more of these types of cars, but I've not been able to find out what production series this car came from.  Did Lionel make a whole series of larger, die cast chassis reefers / box cars or was this Rutland reefer sort of a one-off?  Thanks!

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Well, the bottom frame or chassis on this Rutland car is heavy, detailed metal.  The Lionel page John provided states that this is a  9800 style car, but other 9800 series reefers I found don't have a die cast chassis like the Rutland car.  In fact the only other car I could find in this size with a die cast chassis is a Lionel 6-27346 PFE Woodsided Reefer that doesn't seem to be widely available anywhere.  I was hoping to find more cars with this nice, heavy frame in some different road names, but it seems to be a bit of an oddball I guess.

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