My grandparents bought my cousin and I these sets many years ago. A starter set that was a Lionel promotion with Quaker Oats.
A whopping $11.95 along with a couple Quaker Oats boxtops.
I still have everything but the yellow car. Is the car available somewhere? And how was it held to the flatbed?
Thanks!!
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Jeff, I don't know if this will work but I will try it. A pdf file listing old Lionel promotional sets. Scroll down and there is the Quaker Oats set you have. It looks like car is held on by a rubber band. I don't know if the yellow automobile with your set is like the other one's Lionel produced for their auto-carrier car but I know you can still find those in various colors.
http://www.projectroar.com/upl...f_book_LPO-SCF1_.pdf
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Steve
Thanks Steve! 1961 technology probably was a rubber band!
Jeff, that's quite an unusual set indeed. I have never seen one before. Yours looks in fine shape. When I Google'd Quaker Oats Lionel train there were other sites you may be interested in.
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Steve
that;s great! wish they were still doing that!
My grandparents ate plenty of oatmeal to get those two sets!!! 
Nice set ,its great you still have it.
That's really awesome that you still have the original set. I have pretty much nothing from my childhood train wise. I have had to seek out the ones I remember paying with and buy where I can. It is so much sweeter to have the actual one you played with.
My hunch tells me if you kept it this nice for the first fifty years the second fifty years should find it still alive and well showing up under future generations Christmas trees..and the fifty years after that.
Hi Jeff
We might still have one of those yellow cars.
We had an orignal one in our show case for awhile.
call and ask my father if it is still there it was priced at $25.00
and we have the reprow rubber bands.
phone number on web sight.
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