Sometimes its the entry level items that impress:
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And full rivet detail. This is that odd boxcar tooling...it is clearly based on the 6464 style tooling Lionel has used forever with and without rivets. But this is a chinese made tool...one can see small details that look to be copied over by someone who didn't know what they were. Like the 70's end plate Lionel logo...with the covered over MPC logo.
Boxcar variations, even before the move to China, are noteworthy for their differences. Greenberg's notes that there were six different basic body styles - Types V through X - that comprise the classic-series of modern era boxcars (from 1970 into the 1990s, American production). The differences include several varieties of rivet details, end plates, door guides, frames, etc. There are 12 different variations that have been noted in different versions of the 9200 Illinois Central boxcar, for example! The different Postwar cars have certain characteristics as well. It would take some study to determine exactly what has been added or deleted by the Chinese tooling changes, compared with multiple earlier versions that were made in the USA.
