Short boxcars, is there a technical term?

Matt: Just my slant on this, but most people would likely refer to these short boxcars as an "0-27" style unit as they were made for these tight radius tracks. I'm not sure they even have a "series' designator like the larger "6464" or "9400" or "9700" series boxcars that Lionel/MPC/LTI/ and Lionel have produced over the years.

I'm no expert on waffle sided cars-I'll let someone else cover them.....

I call them the 6014 series. There are quite q few of them if you are going to collect all the promotional and advertising cars. They not plug door cars, so the technical name would be I guess is 9 and a quarter inch short boxcars.

You mean like these?

 

Yeah, 6014 series cars, at least that's what the postwar version is called.

 

http://www.tandem-associates.c...ionelcarbox.htm#6014

 

a toy train magazine had an article on just that subject years ago. There are many colorful styles of those short cars. I have many of them, I can put lots behind my locos and have long trains.

I have four of these, lakawanna, 2 Santa Fe, Rock Island

have about 7 of the Yellow Santa Fe, because I like the Yellow.

 

We just called them "shorties".

shorties, 8 inch, plastic, two truck, 6014 series, O27 style, starter set boxcars!

 

There, that should just about cover it. Walk up to a dealer and spout that off at him and see what he says.

Because I like the Yellow, Ive collected several of these Santa Fe

Yellow boxcars and have paid anywhere from $5 to $20 each.

 

 

Some people have also referred to them as Scout or Baby Ruth boxcars as well, due to their originally being included in postwar Scout sets and they made lots of them with the "Baby Ruth" billboard scheme; also perhaps as a reference to them being "baby" boxcars?

They have recently come back in at Lionel. First a green AirFix in a Scout expansion set and then two Christmas  set ones and the new catalog has many that are sadly missing axels.

Of thE MPCs I like the Toys R Us ones.

O-27 Box Cars, Scout Type Box Cars. In prototype terms 40' Box Cars.

 

A Plug door is the same as an aircraft door. You move the door into position, and turn a lever which works a few rods and the door sinks into the opening and seals. As opposed to a standard door which simply slides in front of the opening and is latched there.

 

Gandy