[SOLVED] Who Manufacturers This Car?

look it up on the web. K Line Diet Mt. Dew boxcar.  There a number of images of the original Pepsi box with the TE number displayed.

I would have pasted the image here, but don't want to get into copyright trouble.

Check on this site.  There is a thread about the store, Train Express closing.

@Bill DeBrooke posted:

Check on this site.  There is a thread about the store, Train Express closing.

But I sill don't have the answer to my question "Who manufactured this item".

I suspect manufactured by K-line and marketed by Train Express would be the correct designation. May have been a special run of cars to be sold only by Train Express which would explain the TE in the product number.

@paulp575 posted:

But I sill don't have the answer to my question "Who manufactured this item".

Train Express would have contracted K-Line to have the car manufactured.  I believe K-Line's builder was Sanda-Kan.

Rusty

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@trainsbob posted:

I suspect manufactured by K-line and marketed by Train Express would be the correct designation. May have been a special run of cars to be sold only by Train Express which would explain the TE in the product number.

Thanks for your clarification.

I'm not sure what to make of all the other posts in this thread.

@Rusty Traque posted:

Train Express would have contracted K-Line to have the car manufactured.  I believe K-Line's builder was Sanda-Kan.

Rusty

So the manufacturer would be K-Line, but with a Train Express number?

@paulp575 posted:

So the manufacturer would be K-Line, but with a Train Express number?

Most likely for the Train Express inventory system.

Rusty

It was manufactured by K-line for Train Express.  I remember seeing the Pepsi themed sets and add-on car in their store.  I'm guessing they didn't sell that well as they were there for quite a while and they never did another similar special run.  I seem to remember talking about it with them and due to K-Line licensing agreement with Coke at the time, they couldn't advertise Pepsi items as K-Line; thus, the TE numbers and not K-Line numbers.

They did do a special run Atlas 36' foot reefer for Indianapolis Abattoir (8031-1), but I don't remember any other special runs.

CORRECTION - a search shows that Train Express also did a Frito Lay Snack express set as well (Pepsi owns Frito-Lay, so that makes sense with the Pepsi license agreement).

In addition to the good info from Retlaw, K-Line also made a Dr. Pepper train set with an S-2 switcher. I don't know who the set was made for, but it had a set number unlike their other starter sets numbers. It also had a transformer that said "Model" on it instead of the usual "K-Line." Nor did any of the train cars have the usual K-Line logo printed on the car body, but instead had a number "10-2-4" which was on the loco and all the cars.

Dr. Pepper is affiliated with Coke, but it's interesting with the odd set number, the transformer and also the face of the set box didn't have the K-Line logo on it, which any regular K-Line set had.

We removed some of the posts because they were getting way off topic.  Looks like the answer has been found to topic closed.