Interesting 6464 Timken boxcar

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I picked this Postwar Timken 6464 boxcar at an auction. Strange metal placard attached to the doors.

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Bill,

I don’t know exactly, but the proud owner of that beauty must have belonged to a model train club, which had that metal placard.

How many placards are there?

Here’s some info.

http://www.postwarlionel.com/cgi-bin/postwar?ITEM=6464500

Ralph

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There were 2 placards, one on each side of the boxcar, plus inside the Lionel Timken box was a small manilla envelope from Champion Trophy Co. Covington, CA. I assume the placards were not attached to the Timken boxcar but was left up to the owner to attach.

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Bill,

Here is some information on that 6464:

http://www.tcaetrain.org/articles/collecting/Club_Car/index.html

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Thanks Bill,

That’s a beauty you have there and it’s very interesting of the placard markings, as to what type of an organization was involved.

In a Penna. hobby shop, my wife bought me a Lionel ‘Operating Box Car’ modeled of a1946 P.RR. 40 Ft. M.S.-1 color and paint scheme, ‘L.C.L.,’ X-29b type box.
It was specially made-up and marked for a T.C.A. convention and of course, because it’s an ‘Operating Car’-Lionel designates it as ‘O’ Gauge.

My wife paid a reasonable price for it and both the car and its box are in near excellent condition.

It’s a very attractive scheme and it caused me to research the P.RR. and accordingly P.RR. had a fleet of “Merchandise Service,“L.C.L.”-”‘Fast-Freight’ type of cars, of which there were three phases of color paint scheme-markings, starting in 1946.
The three phases were: M.S.-1, M.S.-2 and M.S.-3., in addition to the three phases of schemes, there were various length of cars used, 40, 50 and 60 Feet.

Take care,

Ralph

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Jim,

Beautiful, thank you,

Ralph

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Jim, thanks for the link to the MTA rolling stock, learn something new everyday in this hobby.

Also, great videos, thanks for sharing.