I have been collecting the O scale Coca Cola cars and am wondering if I am missing any. Most of them were colorful woodside reefers, but they also did some more modern era cars. Wondering if anyone had a complete list or pictures. While they may be fantasy cars, they sure look good to me behind one of my big locomotives. I am not looking for the 027 traditional size cars, which can be nice in their own right. Thanks for the help.
Ohman, this link will probably help you out:
http://www.legacykline.com/apps/kl/catalog.html?useraction=road&p_road_name=Coca-Cola
You can click on the red item number and that will take you to a new page with individual item/car/loco features and a photo, if available. MDK K-Line made the Coke items almost from the very beginning, so there are probably more non-scale traditional 0/027 items.
The K-Line Legacy site doesn’t go back and cover the entire history, but most of the scale rolling stock items started appearing around 1999-2000 period and this web site does cover that period. Those items are usually with 700- suffix number. Towards the end, MDK K-Line did get back to making the 027 items again and there are also quite a few of those on the listings.
But this link will get you off to a good start.
I have a couple of K-Line boxcars, both marked “644702 BLT 12-91”. They both have “1991” on the doors, the words “BE REALLY REFRESHED Coca-Cola Trade-mark R” on one side of the door, and the Hadden Sundblom painting with the Lionel helicopter on the other. However, the locations of these decorations are reversed between the two cars. Furthermore, the one with the painting on the right has the painting directly on the side of the car. The other car has a paper copy of the painting mounted on a raised red frame. Also, the first car has the words “WHEN EMPTY RETURN TO HILLSBOROUGH, NC” next to the picture. The other one has the legend “C1991 The Coca-Cola Company. All rights reserved” on the picture.