I have the X2454 with coil couplers and brown doors.
Same me, different spelling!
So true!
Baby Ruth cars? I found me one of these at the York show in April.
https://picclick.com/Lionel-RR-Lines-Baby-Ruth-Box-Car-Train-275928471802.html#&gid=1&pid=2
Can you imagine a Baby Ruth bar so big you could slice it? I can't!
Then again there's a scene in that 1927 movie "Wings" where a young Gary Cooper's eating a Hershey bar the size of a brick!
They say the "good old days" weren't always good but wow, they sure weren't all bad!
Very cool!
Ok, one down and two to go - 4454
and 6454
Yes I had to add trucks because they were missing when I bought the car for 5 bucks! Operates just fine!
"Frankencar" 1940's box car with a 1960's AAR truck and a 1970's Symington-Wayne High Speed truck.
Rob
Very durable paint!
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