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A little levity from Lionel
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One thing to note is that the Lionel tobacco and alcohol cars are from more recent decades and that they never made anything like that back in the postwar years. There's a story about Joshua Lionel Cowen (Lionel's founder) visiting the Lionel factory back in the 1950's. In the product development room there was a prototype for a Ballantine Beer boxcar. Cowen saw the car and immediately shouted out, "What the hell is that?" He then went into a tirade about how "Lionel will never promote products that are bad for children!" Needless to say, the beer car idea never made it any further. I wonder what Cowen would have to say regarding these 70's cars? <br /> <br />As for models in HO, I know that Tyco made a Mailpouch boxcar. <br /> <br />There actually are some advertising cars out there today. I frequently see center-flow hopper cars that carry very large French's mustard logos. I also frequently see light blue covered hoppers with huge Pillsbury logos on them. The Pillsbury cars, however, have very rough paint and have had their reporting marks changed, so they don't belong the doughboy anymore.
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