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 Posted - December 05 2006 : 1:22:57 PM
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Saw these on eBay today...
Item number: 270064296156
Sellers say they are or were distributed by Horizon Hobby.
Never seen one before, they look like Life-Like cars to me. Wonder if the Horizon Hobby is the same as Athearn-owner Horizon Hobby??
Anybody know anything on these freight cars?
Tony Cook
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 Posted - December 05 2006 : 3:20:03 PM
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I have indeed seen those, in those boxes, at a train show. They are very much like the "Industrail Rail" rebrands that are much more common.
In HO and N scale, the Industrial Rail products are the very same offerings put out by LifeLike over the years, right down to paint shemes. The last address I recall on back of the boxes was in Champaign, IL. The boxes are VERY plain - not so much as a catalog or item number on them, let alone pitches for other offerings.
Industrial Rail even did some in O scale too, but I don't know whose cars they used.
In all cases, they are DIRT CHEAP. I'm talking N-scale NIB for $1.99 and HO for $3.49! The HO's are crude, but N and O-scales aren't bad.
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Posted - December 05 2006 : 5:38:10 PM
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I too have seen the Industrial Rail examples of the Life-Like cars. Very plain white boxes with little to no info. Industrial Rail, as you mentioned, is better known of its O-scale items...I believe Atlas purchased the Industrial Rail line in the last year. Doubt that Atlas will bother to have Life-Like run these "vintage" freight cars for any future offerings in HO-scale from Industrial Rail. [;)]
At the Chicago Hobby Show maybe 5 or more years back, I did pick a one-sheet 8.5"x11" flyer that showed the blue Chessie System 40' box car in both HO- and N-scale and mentioned the line of freight cars.
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