Lionel Donald Duck Hi-Cube Boxcar 6-36255

Description

Lionel Donald Duck Hi-Cube Boxcar 6-36255. A collectible Disney Box Cars item from Lionel. If you are looking for lionel donald duck hi cube boxcar, this is the one to grab while it is still available. Full details and specifications from the original listing follow below.

Lionel Donald Duck Hi-Cube Boxcar 6-36255: Product Details

New In Box
Boxcar features officially licensed artwork celebrating two of the most beloved Disney characters, Daisy and Donald Duck!
FEATURES:
Die-cast metal sprung trucks and operating couplers
Opening doors
Custom Disney packaging
PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS
Gauge: Traditional O Gauge
Brand: Lionel
Min Curve: O-27
Dimensions: Length: 10 1/4"
Most Recent Catalog: Classic Trains Vol. 2 2003

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About Lionel

Lionel model trains: O gauge boxcars, reefer cars, Christmas trains and accessories from America's classic train maker, including Disney and collector editions.

Lionel’s Disney cars are among the most collected special runs the company has produced. Beginning with the Mickey Mouse equipment of the 1930s, Disney characters have returned to Lionel catalogs in wave after wave, and the Classic Trains era releases of the early 2000s presented the classic characters on bright hi-cube boxcars and themed rolling stock in custom Disney packaging. A hi-cube boxcar is a taller than standard freight car, and that extra height gives the character artwork room to read clearly from across a room, which is the entire point of these cars: Donald Duck, Goofy, Pluto, Mickey Mouse and the Dalmatians are the livery, in the same way a railroad name would be on a prototypical car. Collectors typically build the Disney series as a set, one character car at a time, and run them together as a single colourful train or display them as a group, because the series was designed so the cars belong together. Officially licensed artwork, custom packaging and the character by character release pattern are what separate these cars from ordinary Lionel freight equipment.

This is an O gauge Lionel product, built for the three-rail track system that has defined Lionel trains since the middle of the last century. Traditional O gauge cars run on O-27 curves and wider, and the specifications in the listing above, including the minimum curve and the car’s length, are the measurements layout builders use to confirm a car will clear their curves and match the proportions of the rest of a consist. Lionel freight cars of this period are known for their die-cast metal sprung trucks, which put real weight low in the car and help it track steadily, and for operating couplers that let the car connect and release within a working train rather than sitting as a static model. Opening doors on boxcars and reefers are another Lionel signature, letting the car be posed in a yard or loading scene. The catalog references in the listing place the car in Lionel’s Classic Trains era output of the early 2000s, a period when the company leaned heavily into licensed themes, colourful special-run freight cars and collector oriented releases alongside its traditional road name equipment.

A boxcar is the enclosed freight car that carried general cargo on North American railroads for more than a century, protected from weather by its roof and sliding doors. Model boxcars follow the same logic as the real cars: the body carries the railroad name, the character artwork or the advertising scheme, the doors open on cars equipped for it, and the trucks and couplers at each end do the mechanical work. On a layout, boxcars are the backbone of a freight consist because real railroads mixed them by the dozen behind one locomotive, so a collector can run several different Lionel boxcars together and still be modelling something the prototype did every day. Special-run boxcars like the ones Lionel issued for dealers, toy fairs, holidays and licensed themes were produced in smaller numbers than regular catalog cars, and they were bought as much for the artwork and the occasion they marked as for operation. The product number in the title, in Lionel’s six series numbering, is the identifier collectors use to catalogue the car and to distinguish it from the many other boxcars Lionel released in the same years.