MTH Railking 2005 Holiday Boxcar 30-74257

Description

MTH Railking 2005 Holiday Boxcar 30-74257. A collectible RailKing Christmas Cars item from MTH Electric Trains. If you are looking for mth railking 2005 holiday boxcar 30, this is the one to grab while it is still available. Full details and specifications from the original listing follow below.

MTH Railking 2005 Holiday Boxcar 30-74257: Product Details

Box Car – Christmas Car
Roadname: Christmas
Product Item Number:
30-74257
Catalog: BS 2005 Volume 2
Product Line: RailKing
Scale: O Gauge
Delivery Status:
Delivered DEC. 2005
This product is compatible with all O Gauge 3-Rail track systems including those systems offered by Atlas and Gargraves and Lionel and Ross Custom Switches.
– Intricately Detailed Durable ABS Body
– Metal Wheels and Axles
– Die-Cast 4-Wheel Trucks
– Operating Die-Cast Metal Couplers
– Colorful, Attractive Paint Schemes
– Decorative Brake Wheels
– Separate Metal Handrails
– Fast-Angle Wheel Sets
– Needle-Point Axles
– Unit Measures:11 1/2" x 2 3/8" x 2 5/16"
– Operates On O-27 Curves

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About MTH Electric Trains

MTH Electric Trains RailKing cars: O gauge boxcars, reefer cars and holiday cars with sharp detail for your layout or collection.

RailKing is the line that built MTH Electric Trains into Lionel’s chief rival in O gauge. Where MTH’s Premier line chased exact scale fidelity, RailKing cars were made to run: traditionally proportioned, durable, and priced for operators, with the features listed in the specifications above, including intricately detailed ABS bodies, metal wheels and axles, die-cast trucks and operating couplers, fast-angle wheel sets and needle-point axles that let the cars roll freely in long consists. RailKing freight cars follow the real railroads and the famous brands, and MTH produced them in themed series (holiday cars, New Year cars, advertising reefers and road name freight) that collectors assemble year by year. The catalog information in the listing, the product item number and the delivery date are the details MTH collectors catalogue by, because MTH issued its catalogs in volumes through the year and a car’s catalog appearance is part of its identity. Compatibility matters as well: as the listing notes, MTH O gauge cars run on the standard three-rail systems from Lionel, Atlas, Gargraves and Ross, so a RailKing car drops into almost any O gauge freight train.

Christmas trains are one of Lionel’s oldest traditions, reaching back to the department store window displays that made electric trains a holiday fixture in America. Lionel’s holiday output grew into a collecting field of its own: annual Christmas boxcars dated by year, holiday handcars and trolleys, and the North Pole Central line created as Lionel’s dedicated Christmas railroad, complete with its own road name, colours and crews of elves. A dated Christmas car works like a marker in a collection, one car for each year, and families who run a train around the tree often add the car for the current year as part of the season. Animated and operating holiday pieces, like handcars with swinging figures, bring motion to a holiday layout that a static decoration cannot, and they are built on the same O gauge mechanisms as Lionel’s year-round operating cars. Because holiday releases were produced for a single season, earlier cars in a dated series become progressively harder to find, and collectors completing a run of years are the natural audience for an individual car from the early seasons of a series.

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.