Weekend Photos - June 2026

[healey36]

A friend of mine, aware that I'm assembling a variation of a "Girl's Train", contributed this 6424 to the cause:



This is modern-era production, catalogued in 2003 or 2004. I'll be the first to admit it's kinda ghastly, but it adds some play-value, I suppose.

https://www.lionel.com/products/girls-lionel-lines-o27-flat-car-wautos-6424-6-26077/

[webenda]

I'll be the first to admit it's kinda ghastly, but it adds some play-value, I suppose.

I like it. I appreciate that Lionel trains can be very colorful.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

..... it's kinda ghastly,....

The horror! The horror!

[webenda]

It is quite a stretch, but the Williams H-24-66 Train Master locomotives negotiate 27-inch-diameter curves just fine.
Quite a Stretch by Wayne Benda, on Flickr

Note: the 66 in H-24-66 means the locomotive length is 66 feet. The Williams FM Train Master is 62 feet (15.5 inches).

[healey36]

Wife says the cars look like Mary Kay Cosmetics sales premiums, lol.

Those are interesting door-guides on that Rock Island 6464, Wayne. Painted? Plastic? Shouldn’t they be blackened steel?

[webenda]

Wife says the cars look like Mary Kay Cosmetics sales premiums, lol.

Those are interesting door-guides on that Rock Island 6464, Wayne. Painted? Plastic? Shouldn’t they be blackened steel?

Mary Kay?
I googled Mary Kay and then remembered her... the Pink Cadillac cosmetics lady.

The door guides are plastic and painted; they are not cast with the body; they snap into the body.

It might be quite valuable.

[healey36]

Happy Father's Day...may The Force be with you!

[HONDO74]

Interesting

Lionel 6-19269 Rock Island 6464 series box car O SCALE NEW Sale price $25.00
https://bradystrains.com/products/lione ... DsfJ2o2Hh8

Except the door guides are BLACK.

So if the door guides are silver the car is worth $16,991.00

[webenda]

Interesting

Lionel 6-19269 Rock Island 6464 series box car O SCALE NEW Sale price $25.00
https://bradystrains.com/products/lione ... DsfJ2o2Hh8

Except the door guides are BLACK.

So if the door guides are silver the car is worth $16,991.00

That must have been some kind of AI fart. The eBay site showed the price as $16.99.

The model in your eBay link has a plain steel bottom; the one in my photo has full brake linkage underneath. It even has brakes on the trucks.
D.I.6464 by Wayne Benda, on Flickr

[HONDO74]

I am not a 6464 collector but I thought all the 6464s had a plane steel bottom. the one you have must be unique.

Might be worth more money ? do you have a box for it

[healey36]

They are out there...see here:

https://www.victorymodels.com/products/lionel-6-27293-o-scale-rock-island-boxcar-r-i-6464-route-of-the-rockets?variant=39460244586595

More research required on this thing...might be some sort of hybrid, lol.

[webenda]

They are out there...see here:

https://www.victorymodels.com/products/lionel-6-27293-o-scale-rock-island-boxcar-r-i-6464-route-of-the-rockets?variant=39460244586595

More research required on this thing...might be some sort of hybrid, lol.

Ahh, thank you, Healey. I failed to record my purchase of this Lionel box car. I did not know what it was. Now I know; it is one of Lionel's Scale 1:48 products and can be found in Lionel catalogs:
2010 Volume 2 page 46,
2011 Volume 2 page 32,
2011 Signature Edition Page 49,
2012 Volume 2 pages 94-95,
2012 Signature Edition page 71,
2013 Fall Catalog page 23.

RESEARCH
Before searching through catalogs, I tried Copilot and Gemini to find information about this Lionel box car. Because so many people think all three-rail Lionel trains are 1:48 scale, the two AI search engines were totally confused and gave useless answers.

[Norton]

For a few years Lionel did a few “Post War Scale boxcars”. Might be one of those. They are larger than the traditional 6464s so placing this car next to a traditional car would verify that.
Here you go.

https://www.lionel.com/products/postwar ... k-6-27283/

Pete

[webenda]

For a few years Lionel did a few “Post War Scale boxcars”. Might be one of those.
Pete

It is indeed one of those; good sleuthing. Thank you for posting the link, Pete. I was unable to find what you posted while I was digging into Lionel.com.

[healey36]

It’s weird, at least to me, that they numbered them as 6464-series cars. They are proportionally quite different.