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40' Steel Box Car
ACY
No. 8577
No. 8466
No. 8552
No. 8589
40' Steel Box Car British Columbia Railway
No. 8462S
40' Steel Box Car Black & Decker
40' Steel Box Car Boston & Maine
No. 08538
The Boston & Maine roadname is among the three listed in Life-Like's first train catalog of 1970.
In addition to the B&M car, Life-Like also has the Pennsylvania and Santa Fe roadname at the start of the model train
line.
40' Steel Box Car Burlington Northern
No. 8490
40' Steel Box Car Canadian National
No. 8538
40' Steel Box Car Chessie System
No. 8476
This car was also produced with the Life-Like name on the underframe, but
sold in the Industrial Rail train line.
40' Steel Box Car
Erie Lackawanna
Variations on Life-Like's Erie Lackawanna 40' Steel Box Car include a gray car and a white car, both
with the same red/maroon lettering.
40' Steel Box Car Franco American Spaghetti-Os
No. 8429
This car was included in the Life-Like Campbell's Soup train set.
40' Steel Box Car
Frisco - Norge
No. 8538
40' Steel Box Car
Kellogg's Corn Flakes
At least two variations exist for the Life-Like 40' Steel Box Car in Corn Flakes dress. The
rooster version and ear of corn version are both displayed.
40' Steel Box Car
Kool-Aid
No. 8475
40' Steel Box Car
Lehigh Valley
No. 8594
40' Steel Box Car
Linde Union Carbide
No. 8475
40' Steel Box Car
Louisville & Nashville
No. 21913
40' Steel Box Car
MEC Maine Central
40' Steel Box Car Minneapolis & St. Louis
No. 8470
40' Steel Box Car Missouri-Kansas-Texas
No. 8471
40' Steel Box Car
Montgomery Ward
As presented, there are at least two versions of Life-Like's 40' Steel Box Car done for Montgomery Ward
department stores.
40' Steel Box Car Northlandz
No. 8584
40' Steel Box Car Ontario Northland
No. 8462W
40' Steel Box Car Pennsylvania
No. 8538
Above is an example of Life-Like's early 1970s "blister" or "carded" package
design. Varney originally offered freight cars in packaging very similar to that seen above for this Pennsy 40ft. Box
Car. Life-Like kept this style of packaging around in its line for many years. Examples may also be found with
a white background and the red-blue-and-yellow striping and lettering of the late '70s.
40' Steel Box Car Peoples Drug
No. 8474
Believe this car is from a promotional train set sold by a Canadian
pharmacy chain named Peoples Drug.
40' Steel Box Car Play Co.
No. 8580
No. 8550
40' Steel Box Car Santa Fe
No. 8565
No. 8479
40' Steel Box Car Three Musketeers
40' Steel Box Car Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo
40' Steel Box Car
Tootsie Roll
No. 8485
40' Steel Box Car Toys R Us
No. 8506
40' Steel Box Car Toy World
40' Steel Box Car Vlasic Pickles
No. 8483
40' Steel Box Car York Peppermint Patties
No. 8478
Where It Came From...
Life-Like's 40ft. Box Car tooling was brought into the company's line with the purchase of the Varney
molds in the late 1960s. Below is a late era Varney example of this car dressed for Missour Pacific service.
The Industrial Rail line included Life-Like manufactured freight cars in
both HO- and N-scale for a time. The cars were offered in white boxes with the Industrial Rail name, though the car's
still carried the Life-Like name on their undersides. Atlas purchased Industrail Rail a few years ago and no further
releases of re-packaged Life-Like cars are known to have been done since.
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