6464-50 Minneapolis & St. Louis

Production:  1953 - 1956

History
The 6464-50 Minneapolis & St. Louis box car was one of four 6464-style box cars offered by Lionel in 1953. The 6464-style box cars were a new offering and production of these box cars allowed Lionel to market a realistic and almost scale-like box car never previously seen in the Lionel family. The 6464-style box cars were an immediate success and remained in the Lionel catalogue up until the final year of postwar production, 1969. Even today, 6464-style box cars remain a favorite of collectors and operators.

The 6464-50 Minneapolis & St. Louis was available in three catalogued freight sets, one in each year from 1953 through 1955, as well as being available as a separate sale freight car. This box car is one of the easier 6464 box cars to locate and collectors generally aquire this early in their drive to collect all 6464 box cars.

Features
The 6464-50 box car included the following standard features: painted tuscan shell with white lettering, single block sliding doors, bar-end trucks with two operating couplers plus a single brakewheel.

Additional Detail, Photos & Box Information
The length of the 6464 style box car is approximately 10 1/2" long (coupler to coupler).

Flat Tuscan Shell - Shown in first photo above - The most common version of all 6464-50s are painted a flat tuscan color.

Glossy Tuscan Shell - A harder to find version is the glossy painted 6464-50 box car.

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