Lionel Reefer Box Couplers ~ CURTIS CANDY ~ Flying-Shoe Rd# 2679 - IOB

Description: We try to be Friendly to our international customers especially with our: UPS Standard to Canada,Very nice O scale Ventilated Candy Reefer - with Box-Couplers - Comes with one "Flying-Shoe" remote controlled uncoupler. It requires a Lionel 6019 uncoupling section of track. With the box coupler, Lionel finally solved the problem of automatic coupling and decoupling by mounting the coupler to the truck, rather than the car. This allowed the coupler to pivot around curves, but the truck holds it stationary enough for it to couple. The box coupler even works on curves, for the most part. The box coupler still uses a latch mechanism, but the latch grips onto a recess in the box, instead of a spring-loaded pivot. The box coupler allowed Lionel trains to finally deliver on the promise of the possibility to build up a consist the way real railroads did it, by backing the rest of the train into a car and letting inertia couple them together. This gave the trains play value once kids tired of just watching trains go in circles all the time. Lionel famously hesitated to release a knuckle coupler because it didn’t want to introduce an incompatibility with its other coupler types. World War II halted train sales for about four years, so that gave Lionel the opportunity to make a change. But when they did, they released two little-known adapters to make their new trains compatible with the old. Believe it or not, this means you can even couple Lionel box couplers with postwar and modern-era Lionel knuckle couplers, with an adapter. Using a TS-100 Adapter, you can couple Lionel 600 and 2600-series cars to knuckle couplers. The TS-162 Adapter lets you do the same with Lionel 800 and 2800-series cars. This lets you mix prewar and postwar cars in a consist, or use a postwar engine to pull prewar cars without having to find a prewar tender or convert a tender to prewar trucks and couplers. Read and learn more: THE SILION UNDERGROUND - David L. FarquharTo see all our listings, visit: Ika's Train Store It is believed that box couplers came into use in 1936. Then a 2-rib box was introduced for use around 1938, then a "simulated knuckle" cast box was used until the end of prewar. This listing has that simulated look cast onto the top of the white-metal box. To see all of our listings, visit: Ika's Train Store The following is a compilation of information and a bit of storytelling by: Joe Lechner and the TCA sponsored TTML for this introspective tie in between baseball and with toy trains and history. When George Herman Ruth made his farewell appearance as a New York Yankee in Yankee Stadium 75 years ago today, he was widely admired as the greatest baseball player who ever lived. Ruth acquired his famous nickname in 1914 when his Baltimore Oriole teammates began referring to the 19-year-old rookie as Jack Dunn's new "babe". As a southpaw pitcher for the Boston Red Sox (1914-1919), he set a World Series record of 29 consecutive scoreless innings that stood for 42 years.After Ruth was sold to the New York Yankees in 1920 for $100,000 (by far the largest deal in MLB up to that time), he became an outfielder and quickly earned national fame for his batting prowess. The Bambino led the American League in home runs for twelve seasons and appeared in ten World Series. Joshua Lionel Cowen was surely a fan of Babe Ruth's. Cowen would often invite his associates to Yankee games, and according to biographer Ron Holland, he was notorious for betting on every pitch. Advertisements for the Baby Ruth candy bar have appeared on Lionel trains since the 1930s. Curtiss Candy Company (which introduced the bar in 1921) denied naming it after Babe Ruth, but Curtiss sued and won when a competitor attempted to market a "Babe Ruth Home Run Bar" (with Babe Ruth's approval). Curtiss claimed that its candy bar was named for Ruth Cleveland (daughter of former President Grover Cleveland) who had died at the age of twelve in 1904. Its publicists even claimed that Miss Cleveland had visited the candy factory - which was impossible, since Curtiss was not founded until 1916. Quite possibly, this Cleveland story was invented as a defense against the inevitable objection that Babe Ruth hadn't authorized Curtiss to use his name.Baby Ruth and Lionel share a long history together. Ads for the candy bar began appearing on Lionel products as early as 1931, possibly motivated by promotional payments from Curtiss, or by Joshua Lionel Cowen's preoccupation with the New York Yankees, or both. The first Lionel product to wear the Baby Ruth name was #1514, a 6" lithographed boxcar introduced in 1931. Other prewar boxcars included #1679 (1933-1939) and #2679 (1938-1942). Lionel's #156 station platform (introduced in 1939; still cataloged after WorldWar II) and its postwar successor #157 both had picket fences on which advertisements, lithographed on tinplate rectangles, were mounted. Almost all vintages of these stations include an ad for Baby Ruth candy bars, as do the #256 freight station and the #356 operating freight station with baggage carts.Lionel's first postwar boxcar, the #2454 (1946-1947) was lettered for both Baby Ruth and the Pennsylvania Railroad. So was the smaller #1004 Scout boxcar (1948-1952) and its knuckle-coupler successors #6004 (1950) and #6014 (1951-1956). Even the Electronic Control Set (1946-1949) included an orange Baby Ruth boxcar, #4454. According to "Authoritative Guide to Lionel's Postwar Operating Cars" (Project Roar Publishing), Lionel considered putting the Baby Ruth name on the #3454 merchandise car. Production versions of #3454 had only a PRR logo, but the crates they delivered DID say Baby Ruth, as did crates for the scale-proportioned #3854 merchandise car. Fundimensions continued this illustrious tradition when it introduced the #9854 Baby Ruth billboard reefer in 1973. Thanks to: Joseph Lechner

Price: 49.05 USD

Location: London, Ohio

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