 Here is a close up picture of the lettering:  This caboose belongs to a gentleman who was looking up his fathers trains on the internet and found Train99.com. He sent me an e-mail saying he had a version of the Lionel 817 caboose that was not listed along with the other cabooses in the encyclopedia. He agreed to send me the caboose so I could examine it. My opinion is this car is real. This car while shown in the Lionel catalog was not believed to have been made by collectors. Now we know. 816 black rubber stamped hopper cars, 814R rubber stamped refrigerator cars, orange shell 815 tank cars with nickel plates are all accepted variations of the 800/2800 series cars. While very hard to find, they do show up for sale now and then, and many collectors do have examples of them in their collections. Every month a toy train that is odd or unusual in some way will be featured. These may be production samples, paint samples, preproduction mockups, factory errors or rare department store specials. If you have an item you would like to have featured in this series, drop me an e mail by clicking on my name below.
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