Lionel pw-352 brown base
OPERATING ICE DEPOT (BROWN) W/CAR (RARITY 4 BASED ON SCALE OF 1 TO 5)
| The Lackawanna had a mile long icing station in the Poconos where mile long trains of reefers would be stopped and men would load ice into to roof hatches. Built 1955-57. Relatively rarer brown (instead of red) unpainted plastic platform white shed with red roof. Includes orange Pacific Fruit Express ice car number 6352The operator manually inserts plastic 352-29 ice blocks into loading chute and lifts them into the ice house. Pushing controller instructs the man to push a block of ice into the waiting 6352 ice car. The ice car was built to accompany the #352 operating ice station accessory. It was sold both with the #352, and separately. It is interesting that Lionel chose to base the car on a boxcar instead of a refrigerator car The roof hatch is on a moving rocker, that the accessory could easily slide open. The side of the car also opens to remove the ice cubes once they are inside. The car is made with a Type 2B 6464 body.It is unpainted, orange plastic with black, heat-stamped letterigMost of these cars had four lines of weight data printed on the opening ice hatch. However, some, more rare versions have only three lines of printing. It |
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