Sadly, K-Line ( China Inc ) "copied" an SHS truck, rather than introducing  
another style to the hobby.  The cars were over sized and did appear that  
way in a train.   PVMR ran a set one time, boxed them up, put them on  a 
shelf .   Some day we'll "sweep out" the barn and they will  go.  
 Every summer the PRR took hundreds of stock cars out of livestock  service 
and cleaned them up to haul tomatoes, primarily from Washington  Boro, ( 
Lancaster County ) PA, to Camden, NJ.    Said to be the  only time most of the 
cars got any service at all.  "Car knockers" avoided  the cars as much as 
possible.  Sadly, Campbells Soup discovered cheaper  tomatoes in Italy, even 
when shipped across the ocean and the tomato  business all but totally 
disappeared in a single season.  That was in  the sixties.  Hurt lots of small 
farmers, truckers, etc.  
 
Jim "fueled the trucks" Lyle
 
 
 
In a message dated 8/12/2013 5:15:27 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
[email protected] writes:

As to  having Marx make S, K-Line had the old Marx tooling and did put 
hi-rail S  trucks and couplers 

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