Keeping Your Collection Vat and Happy
Updates to Lionel Vat Cars 2010 through 2012
By Joel Fugazzotto, 84-20874
Summer 2012
As mentioned in the previous update, Lionel had in production, but had not yet released, two additional vat cars for 2010, the Reese's® Vat Car and the LRRC 50th Anniversary Vat Car. The 39488 Reese's car was the first vat car designed with a billboard straddling the center post and the 50th Anniversary car was the second PWC vat car issued by the LRRC. The 39484 Cocoa Marsh® Vat Car was catalogued and produced earlier in the year.
Lionel manufactured only one vat car for 2011, the Coca-Cola® Vat Car as an add-on car to the 30166 Coca-Cola Vintage Steam set.
2012 is seeing the release of three more vat cars: the catalogued Hershey's® Cocoa and Heinz® vat cars and the un-catalogued Entenmann's® Vat Car produced by Lionel for the Long Island Toy Train Locomotive Engineers (LITTLE)®, the club's first car.
(Please see the other articles in this series by Jon Bonds and Joel Fugazzotto listed at left for full listings.)
39488 Reese's® Vat Car, brown and orange with yellow Reese's Peanut Butter Cup logo on orange billboard, vats dark and light brown vertical stripes, die-cast sprung trucks.
39496 Lionel Railroader Club (LRRC) 6475-10 50th Anniversary Vat Car, gray and green, vats yellow/red "Pickles," thick black hoops, thin staves, rear of vats show no "pickles," die-cast sprung trucks.
26660 Coca-Cola® Vat Car, red and yellow, vats red/white Coca-Cola logo, die-cast sprung trucks.
26686 Hershey's® Cocoa Vat Car, silver and brown, vats brown/silver lettering, die-cast sprung trucks painted brown.
26676 Heinz@ Vat Car, brown and cream, two vats light blue/Heinz Baked Beans logo, two vats light blue/picture of boy running, die-cast sprung trucks.
58520 Long Island Toy Train Locomotive Engineers (LITTLE)® Entenmann's® Vat Car, light blue, vats white/black lettering/blue Entenmann's logo, thick blue hoops, thin staves, die-cast sprung trucks.
To order:
littleclub.org/cars/LITTLE%20Order%20Form_ENTENMANNS_VATCAR-1.pdf
