TRAIN TIME: K-Line #K-675203 Hershey's 1998 Holiday Vat Car

Here's one I didn't think would come my way any time soon, but it did and I'm grateful. It's a departure from all the other Hershey's cars offered by K-Line and came out the same year as the deluxe Hershey's Holiday Express Set in 1997. 

Hershey's labeled this a 'vat car', but in my mind, vat cars were more like this Miller Beer car offered by Lionel:

To me, this K-Line car is more like a covered high-side gondola than a vat car, but regardless of what name is tacked on to it, it's a nice car. K-Line's version has eight hatches, all of which open. On the spine of the cover is a metal wire sign on plastic base declaring: "HAPPY HOLIDAYS from THE GREAT AMERICAN CHOCOLATE COMPANY". Be Blessed and Relish Life! Ed

I didn't notice the wonky wheel on the left truck until after the photos were taken. I'll have to look into that.

All eight hatches open.

TRAIN TIME: K-Line #K-646702 Hershey's Cocoa Beans Boxcar (1993)

From January to April of this year I posted a butt-load of Hershey's chocolate trains and toys and such. As it turns out, a couple of items were inadvertently left out of the posting frenzy. Here's a nice boxcar from 1993. Be Blessed and Relish Life! Ed

TRAIN TIME: K-Line HO Scale Hershey's Flatcar Road #45101 - Did I Ever Screw Up!

Welll, I did it again! Thinking this was an uncatalogued car I bought this off of fleaBay and was a bit surprised to see an HO scale flatcar in the box. Following up, I looked at the listing more closely and the photos clearly showed it to be HO scale (the couplers - which fell off during transit and are not shown in the photos - were the giveaway). It's odd that K-Line never made an O-gauge Hershey's flatcar. Oh well, I have an HO scale Hershey's flat now. Be Blessed and Relish Life! Ed

TRAIN TIME: K-Line #K-1715B Hershey's Holiday Express Set (1997) - Pt 10 K-Line #K-40312 Hershey's Chocolate Town Suburban Station (1992)

This is basically a re-post from 18 Feb. In hindsight, I should have not posted the station back then, but rather wait until now when posting all the component pieces for the Holiday Express set. Oh well. This is another example of how K-Line simply placed an earlier separate sale item into a set vs. coming up with a new product - or just making a smaller set. Perhaps they had a lot of leftover stock, and this was one way to try and dispose of it!? Be Blessed and Relish Life! Ed