4104 Flatbed Train Car

[Tiermann]

I won this in an eBay auction recently and was surprised when it arrived to find it included an original instruction sheet. I will post here pictures of the sheet and the box. It's a great car, basically the same as many versions that came later. The main reason I was after it was for the cross bars and wheel chocks for holding vehicles on a flatcar. Note that this version has sides as well as the cross bars and wheel chocks. The version in the Western Trains 4032,4033,4034 had the side posts instead of car sides. The version in 4106 and 7522 didn't have the car sides. I've sent Heather copies of the images with the parts list.

[The_Mad_Hadder]

Tim,

I bought the same rail car a month ago for the same reason. They never sold this rail car as it appears in 4032, 4033 and 4034. I have already talked to playmobil parts in Mississauga, Ontario and they no longer carry the flat bed car posts that came in the above mentioned sets.

I was actually surprised when I went looking for the rail car that comes in 4032,4033 and 4034 that they never sold it as a stand alone like they did with the caboose(4123) or the locamotive for that matter (5405). It may have well been that you had to order the posts as a replacement part since they came on a spur if you wanted to have more of these rail cars.

Cheers,
James

[Marco_4124]

Hello  Tiermann,

Can you contact me by personal message?
I would like to have high resolution scans too, so I can add it to the train manual list.

Greetings, Marco ;-)

[playmofire]

I'm a great fan of the various versions of the flat bed trucks, they're good multi-use vehicles and I have two of each, in fact, probably more.

However, one thing they lack is the ability to lash cargo to them.  I wonder why Playmobil never produced a piece like this:

http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showpart.pl?partnum=30-21-0040;pic_num=1

to fit in the holes for the stakes. 

[sbblabotw]

Inventory done. 4104 - Flat Bed Car A great find - thanks for sharing, Tim.