LIONEL 54 BALLAST TAMPER, 58-61, 66, 68-69 hyper Scale/Era: O Modern

Scale/Era: O Modern

This car came with early AAR trucks and disc couplers

Construction and finish: a durable metal surface with a retro graphic and the phrase "Astronaut Parking Only — Violators Will Be Mooned

Came with a chemically blackened frame that usually has one brake wheel

plastic trucks with metal wheels

LIONEL 54 BALLAST TAMPER, 58-61, 66, 68-69 hyper Scale/Era: O ModernThe Ballast Tamper No. 54 came equipped with one BLUE operator in the cab of the YELLOW body that has BLACK heat stamped lettering and one plastic fixed coupler. Has an ornamental horn on top of the cab along with two ornamental forward facing floodlights. This unit would only go in the forward direction. There is no reverse on this unit. While the tamping action was operating the unit traveled at half speed. It also came with two track clips to start