Job Lot of Lima OO Rolling Stock

You just love your tankers don't you Super, now if I can only find one with rivets you'd wet yourself I'm surprised you didn't call out the Esso tanker as well, I'm not sure they normally come in gold, but its quite striking.

Regarding the box car, if you look at the Heinz version you'll see that there are ladders/platforms on each end that go up to that cut-out, why I'm not sure, but I'll get a better picture of the ends as it may make more sense. The one you picked out (and two of the other Heinz ones) are all missing these steps/platforms as these are used/play worn models, although most in the batch are in pretty good nick especially at the price I paid