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 Posted - April 24 2016 : 1:51:17 PM
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My COTW is an H0 scale Rio Grande box car from an unknown maker.... Edit: Apparently, it's a Roundhouse.
-Steve
"A lot of modellers out there who go to these train shows see broken HO stuff and go, 'This is useless' when, in reality, they can still be used for modeling whether it's as a prop on your layout or a cool project to make something old new again."
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Posted - April 24 2016 : 7:30:12 PM
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My COTW is actually 4 of them. I found 4 of them this week, 2 on a run to check on a building I own 3 hours from me, and two at the big Timonium MD show this weekend. I thought I had 5, but only 4. I DID find another one at my shop today, though, coming up for sale, so I will probably try to grab it if possible, too.
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Posted - April 24 2016 : 8:51:19 PM
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how about BOTH sports boxcars from Lionel? 
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Posted - April 24 2016 : 8:51:19 PM
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quote:My COTW is actually 4 of them. I found 4 of them this week, 2 on a run to check on a building I own 3 hours from me, and two at the big Timonium MD show this weekend. I thought I had 5, but only 4. I DID find another one at my shop today, though, coming up for sale, so I will probably try to grab it if possible, too.
Jerry
Originally posted by AMC_Gremlin_GTÂ -Â April 24 2016Â :Â 7:30:12 PM
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I think I might have one of these. Interested?
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Posted - April 24 2016 : 9:56:32 PM
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Tyco Penneys box car... Coming out of it's box finally!
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Posted - April 25 2016 : 12:08:55 PM
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Moved to it's proper place. I got these a few years back, not sure if they were legit but when they arrived I knew they were the genuine article. Until they arrived, I did not know TYCO sold undecorated cars.
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Posted - April 25 2016 : 12:12:51 PM
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| WAW47, until you mentioned it, It did not appear to me that there are no white Center-Flow Hoppers.
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Posted - April 26 2016 : 10:23:38 AM
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This Golliwog goods wagon was from my first train set in 1967 while living in
England. Came with a wind up locomotive.
Cool Penneys, Walt. I will looking for it on the layout- with the night shift
sailing past in their hot rods.
Nice Lionels, Micro.
I just sent JNXT nine Virginian non-operating hoppers from this model train
estate sale I've been working on. Boy, is he a glutton for punishment. But
then, so am I: I kept like 9 B&M hoppers from the same collection. There
goes the neighborhood, and the commission!
Never-Seen-That-Before-Department: an undecorated Tyco. If that don't take
the cake. Was the QC person taking a personal break as it rattled off the line?
Talk about a white whale, this is a really intriguing bit of Tycomania to be sure.
Belongs in the Tyco Hall of Fame.
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Posted - April 26 2016 : 11:14:35 AM
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The undecorated cars are intriguing. My theory is that someone bought a lot of those to produce some of the promotional hoppers that are out there (Alcan, Pfizer..) Maybe some leftover stock that never got finished. These were probably sold to a third party to produce the promo items, as I don't think they offered undecorated items after the kits in the 60's and some Red-Box era locomotives. At least not to the general consumer.
Just a theory, but very cool to find.
Scott
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Posted - April 26 2016 : 9:29:47 PM
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hang on to that Golliwog, Chops
those are becoming RARE these days with the Political Correctness these days 
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Posted - April 26 2016 : 9:48:18 PM
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| What, you mean Sambo?
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Posted - April 27 2016 : 11:47:28 AM
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quote:What, you mean Sambo?
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â April 26 2016Â :Â 9:48:18 PM
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yup
there was even a resturaunt chain called Sambo's too
I has a couple of the animal toys
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Posted - May 04 2016 : 03:07:30 AM
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I would think it's also also possible that the undecorated centerflow hopper is in fact a car that was stripped of its original paint and tampographs.
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