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New week and my new engine!Mantua 2-8-2 with the chugger sound mech which is too quite fer this engine!
" Heck with counting 'em rivets, TRAINS ARE FOR FUN! Not called the Mad Scientist for nothing either!"
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Posted - August 14 2011 : 4:17:58 PM
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Posted - August 14 2011 : 7:25:41 PM
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Sweet stuff guys...
Mine is a Bachmann 4-8-4 Northern I rescued from a parts box...
...this is the "Before" shot...
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Posted - August 14 2011 : 7:29:27 PM
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MY New LOTW:
It was a Mantua Booster 0-4-0 / Athearn 2-8-2 kit bash project I just finished tonight.
I have since straightned the running boards...
Sean
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Posted - August 14 2011 : 8:45:25 PM
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My LOTW is a 43 - mile long yardsale find this past Saturday, guy had a table with Marx, Tyco, and other cars. I paid $20 for this Tyco 1890 steam kit, already assembled but not decaled yet. I think those are missing , but I got an extra motor with it.  Haven't tried to run it yet, but it looks very nice.
I was traveling to a remote train show 160 miles from home, this was one stop along the way. Unfortunately, the train show was not there when I got there, I think the Ruritan club didn't update their ad. Oh well, it was a gorgeous day for a drive in my 1976 Hornet Stationwagon, nice test drive through the mountains and valleys of middle Virginia. And I still got trains.
Jerry
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Posted - August 14 2011 : 9:09:03 PM
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Seriously Jerry!
A Hornet SW!!!??? What in the name of the baby Jesus was your Mom doing while carrying you!?
Your car affections are like Ghostbusters for Cars! 
I remember the back yard pic you posted!
-Gareth
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Posted - August 14 2011 : 9:36:34 PM
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well here is my AHM Hudson I got from a train show last year for $20 & it STILL hasn't been fixed  Only real thing missing is one of the steps on the tender
I noticed there is a wire on the coupler between the tender & the loco What is it for? 
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Posted - August 14 2011 : 9:42:53 PM
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Likely means Ben, that the Tender has working P-ups and is passing current to the Loco!
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Posted - August 14 2011 : 10:25:10 PM
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Yep. Most Rivarossi steamers had the same pickup style as Mantuas did.
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Posted - August 15 2011 : 12:02:13 AM
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My contribution to this week....imagine finding this still on clearance.
A lone amature built the ark! A large group of professionals built the titanic!
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Posted - August 15 2011 : 06:15:13 AM
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Welcome back ILUVBDWSR. Cool Loco Building and Boxcar.
Keep up the Tyco talk.
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Posted - August 15 2011 : 08:09:26 AM
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nice loco ILUVBDWSR my loco of the week,is my second canadiana,ken
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Posted - August 15 2011 : 08:20:26 AM
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No problem Bob...I'll try and post what I can. I dont really have any steamers so it was difficult to keep the steam subjest going this week.
Nice locomotive Ken!
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Posted - August 17 2011 : 9:32:56 PM
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Well since there isn't a TOTW (Trolley Of The Week) I'll post this one in here Also from Jeremy
Do have more in storage One is that AHM one that is supposed to have a dummy trailer Need one of those 
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Posted - August 19 2011 : 11:41:15 AM
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1st one of these in a long time.
Figured since it like many of my Tyco's are going to new homes soon, I'd better post some....
This is spoken for btw...
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Posted - August 19 2011 : 12:41:01 PM
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I found a photo of my x Bachmann 4-8-4 NYC Niagara
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Posted - November 27 2011 : 10:58:22 PM
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Remember reading somewhere the centipede tenders were designed how they were to allow them to fit somehow on a turntable?
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