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How about we start a thread on them? I'll start with the ad about them 
Looking for the JailBox & so is AMC
I remember seeing the JailBox ad YEARS ago
Any scale goes Including that odd pop/beer can car for O scale  Which That one you had to use the straight cylinder can for NOT todays cans 
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Posted - October 20 2011 : 06:48:05 AM
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This was in my 1984 Walthers catalog - my first one - I too would like to find a Jail Box car. Should have bought one or several back then.
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Posted - October 20 2011 : 07:52:53 AM
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BEER CAN TANK CARS!!!!! Epic Want!
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Posted - October 20 2011 : 09:12:43 AM
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| don't forget about the Impact Test Car which had a pinball ball inside of car What it would do was test your skills on how good you was coupling up to cars
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Posted - October 20 2011 : 6:15:50 PM
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quote:don't forget about the Impact Test Car which had a pinball ball inside of car What it would do was test your skills on how good you was coupling up to cars
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Posted - October 20 2011 : 6:20:38 PM
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...and my Oscar and Piker, the original kits from the 60s...
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Posted - August 27 2012 : 10:32:48 AM
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I just won a brand new in box unassembled "Impact Test Car". Being an Athearn collector this one had special interest to me as the pulpwood flat that it is based on is actually an Athearn car.
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Posted - August 27 2012 : 2:47:56 PM
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quote:
NOW THATS an interesting car! Would not be hard to duplicate tho!
Looks like it was made from a Athearn Bulkhead flat car.......
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Posted - August 27 2012 : 5:00:51 PM
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Let me ask about the Oscar & Piker
Would it work in real life or is it too short? 
Am still looking for the Jail Box car still
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Posted - August 27 2012 : 8:18:04 PM
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Wooo!! That's a cool test car!! I recall seeing the little coach somewhere, might have been at a train show.
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Posted - August 27 2012 : 8:27:45 PM
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quote:Let me ask about the Oscar & Piker
Would it work in real life or is it too short?
Am still looking for the Jail Box car still
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I don't see why it couldn't be done...the biggest problem after updating to current ICC specs would be weight, the little boogers would be all squirrelly on the track.
quote:Wooo!! That's a cool test car!!
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NOW THATS an interesting car! Would not be hard to duplicate tho!
Looks like it was made from a Athearn Bulkhead flat car.......
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Thanks guys...yes, it is designed around an Athearn Bulkead flat. I did make two variations of my own using pendulum type devices like these... http://www.freewebs.com/shaygetz/impactcar.htm One is hooked up to flashing LEDs...the other is in a dining car, using a Happy Meal Ren & Stimpy character sound module that makes...umm...shall we say, sounds that go with a good baked bean dinner afterglow?
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Posted - August 27 2012 : 8:40:03 PM
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Shay, I'm not sure on the "Piker" they have 3 axles so they shouldn't wobble or buck any.....BUT at high speeds, I bet they be difficult to keep on the rails!
Nice thought tho!
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Posted - August 27 2012 : 8:42:00 PM
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you know after reading the stuff on the tongue in cheek posting Ben made, I might actually sit down with a couple of pretty much trashed Athearn Passenger cars and make one of the mini-compact observation cars as he has pictured with an open plateform in the back!
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Posted - August 27 2012 : 10:39:19 PM
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These are the newer plastic Oscar and Piker.
I picked these up pretty cheap at a show.
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Posted - August 27 2012 : 11:21:26 PM
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quote:
Thanks guys...yes, it is designed around an Athearn Bulkead flat. I did make two variations of my own using pendulum type devices like these... http://www.freewebs.com/shaygetz/impactcar.htm One is hooked up to flashing LEDs...the other is in a dining car, using a Happy Meal Ren & Stimpy character sound module that makes...umm...shall we say, sounds that go with a good baked bean dinner afterglow?
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Oh god. That "timebomb car" is freakin' awesome. I've been stashing several of those toy flashy circuits for a few years now... I finally know what to do with them!!!! Thanks!
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Posted - August 28 2012 : 06:16:26 AM
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Isn't that something Tony? I got a TON of those flasher units too, all run off watch batteries, and can easily be converted to track power!
Thats an awesome idea tho.......
I'll be making all sorts of things with these tho, I got one that I'm going to run fiber optics to light the lights to a Police car in the layout, and then a fire truck as I plan them to run off the same light source, but at different locations....
I never thought to make something like these with one, but that be really cool to do! See, which locomotive pulls the best and is the smoothest running!
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Posted - August 28 2012 : 06:17:22 AM
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quote:...and my Oscar and Piker, the original kits from the 60s...
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Shay, these plastic cars or wooden? I have a small streamlined versions thats made of wood!
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Posted - August 28 2012 : 08:39:07 AM
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Hey Buss !
I like the one where you used a beer can. anyone's beer car. The kit gave you a set of trucks, a tank dome, end platforms, maybe a frame. You put it all together and you have a HO tank car. One with real Beer company advertisements.
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Posted - August 28 2012 : 12:59:47 PM
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quote:Hey Buss !
I like the one where you used a beer can. anyone's beer car. The kit gave you a set of trucks, a tank dome, end platforms, maybe a frame. You put it all together and you have a HO tank car. One with real Beer company advertisements.
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I have one of those kits in O scale.
I haven't put it together yet.
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Posted - August 28 2012 : 7:00:00 PM
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| BUT you gotta use the old steel cans that are a cylinder & not the ones that are made today, Ray
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Posted - August 28 2012 : 7:16:12 PM
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| ...and the HO ones used an 8 oz. pony can not made since the early 80s...
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| heh I wonder if the 8.3oz Red Bull cans would work
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Posted - February 06 2013 : 7:30:21 PM
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Not trying to be a annoyance. Just how hard are these Piker/Oscar wood kits to build? What about the impact test car? I seen some kits before, just have no idea where to start on building!
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Posted - February 07 2013 : 01:24:59 AM
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The original Oscar/Piker are traditional Walthers wood and metal kits. Not beginner models but not too bad. They did remake them as plastic assembled models, though.
The impact test car is based on an Athearn kit with some mods. It shouldn't be too challenging to build.
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Posted - February 07 2013 : 07:47:58 AM
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quote:These are the newer plastic Oscar and Piker.
I picked these up pretty cheap at a show.
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Well at least SOMEONE got some cheap! LOL! The ones I've seen on ebay recently ( 90's plastic versions ) have been selling for $30 each at least. I watched 4 different roadnames appear a couple months ago, and every single set ( both Oscar and Piker cars together ) sold for more than $60 per set. Ouch. haven't seen any at shows either.
Ben, as far as real life, they outlawed the Bobber caboose because of it's tendency to whiplash being such a small car at the end of the chain. I doubt shorty passenger cars would fare much better, whether in the center of a consist, or at the end. Just too small and light to take any sudden changes. It would probably be a rough ride for any passengers in them. Maybe in a slow-speed tourist train, but they wouldn't be economical to run, too few passengers. It would be a novelty, but that's about it.
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Posted - February 07 2013 : 09:53:37 AM
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True But I think I seen a pic of a modified Bobber Caboose & it had regular trucks on it!  Looks odd but cool
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Posted - February 07 2013 : 11:30:03 AM
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quote:Well at least SOMEONE got some cheap! LOL! The ones I've seen on ebay recently ( 90's plastic versions ) have been selling for $30 each at least.
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I guess I got a screamin deal then.
I found those at a show, in a box of cars marked $3 each.
They had a few steps broken off but I fixed that easily.
Kitbashing a set of them wouldn't be that difficult.
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Posted - January 30 2014 : 02:19:57 AM
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I have recently acquired a Jail Box car and have assembled it. Aside from the stocks and the figure that goes in it breaking, the car went together as supplied. I did change out the wheelsets as the originals weren't working for the interior lights. Great little car!
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Posted - January 30 2014 : 03:57:23 AM
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beautiful Jailbox!
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Posted - January 30 2014 : 08:27:06 AM
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| i will get one of those one day,but none seem to have arrived here yet,must of escapedken
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Posted - January 30 2014 : 11:50:04 AM
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There is one on ebay for sale:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/WALTHERS-JAIL-BOX-CAR-/141175264940?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item20deb396ac
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Posted - January 30 2014 : 2:37:38 PM
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I have a SP daylight oscar and piker set that i picked up for 10 bucks.
They always get a laugh when I run them 
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Posted - February 02 2014 : 4:55:14 PM
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I already had the Impact Test Car, now I got the beer car for a great price. I'm looking for an old school Olympia beer can as the body. Jail Box here I come.
Jail Box here I come.
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Not an "official" Walthers kit, but here's my version:
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Posted - February 23 2014 : 5:36:12 PM
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real nice Helm
Gonna put a name one it?
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Posted - February 23 2014 : 5:42:01 PM
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| hi helm,nice,love to see home made items,waste not want not sort of approach to modeling ken
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Posted - February 23 2014 : 7:43:31 PM
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Nice shorty, Helm! I like, I am hoping to do one of those myself. Did you cut the flat end off the Obs car and join it to the shorter rounded end? It looks very nice.
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It was an observation car shell I chopped up a few years ago. The first one I did I just chopped off a shell, but then I thought there was no way to get in the car. This is the second attempt with the end of the shell with the doors added on. It doesn't show up, but there are rear facing seats inside. I push it around in front of an engine as an inspection car for the brass hats.
The end door is just a piece of acetate that I masked off a square window and then painted it with the car.
The door on the other end was made the same way except instead of a square window, I used a hole punch on a piece of tape to mask off a "port hole" window.
Bus is right - I never got around to putting a name on the name plate.
Glad you like it
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Posted - February 25 2014 : 03:43:47 AM
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John Allan got the idea!
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Posted - March 03 2014 : 11:43:29 AM
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got one at last,should be here in a few days ken
sellers description,hope its as good when it gets here
This auction is for a Walthers Tongue-In-Cheek Jail Box Car Model kit, no 933-6854. I have photographed it in sequence as I’ve unpacked the box, and I have listed it as new as it looks to be in perfect condition, none of the little bags having been opened. Please understand I cannot guarantee everything is there as I don’t know what I’m looking for, but I've photographed everything that is there. It has a jail interior complete with criminals in stocks and a light. All in excellent condition
arrived as described ken
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Posted - March 06 2014 : 11:27:29 AM
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quote:got one at last,should be here in a few days ken
sellers description,hope its as good when it gets here
This auction is for a Walthers Tongue-In-Cheek Jail Box Car Model kit, no 933-6854. I have photographed it in sequence as I’ve unpacked the box, and I have listed it as new as it looks to be in perfect condition, none of the little bags having been opened. Please understand I cannot guarantee everything is there as I don’t know what I’m looking for, but I've photographed everything that is there. It has a jail interior complete with criminals in stocks and a light. All in excellent condition
arrived as described ken
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I swear I've seen something like that before.I think it was just the regular "railbox" car. I wish to find one someday.
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Posted - March 09 2014 : 1:57:29 PM
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hears what you saw ken
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Posted - May 23 2014 : 01:34:16 AM
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Even though I am on a self proclaimed hiatus from buying trains, I decided to go into the train shop to get some scenery for my layout. As I walked across the car section I seen a old small Walther’s box and I wondered what was in it. As I seen the outside picture I was overjoyed!
Then I opened it up and I was saddened, because I'm not a fix-it-guy. I ended up getting it, but only to throw it on eBay or put it with some of my other train stuff that will never see the light of day.
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Someone did a recent video of the tongue in cheek car.
Interesting car for the serious collector.
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Posted - November 11 2020 : 6:58:34 PM
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I still want one & the Carter Peanut car!! 
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Posted - November 11 2020 : 7:18:47 PM
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| i'm not at all into the jail box car... To me jail and HO trains just don't go together very well. I like Tycoville to be full of pleasant things and a happy place to visit.
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| I watch SCL! He did do a review on the peanut car as well, buss.
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Posted - November 12 2020 : 12:07:02 PM
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quote:I watch SCL! He did do a review on the peanut car as well, buss.
Originally posted by BlaxlandAlex3Â -Â November 11 2020Â :Â 7:45:36 PM
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yeah I wants both please!
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Posted - November 12 2020 : 12:09:25 PM
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quote:i'm not at all into the jail box car... To me jail and HO trains just don't go together very well. I like Tycoville to be full of pleasant things and a happy place to visit.
Originally posted by walt - November 11 2020 : 7:18:47 PM
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Tongue-In-Cheek models ARE fun!
even the Jail Box would look good in a consist of Rail-Box cars
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| I agree! I want an Oscar and Piker!
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Posted - November 12 2020 : 1:35:53 PM
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Here is your peanut car Ben. Not my video.
I guess some people would be interested in this item.
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