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Picked this up at the show today. I thought the graphics were interesting.
There was another dealer with a LOT of old time reefers with all sorts of advertising slogans that I'd never seen, but he wanted $8 a piece and I didn't have a whole lot to spare. The beer cars were even higher, at $20-25 each.
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Posted - November 28 2011 : 06:22:13 AM
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nice car b77,i got this today accurail georgia rr,steel ended boxcar,and its heavy,runs smoothly,glob of glue on the platform of brake wheel will be removed asap,ken
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Posted - November 28 2011 : 10:11:50 AM
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I'll do something different & show 4 tankers I got 
$1 Anyone know the maker or what it from? 
$3 each Did get these in the boxes too I took them out to take nice pics of them
This one is from Toptrain I got it for the RI Marx set I has  Just need the caboose now 
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Posted - November 28 2011 : 10:18:11 AM
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looks like same make as the one toptrain sent ken
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Posted - November 28 2011 : 10:37:13 AM
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Hey Ken:
Like the Accurail stuff except for the stirrup step which as with many HO rollling stock units is way out of scale to provide a degree of robustness....
-Gareth
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Posted - November 28 2011 : 10:50:08 AM
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| Ah thanks Ken I didn't know the maker Now I just needs trucks for it
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Posted - November 28 2011 : 10:55:56 AM
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Gareth,methinks you protest to much ,its a toy,i do not waste time counting rivets,or in this case get a tape measure out,as i said it looks good and for what i paid would not expect better,i do not want to have a heart attack every time it de-rails,if it was brass i would expect better,when they do break i make a new set from scale brass or plastic,but only then ken
ps get posting then i can pull yours apart
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Posted - November 28 2011 : 11:00:26 AM
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Just to toy with Ben...a Marx Rock Island caboose, one of the best looking cabeese ever made...
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Posted - November 28 2011 : 11:07:49 AM
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Really.  
I'm not an overt rivet-counter despite your suggestion. It was an observation. With Tyco there is no real pretense about scale accuracy, but with accurail there is. That was kinda my point. I think somewhere I have the same unit, weathered almost exactly the same.
Sorry I'll get some pics up for you to hammer if it will make you feel batter!
I think you're right about fragility. I mean who is going to handle a Rapido freight car!? Compromise I guess between runners and shelf Queens....
JM&J&tAGMB&RK's,
Gareth
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Posted - November 28 2011 : 11:13:22 AM
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gareth chill bro,i was having a bit of fun lots of smilys in case you think i am serious,please post photo then i can BATTER it and have with me chips, ken
i do see what you mean though a funaro by comparrison
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Posted - November 28 2011 : 11:21:39 AM
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OK Ken,
please sit down and brace yourself.....
THAT'S FREAKING AWESOME!!!
I'm just saying, now that I've taken my detail and scale accuracy dmon out for a walk!
-Gareth
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Posted - November 28 2011 : 3:25:56 PM
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Beautiful car, catfordken! I`ll post my Wartime hopper when I get home assuming My camera will be working.
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An Athearn Valdosta Southern 
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Posted - November 28 2011 : 6:15:02 PM
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That is a VERY cool car, Jeremy!
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Posted - November 28 2011 : 6:48:39 PM
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That is a VERY cool car, Jeremy!
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Posted - November 28 2011 : 7:14:13 PM
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AHM car...
Mike
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Posted - November 28 2011 : 7:31:41 PM
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Cool Execess Hieght car! Me Likey!
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Posted - November 28 2011 : 7:32:16 PM
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This nice-looking AHM car is another $2 find from a couple weeks ago.
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Posted - November 28 2011 : 10:36:33 PM
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| technically the UP cattle car is NOT "excess height" I want a UP cattle car
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Posted - November 29 2011 : 12:17:03 AM
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Here's a little tool car from IHC that I got a while ago. It was fairly detailed right out of the box. -Thomas
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Posted - November 29 2011 : 08:07:22 AM
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Thats IHC!
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Posted - November 29 2011 : 08:16:05 AM
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quote:Here's a little tool car from IHC that I got a while ago. It was fairly detailed right out of the box. -Thomas
Originally posted by Redwoods - November 29 2011 : 12:17:03 AM
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got to get one of these,love it ken
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Posted - November 30 2011 : 7:36:18 PM
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Heres my Ahm double door wood boxar. M&St.L
" Heck with counting 'em rivets, TRAINS ARE FOR FUN! Not called the Mad Scientist for nothing either!"
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Posted - December 03 2011 : 7:56:07 PM
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Genuine Made in America TYCO 50' Burlington Northern Boxcar.
How rare is that! Okay, not so rare... but Tyco to a T, I'm sure you'll agree! Apart from the bits that aren't Tyco, of course, like the wheels and couplers. But that's of no consequence because this marks my official entry into the Tyco owners club and what better way than with a BN boxcar?
Sure to impress the ladies.
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Posted - December 03 2011 : 11:02:11 PM
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my car(s) for display
first one is an athearn 50 foot double door currently a former southern pacific"paint out" still haven't figured on what short line it will be "sold" to
second one is the same type of double door dropped down to a 40 foot copper service car for SP ( think we need a kitbash of the week? concensus?) SP was the only one to order these cars to haul copper ingots out of the southwest.
last photo shows the top cut on the roof...a scale 10 feet (give or take a few inches) was removed
just me Ray... and just because I have Tyco doesn't mean I am not a model railroader
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Posted - December 04 2011 : 12:41:08 AM
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I second Ray's idea of KOTW (Kitbash Of The Week).
-Thomas
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