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 Posted - December 04 2011 : 07:27:28 AM
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my car this week,century beer car,got steps to refit ken
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Posted - December 04 2011 : 10:07:32 AM
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neat beer reefer ken 
Here is 2 I got from train show
Extinct
Tish-you 
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Posted - December 04 2011 : 11:05:55 AM
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Lionel side dump, converted to Kadees.....
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Posted - December 04 2011 : 11:14:50 AM
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Good weathering job Ken.
You have several with the same character of weathering, get themin the same batch?
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Posted - December 04 2011 : 11:29:33 AM
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Tyco club car from the 60's (obviously based on Tyco's NYC boxcar of the same era)... from what I can tell this layout still exists even some 50 years later, though in a modified form.
But that's not why this car is so cool. See, it actually fortells the vehicle of the looming 2012 apocalypse. Because if you ever see a volcano in Iowa, you can be sure the end is near.... 
Edited by - spiderj76 on December 04 2011 11:31:33 AM
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Posted - December 04 2011 : 11:40:48 AM
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Tony:
Boy the prototype of that car sure had STURDY door tracks!
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Posted - December 04 2011 : 11:55:09 AM
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My COTW is a Maxwell House covered hopper. Don't know who made it - it just says "Made in China" on the bottom.
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Posted - December 04 2011 : 12:51:37 PM
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 I like that Maxwell House car
Totally different from the Tyco version
Ever noticed how detailed these Tyco cars are?
Edited by - microbusss on December 04 2011 12:53:17 PM
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Posted - December 04 2011 : 3:29:18 PM
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This isn't quite as exciting as everybody else, but I decided to just grab something off the shelf that I haven't posted before.
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Posted - December 04 2011 : 4:11:59 PM
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quote:Ever noticed how detailed these Tyco cars are?
Originally posted by microbusss - December 04 2011 : 12:51:37 PM
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from what I know Tyco went off the ACF builders drawing, unfortunately the diemakers took the drawing and went literally by it, hence the two different hatches (ACF planned these cars with both types of hatch arrangements) fortunately both types of hatches are in detail part form so I usually "correct" that little error...
just me Ray... and just because I have Tyco doesn't mean I am not a model railroader
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Posted - December 06 2011 : 7:17:38 PM
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A Tyco reefer. Got that and a redbox era Mantua (diecast frame) stock car together for that price on that box!
" Heck with counting 'em rivets, TRAINS ARE FOR FUN! Not called the Mad Scientist for nothing either!"
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Posted - December 06 2011 : 7:57:41 PM
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here's mine a DT&I operating 2 bay....friend of mine says it's a rare one, it is rare to me since I have never seen that roadname myself
just me Ray... and just because I have Tyco doesn't mean I am not a model railroader
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Posted - December 06 2011 : 8:50:10 PM
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Athearn...
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Posted - December 06 2011 : 10:39:35 PM
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My COTW is a downsized scale, I took a Maisto On Track Tanker I just bought at a flea this past weekend, and tried on some TT gauge trucks I'd bought off of Ebay many months ago. Hadn't felt like digging out my stored ones, so when I ran across some loose ones, I got a few. Anyway, the trucks appear a tad wide, and high, but I can cut the mounting points down some, and live with the wide stance. Overall, I think converting On Track rolling stock is feasible. At $10 per truck pair, from China, a bit more than Tyco, but I do want to get some American TT rolling stock, and Maisto stuff is about all there is.
Maybe I'll spend some of my OT money after Christmas on more of the TT trucks. Hard to find them anywhere, so if I have to go to China, so be it. Fit well, and should work OK.
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Posted - December 07 2011 : 10:36:41 AM
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Yo Mike I has that same car & it is what UP painted for the Bicentennial instead of a locomotive 
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Posted - December 08 2011 : 10:44:00 PM
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quote: Yo Mike I has that same car & it is what UP painted for the Bicentennial instead of a locomotive
Originally posted by microbusss - December 07 2011 : 10:36:41 AM
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I was hoping that was the Captain America car in an upcoming "Avengers" themed set. A BN boxcar will represent Hulk. I'll have to think about Thor and Iron Man.
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Posted - December 09 2011 : 5:04:42 PM
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Here is my car of the week, or should I say cars. I did not know there were 2 versions of this car. That is until I had 2 side by side and noticed one does not have white lettering on the bottom and the other does. Do any of you know why, or what the heck may have happened? Since this car was only available for a year I wouldn't think that there would be any variances, especially something that noticeable. I am guessing the one with no lettering was made first. But other than that I am clueless.
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Posted - December 09 2011 : 6:13:55 PM
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wicked Tyco Anniversary car,ChrisWA! Looks like you got a factory error car
Is it that way on BOTH sides?? 
It don't even have the Consolidated Foods Inc logo on it!!
Or am I wrong that it's a factory error, guys?
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Posted - December 09 2011 : 9:17:22 PM
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I was sorta thinking the same thing. The one on the right with writing says a consolidated foods company Responsive to consumer needs on the left of the car with the logo. And it is like that on both sides. And the car without writing is blank on both sides. Weird thing is, I had the one with no logo and writing first and thought nothing of it, because I had nothing to compare it to.
I love that non Tyco Maxwell house car by the way, that is slick. I am not sure which I like better, the Tyco version or that version...
Edited by - ChrisWA on December 09 2011 10:18:44 PM
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Posted - December 09 2011 : 10:06:09 PM
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quote:
Athearn...
Mike
Originally posted by Mike - December 06 2011 : 8:50:10 PM
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DUDE! My car is numbered differently by 1 number!
Is that weird or what?
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Posted - December 10 2011 : 01:39:02 AM
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Hey Jerry, Where do you get those TT Trucks? Been wantin to model in that scale.
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Posted - December 10 2011 : 5:07:28 PM
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If your grandfather hadn't worn it, you wouldn't exist...
The Boxcar your Boxcar could smell like.
Undoubtedly one of Tyco's coolest products and rightly so. Old Spice boxcar, 50ft of manliness on wheels of steel with a nautical motif. Hello, sailor!
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