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 Posted - January 12 2012 : 1:13:04 PM
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As a child in the 70's I remember my parents and I going to the store and buying the Lesney matchbox trains. Now 30 some years later my father has begun collecting them again,and here is a few pics of some he recently bought. They were made in England. They even had some sets out too with track. He has so many im going to build him a display case to put them in. 
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Posted - January 12 2012 : 7:35:20 PM
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Nice Royal Blue! I was unaware of Matchbox trains that were made about the same time I was steppin' into Tyco Trains & slot cars. I have about 30, pre 1970 Matchbox regular wheels cars/truck mint in their boxes.. I really like that older series ....
Walt
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Posted - January 12 2012 : 8:32:49 PM
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I have a yellow shunter, the green one like in the center, and one trolley/passenger car? Don't have the red and black engine, or that other green one on the far left. What is that? I'm going to try to power the yellow dock shunter with some kind of HO drive system. Has an LED on the roof , and an aluminum exhaust stack modification to it. 
Jerry
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Edited by - AMC_Gremlin_GT on January 12 2012 8:36:56 PM
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Posted - January 12 2012 : 9:36:17 PM
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| Nice...I'm still looking for one, I have just the mechanism to power it with.
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Posted - January 13 2012 : 2:22:38 PM
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well these Matchboxes is the reason I still love the green GWR loco That the one with the square boiler & is a 0-6-0T
Also Matchbox did make a caboose for these sets & the flat car with container
I still would like Duck in HO/OO scale hehe 
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Posted - January 14 2012 : 03:29:31 AM
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wow...
Back in the 7th grade, I got a set of these and I kept adding to it. The track, crossings, the side dumping hopper... I had three flats with containers with matching lift slots on the side so that my container lifter/forklift could load and unload them.
I had three 0-6-0T's, the green "Duck" locomotive, three diesels, four passenger cars, an observation car, caboose/brakevan, rail signs, signals, also had the truck that the containers were fitted to.
Very solid wheels/suspension and hook/buffers... the works! Also got a hold of some cheaper "copy-cat" locomotives.
yeah... wow, nice to see this stuff. Mine are halfway across the continent from me...
John
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Posted - January 14 2012 : 11:31:39 AM
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Father just won a mint matchbox train set on ebay with track and all. He just found mine from when I was a child but they are "well"played with. Now he is Looking @ the more rarer ones with different paint jobs and decals.I will post more pics soon. He is expecting a big lot of them today to show up
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Posted - January 14 2012 : 7:56:39 PM
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I've got the red 0-4-0 steamer, the red passenger car and the yellow shunter. Didn't really think they'd be useful from a model railroading standpoint but I guess ya never know...
Kris Carver-Seaboyer
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