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 Posted - February 19 2012 : 10:09:03 AM
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my car this week is another main line kit ken
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Posted - February 19 2012 : 11:14:03 AM
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Another find at the PA antique shop last year, sadly with a broken crane, but I *think* MB said he had this crane piece in his parts box. Anyway, one of few B&O cranes I've seen, so for a few bucks it came home with me , by Life-Like.
Jerry
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Posted - February 19 2012 : 11:42:57 AM
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Another old classic.
frank
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Posted - February 19 2012 : 12:04:22 PM
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I love the old Life-Like crane though I rendered it to be nearly useless when I was a kid. It's weighs nearly nothing and was hard to keep on the track years ago. However, I still have a nice one today and I remember it looked good sitting on a side track with other decor.
Walt
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Posted - February 19 2012 : 1:13:42 PM
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Marx boxcar, from a recent boxlot purchase...
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Posted - February 19 2012 : 2:33:22 PM
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My sole and only Ahm 50' boxcar. I like it for the paint scheme:
" Heck with counting 'em rivets, TRAINS ARE FOR FUN! Not called the Mad Scientist for nothing either!"
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Posted - February 19 2012 : 4:21:23 PM
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The Life-Like crane IS fragile to the point of uselessness, but incredibly, they went through the trouble to change it from the original Varney version:
- The NYC version has plastic builder's plates, instead of paper stickers. The ones on the cab are strategically placed to hide the mounting lugs.
- The NYC has a brass plate as a tension keeper for the spools. Also, the knob keyways are different: square on NYC; round on B&O
- The boom trusses have different spacing and angles on the cross members, thought this is move evident when both are viewed from the top/
- The swivel base is completely different. The B&O version uses a simple peg that inserts into the socketed flatcar base. The NYC version has a shoe molded onto the flatcar; the spool mechanism is designed to fit around this and assembles in halves around the shoe. It's pretty hard to turn as a result.
Despite all these changes, either one would probably snap and/or turn over if made to lift so much as heavy as a single M&M. Ok, maybe they could do that... but a Tootsie Roll is out of the question 
(the green "tender" on the NYC came from an AHM cannon car)
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Posted - February 21 2012 : 01:28:01 AM
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Contract job from the owners of the rental layout where all my stuff lives. Friend's Dad spray painted a random old caboose and handed it over to me wondering if I could do decals and weathering. He didn't strip the old colors or primer it (if you look real close you'll see a Harley Davidson logo on the side). To add to it he sprayed it way to much (notice the runs). But I went about my business anyways and did a quick & dirty job on it.
I screwed up the weathering a little it didn't come out how I wanted. But again it wasn't perfect to start so that worked out. Only detail I added was a painted metal rivet to serve as a smoke stack. The switcher is one of the ones my friend's Dad made up pulling the caboose back home!
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Posted - February 21 2012 : 10:40:12 AM
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it was a H-D caboose??  What a fool Those are hard to find! 
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