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 Posted - March 04 2012 : 07:12:33 AM
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A Mantua bridge or beam car, missing the side fences. A very nice model probably modeled after Lionel's version.
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Posted - March 04 2012 : 07:33:29 AM
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my car this week is a main line kit budweiser private owner reefer ken
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Posted - March 04 2012 : 09:19:36 AM
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- Nice budweiser reefer, I haven't seen that one before...
My COTW is an antique show buy, toy vendor has some HO / O / S stuff for sale all the time, but is 80% diecast / molded / tinplate cars. But I got this, which I believe is IHC, steam sound car, wonder if it will work ok on a DCC track? It takes a 9-volt battery, and hopefully that's all it gets its power from, I guess the physical movement makes the noise. Will have to try it out sometime. I paid $10 for it, he had another one, but slightly worse condition, this one looks near mint.
Wonder what type of steam engine it's supposed to represent?
Jerry
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Posted - March 04 2012 : 09:25:45 AM
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3 Tyco cabooses
This one is this way cause I washed it with PLAIN cold tap water! 
2 generic Tyco cabooses
oops I forgot to put wheels on again 
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Posted - March 04 2012 : 11:20:40 AM
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quote:- Nice budweiser reefer, I haven't seen that one before...
My COTW is an antique show buy, toy vendor has some HO / O / S stuff for sale all the time, but is 80% diecast / molded / tinplate cars. But I got this, which I believe is IHC, steam sound car, wonder if it will work ok on a DCC track? It takes a 9-volt battery, and hopefully that's all it gets its power from, I guess the physical movement makes the noise. Will have to try it out sometime. I paid $10 for it, he had another one, but slightly worse condition, this one looks near mint.
Wonder what type of steam engine it's supposed to represent?
Jerry
Originally posted by AMC_Gremlin_GTÂ -Â March 04 2012Â :Â 09:19:36 AM
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I have one of these that's black and lettered for the Pennsylvania.
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Posted - March 04 2012 : 12:36:38 PM
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Ben:
Don't drink the water!
My CotW is a Central Jersey Brass CNR Sow Flanger. I 'm hoping to sell it to a guy on the Cdn Modelling List to buy a part for my Unimat Lathe/Mill-Dividing Head....
My only piece of brass rolling stock.
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Posted - March 04 2012 : 2:17:46 PM
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I have both cars...
Jerry, they can be run on DCC because they are battery powered and self contained. The synchronization is appropriate for small drivered steam in the 48" to 60" driver range at 4 chuffs per revolution. I have two for my articulateds. Though tinny, I find them effective---and perfect revenge for those folks who insist on running their sound equipped beasts at full tilt, especially when pulled behind a pair of C44-9Ws...
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Posted - March 04 2012 : 3:47:57 PM
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too late, romcat I been drinking that water for years I think somehow the water washed off the clear-coat that was put on it
Otherwise I wash off my other stuff & they come out just fine hehe
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Posted - March 06 2012 : 6:41:41 PM
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quote:my car this week is a main line kit budweiser private owner reefer ken
Originally posted by catfordken - March 04 2012 : 07:33:29 AM
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Ken looking at your car makes me thirsty. I think I need a cold one.
* my car finishes up my sunday comic cars. There are 8 of them. I only have 4.
My favorite sunday comic. the one I have always read first, since a kid in the 1950's.
** Prince Valiant.
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Posted - March 06 2012 : 8:28:16 PM
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quote:- Nice budweiser reefer, I haven't seen that one before...
My COTW is an antique show buy, toy vendor has some HO / O / S stuff for sale all the time, but is 80% diecast / molded / tinplate cars. But I got this, which I believe is IHC, steam sound car, wonder if it will work ok on a DCC track? It takes a 9-volt battery, and hopefully that's all it gets its power from, I guess the physical movement makes the noise. Will have to try it out sometime. I paid $10 for it, he had another one, but slightly worse condition, this one looks near mint.
Wonder what type of steam engine it's supposed to represent?
Jerry
Originally posted by AMC_Gremlin_GTÂ -Â March 04 2012Â :Â 09:19:36 AM
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makes me wonder if I can fit that in a tender?
just me Ray... and just because I have Tyco doesn't mean I am not a model railroader
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Posted - March 11 2012 : 12:06:20 AM
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Nice posts everyone! .....Love the bridge car AF Bob
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Posted - March 12 2012 : 7:16:20 PM
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Hi, if one isn't familiar with the "chug-chug" gondolas and how the sound is intermittently working, it is by way of a brass fitting on one of the axles with two "brushes", side by side, touching it... the brass fitting is covering half the axle lengthwise... the gap, or the piece of brass completes the circuit for the sound-board to be activated with the nine volt battery...
The essential principle is the brass fitting on the axle opens and closes the circuit.
If the owners of the working gondolas would post a picture, those who don't understand my input, can see it for themselves.
John
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Posted - March 13 2012 : 12:12:48 PM
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To catfordken - I see the box and the reefer. I have built many a Main Line kit and they are wood. It looks like you have a Trains Miniature beer reefer - the brake wheel is the tip off. I may be wrong but that green reefer looks plastic to me.
By the way, I used to have the whole set of TM beer reefers and donated them to a train club being run by a minister (who preached against alcohol use!!)
You have a nice car whatevr it's made from.
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Posted - March 13 2012 : 1:46:38 PM
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well spotted LIGuy45,a genuine mistake heres the correct car ken
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