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 Posted - April 29 2012 : 8:43:25 PM
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This is a neat girder bridge with light, the light goes all the way across the top support, pretty unusual I'd think, Anyway, something different.
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Posted - April 29 2012 : 10:19:59 PM
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Jerry - believe that is Bachmanns blinking Bridge - I have several of them
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Posted - April 29 2012 : 11:47:07 PM
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| me too I hated it cause the bulb used track power & would slow down the loco
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Posted - April 30 2012 : 02:02:13 AM
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 Nice bridge, Jerry. Sounds like the light is powered by the current to the rails from Ben's comment. Could be rewired to its own power.
I've listed a pack of Tyco Boulevard lights as my AOTW. I have quite a few of these both on and off blister cards...
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Posted - April 30 2012 : 07:32:40 AM
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Nice street lights! I have a bunch of these..... Will look great on the layout once I get to adding streets to it! 
As for the whole things I also have lighted billboards as well, 3 of them! I'm not sure tho off the top of my head if they are TYCO or Model Power! (One of them will have my business card in it!
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Posted - April 30 2012 : 07:41:17 AM
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my accessory this week,brass bridge,ken
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Posted - April 30 2012 : 08:13:40 AM
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Ken,
Did you buy it like that or did you build it like that? I ask as thats a really nice brass bridge!
Either way who ever done it done very nicely and looks great with the lower walkway railings! (Not nearly as fragile as plastic would be!)
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Posted - April 30 2012 : 08:25:59 AM
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| a guy was selling them on ebay uk,cheap (£10) was only one left otherwise would have bought them,ken
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Posted - April 30 2012 : 11:03:49 AM
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here are mine
These are from a old long defunct company called Wight Right Sized Train Accessories out of Omaha, Nebraska 
Made of metal & they were staring to rust in my basement  Least when I set them up they'll look good  Do wish I had a second set of these
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Posted - April 30 2012 : 2:37:13 PM
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There's a few different combos Ben
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Posted - April 30 2012 : 3:59:13 PM
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Walt, i'd love to find one of those "A&P" billboards!
VERY NICE!
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Posted - April 30 2012 : 4:19:43 PM
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think I'd rather have the 2 older ones Walt
Just wait till I find my Tyco accesories, Walt hehe
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Posted - April 30 2012 : 4:48:26 PM
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EM-1 The A&P billboards by Life-Like are not hard to find...
Ben, & EM-1,
The A&P sign is ALSO found on the backside of a Chi Chi's billboard. Exxon is found on the backside of the Vlasic...
Ben, I'm fairly certail all of those billboards were avalible at the time of older blister cards...
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Posted - April 30 2012 : 5:11:49 PM
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Walt, I'll be keeping my eye out on the A&P one, as I had an A&P in my home town, along with an IGA and then the A&P turned into a Shop&Save.......
Will fit my era of modeling with the older 2 grocery stores!
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Posted - April 30 2012 : 6:11:59 PM
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There's also these light ups, EM-1... They are on ebay a lot and normally sell cheap. We had an A&P in our home town too, In my very early years
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Posted - April 30 2012 : 6:27:17 PM
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Walt,
I like both types of the A&P billboards and lights, HOWEVER, the light pictured above would have to acompany a A&P buil;ding as well, and then across town would be a billboard!
Know of any building to go with those?
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Posted - April 30 2012 : 7:53:05 PM
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John, In the 70's I used the Life-Like, "Convienient Store" (originally was the 7-11) as my A&P store. Had the pole lights at each end of it and the billboard down the road a bit.
The Life Like Store can be found on Ebay almost all the time. But DON'T pay the $20 for it. I believe $10 is a little too much.. http://www.ebay.com/itm/ACE-SUPERMARKKET-CONVIENCE-STORE-LIFE-LIKE-KIT-1330-/150428089470?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item2306367c7e
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Posted - April 30 2012 : 8:37:46 PM
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| I'd rather have the 7-11 Walt myself Thats why I want 3-4 of the Tyco/IHC Baskin-Robbins stores cause I want to do 1 like the Kwik-E-Mart & one like the proposed 7-11 mart
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Posted - April 30 2012 : 8:49:46 PM
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This time around Ben, I bought the Life Like "Buildems" 7-11... Back then I bought the Conv store. All they changed in the kit was the roof sign...
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Posted - April 30 2012 : 10:00:38 PM
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4 more Tyco accessories Jealous, Walt?
Sorry about the lighting but it was getting dark, was cloudy & had to hurry
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Posted - May 01 2012 : 02:47:39 AM
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Oh, very much so... 
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Posted - May 01 2012 : 05:26:38 AM
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quote:
The second card in I'm jealous the city street lights for like highways and such at exit ramps and on ramps......Those be a nice one if I were modeling more modern era but.......I'm not, but I have to admit, they are a good looking detail!
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Posted - May 01 2012 : 1:01:00 PM
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quote:Oh, very much so...
Originally posted by walt - May 01 2012 : 02:47:39 AM
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hehe You don't have any of these, Walt?
EM-1-- I has a 2nd set of those streetlights but one is broke but repairable
Same goes for the yard spotlight tower & that one is loose
I got those lights with the $100 box of trains I got a couple years ago
IF I ever do my layout these will be used & LEDed
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Posted - May 01 2012 : 2:18:23 PM
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Here's a few of my light poles in this pic.
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Posted - May 01 2012 : 2:53:54 PM
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Ben,
Sounds like you got a deal on the whole box.....depending on what was all in it!
Walt,
Looks like you have the street lights covered! WOW!
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Posted - May 01 2012 : 3:31:51 PM
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Thank You EM-1. I have over 40 packs of the Tyco Fluorescent poles and 10 loose ones. Here's a pic of some of my other lights & detail pieces...
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Posted - May 01 2012 : 5:15:17 PM
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now I'M jealous of you, Walt!
I see quite a few I want to get
Like the Interstate signs, streetlights with AIRPORT on them, street & highway signs, the tunnel signs, & railroad signs Also gas signs & other streetlights
If you have any extra, Walt Please let me know 
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Posted - May 03 2012 : 7:22:43 PM
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Just curious, what are the prices on the stickers of these?
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Posted - May 03 2012 : 7:49:54 PM
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| oh darn it! now I gotta find them again
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Posted - May 03 2012 : 8:19:59 PM
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quote:Thank You EM-1. I have over 40 packs of the Tyco Fluorescent poles and 10 loose ones. Here's a pic of some of my other lights & detail pieces...
Originally posted by walt - May 01 2012 : 3:31:51 PM
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You got one hellofa collection of street lights to say the least! WOW!
With the era I model I need to get as many of the little HO scale green lamp posts possible as the town I'm going to model in partial, has them up both sides of it!
I got a few but Its sure going to take a few more to say the least!
I also have lighted telephone poles as well!
I'll have to get pictures of the stache I got!
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Posted - May 03 2012 : 8:31:11 PM
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Newhudson, A little info on the Fluorescent poles I have pictured... The 1964-65 catalog lists a pack of two poles at .98 cents. The 1972-73 catalog has them at $1.80.
I picked two packs from my box and one has a sticker from, Kay Bee Toys at $5.99, marked down to $2.99... The other pack from Toyland has a $4.99 sticker on it...
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Posted - May 03 2012 : 9:25:08 PM
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hey Walt Wasn't there a highway light with sign that said STATION? 
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Posted - May 04 2012 : 12:06:02 AM
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EM-1, Below is an older pic of my Fluorescent lights by Tyco. I now have a total of 100 of these poles. I believe there 92 in this pic.
I like the lighted telephone poles you mentioned. I should have at least one pack around but I will buy a few more of them.
The green light posts you mentioned are not to hard to locate. The good news is that there is plenty of Life-Like light ups around.
MicroBen, I can't remember a Life-Like "station" sign ever. But there is a faint thought in my mind that I have seen something like that. May not be a lighted pole, .I'm not sure of one... ADDED, Ben, acually I am thinking the was a LL sign like the airport one, that had two words on it and one was station??
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Posted - May 05 2012 : 05:29:25 AM
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Well, now to post a few of my own to the AOTW.....
My layout supplies:
ENJOY!
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Posted - May 05 2012 : 09:01:22 AM
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| nice collection EM-1 some of those I want! hehe
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