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 Posted - June 03 2012 : 01:51:45 AM
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i live in canada and were i live it is clean up week that means people can through out pretty well what they want. once every couple years it comes along. well i was out looking for old wooden dressers i like to strip and refinish. well i seen an old dresser so i stoped to pick it up and there was a cardboard box on top i opened the box and there was a cox train set in the box not the origanal box but it still was full of cox train stuff, 2 complete engines 1 robin hood multi foods and 1 chattanooga the cars are custo frozen pizza,stouffers, baby ruth,old dutch cleanser,bicks,jello,wesson,coorsh delicateesen products,robin hood grain car,robin hood flour tanker, robin-o oatmeal,brant caboose and a chattanooga caboose all in good shape plus the transformer and a lot of track. i have not counted it yet. i am going to put it together tomorrow and try it out the transformer does hum when i pluged it in i will let you know how i make out when i get back from work next week
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Posted - June 03 2012 : 08:59:50 AM
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| Nice catch...Cox is mostly Athearn equipment so parts and maintenance will be an easy deal.
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Posted - June 03 2012 : 09:39:12 AM
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 sweet find I look thru dumpsters all the time & it's been years since I found a train
Post some pics of the find when you get a chance
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Posted - June 03 2012 : 09:52:40 AM
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Nice catch there! Sometimes trash treasures turn out to be very good.  Post pics when you get a chance.
Jerry
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Posted - June 03 2012 : 11:32:06 AM
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Your mention of cars with Robin Hood Flour calls to mind that a grain elevator in suburban Mpls had that logo name on it in the 1960s. I am not sure if that was a franchised brand name or the commissary operation was actually based in Minneapolis at the time. The fact that you have more than one car with the logo name- was the set a promotional one, perhaps, such as companies used to offer employees as gifts, etc?
Curious!
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Posted - June 03 2012 : 11:33:24 AM
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Second thought- International Multifoods is based in Minneapolis, so there may be some corporate connection there.
Ron
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Posted - June 03 2012 : 11:57:25 AM
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sounds a bit like this one ken
http://ho-scaletrains.net/coxtrainsresource/id16.html
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Posted - June 03 2012 : 3:49:00 PM
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That drawing on the tank car of Robin Hood was exactly as I recall seeing on that grain elevator, as well!
Ron
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Posted - June 03 2012 : 8:14:04 PM
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| yup do want one now hehe
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