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A Conrail caboose.

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no idea of make,no interest in conrail,but its here ken
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Atta-boy Ken. It's Tyco :)
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Today's COTW for me is a just-acquired Tyco Auto-loader with AMX and Camaro cars. $8 it got a new home. :)



One more for the AMC consist.

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Mantua Tyco Oldtimers...

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This is my COTW:

It is an all wood scratchbuilt flat car carrying a heavy brass cannon load:
Sean

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Mantua Tyco Oldtimers...

Mike



I love those old timers Mike! Nice post!
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Thanks Sean, I really like your version of an Oldtimer Railroad Gun...

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Sean being an ex artillery man,that cannon would have mighty big balls,hope you got a crane to go with it ,or I can see some men with some big hernias ken
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Guys,

With me, and my distant relatives, I WILL be making a flat car like the one Sean has pictured!

Anyone of you that knows my last name should say it all!....




Sean, any chance you can shoot a picture of that old time flat car with dual trucks? I want to see how the carry bolster is made.......
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quote:
Sean being an ex artillery man,that cannon would have mighty big balls,hope you got a crane to go with it ,or I can see some men with some big hernias ken

Originally posted by catfordken - July 23 2012 :  3:23:50 PM



LOL! Thanks Ken!

It is very top heavy, that is for sure. I just think it is a pretty clever piece.
Sean

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Sean, any chance you can shoot a picture of that old time flat car with dual trucks? I want to see how the carry bolster is made.......



Consider it done John:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9977705@N05/

I uploaded several new shots of the car to flickr. It seems the bolster is just a flat bar stock with three holes drilled in it.
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Sean,
THANKS! Thats an interesting car you have and I have always liked the 4 truck heavy flat cars so.....It doesn't look to be to bad to build so, I'm going to be custom building one at some point as it looks, I have all the parts needed to make one, even right down to the Arch bar trucks! Which I must add, that they look to be Central Valley trucks, which, I too have them as well!
~John

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I'll post my Tyco Sanka car with product & original coffee cup

Yes did post this in the Tyco Cars & Their Products section already
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They say men like twins, so here you go!! Four down, and two to go!!
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Look at Microbusss cup, they even spelled "caffeine" wrong on the cup!
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Hey GG-1, there are 7 derricks. The PRR derrick car came in 2 versions, the common gray one and the rare tuscan version.
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I think I'm gonna cry!!
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the derrick car crane is missing from my UP flatcar
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