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This week I'm going to start out this with an unusual submission - a Caboodlebug. LOL. I've been wanting to make a powered HO car for fun, and at the last Timonium show I picked up some damaged cabooses and a Mantua? Hustler chassis, and found the shell is a darn near perfect fit...the rest, as they say, is history.  I modified the clear window insert shell, and it now clears the motor magnet. It runs VERY nicely, I need find a way to secure the body to the frame, and put some couplers on the chassis. Probably going to put a small light on the "cab forward" section as well. Anyway, enjoy this unusual "engine", hope to DCC it and use it at club shows. 
Jerry 
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Posted - November 11 2012 : 07:12:26 AM
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The long carbody on the short wheelbase resembles a trolley. It just needs some end platforms for passengers to jump onto!
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Posted - November 11 2012 : 10:51:29 AM
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My entry is a steam locomotive, A Lionel SP from the early 60s
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Posted - November 11 2012 : 11:01:19 AM
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That caboose shell fits right on that chassis real nice.
This is a project I am working on.
It is a modified Bachmann K4 boiler on a Mehano 2-8-2 chassis.
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Posted - November 11 2012 : 11:30:05 AM
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My ambitious project is to take this old Rivarossi 0-8-0 which was just a frame with all the running gear torn apart due to wear and the tender in pieces. I sold the boiler many years ago because I never thought I'd ever restore it....Well, I am now Repaired the frame, cleaned the rods and valve guides, repaired 3 of the 4 wheels and painted them, not the tire of course. However the damage to the 3rd wheel is to severe for it to be used...there's a huge hole in one side of the wheel!  I have a guy lined up to purchase a new wheel from, then I will take the geared axle from the broken wheel and put it on the new wheel. Then after all that all the rods will be finished and connected. All of them are now but obviously not the 3rd wheel which is out. 3 new cover plate screws, new tender trucks and that's it so far. Next up is like I said the new 3rd wheel, purchasing a brass pilot beam and cutting off the old one with has no steps  Then I got a trade deal working to aquire a new boiler for it! This will have been my biggest project when finished!
 here she is as of yesterday. Sitting on seperately added track inside my Seybold Locomotive Works shop
I buy, repair, and collect
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Posted - November 11 2012 : 12:00:15 PM
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My like new $2.34 GP 20
caboose 1
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Posted - November 11 2012 : 5:39:24 PM
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Is that a Tyco red box, Caboose 1?
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Posted - November 12 2012 : 1:34:32 PM
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This is my LOTW:
A Varney Yellowstone:
Sean
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Posted - November 12 2012 : 3:57:13 PM
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Love the Yellowstone!
Starting my Tyco and other favorites collection over again after 37 years.
My still in progress list of inventory and wantlist: tyconut.com
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Posted - November 12 2012 : 8:12:51 PM
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| Awesome. I never see stuff like that.
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Posted - November 12 2012 : 8:52:24 PM
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[quote]Is that a Tyco red box, Caboose 1?
Glenn
Originally posted by gmoney - November 11 2012 : 5:39:24 PM
Yes it is Glenn
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Posted - November 12 2012 : 10:35:50 PM
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Mine is a LNIB Rivarossi "Big Boy" 4-8-8-4 UP that I picked up last Sat at the Allentown, Pa train show.
The battery in my camera is dead or else I would post a pic.
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Posted - November 12 2012 : 10:56:03 PM
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quote:This is my LOTW:
A Varney Yellowstone:
Originally posted by Mustangs_n_Trains - November 12 2012 : 1:34:32 PM
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Sean,
I've always wondered about this model! (I am a Yellowstone LOVER!) so.... whats the drive look like if its able to come apart or is......I'd like to see what that looks like. I had lost a friend that was part of the design of that model so.....I got some inside insight from him before he died 2 years ago!
~John
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Posted - November 14 2012 : 2:17:38 PM
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another one of those bargains,an unused b&o president adams by mantua,ken
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Posted - November 14 2012 : 3:16:47 PM
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Ahhhh Ken. you got me man! Man O man thats a NICE one. ERRRR I have the green President Washington from Mantua and the President Adam's is the next one, I'm after as I want the "blue version as well as the all blue version, and then have the green and gray Pres. Washington, along with the later years version of the President Polk in all green!
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Posted - November 15 2012 : 09:15:17 AM
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Mine is the ANNA RR 4-8-0 now back in service.
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Posted - November 16 2012 : 12:44:14 PM
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Like that one Frank!
Sean
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