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And it begins.... My car is one of my favorites, an ALL metal D&RG cattle car! Just cleaned up the sliding door braces and oiled them so the doors move smoothly. Only plastic parts are the wheels and trucks.
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Posted - November 25 2012 : 3:10:21 PM
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Oh I'm jealous of you,SCVR66 ^^
To counter that I'll post this CN Auto Carrier which is NOT a Tyco I swear it!
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Posted - November 25 2012 : 3:21:01 PM
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My contribution for the week is a double feature; Two loaded AHM pulpwood rack cars 
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Posted - November 25 2012 : 3:21:14 PM
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Doesn't even look Tyco to me but I love it!
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Posted - November 25 2012 : 3:26:58 PM
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quote:Doesn't even look Tyco to me but I love it!
Originally posted by SCVR66Â -Â November 25 2012Â :Â 3:21:14 PM
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I do have that same black Rio Grande cattle car in my fleet.
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Posted - November 25 2012 : 3:27:48 PM
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How ironic! I finally brought mine out again and it's staying out
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Posted - November 25 2012 : 6:31:15 PM
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Revell Great Northern Gondola.
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Posted - November 25 2012 : 8:48:49 PM
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Gonna post some Tyco for this one, I haven't seen it before, a Stokely Van Camps ( beans? ) box car. Must be a rare one, I don't recall seeing it before at shows. Decent shape, picked up at show today for $3 in the bargain bin.
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Posted - November 25 2012 : 9:40:00 PM
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Nice one, AMC...reminds me of the postwar Lionel VanCamps bank car. I scored two of them for $20 a year or so ago.
My contribution this week is a beer car. As I've scaled back my collecting, I've been making barely any purchases. But my one weakness is beer cars. (and beer) This was my only purchase from last month's tiny Atchison KS train show:
It's interesting that I've noticed any rolling stock with alcohol or tobacco advertising commands a premium price compared to other things. I didn't pay much for this, I guess because it's not a currentlyrecognizable logo. In coming weeks, I'll show some of my other recent passions: unbuilt Athearn kits. I've started picking them up and putting them away for a "rainy day."
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Posted - November 25 2012 : 10:04:52 PM
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Nice stuff guys...mine is part of a gift given to me from a member of another forum, a Cox railgun from 1975...
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Posted - November 26 2012 : 07:44:41 AM
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quote:Nice one, AMC...reminds me of the postwar Lionel VanCamps bank car. I scored two of them for $20 a year or so ago.
My contribution this week is a beer car. As I've scaled back my collecting, I've been making barely any purchases. But my one weakness is beer cars. (and beer) This was my only purchase from last month's tiny Atchison KS train show:
It's interesting that I've noticed any rolling stock with alcohol or tobacco advertising commands a premium price compared to other things. I didn't pay much for this, I guess because it's not a currentlyrecognizable logo. In coming weeks, I'll show some of my other recent passions: unbuilt Athearn kits. I've started picking them up and putting them away for a "rainy day."
Originally posted by burlington77Â -Â November 25 2012Â :Â 9:40:00 PM
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** You haven't mentioned who made it so I'll add that. That is a Trainminature car. My personal favorite in manufactures. They made cars with multiple colors. Each color silk screened separately in overlays. They, TM did great work with their decorating of the cars. They also did great work in making many different cars to put the screening on. They did not just make a wood reefer and a steel reefer. They made many variations of wood reefers. Excellent copies of the real cars as they were made through time with their improvements, changing to all steel and further along in time to early plug door refrigerator cars. So they made not one reefer but a series of at least 7. Few people notice it. They did the same with all their cars. All the art work like on the Hellmann's beer car are exact copies of what was on the real cars of their day.
* Heilman's Beer Companies' Art work has been applied to other HO cars throughout the years. When wood car kits were purchased in the 1940's and 50's, decals were available to allow the modeler to make a copy of this car even back then. Excellent rub on, and decal colored lettering and details are available now for this same car and others. Branchline, recently released a ready to run car of this Heilman's Beer Co car. Not long ago they also released it in kit form. It was done in different numbers.
* The Walters company owns the Trailminature dies for this car and has remade it in the past, also with a different number. The TM version has a black floor. The Walters version has a tan floor.
frank
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Posted - November 26 2012 : 11:21:05 AM
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I found a old Tyco caboose with them loop couplers for $2!!
Is this a hard to find caboose? Cause it does say Mantua on the bottom
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Posted - November 26 2012 : 12:52:08 PM
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My offering for the week is one I picked up yesterday at the flea market. I'm not quite sure who made this one, but I knew I had to have it.
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Posted - November 26 2012 : 7:14:45 PM
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its a Life-Like
http://www.ho-scaletrains.net/lifelikefreightcars/id15.html
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Posted - November 28 2012 : 5:58:22 PM
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My Tyco Sara Lee car (not Tyco Lee!) pratically mint!
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Posted - November 28 2012 : 6:23:08 PM
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I had that car Justin!! I don't know what happened to the body but I still have the long frame!
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Posted - November 28 2012 : 8:04:02 PM
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| I has 2 of those Sara Lee cars, Justin & both have different colored lettering!
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Posted - December 01 2012 : 12:53:58 AM
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quote:My contribution for the week is a double feature; Two loaded AHM pulpwood rack cars
Originally posted by badman55Â -Â November 25 2012Â :Â 3:21:01 PM
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badman, NOW I'm jealous! Those are NICE pulpwood cars! 
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Posted - December 01 2012 : 12:55:39 AM
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quote:Nice stuff guys...mine is part of a gift given to me from a member of another forum, a Cox railgun from 1975...
Originally posted by shaygetz - November 25 2012 : 10:04:52 PM
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Shay, I've got 2 of those canon cars! NICE! ( actually got 3 complete US Military sets to be exact!)
VERY nice!
BTW, got your package in the mail with the horns in it! Will PM you in a bit on it!
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Posted - December 01 2012 : 12:58:14 AM
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And now, for me to add my car of the week!
This car is part of the original I began painting for my home towns historical society......I designed these cars in O scale for them, and they took my prototypes and had Weaver make them! NOW, atleast I got one car of them I designed!
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Posted - December 01 2012 : 01:49:47 AM
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quote:Nice stuff guys...mine is part of a gift given to me from a member of another forum, a Cox railgun from 1975...
Originally posted by shaygetz - November 25 2012 : 10:04:52 PM
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I have one of those in the original box.
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Posted - December 01 2012 : 01:52:50 AM
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quote: quote:My contribution for the week is a double feature; Two loaded AHM pulpwood rack cars
Originally posted by badman55Â -Â November 25 2012Â :Â 3:21:01 PM
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badman, NOW I'm jealous! Those are NICE pulpwood cars!
Originally posted by EM-1Â -Â December 01 2012Â :Â 12:53:58 AM
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EM, I have duplicates of those two cars that are empty. I have one car loaded and one car empty for both cars.
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Posted - December 01 2012 : 02:14:42 AM
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Badman,
Thats awesome! I will be keeping my eyes out on atleast 2 of them!
NICE cars as they look from what I can see!
~John
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Posted - December 02 2012 : 12:03:09 AM
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quote:
** You haven't mentioned who made it so I'll add that. That is a Trainminature car. My personal favorite in manufactures. They made cars with multiple colors. Each color silk screened separately in overlays. They, TM did great work with their decorating of the cars. They also did great work in making many different cars to put the screening on. They did not just make a wood reefer and a steel reefer. They made many variations of wood reefers. Excellent copies of the real cars as they were made through time with their improvements, changing to all steel and further along in time to early plug door refrigerator cars. So they made not one reefer but a series of at least 7. Few people notice it. They did the same with all their cars. All the art work like on the Hellmann's beer car are exact copies of what was on the real cars of their day.
* Heilman's Beer Companies' Art work has been applied to other HO cars throughout the years. When wood car kits were purchased in the 1940's and 50's, decals were available to allow the modeler to make a copy of this car even back then. Excellent rub on, and decal colored lettering and details are available now for this same car and others. Branchline, recently released a ready to run car of this Heilman's Beer Co car. Not long ago they also released it in kit form. It was done in different numbers.
* The Walters company owns the Trailminature dies for this car and has remade it in the past, also with a different number. The TM version has a black floor. The Walters version has a tan floor.
frank
Originally posted by toptrain - November 26 2012 : 07:44:41 AM
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Thanks for all that info. I really didn't know anything about it. It was the only thing that "popped out" at me at that show.
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