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I picked this Mantua / Tyco red box car this week
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Posted - February 23 2013 : 10:45:47 PM
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Posted - February 24 2013 : 08:52:34 AM
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A car for this week is a Model Die Casting 36' reefer.
** S&S Co.
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Posted - February 24 2013 : 12:07:16 PM
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oh I jealous of you, Mike
Maybe you should get a whole train like this:
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Posted - February 24 2013 : 12:08:19 PM
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IMO one of the prettiest 40' boxcars ever made by anyone:
Pre-Kader 70's Lionel HO.
Even boxed, it looks pretty. Even the seller's price tag was a nice touch, how often can you say that?!
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Posted - February 24 2013 : 1:30:53 PM
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I did good at the swapmeet yesterday
picked up an AHM helium car for a song ($2)
just me Ray... and just because I have Tyco doesn't mean I am not a model railroader
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Posted - February 24 2013 : 1:40:41 PM
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got this today,never seen a brass model in plastic box before,ken
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Posted - February 24 2013 : 1:54:01 PM
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Tyco car from zombie vickers. Thanks! Now I need the Trains anniversary car to complete my collection of Tyco train anniversary cars.
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Posted - February 24 2013 : 3:02:23 PM
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Picked this little caboose up for $7 yesterday. O gauge. Apparently, "Hafner Trains" was started by a guy who left American Flyer and started his own line of toys. If my research is correct, this caboose came from a wind-up train set. 
I also saw a rather curious set where I bought this caboose. It was a Marx set, but the locomotive travels in a circle on a track where the ties are made of whistles. When the whistles/ties are arranged in certain ways, the train plays a tune as it goes around. Anyone know much about that set?
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Posted - February 24 2013 : 6:18:32 PM
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My COTW will compliment WeekendRailroader's, I have collected more than a few tinplate pieces in 2012, from Marx to Ives.
Here are a pair of Ives tinplate Passenger cars, I had to take the baggage car apart because the sides were bowed very badly, I finally got them straightened and the doors sliding again. Both in decent shape for their age ( 1940's I believe ). Picked them up last fall at a York, PA Toy show (not train show ), guy wanted to divest himself of a decent collection of Marx tinplate, and had these in with them. I don't have many ives, but these two are a nice start.
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Posted - February 24 2013 : 6:39:44 PM
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cool stuff, guys Always did like those whimsical O gauge train stuffs 
ok there are some silly whimsical stuff in HO too & Lionel had a bunch
rgcw5 - I has the same in UP
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Posted - February 24 2013 : 7:45:10 PM
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quote:oh I jealous of you, Mike
Maybe you should get a whole train like this:
Originally posted by microbusss - February 24 2013 : 12:07:16 PM
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That's a cool video, how did you find it?
I got that box car at a show, not sure of the manufacturer...
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Posted - February 24 2013 : 8:31:13 PM
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| Mike - mm randomly searching for train toons hehe
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Posted - February 24 2013 : 11:41:22 PM
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I seem to not have pictures of rolling stock so how bout the tender to my newest arrival, a Roundhouse 4-4-2 that is orange We've seen a lot of it recently. Built the tender in a day.
I buy, repair, and collect
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Posted - February 25 2013 : 06:46:01 AM
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Redneck Justin, you just missed on last week on ebay, it sold for $50.
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Posted - February 25 2013 : 07:58:39 AM
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quote:oh I jealous of you, Mike
Maybe you should get a whole train like this:
Originally posted by microbusss - February 24 2013 : 12:07:16 PM
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Hey Buss ! Good Show ! I liked the video you posted. Very good. Roller bearings aren't hot stuff. They are cool .
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Posted - February 25 2013 : 08:39:52 AM
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thanks, toptrain I do have a few faved vids in YT
Wait untill next week's BOTW,COTW & LOTW I'll have new stuffs after train show hehe 
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Posted - February 26 2013 : 12:55:08 AM
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Ben,
Hilarious video, especially because Big Tim sounds suspiciously like Beaky Buzzard.
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Posted - February 27 2013 : 09:23:52 AM
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quote:My COTW will compliment WeekendRailroader's, I have collected more than a few tinplate pieces in 2012, from Marx to Ives.
Here are a pair of Ives tinplate Passenger cars, I had to take the baggage car apart because the sides were bowed very badly, I finally got them straightened and the doors sliding again. Both in decent shape for their age ( 1940's I believe ). Picked them up last fall at a York, PA Toy show (not train show ), guy wanted to divest himself of a decent collection of Marx tinplate, and had these in with them. I don't have many ives, but these two are a nice start.
Jerry
Originally posted by AMC_Gremlin_GTÂ -Â February 24 2013Â :Â 6:18:32 PM
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Posted - February 27 2013 : 09:29:07 AM
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Ives was a long established toy maker (in business long before Lionel) and their train sets were a huge Lionel competitor. The company went bankrupt in the depression and Lionel bought the company. Ives became the Lionel low end line; later it was morphed into the Lionel Scout sets. Those cars you have are from the nineteen twenties.
quote:My COTW will compliment WeekendRailroader's, I have collected more than a few tinplate pieces in 2012, from Marx to Ives.
Here are a pair of Ives tinplate Passenger cars, I had to take the baggage car apart because the sides were bowed very badly, I finally got them straightened and the doors sliding again. Both in decent shape for their age ( 1940's I believe ). Picked them up last fall at a York, PA Toy show (not train show ), guy wanted to divest himself of a decent collection of Marx tinplate, and had these in with them. I don't have many ives, but these two are a nice start.
Jerry
Originally posted by AMC_Gremlin_GTÂ -Â February 24 2013Â :Â 6:18:32 PM
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Posted - February 27 2013 : 8:57:25 PM
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quote:Ives was a long established toy maker .... Those cars you have are from the nineteen twenties.
Originally posted by LIGuy45Â -Â February 27 2013Â :Â 09:29:07 AM
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Wow, really? I had no idea they were that old. Pretty cool cars, they'll be displayed somewhere eventually.
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Posted - February 27 2013 : 8:59:21 PM
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| A roco helium car
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Posted - February 28 2013 : 12:20:44 AM
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This is a car I got new as this kit here from Trains n' Hobbies. I had spotted the name "attica" on the shelf, and though I wasn't really looking for it, I didn't know such a model existed. Another great BB kit.
It's a nice short line in western NY which has a 2-8-0 ALCo just like the New Hope & Ivyland and Connecticut Valley Line. This railroad does freight with GE 44 tonners it bought over 50 years ago, and runs the steam locomotive in excursions that can be found on youtube. I haven't been there yet, but I like shortline roadnames like this.
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Posted - February 28 2013 : 5:35:10 PM
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OK Maybe I can get pic here this time 
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Posted - February 28 2013 : 11:32:17 PM
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| I picked up one of those Helium cars in the box last fall, carried it around for $6, then had a dealer at another show ask me if I had any. He bought it, then told me they're supposed to be good for $12 on eBay. Who knew? Most of those AHM/Roco cars you're lucky to get $4 out of, I got it off a table where they were 3 for $10 and there was some other car I wanted, I forget even what now.
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Posted - March 01 2013 : 10:24:58 AM
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I got one of them Helium Cars in UP
Its a real car One is in a museum in Texas I think
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