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1987 BEV-BEL EASTER CAR - MINT - i picked this up in Columbia SC at New BROOKLAND RR and HOBBY shop last year - HAPPY EASTER TO ALL - JESUS IS RISEN - BRIANSTYCO
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Posted - March 31 2013 : 09:57:07 AM
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nice car I wants! 
Here is one that AMC sent me
Its hard to find with the red B & A letters
Now I just need to find the AHM one & my Kellogg's cars is complete
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Posted - March 31 2013 : 1:36:03 PM
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This is my COTW:
I forget who makes it.. I think Ambriod or LaBelle, but might be someone else. It was a $15 total purchase and comes with Central Valley trucks.
It is a platform passenger car for MOW use I assume:
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Posted - March 31 2013 : 6:26:51 PM
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my car this week ken
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Posted - March 31 2013 : 8:19:47 PM
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darn you, ken! I needs that one 
very nice too 
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Posted - March 31 2013 : 9:17:21 PM
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Nice one Ken! Appears to be in better shape than the one I got from Kellogg's as part of a promotional set back in 1979.
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Posted - March 31 2013 : 9:24:49 PM
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quote:This is my COTW:
I forget who makes it.. I think Ambriod or LaBelle, but might be someone else. It was a $15 total purchase and comes with Central Valley trucks.
It is a platform passenger car for MOW use I assume:
Originally posted by Mustangs_n_Trains - March 31 2013 : 1:36:03 PM
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Hi there Sean. It is a old Ambroid kit and your is all built up. Mine is still a kit. I'm complaining. Still have to build mine.
frank
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Posted - March 31 2013 : 11:56:30 PM
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My car of the week is a Pine Hill Logging Co. gondola, with a painted interior. -Thomas
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Posted - April 01 2013 : 02:30:28 AM
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Mine is a Mantua boxcar which ironically promotes Mantua Got it for $6 NIB at a train show a little while ago.
I buy, repair, and collect
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Posted - April 01 2013 : 08:07:29 AM
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| hi ben these are the promotional versions in plain white box,only got 3 of these,ken
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Posted - April 01 2013 : 09:05:05 AM
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quote:hi ben these are the promotional versions in plain white box,only got 3 of these,ken
Originally posted by catfordken - April 01 2013 : 08:07:29 AM
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ok well atm I has the 2 Frosted Corn Flakes by AHM the other hopper with plain letters & others which I forget what they are atm
Just need that car to complete collection I'll find one someday
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Posted - April 04 2013 : 07:30:46 AM
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Here is a car I picked up at the Salvation Army store in the middle 80's for 25 cents. There are no markings on the bottom of it and it has no trucks or couplers. Coupler boxes and floor/frame are all molded together. I am trying to figure out how to change the coupler boxes as they have no covers and one of them is broken.
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Posted - April 04 2013 : 07:42:38 AM
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* You should show a photo of the bottom for your car is a life like and the first of these used body mounted trucks and later ones used talgo trucks. my guess is it is a latter version and used talgo trucks.
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Posted - April 04 2013 : 08:26:23 AM
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| Toptrain, you are correct. I will post a picture of the bottom tonight. Thanks
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Posted - April 04 2013 : 09:13:16 AM
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quote:Here is a car I picked up at the Salvation Army store in the middle 80's for 25 cents.
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How the heck can you remember buying a boxcar almost 30 years ago and that you paid $0.25 for it???
That's just scary! LOL!
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Posted - April 04 2013 : 09:57:47 AM
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| Hey Tramp, you will find out there is some model railroad knowledge on this site and Toptrain is one of the best!!
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Posted - April 04 2013 : 11:01:45 AM
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"How the heck can you remember buying a boxcar almost 30 years ago and that you paid $0.25 for it???"
That's just scary! LOL!
The price sticker was still on it when I took it out of the attic. In the 80's I worked with a guy that would go to the salvation army store twice a week. He would look for trains for me. He would bring me 3 or 4 cars and track for $2.00. Cheap, I know, but I took all he brought. Other items I bought at stores going out of business. I still have some of the boxes with the discount prices still marked on them -- like a dummy santa fe marked .25 cents or a new AHM remote control switch - .99 cents.
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Posted - April 04 2013 : 11:54:20 AM
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Here is the bottom of the car. I do not have the pieces that hold the couplers on and also, one of the pins for the coupler is broken off.
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Posted - April 04 2013 : 1:15:07 PM
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quote:
Hi there Sean. It is a old Ambroid kit and your is all built up. Mine is still a kit. I'm complaining. Still have to build mine.
frank
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Hi Frank,
I have a couple of these. like them. This one was / is probably the roughest of what I have.
I also have these which are similar:
/tyco/forum/uploaded/Mustangs_n_Trains/20130404131326_12.JPG
I was watching this other one below and I am quite surprised at how high the price is going!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/370786847126?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649
The same seller also has a dormitory car listed. I have a really nice built one in a box & packed away. I think I posted it as my COTW a year or so ago now...
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Posted - April 04 2013 : 2:41:04 PM
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quote:Here is the bottom of the car. I do not have the pieces that hold the couplers on and also, one of the pins for the coupler is broken off.
Originally posted by thetramp - April 04 2013 : 11:54:20 AM
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It's definately trucks that are screwed into the frame. Coupler boxes remind me of athearns but they don't look the same.
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Posted - April 04 2013 : 2:43:58 PM
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quote:Here is the bottom of the car. I do not have the pieces that hold the couplers on and also, one of the pins for the coupler is broken off.
Originally posted by thetramp - April 04 2013 : 11:54:20 AM
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* Your box car had body mounted couplers and screw mounted trucks. you will need a set of screw mount trucks, perferably with couplers attached.
good luck.
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Posted - April 04 2013 : 2:49:40 PM
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Hi there Sean. I will live with my. sooner or latter I will build it saying, knowing that the chances are slim to none of it doing it. Now a big someday .
frank
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| The L&N box car appears to be Varney. If you look at the center bottom of the picture, you will see VARNEY embossed upsidedown.
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Posted - April 04 2013 : 6:32:43 PM
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I did expect thetrramp to see the varney name.
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Posted - April 04 2013 : 8:15:29 PM
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My bad. I did not see it. Should have put my glasses on. Can I cut those coupler boxes off and replace them?
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Posted - April 04 2013 : 8:41:09 PM
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If you are using tyco , life like, bachmann style plastic X2f couples you dont need a coupler box.
frank
edit ; I am attaching a photo of 2 bachmann trucks with couplers. The side walls of your coupler boxes that you have is all you need. look at how bachmann does it. mount then in the pockets in the floor of the box car.
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Posted - April 04 2013 : 8:51:20 PM
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I am going to look in my bag of parts but I don't think I have the screw ons. Are those push or screw on? I have a bunch of push on, maybe I have that
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Posted - April 05 2013 : 10:48:29 AM
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quote:This is my COTW:
I forget who makes it.. I think Ambriod or LaBelle, but might be someone else. It was a $15 total purchase and comes with Central Valley trucks.
It is a platform passenger car for MOW use I assume:
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Posted - April 05 2013 : 10:55:13 AM
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This is an Ambroid "One of 5000" kits made ages ago. It is a MOW car.The prototype for the passenger car was the Main Central. When I built mine ages ago I also used CV trucks which were the best trucks around at the time. The car was made by Northeastern, a supplier of wood shapes. I didn't keep up with HO kits but it is possible that thiis car was reissued by Mortheastern.
Abroid (an acetate glue product) had some really nice kits in there line. Today people would think that they were awfully crude.
quote]This is my COTW:
I forget who makes it.. I think Ambriod or LaBelle, but might be someone else. It was a $15 total purchase and comes with Central Valley trucks.
It is a platform passenger car for MOW use I assume:
Originally posted by Mustangs_n_Trains - March 31 2013 : 1:36:03 PM
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Posted - April 05 2013 : 11:02:56 AM
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Looks like I posted the picture (again) but screwed up the text message. I see that someone posted info about Ambroid MOW work caboose. Abroid ran two series of 12 cars. For those who maybe too young to remember Amboid was a celluoid based blue that worked well on wood. THe kit was made for Abroid by Northeastern models - a company that produced (and maybe still be around) wood shapes.
The kit was based on the Northeastern models Maine Central coach - It was actually a good scale rendition. I had built three of them(coaches) to run behind my little 4-6-0. I later added an MDC express reefer to the train. Somewhere along the line I sold the train to another club member.
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