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Already gave you my address once...I'll PM it again. 
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| I like that Niagra hopper, Glenn. I found one about 12 years ago on Ebay and had to have it...
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Posted - June 01 2015 : 01:26:22 AM
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I suppose it is my turn to 'fess up.
I took the plunge and just ordered a Broadway Limited 2-8-2 Light Mikado , A.T.&S.F.
I just ordered it from Modeltrainstuff.com [always a nice discount there] so I do not have it yet. However here is some info about it
http://www.broadway-limited.com/2901usralightmikado2-8-2atsf3141paragon2sounddcdccho.aspx
Finally,,for me a just right sized Santa Fe steam loco 
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I think my other slippery slope is junk box diving or getting steam engines in despair on eBay and eventually will get them detailed and painted. Can't help myself! Keep saying no more projects but they keep lining up every year!
" Heck with counting 'em rivets, TRAINS ARE FOR FUN! Not called the Mad Scientist for nothing either!"
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The Hickory, NC train show this past weekend produced a few more items:
Red Box Armour reefer:
I still need a few more of these!
Quad hoppers:
The Maimed & Still Limping is Bachmann; I think the Penn Central and Santa Fe are AHM.
And some more Tyco operating hoppers:
Nothing I don't already have, but I have only one other Navy car, and it's in rough shape; this one is in pretty good shape. The Navy cars have proved quite difficult to find, at least for me. I've seen only one other one, and the dealer wanted quite a bit more than I was willing to pay!  I have plenty of Virginian hoppers, but this is the first boxed hopper of any roadname I have found (not counting unloading sets), so I snatched it up.
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Posted - April 21 2016 : 11:11:08 PM
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Har, har, har...har........har. I just bought like a dozen
B&M hoppers. The slope never stops.
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Posted - April 21 2016 : 11:18:11 PM
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Anybody want junk for a couple of bucks and shipping,
PM me. I got a bunch of Tyco hoppers I need to sell
off in different road names: Rock Island, MSLW,
Virginia, etc. Remainders of this model train estate.
I really don't want this stuff to get trashed. Please!
Take my wife!
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A free gift from Chops - Roco Austria Reading 4-bay hopper probably sold as AHM:
Thanks Chops!
This one managed to arrive safe and sound, no thanks to the US Postal Service! The whole package arrived inside a plastic bag with a note from the postmaster apologizing for the damage the package sustained!
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Posted - April 28 2016 : 11:52:58 PM
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And the CenterFlow obsession continues...
Not Tyco, but for 5 bucks I couldn't help myself. It's a little dingy and slightly scuffed, but the simple livery and wealth of data just appealed to me, like it might actually exist in real life.
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Posted - April 29 2016 : 12:18:37 AM
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That's a really good looking hopper, Glenn!
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Posted - April 29 2016 : 12:23:09 AM
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| PC and AT&SF are Model Power offerings from the 1990s. The AT&SF in that scheme also was offered by Bachmann.
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I am getting down right paranoid about shipping by USPS.
Got doors and brake wheels from Shaygetz with a black
tire tread across it, also in a plastic evidence baggie
and a note telling me how they care. Amazingly, the
contents were fine.
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Posted - May 01 2016 : 10:02:36 PM
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The PC and AT&SF liveries match those shown on the HO Trains Resource website under AHM, so that's why I thought AHM.
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When I started sliding down the Mantua reefer slope, I figured it was a foregone conclusion that the collection would never really be "complete" since I never figured on finding an Armour Kahn's error car, at least at a price I was willing to pay. Well I found one:
Not perfect, but for some things you can't be choosy!
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quote:When I started sliding down the Mantua reefer slope, I figured it was a foregone conclusion that the collection would never really be "complete" since I never figured on finding an Armour Kahn's error car, at least at a price I was willing to pay. Well I found one:
Not perfect, but for some things you can't be choosy!
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to be honest its darned cool
What is the mistake anyway? 
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quote: quote:When I started sliding down the Mantua reefer slope, I figured it was a foregone conclusion that the collection would never really be "complete" since I never figured on finding an Armour Kahn's error car, at least at a price I was willing to pay. Well I found one:
Not perfect, but for some things you can't be choosy!
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to be honest its darned cool
What is the mistake anyway?
Originally posted by microbusss - May 02 2016 : 10:50:52 PM
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Here's the Armour car:
Here's the Kahn's car:
The error car has the Kahn's lettering and the Armour logo.
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Posted - May 03 2016 : 02:27:41 AM
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It's stuff like this that just grabs me. I can't afford to
collect "Flying Jenny's," and stamps don't do anything,
that just sit there and look pretty. This little collection
of reefers is just so darn tweakin' cool. I guess GMoney
is having himself a little case of "Reefer Madness!"
I'd enjoy seeing a little video of this making its way
around your trainscape, G. A little switcher and a
bobber caboose would do oh so sweetly.
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Posted - May 03 2016 : 09:50:58 AM
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oh I see ok 
but it do look really good as a error
as if Kahn's merged or sells Armour products 
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Just won my 4th mantua pacific
and have 24 passenger coaches now....
It's in early stages, but sure as heck has started
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Posted - May 04 2016 : 9:30:38 PM
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quote:
...I'd enjoy seeing a little video of this making its way
around your trainscape...
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â May 03 2016Â :Â 02:27:41 AM
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I would too!
...now, just gotta find some space for a layout...
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Posted - July 09 2017 : 11:57:42 AM
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I'm gonna dig this one up because I've recently become afflicted with TOHD. I only have 5, but more will come.
I also tend to buy anything Durango I can find... I need more!!!
Power Torque Steam Locomotives...
I also have a weird obsession with Southern Pulpwood cars (or Tyco Bulkheads in general) I have 3, and get them every chance I get. I also want the C630's and GG1's.
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Posted - July 09 2017 : 12:36:44 PM
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oh thats awesome you found the rare Durango streamlined caboose! 
I has all that & I just recently got a cabooseless floodlight car
Anyway my Slippery Slope is finding the billboard cars
fake or real
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Another Slippery slope - Tyco Streamlined Vans. I have 12 so far, just got the Chattanooga and UP today. Also notice the rare "Canada Only" Silver Streak red caboose :D
I also want to get Tyco's Canada Only stuff.
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quote:Another Slippery slope - Tyco Streamlined Vans. I have 12 so far, just got the Chattanooga and UP today. Also notice the rare "Canada Only" Silver Streak red caboose :D
I also want to get Tyco's Canada Only stuff.
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well in Canada the cabooses are called vans
but they has 100s of names to them
clown car, crummy etc hehe
I knows I has over 50 cabooses hehe
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What slippery slope....
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Posted - July 09 2017 : 7:30:47 PM
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hey Mike am getting some Canada train stuffs from a guy in Canada
As soon as I send him a whole Commadore PC with lots of games
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Posted - July 09 2017 : 8:16:56 PM
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quote:hey Mike am getting some Canada train stuffs from a guy in Canada
As soon as I send him a whole Commadore PC with lots of games
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If there is anything you need or want let me know... Right now I am attending cruise nights and car shows, but if a train show is near...
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If there is anything you need or want let me know... Right now I am attending cruise nights and car shows, but if a train show is near...
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someone who has made the AMRoad train (CP Rail) from the movie Silver Streak
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| I've added 4 more cabeese, another PT steam loco and a topless Holly Sugar Hopper... I'm weak.
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quote:
If there is anything you need or want let me know... Right now I am attending cruise nights and car shows, but if a train show is near...
Originally posted by Mike - July 09 2017 : 8:16:56 PM
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the Silver Streak set by Tyco hehe
NOT the chromey one but was a Canada Only exclusive
the loco that matches the SS caboose in that pic
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It's been awhile since I updated this topic, but the last train show I attended netted these:
A Tyco red box Morrell's Pride reefer:
and a Tyco red box Santa Fe Super Chief reefer:
This brings me a little bit closer to completing the red box reefer collection!
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Posted - February 13 2018 : 7:59:51 PM
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Glad to see you in the mix again, Gmoney. I was just running that
LL Conrail GP38 I bought off you a couple of years ago. It still works
great. Then I went through a phase where I felt compelled to buy
just about anything with the CR logo on it. It lasted a good while, but
I think I've managed to break the obsession. Then came CP Pac Man
logo...
https://youtu.be/GGPLbcXXoFI
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Thanks, Chops! I'm glad to hear the CR Geep is still turning a wheel in revenue service.
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Posted - February 16 2018 : 10:46:48 PM
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| ah so my Mantua/Tyco ATSF Super Chief car IS a Red Box
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Treasure trove of photos. Thanks for sharing these with us on the forum.
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Posted - August 10 2021 : 1:09:27 PM
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I haven't updated this for a while, but still slipping...slipping...slipping...
AHM Southern quad hopper - another fix for my quad hopper addition!
...help..…me.….please……
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Posted - August 10 2021 : 1:14:55 PM
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Even more Varney/Life-Like flats:
I only have, like, three NYCs already, but I obviously needed another!
I believe this is my first flat lettered for Southern Pacific, so I definitely needed it!
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Posted - August 10 2021 : 1:32:37 PM
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...and I've started off on this tangent:
I've had the Gulf for 20+ years. I also have the Coca-Cola triple dome...somewhere...I've had it since childhood. I also have some others I'll post later...
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Well, GMoney, I see you started this thread back in 2013. Nothing has
changed! I swore feverently I'd never get into those odd extra long
Tyco tankers, now I got like a dozen.
The only one of any merit is a boxed Tyco Coca Cola mega triple dome. I don't run it very often because I am downsized to 18 inch curves. I am going to put it up on eBay shortly, unless anyone here wants to throw a number at me. Mint condition, box is intact, fair. Only been used by a little old lady who drove it to church on Sundays.
https://youtu.be/3hCbbFqovTs
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well I needs the Tyco Coke boxcar, Niagara & Lipton Tea hopper AND the Sohio Triple domer 
& oh yeah! the Brach's Candies dump hopper
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Nice additions to your collection, gmoney!
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Thanks, RP!
Chops, those triple domes will easily negotiate 18” radius curves, unless you don’t have the side clearance!
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I too, like the triple dome tankers. Had one or two as a kid that done the 18 radius just fine...
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| Thanks for the tip, I'll give it a go.
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I found the KO&G hopper I was looking for.
I also found the last (I think) Mantua/Tyco reefer I needed:
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Mantua/Tyco U.S. Navy operating hopper #3:
Is 3 enough???
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Posted - August 12 2021 : 12:16:43 AM
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NEVER ENOUGH! MUST. HAVE. EVERY. KOG. HOPPER. EVER. MADE.
(I like that one, too. Hope I still have it, will have to look for it).
Just another KOG in the machine, I am, I am. That Mars car is
really major cool. Now I suppose I will be surfing
FeeBay for one.
GILROY LIVES!
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Posted - August 12 2021 : 12:30:29 AM
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Hey Chops, have you tried operating your triple domes on your 18 inch radius curves yet?
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For some reason I had some difficulty finding the Mars car out in the wild. I’m sure I would have found it easily online, but hunting them down is more fun, IMHO.
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Posted - August 12 2021 : 12:24:46 PM
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Continuing the quad hopper obsession, I got these IHCs from a train show in Greensboro, NC:
. . . and a new slope - 40ft hi-cubes. I slipped down this slope when I impulsively bought a Tyco Soo Line 40ft hi-cube to match the Tyco Soo Line 62 footer (which I'll have to find!) from my childhood. This one's a Bachmann:
With a crooked logo - way to go Bachmann!
I realize I need to dig out the 40ft Soo Line too . . .
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