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 Posted - August 04 2013 : 4:36:16 PM
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Well I'll start off my newest addition (I have not had much for LOTW or COTW in awhile), so......
Not to shabby, found while out with the family yard sale hunting.... Paid a whoopin' $4.00! Was never opened, till I got it home!
~John
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Posted - August 04 2013 : 5:46:49 PM
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EM-1, Nice price for a not-to-common kit. That's a good find.
Here is my COTW, a Tri-ang (Model Power) container car. It reminds me a lot of the mail container flat cars that the Santa Fe ran in the 1960's in their streamliners. That's where I'm putting this car... at the head end of my San Francisco Chief.
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Posted - August 04 2013 : 6:09:51 PM
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Thomas,
That's what I thought when I found that car! I wasn't gonna complain! AND I didn't even try to talk the guy down in price!
As for your car, who made that? I myself, is looking for a few of those as those are I believe "Trash" containers that I used to see going down CSX trackage in Pennsylvania! Which, I'd like to re-create a bit.....I remember seeing them just before, AND after 9-11!!!!!!
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Posted - August 04 2013 : 6:11:46 PM
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ERRR Nevermind I see who made that car now, I didn't read it that good the first time! I'ma goober!
~John
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Posted - August 05 2013 : 12:49:59 AM
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 Found this at a flea market. Paid about 8 bucks for it.
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Posted - August 05 2013 : 02:00:47 AM
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Ray,
Walthers Blacksmith car? That's what it looks like!
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Posted - August 05 2013 : 4:57:48 PM
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on its way,dirt cheap,lambert c&o caboose,missing step in box,ken
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Posted - August 05 2013 : 5:11:07 PM
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Ken,
A C&O caboose, painted in Maine Central.... that's interesting!
NICE one tho!
~John
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Posted - August 05 2013 : 9:29:44 PM
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quote:Ray,
Walthers Blacksmith car? That's what it looks like!
Originally posted by EM-1Â -Â August 05 2013Â :Â 02:00:47 AM
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Not sure but its a nice car none the less.
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Posted - August 05 2013 : 11:52:13 PM
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quote: quote:Ray,
Walthers Blacksmith car? That's what it looks like!
Originally posted by EM-1Â -Â August 05 2013Â :Â 02:00:47 AM
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Not sure but its a nice car none the less.
Originally posted by raysouthernpac - August 05 2013 : 9:29:44 PM
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I think it might be an IHC car:
http://www.ihc-hobby.com/product/82blacksmith
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Posted - August 06 2013 : 12:40:50 PM
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I thought Walthers due to the trucks, their original older release had the redish/rust colored trucks, and the wheels sets having brass axles, is a dead giveaway to a Walthers, truck!
Plus, the detail is much better then an IHC car, even tho it close looking, I would say its Walthers...Any chance to see what the coupler draft gear box looks like from the underside of the car?
EDIT: Only thing I did not mention, it is a nice car, either way! I love all the old MOW cars, I would love to find the A and B set to the Walthers MOW train they did some years ago, to use it for my Western Maryland train, that I'm planning to build!
~John
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Edited by - EM-1 on August 06 2013 12:42:26 PM
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Posted - August 06 2013 : 1:58:17 PM
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quote:I thought Walthers due to the trucks, their original older release had the redish/rust colored trucks, and the wheels sets having brass axles, is a dead giveaway to a Walthers, truck!
Plus, the detail is much better then an IHC car, even tho it close looking, I would say its Walthers...Any chance to see what the coupler draft gear box looks like from the underside of the car? ...
EDIT: Only thing I did not mention, it is a nice car, either way! I love all the old MOW cars, ...
Originally posted by EM-1Â -Â August 06 2013Â :Â 12:40:50 PM
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I've got an IHC Rail Hauler car that matches this blacksmith car. Yes, same axles and body detail... but an IHC kit. I, too, wish I had the set of these cars. I've also got a Central Vermont "Way Car" in grey... also a very nice IHC kit. Clean and crisp parts and markings.
IHC, more than IMHO.
John
p.s. I s'pose I aughta post pictures, eh?
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Posted - August 06 2013 : 3:47:36 PM
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John,
YES! Please post pictures!!!! See, the "rust" truck looks was a Walthers offering for awhile....(I never thought of it in the same way they did but....)
Did IHC offer the rusty colored truck side frames too? I haven't seen that!
On the pictured car, the draft gear box, will tell if it is a Walthers car, or an IHC car....Reason? The draft gear box cover, was a simple "plate" with a pin that pressed into the center of the coupler pivot pin inside the draft gear box, and when pressed in, and the coupler broke, and had to be replaced, that pin that held the draft gear box cover in place, would break off, and have to have the center of the box cover drilled and the center of the pivot inside the draft gear box, to except a screw of some sort to hold the whole works together.....Originally was a poor design by Walthers, but that's how to tell if that's a Walthers kit or not, OR having "Walthers" imprinted on the car, in a place not easily seen, under the roof of the BlackSmith cabin?
~John
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