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 Posted - August 06 2013 : 11:22:48 AM
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Felt this was the place to post this
Over the years of buying trains sometimes you find many a surprise
Sometimes you find photos I found stero optic cards wedding slides and the ocasional fire cracker
BUT never anything like this
From my latest purchase from a Tag sale
The whole house was being emptied guns could have been there but not for sale
Anyone have any stories?
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Posted - August 06 2013 : 11:38:23 AM
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A jolly rancher was found in a wrapper one time when I bought some slot car parts.
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Posted - August 06 2013 : 12:48:06 PM
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WELL this IS interesting....I went to garage sale one time and bought a HUGE box of trains off a guy that said it was his sons that had moved out and into his own life......
Was a pretty big box....the WHOLE bottom of the box had a double layer of VHS tapes, the "bad" ones..... I was a little ashamed when I got it home when I wasn't much more then a kid at the time and my Grandfather helping me remove the trains as he was into the trains too.....THEN that's when he and I seen the nasties! LOL
(I'm just glad my mom never seen it she would have blew a whistle on me right then and there!)
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Posted - August 06 2013 : 12:53:37 PM
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i am shocked that someone left a round of ammo in a box,think what a kid might do with it ken
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Posted - August 06 2013 : 12:57:23 PM
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Scary thought huh Ken?..... you definitely got a point there!
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Posted - August 06 2013 : 4:08:54 PM
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| Got several books from Britain and I get s bunch of british candies. All were very good and actually healthy. And if a kid does do something stupid with a bullet, well... lets just say I won't be the least bit sorry.
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Posted - August 06 2013 : 6:28:00 PM
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Hi All,
Looks just like the plastic toy bullets I had in my toy gun belt when I was a kid.
Mytyco
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Posted - August 06 2013 : 7:30:30 PM
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quote:....from Britain and I get s bunch of british candies. All were very good and actually healthy.
Originally posted by LGLrr845Â -Â August 06 2013Â :Â 4:08:54 PM
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Crunchy Frog, perhaps?
I've found a few things but, not with model train purchases. I bought a cheap camera from a yard sale. Had film in it. Got it developed and there were some pictures of a wedding , the bride was making faces and such. Turns out the girl is someone my wife is friends with. We got a kick out of giving the pictures to the girl.
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Posted - August 06 2013 : 9:10:44 PM
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It was in a box of Marx Track
Also found a pink zircon hoping it was my nieces birth stone it wasn't
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Posted - August 06 2013 : 9:46:12 PM
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| No, not crunchy frog. Some sort of fruit candy. Thanked the seller for the candy.
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Posted - August 06 2013 : 9:59:10 PM
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So John, whatidja do with the "nasties?"
Glenn
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Posted - August 06 2013 : 10:43:24 PM
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My Grandfather took 'em! I didn't even get to see what was on the sleeves!!!
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Posted - August 07 2013 : 07:28:38 AM
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with an item as small as that, it could easily have fallen into the box in a closet, and no one knew about it. Can't say as how I've found anything too unusual to report in all my box lots of trains I've bought, myself. Well,, I DID find a tank car that was full of pennies, someone had weighted one down ( overly heavy, I think ), and it had come unglued in the box, probably just too much weight. Definitely NOT NMRA standard! That's about the only thing I've found unusual. 
Jerry
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Posted - August 07 2013 : 11:22:29 AM
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Had the bober caboose from 1957 Lionel or Rivorssi with pennies glued two bttom dated 1950's hence wheat
And wayyyyyyyyyyy back in 1977 my first BIG purchase of Lionel my dad found a ballerina figure in the milk car
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Posted - March 24 2017 : 12:39:19 PM
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WELL HAD TO LOOK LONG AND HARD for this segment I posted BUT I FOUND IT!!
Today while sorting got some Life Like items together and proceeded to switch f-9 shells
AND when I got the Santa Fe off..............................
found
Not the first time I have seen coins used for weights whatever BUT never quarters
Check your stuff Gang!!!!!!!
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Posted - March 26 2017 : 08:13:25 AM
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* Well here is my info on the matter concerning the use of coins for car weights. If you travel in your car 10 miles, or 35 each way, to a hobby store and pay a turnpike toal of $4.00, each way, to get there and see the cost of the ready made weights with two face tape on them, all of a sudden using coins as weights becomes a cost efficient way of making your cars a little heavier. You save the trip to the hobby shop for the expensive things.
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Edited by - toptrain on March 26 2017 08:14:56 AM
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Posted - March 26 2017 : 8:24:38 PM
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| I've got a passenger car or two that I glued a large number of pennies into several years ago. They work just fine. Unfortunately there are no more pennies in Canada so future endeavors may be a little more expensive...
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