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Redwoods
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 Posted - September 15 2013 :  1:45:48 PM Link directly to this topic  Show Profile  Add Redwoods to Buddylist
My COTW is a Bachmann action caboose. The conductor is ready to grab a flimsie.



-Thomas
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Thomas,
That's AWESOME!!!! (One I might add, I have yet to locate for my own collection!)
~John

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microbusss
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kool I want one of them cabooses
Another Life-Like boxcar
this was in a $20 box of trains from a garage sale
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ATSF Teal cattle car. Got it for $5 at an antique store last month.
I buy, repair, and collect
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Barry
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Regarding the caboose . . . does the caboose get close to something that trips that level underneath to move the little man to grab something? I'd love to see a little video of that.
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Regarding the caboose . . . does the caboose get close to something that trips that level underneath to move the little man to grab something? I'd love to see a little video of that.

Originally posted by Barry - September 16 2013 :  12:35:56 AM



Just a quib lever on the side snaps the door shut. Like a hair trigger.

John
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EM-1
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Well,
I ought to add my own COTW.....



A Vinegar car, from AHM.... Found at a local train show, back just before my Birthday, for $1.00 so.....Thought that was pretty good for such a car, to serve my pickle factory
~John

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my car this week is a great northern caboose,ken
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microbusss
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hey EM-1 I has that same car from AHM but mine says Heinz on it
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Ben,
Really? That's actually the car, I'm looking for! Got a spare? I'd trade that one for a Heinz car.....
~John

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Ben,
Really? That's actually the car, I'm looking for! Got a spare? I'd trade that one for a Heinz car.....
Originally posted by EM-1 - September 17 2013 :  03:56:12 AM


nopes but Rail Fest in North Platte happening this weekend so I'll look at the model train show there
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Observing the COTW a bit late, I dug out this Rio Grande Observation car I'd bought a few shows ago to add to my already growing Obs collection.

Jerry

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That's one of my favorite streamliner paint schemes Jerry. Nice car!

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quote:
quote:
Regarding the caboose . . . does the caboose get close to something that trips that level underneath to move the little man to grab something? I'd love to see a little video of that.

Originally posted by Barry - September 16 2013 :  12:35:56 AM



Just a quib lever on the side snaps the door shut. Like a hair trigger.

John

Originally posted by zebrails - September 16 2013 :  12:49:13 AM



Yes, the caboose actually comes with a train order stand and a small plastic triangle that represents the train order. John is right... the train order stand has a small ledge that activates a lever (the thing sticking out of the toolbox) on the side of the caboose and then the door snaps shut. It usually works pretty well actually. I didn't show it in the picture because the stand is packed away somewhere and I don't know which box its in

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I'm to young to post pictures and I don't know how but I got 17 TYCO 50' plug door boxes this last weekend. One is a STOKELY and one a WESTINGHOUSE.



OK I think have have the hang of it now.
Andy
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I'm to young to post pictures and I don't know how but I got 17 TYCO 50' plug door boxes this last weekend. One is a STOKELY and one a WESTINGHOUSE.



OK I think have have the hang of it now.
Andy

Originally posted by GPA_Andy - September 18 2013 :  2:02:29 PM



That's a great collection Andy, esp. the Stokely and Westinghouse. Very nice.

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The Jell-O one is nice too & I has that one on a Center-Flo grain car SAME numbers too
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hi andy nice layout and items you have,hope you are having fun,ken
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I put the finishing touches around the fright house at the show this last weekend. and all the locos and cars cost me just under $60.
Andy
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