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I got a mint-in-wrong-box varney 40' boxcar from the 50's, never run. It looks so pristine in EJ&E green that I can't justify messing with it or converting it to kadees. After all, it has something I never saw before, not even on this generation of varney rolling stock - CAST METAL horn hooks! I'll be damned if I ever saw THAT before... anyone know more? They obviously came with it but I'd be interested to know when and why someone decided to take the time to cast horn-hooks instead of just molding plastic ones.
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Posted - November 21 2013 : 6:55:05 PM
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| It might be a Roundhouse car in a Varney box. Roundhouse metal cars came with metal horn hook couplers. What is the number on the car?
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Posted - November 21 2013 : 7:40:01 PM
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EJ&E #60900. It has varney trucks and was in a box for a matching EJ&E green gondola. The only markings on the bottom are "FB-101".
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Posted - November 21 2013 : 8:43:30 PM
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| It is a Roundhouse car, kit B-111. The number on the Varney car is 60784.
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Posted - November 21 2013 : 9:01:24 PM
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Aha. Thanks! They're still neat couplers though.
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Posted - November 21 2013 : 9:21:19 PM
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MDC cars are relatively easy to ID as they're all cast metal and the paint on roof/ends/doors should differ, only the sides came painted.
I'm not 100% positive but there's a short period between the metal bodies and their own plastic bodies where they sold kits using their metal underframes and Athearn body shells.
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Posted - November 21 2013 : 9:37:27 PM
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Good to know. On this one, the roof and ends are perfectly, exactly matched, but I do have a 40' gondola of the same generation that was so badly paintmatched and flaking I had to strip the ends and repaint them.
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Posted - November 23 2013 : 11:57:14 AM
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I think, I have about a handful of these old Metal Horn Hooks from I believe MDC Roundhouse!!!! mine, are brand new, never used, so are still un painted bare metal!
Possible that they would need springs as I'm not sure, I have those.....
~John
Many have tried to, and failed, ya just can't repair stupid... 
Do NOT try to Idiot-Proof anything!!!! God, will simply create a better......IDIOT!
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Posted - November 24 2013 : 11:56:05 PM
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| I just bought a few wood/metal oldies, either Globe or Athearn mostly and a few have metal horn-hooks on them.
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