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quote:FIVE Dutch Maids?? (I think I got six)! Will make
a great conist behind that UP F unit. I don't
collect German model trains, but that Trix
looks like something out of the 1970's, and
is mega cool.
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Hey Chops I ran this train a couple days ago to see how these large hoppers would run.
frank
MVI 6737 DL&W TM 24 66 and 15 car train
https://youtu.be/H7X9LdVpJlM
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Another YOUtube Video of two freight trains running at the same time. One is powered by a Athearn DL&W trainmaster, the other by a Rivarossi U-25b.
frank
https://youtu.be/L0Idf_0K2Pc
MVI_6778 10-24-19.MP4
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Excellent videos and new layout, toptrain!
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Posted - October 25 2019 : 7:20:59 PM
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well I hasn't found anything lately 
but if someone wants to give me $500 there's a show in CO on Nov 30th 
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Nice video Frank.
To raise money for that show in November Ben you can:
Enter a dance competition with money rewards.
Give blood where they pay you.
Date a rich older woman who is looking for love.
Buy a lottery ticket and hope.
Look in dumpsters and hope someone threw away cash by accident.
Just trying to help.
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Today at Carlstadt NJ New York Society of model Engineers train show.
1 and two Aristo-Craft 2-4-2 Columbia ans a 4-6-0 B&O Royal Blue. Both need parts. The columbia need tender trucks, and the Royal Blue Main Rods. Both are boxed. one box needs some repair.
3 Two set of RDC by Triang ATT, one each power and dummy. C&O road name.
4 Building, A Tyco factory machine shop.
5 Building, two barns. One has Mail Pouch lettering.
6 A two track tunnel portal.
7 Book New "Susquehanna and Western" by Walter Arnot Lucas. about 200 pages.
8 Best find. a model of one of the first style of trolley cars. It is a powered trolley. Very small.
9 Rivarossi clear vision tender use on 2 different 2-8-0 locos.
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Posted - November 02 2019 : 7:34:01 PM
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Beautiful finds, Top Train! Love how the rail road is coming
together. Mail Pouch is such a classic.
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Posted - November 02 2019 : 9:01:16 PM
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Great finds, TopTrain! Congrats!
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Jeff and Bob thank you very much and I just remembered another two things for my list. I am having a problem with the points on the Y switch that is a part of my train reversing reversing switching. I am derailing once in awhile on the points of the Y switch and I picked up a much newer one at the show. I also totally forgot about a Rivarossi E7 I also bought for its Erie paint scheme. It matches the two Erie HObbyline train set I have. I still don't know where I put it. I'll find it tomorrow and get a photo made. I hope i find it without opening every box I have.
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Posted - November 09 2019 : 4:54:30 PM
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Two-- finds at Allentown and EBAY received today.
Aristo-Craft Railroad station two
Ken Kidder 2-6-0 saddle tanker, brass
Marx NYC GP7 #5772 single drive.
Gilbert PRR caboose
HL GN kit box car.
True Scale work car.
Old tank car Texaco TCX 7197. ? Globe
Rivarossi 2-8-0 in parts. Tender frame broken
From EBAY received today also …
Penn line K_4 Pacific built-up in its kit box
HL Gondola ACL 93271 blue
HL Gondola ACL 93271 blue
HL Gondola DSS&A 4090 brown
HL L&N flat car 24754 red
HL Gondola HObbyline 1297 no trucks or couplers yellow
HL BOX Car Southern 24292 brown needs trucks.
HL caboose PRR 476993 need trucks has one coupler
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Awesome vintage finds, Toptrain!
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Posted - November 10 2019 : 12:11:22 AM
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Whoa, Nelly! Great vintage pieces. I'd really like to see a video
of that Marx GP7. As The Busss would note, that model
probably was made before the flag fell.
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Posted - November 13 2019 : 07:49:45 AM
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Jeff Bob thanks again for your nice words. I got that e-bay group just for the HObbyline cars. The penn-Line pacific is open for offers. as it makes the third I have. It went in a box and on a shelf. Right now I don't even know if it runs. I guess i should look today and check it out. Anyone PM me if interested.
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quote:Whoa, Nelly! Great vintage pieces. I'd really like to see a video
of that Marx GP7. As The Busss would note, that model
probably was made before the flag fell.
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Well Jeff here is the Marx GP7 running with a all marx freight train. Also seen is a Gilbert industrial switcher pulling a small passenger train.
https://youtu.be/FenYtZMKjYE
https://youtu.be/KoVkra_O7lI
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Great videos and trains, Frank!
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Posted - November 13 2019 : 7:34:47 PM
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I would never see vintage HO operating, but for these videos.
Really nice! That Navy Yard switcher has her work cut out for her!
Having traveled Western PA only a little, I am not overly familiar
with the area, but for the excellent photography of WKS. The
more I look at this fine layout, the more I see Jim Thorpe, PA.
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Posted - November 14 2019 : 10:15:55 PM
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My Allentown finds. There wasn't a lot of quality HO there. A lot of overpriced trains!!!
My finds:
Tyco UP Plymouth Switcher- $6
Tyco Industrial Switcher- BN- $5 This is an early one with the metal chassis.
Athearn Pennsy SW7- $12- I bought this for the chassis to use on my M&E SW7.
Athearn UP SW1500- $15- Actually, I bought this by mistake thinking it was a SW7.
This is what happens when one gets older....
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Great finds! Congrats!
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Posted - November 18 2019 : 01:03:28 AM
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Nice items purchased by our members.
I visited a train club in Medford New York that had an open house showing their two layouts to guests.
They also had some HO cars and engines and buildings for sale.
I bought a Tyco mail car for $10.
Also a Mantua light car for $10.
And an AHM barn also for $10.
One of their layouts is in HO scale.
The other is in N scale.
www.limrre.com
I will post more photos tomorrow.
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Posted - November 24 2019 : 11:30:12 AM
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Took a drive up New Mexico back roads to Albuquerque
to the Model Train Show. It was well attended, people were
crowding the entrance and the admission was $5!
Interesting demographic: most of the attendees were
my age, 50 +, and pockets of 7 and under, very, very
scant in the 9 to 30 range.
Lot of old school stuff from dealers who buy train collectors.
Had to talk myself out of picking up a DeWitt Clinton NOS
set for $50 and various Tyco New England pieces: B&M
box car, State of Maine, and a unknown manufacturer of
a Maine Central.
That being said, picked up an undecorated GP 40 for $15 to
replace the aging motor in my Auto Train, a nice NOS
SD45 to properly haul my Southern Pacific Piggy Back Express-
those Tyco flats are not supreme rollers and currently I have
to shorten the consist to allow it to go, this should power
the whole consist, $20. Got some stick on cobble stone to
finish up my British streets, finally, and some line side fencing
for the British layout. This is cool, as British trains didn't have
head lights as all the right of way was fenced in to keep
live stock off. Lastly, some neat Victorian fencing that always
gussies up any scene.
First time I've been able to get to a train show in many years,
I really enjoyed myself, the company, and dinner at Waffle House.
Kind of wish I bagged that Maine Central piece for $3! 
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quote:Took a drive up New Mexico back roads to Albuquerque
to the Model Train Show. It was well attended, people were
crowding the entrance and the admission was $5!
Interesting demographic: most of the attendees were
my age, 50 +, and pockets of 7 and under, very, very
scant in the 9 to 30 range.
Lot of old school stuff from dealers who buy train collectors.
Had to talk myself out of picking up a DeWitt Clinton NOS
set for $50 and various Tyco New England pieces: B&M
box car, State of Maine, and a unknown manufacturer of
a Maine Central.
That being said, picked up an undecorated GP 40 for $15 to
replace the aging motor in my Auto Train, a nice NOS
SD45 to properly haul my Southern Pacific Piggy Back Express-
those Tyco flats are not supreme rollers and currently I have
to shorten the consist to allow it to go, this should power
the whole consist, $20. Got some stick on cobble stone to
finish up my British streets, finally, and some line side fencing
for the British layout. This is cool, as British trains didn't have
head lights as all the right of way was fenced in to keep
live stock off. Lastly, some neat Victorian fencing that always
gussies up any scene.
First time I've been able to get to a train show in many years,
I really enjoyed myself, the company, and dinner at Waffle House.
Kind of wish I bagged that Maine Central piece for $3!
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no 7up buildings?
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Posted - November 24 2019 : 6:44:56 PM
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Hey Buss! thanks for the info on the fencing. I didn't know Atlas sold hairpin fences. On the CNJ east and west tracks were separated using that style fences. Now I got to find some.
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Congrats Chops! Nice finds!
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Posted - November 25 2019 : 05:57:37 AM
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I already spoke about the nov 2 Carlstadt NJ trains show finds I show a old late 1950's Rivarossi 2-8-0 in a box all apart with a broken tender frame. I think it is a Lionel version. It has the slanted coal bunker. On Nov 9 at Allentown I got a tender from a Indiana Harbor Belt 2-8-0 by Rivarossi that looks the same. If I can not find out where the heck I put it maybe I can get another World War 1 Baldwin 2-8-0 running. That would be nice. It would also make 3 Running.
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A little something I have coming from EBay. A Hobbyline Western Pacific twin FA-1's with a few cars. All ready to run cars. Union Pacific flat car with wood load, A General American box car, A ACL blue gondola, and a Hobbyline caboose. I'll get pictures when I receive them. Now to find the WP Zephyr passenger cars.
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here is a ebey photo.
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Posted - December 08 2019 : 1:47:57 PM
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Nice vintage collection, love those brass wheels! I can just
imagine how these critters were regarded when they
were new in the world: "how'd they get something so
tiny to work?"
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Posted - December 08 2019 : 4:14:27 PM
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IF I was able to go to train show with $500 or so
I'd of never made it down there
A blizzard happened on Nov 30th 
good finds, guys & am jelly a little hehe
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Posted - December 08 2019 : 11:53:59 PM
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I have long admired Frank's, aka TopTrain's, collection for a long time. For one thing, it
is almost never seen postings of early HO, which is to say, late '40's
and early 1950's. Even more rare to see is these old gems in full motion, as on Frank's
great videos.
A lot of my local El Paso model rail heads really like their $100 HO cars, with rotating
roller bearings, and even magnetic air hoses that couple and uncouple magnetically,
and that's great; I particularly enjoy looking at their stuff lying on their sides exposing
the finely detailed air piping found underneath while my Tyco goes bombing past them,
lap after lap. Naturally, we tend to forget how cutting edge HO was back in the day-
it really was novelty status.
So it was to my great surprise and delight when the stork dropped off this passel of
vintage tankers on my door stop, fresh from Frank. Five of these have the original
loop and hook couplers, which makes them pre horn hook, so about late 1940's
to early '50's.
My plan is to refurbish this old Varney dockside, with loop couplers, and use that
and an appropriate vintage caboose to run these oldsters as a set- particular at
shows, so folks can appreciate the old beauty of these critters.
The horn hooked tankers, which also seem quite vintage, will have their work cut
out for them delivering petroleum and chemicals to Armadilloville.
Thanks, Frank!!!
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* Well yesterday some trains came from a online auction. I have been looking for the HObbyline Western Pacific FA-1 twin set for collection. It appears to be SET 266 "The Frontiersman" missing 2 cars the tank and the hopper cars. The drive unit is missing not just it motor but 5 of the 6 addon frame pieces the 4 ladders and 1 fuel tank. The body of the drive unit has a broken pilot section and is ruffed up pretty good. all other cars are close to perfect.
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Posted - December 12 2019 : 11:36:00 AM
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Nice items. Your layout is coming along nicely Frank.
Did not realize that Bergen Point has mountains.
Have to visit the area more often.
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Nice set, and preservation Frank!
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So this year for my 18th birthday, I told my parents I didn't want any gifts, except a trip/shopping spree at the Nicholas Smith Train Store (that I didn't have to pay for.) Needless to say, they agreed, and I came home today with these stupendous finds....
  
Notable finds include:
Athearn B&O DD40 (with all handrails)
Athearn PRR GP9 (with all handrails)
TYCO "Brown Box Era" Santa Fe 4-6-0
TYCO Durango floodlight car
Bachmann Seaboard Coast Line SD40-2
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Posted - December 15 2019 : 1:42:43 PM
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*Montvale NJ train show at St. Joe's High School.
I found one needed HObbyline car.
1- The Monsanto Chemical car. It was filthy but cleaned up nicely.
2- A Strombeck Rock Island Rocket. All built up with its wooden wheels.
3- Mantua 1860 PRR Combine.
4- Mantua 1860 PRR Coach
5- Littletown o scale. Southern colonial house. Need to change the doors to HO ones.
6- some track supplies and Old HO metal painted people.
The "Southern Colonial" is not "Plasticville" but the older "LITTLETOWN"
Check here to see the Rocket.
https://youtu.be/892Uyvt6KTc
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quote:
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I just acquired through a auction tho it hasn't been delivered yet a HObbyline set 466 the " Frontiersman's " boxed with 3 other athearn cars. here is a auction picture I will replace once I receive it. A twin FA-1 in Western Pacific, both powered and dummy look great and so do all cars with exception with a broken missing truck on a Union 76 tank car. Other cars are General American box car, Penn flat car, Union 76 tank car, DSS&A gondola, Western Maryland hopper and Hobbyline caboose.
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Posted - December 15 2019 : 11:48:22 PM
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Impressive set, wonder where it sat all those decades
until it turned up? I notice the locomotives are WP, but
the caboose is ATSF.
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Hey Chops. The Santa-Fe caboose the C&NW box and the ATSF flat are extra car that somehow got put into this set box and sold with it. The caboose for this set is between the green box car and pennsy flat with wood load. It is one of the one's lettered for HObbyline. Outside of removing the trucks and couplers and tossing what left in a parts box. Two weeks ago I got the other WP FA-1 pair that I have. The one that was powered is in bad shape with drive and detail parts missing. THe dummy FA-1 is perfect so it will get all the drive parts that are left on the damaged one and what I can find in my parts for HObbyline. I think I can get it running, and run two powered FA-1 with longer trains.
frank
New Mystery.
I have seen in HObbyline information a 4 car streamline set of the PRR. There is no date on this information. The name and number of the cars is shown only here. Also I have no info on a 4 cars set, or that car, like this being released.
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Posted - December 16 2019 : 11:55:14 AM
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Yes, I see it more clearly now. Curious trademark of
HObbyline to have a caboose in their name. Good luck
seeking out Pennsy streamliner set, that sounds interesting.
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Posted - December 19 2019 : 09:54:23 AM
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Well the E auction train set has arrived. I now have in my collection two very nice Hobbyline FA-1's. The Twin set with 1 powered and 1 dummy.
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Posted - December 19 2019 : 10:25:38 AM
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Here are the cars that came with the set.
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Posted - December 19 2019 : 10:33:48 AM
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This is the set box. I'll be working on it.
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Posted - December 19 2019 : 10:43:46 AM
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quote:Here are the cars that came with the set.
frank
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Originally posted by toptrain - December 19 2019 : 10:25:38 AM
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That's a really neat set. I like how the caboose is marked "N5" and "Eastern Region". It's a great find.
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Posted - December 20 2019 : 06:38:44 AM
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I agree, RW. Top Train’s collection is most unique,
and is a great study of vintage HO of which I knew
little The videos of these pieces is the cherry on top.
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Posted - December 23 2019 : 09:01:28 AM
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quote:Yes, I see it more clearly now. Curious trademark of
HObbyline to have a caboose in their name. Good luck
seeking out Pennsy streamliner set, that sounds interesting.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â December 16 2019Â :Â 11:55:14 AM
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Chops they didn't just make cabooses with the HObbyline road name but other cars.
The Gondola
The Box car
Because they did these two they may have done others, Here is their diesel. A Fairbanks Morse FM H12-44.
All use the Hobbyline roadname.
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Posted - December 23 2019 : 2:14:04 PM
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Whoaaa, that's really interesting they would do that.
Moreover, that switcher looks identical to the
Fleischmann, is it?
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Posted - January 13 2020 : 5:40:01 PM
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Nice photos of those items bought recently.
I bought some items yesterday in Freeport.
Train show at the Freeport Recreation Center.
Another Maxwell House box car added to the collection.
Tank car that is a little too long for my tastes.
Probably will give these away soon.
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Posted - January 14 2020 : 10:13:25 PM
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If you would like to give away any Tyco triple-dome tankers, I'll gladly take them, WKS.
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