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Proves that the Keystone state is still one if not THE best for Model Railroaders
Lottsa nice stuff there
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Posted - November 13 2016 : 08:29:17 AM
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quote:So you won't need the frame?
Originally posted by thesiding - October 30 2016 : 5:13:00 PM
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You need one ? If so PM me.
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Posted - November 13 2016 : 12:53:56 PM
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Interesting stuff! I'd go broke before one lap around! Hard to find the good vintage stuff in Florida.
" Heck with counting 'em rivets, TRAINS ARE FOR FUN! Not called the Mad Scientist for nothing either!"
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Posted - November 13 2016 : 3:23:33 PM
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quote:Interesting stuff! I'd go broke before one lap around! Hard to find the good vintage stuff in Florida.
Originally posted by Redneck Justin - November 13 2016 : 12:53:56 PM
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heh heh
me too 
but I do finds nice stuffs in Colorado & Wyoming though
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Posted - November 15 2016 : 12:37:51 PM
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Nice finds toptrain!
If you're looking to unload those 2 horsecars, my layout is ready for 'em! lol
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Posted - November 16 2016 : 06:29:05 AM
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quote:Nice finds toptrain!
If you're looking to unload those 2 horsecars, my layout is ready for 'em! lol
Originally posted by DanMacKÂ -Â November 15 2016Â :Â 12:37:51 PM
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Dan, Your looking for 1860 freight cars by Mantua. I have had the Mantua Central of Georgia locomotive for 4 or 5 years already. I got it from Sean. I am looking for the cars to go with it. These horse cars, you've seen, are Central of Georgia. So they can't go. Do you have any of the older ones. I may have a few extra of them.
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Posted - November 27 2016 : 07:58:51 AM
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** Good morning everyone! And the train shows go on. Yesterday I went to the Greenberg show in Edison NJ. You have good days and you have bad ones. Yesterday was a bad one. I am hoping for a good one today. So very many people were their just to look and see. And they did. Here at the end of the month, us retried people are running short of cash. Still I spent more than three time what I had sold. I am good for the
economy but the economy wasn't good for me.
* I meet Peat there and had a long conservation. He is the happiest he has been in a long time. Nice to see him again. I did meet a old friend Dave a Fleischmann collector and seller. Also and I forgot his name the fellow wo bought the Hobbytown of Boston, and business. Charlie had a very large collection of original items he sold to this man. He said the purchases he made yesterday for more for display of original stuff at his office. I'll try to get his name from Charlie today.
** Yesterdays finds !
Fleischmann US type Pacific,
Gilbert boxed PRR 0-6-0 #433.
Tyco/Mantua Old time Gondola BPS&D,
Athearn COOP all metal tank car in good condition,
Building - A small news stand, by Pola,
4 boiler fronts for Gilbert 0-6-0's,
Bachmann old time 8 wheel passenger cars 6 each, one for parts missing a roof.
Bachmann old time 4 wheel passenger cars 2 each.
* Will go back again today. There were so very many people there yesterday. The only cash I will bring is for making change. I did see a 4 car Marx Bowed set. Powered by a NYC 0-4-0t. It is bowed and with track. All in very good shape. Maybe today ?
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Posted - November 27 2016 : 1:04:35 PM
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| May I please have a closer pic of the Coop tanker?
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Posted - November 27 2016 : 5:48:11 PM
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I picked up this box of Casey Jones parts from a Bowser fire sale for a good price. There are enough parts for two complete mechanisms. I'm hoping to put together at least one good SP 4-6-0 out of this.
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Posted - November 27 2016 : 9:47:24 PM
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Nice Casey Jones part lot. And buss, soon . And today I got a Marx diesel switcher in
McGinnis paint. Also I traded for a
Marx set. NYC 0-4-0t , a box car, a hopper car and a caboose, with track. In original box.
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Posted - November 27 2016 : 10:06:12 PM
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Hey Buss . I'll put it in car of the week.
Frank
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Posted - November 27 2016 : 10:06:59 PM
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its fun to Google Earth the old addresses & see what is there NOW!
great stuffs
 gimmies tank car! *Grabby Paws!*
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Posted - November 27 2016 : 10:08:14 PM
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Hey buss just look. frank
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Went to the Mid America Train and Toy Show in KC over the weekend. I'll post pictures of my (AWESOME) finds!
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Here we are: my finds from the KC train show:
Pizza Hut (Shrink Wrapped!) was $15
Tropicana was $1
Jello and WU cable car was $5
Walthers BNSF was $40
Tyco WARR 4-6-0 was $25
It KILLED ME to leave the 7up plant and an IHC NP passenger set, but I promised I would not spend more than $100 bucks.
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Posted - December 03 2016 : 3:44:02 PM
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Well its Saturday and the flea market at giant stadium became my destination. Well Gary was there again and had a space. Today I got these train's and a truck from him.
1-A All metal Varney F3A with a variable drive. A 3 speed drive. Dated 1947.
2- Lionel GP-9, Chelsie C&O, #5610, A good body, all handrails, with a bad motor.
3- Gilbert coal hopper #501 CB&Q, the Gilbert made car.
4- Lionel Conrail box car, #8701.
5- Sakai steam engine missing front and rear trucks. Now a 0-6-0.
6- Small 1998 Hess truck, white tractor trailer.
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Posted - December 03 2016 : 4:32:05 PM
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| Love that F3. Very nice find.
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Posted - December 03 2016 : 6:57:42 PM
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quote:
awwww maaaan
I wants a 7up plant & that Pizza Hut hehe
IF you had gotten the 7up plant you woulda got yer monies back
eventually
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Posted - December 07 2016 : 7:57:48 PM
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Here are my finds fron the Allentown, Pa show from a few weeks ago...
Tha Bachmann NE Set was $230, Tyco Bi-Centennial $10, early Tyco B Unit- $10,
Athearn NIB Amtrak Baggage car $8, Amtrak Switcher $1- it neede a new motor-runs good now, Athearn chassis-$5, PA-1. Mantua Milk Bone Hopper car-$6- Anyone have any feedback on this??? I also got some Bachmann track for a new layout around the Christmas Tree.
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Posted - December 07 2016 : 8:03:04 PM
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| Nice Super Spirit of 76. If its got all the handrails on it you got quite the deal! Looks like its in great shape too.
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quote: quote:
awwww maaaan
I wants a 7up plant & that Pizza Hut hehe
IF you had gotten the 7up plant you woulda got yer monies back
eventually
Originally posted by microbusss - December 03 2016 : 6:57:42 PM
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Wish I had the money, I believe he had two
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Not bad AF Kid , is that 630 an MU2 or PT?
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Posted - December 07 2016 : 9:44:11 PM
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Went to the Schlutz Space Coast train show last Saturday, picked up a few things. Very nice people, and some good deals, despite it being fairly "small" (I've heard that it's usually a bit bigger, but competing shows happening at the same time had it end up smaller this time). I would supply pictures but the workbench is so cluttered and I've already done work to a lot of them. A much more boring text list
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Double Sheathed Wooden Boxcar - Lettered Trinity Valley Railroad, knuckle couplers, - $5 (I've now given it a basecoat of BAR Blue awaiting decals for my freelance)
Outside Braced Boxcar - Lettered Southern Pacific, kit, horn hook couplers, - $7
AHM
RS-2 - Lettered Santa Fe, horn hook couplers - $10
Livestock Car - Lettered New York Central, no trucks, no couplers - $1 (Now been heavily cut up and damaged to become a scrap car)
Athearn
Flatcar (40 foot?) - Lettered Pennsylvania Railroad, horn hook couplers - $1 (Missing a coupler and rusty axles )
Tyco/Mantua
B Unit - Lettered Santa Fe, shell only - $1 (On the workbench to be turned into a scrap piece, already had some fans/radiator parts cut out.)
F Unit - Lettered Pennsylvania Railroad, shell only - $1 (Now had cab and back door cut off for scrap purposes)
MofW thing (Like a flatcar with a bobber caboose on one end and some things that look like they'd hold wheels on the other end) - Unlettered, no couplers, no trucks, one body mounted coupler box - $Forget how much I paid
Plymouth Yard Diesel - Lettered Westinghouse, broken couplers - $10 (Now on the workbench to get knuckle couplers, and am now trying to get it working... grrrr)
Rivarrossi
0-6-0? Locomotive - x2, unlettered, shell only - $5 with a bunch of other junk pieces (One has had the cab seperated from the boiler for scrap purposes)
0-4-0 Locomotive - Kinda run, unbalanced - $5 with a bunch of other junk pieces (I broke it trying to screw with it. Now painted as WKN 4)
Penn Line
GG1 - Shell only, unpainted - $5 with a bunch of other junk pieces (Never realized how massive this thing is. It's monstrous!)
Wood Kits
Colorado And Southern Refrigerated Boxcar - No trucks, 1 knuckle coupler, missing ice hatch parts on top, missing underframe detail - $Forgot how much I paid
North Western Refrigerator Line Company - Sprung trucks, knuckle couplers (1 broken), missing two ice hatch parts - $Forgot how much I paid
MofW Bunk Cars - x3, lettered for freelance "Bedrock And Bedlam", knuckle couplers - $6 total (One has been scavenged for parts and will become a yard office, one will be repainted, and one will be kept as is)
Revell
MofW Bunk Car - Unlettered, horn hook couplers, sprung trucks - $5 (Now base coated for my freelance RR)
Unknown
0-6-0? Steam Locomotive- Shell only, lettered "N-W RR" (freelance?) - $5 with a bunch of other junk bits
Large locomotive tender - Shell only, metal casting, unpainted - $5 with a bunch of other junk bits
3-dome tank car - 1 knuckle coupler, lettered Shell Oil Company - $3
sim-al2
Also since they cut track maintaince the trains had huge trouble making over the railroad by the end
純那
yeah
They did a Rock Island volountarily
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Posted - December 08 2016 : 12:05:33 AM
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quote:Not bad AF Kid, is that 630 an MU2 or PT?
Originally posted by bnsfIAÂ -Â December 07 2016Â :Â 8:39:26 PM
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The only alternate drive for the 630s are the early Rivarossi drives. All production Super Spirit of 76s had Powertorques.
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Posted - December 08 2016 : 10:17:56 AM
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Nice grabs. What did you do to revive the Amtrak switcher motor, AF Kid?
That Nor'Easter is a pretty neat set. It is also like the one that crashed
out of Philadelphia.
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Posted - December 08 2016 : 7:53:01 PM
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quote:Nice grabs. What did you do to revive the Amtrak switcher motor, AF Kid?
That Nor'Easter is a pretty neat set. It is also like the one that crashed
out of Philadelphia.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â December 08 2016Â :Â 10:17:56 AM
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I used a motor from the AHM C-Liner. It is almost the same with the exception of the base on the motor which I swiped out from the broken motor.
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Posted - December 08 2016 : 7:54:01 PM
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quote:Not bad AF Kid, is that 630 an MU2 or PT?
Originally posted by bnsfIAÂ -Â December 07 2016Â :Â 8:39:26 PM
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The dreaded PT motor.....
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Posted - December 10 2016 : 9:04:42 PM
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Well, you could do the magnet upgrade. That made my Clementine's motor run nicely and would presumably do the same for my E7 once I finally manage to get the motor reassembled with the brushes in.
Speaking of 630s, I scored this subcontracted-to-Mehano Tyco Santa Fe 630 at the thrift store. For $2.98
I'm tempted to relivery it. Possibly for my fantasy railroad, possibly for Union Pacific, possibly into ATSF Cigar Band.
If I leave it in its present livery, I am definitely going to create some masks to repaint the black and yellow bordering on.
Feedback-hungry attention w****
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quote:Well, you could do the magnet upgrade. That made my Clementine's motor run nicely and would presumably do the same for my E7 once I finally manage to get the motor reassembled with the brushes in.
Speaking of 630s, I scored this subcontracted-to-Mehano Tyco Santa Fe 630 at the thrift store. For $2.98
I'm tempted to relivery it. Possibly for my fantasy railroad, possibly for Union Pacific, possibly into ATSF Cigar Band.
If I leave it in its present livery, I am definitely going to create some masks to repaint the black and yellow bordering on.
Originally posted by ZeldaTheSwordsman - December 10 2016 : 9:04:42 PM
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DO NOT REPAINT THAT engine. It is quite collectible as it is..... Step away from the paint!!!!
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Posted - December 10 2016 : 11:52:33 PM
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| I don't think its that collectable. An actual Tyco 630 would easily bring more money. I see those Mehano 630s on eBay all the time.
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Unless you are offering to buy it for enough money that I could get a UP one in its stead, then you can shut up right now AF Kid. I didn't buy this as a tradeable collectors item, I bought it to add to my diesel fleet and pull trains with. And based on what kristofer said it's not nearly the piece you make it out to be anyway.
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quote:Unless you are offering to buy it for enough money that I could get a UP one in its stead, then you can shut up right now AF Kid. I didn't buy this as a tradeable collectors item, I bought it to add to my diesel fleet and pull trains with. And based on what kristofer said it's not nearly the piece you make it out to be anyway.
Originally posted by ZeldaTheSwordsman - December 11 2016 : 12:08:23 AM
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Dang dude no need to be edgy about it lol. You gotta cut some people some sack. :) Sometimes people have misconceptions about prices on things....His comment seemed pretty light-hearted as well.
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quote: quote:Unless you are offering to buy it for enough money that I could get a UP one in its stead, then you can shut up right now AF Kid. I didn't buy this as a tradeable collectors item, I bought it to add to my diesel fleet and pull trains with. And based on what kristofer said it's not nearly the piece you make it out to be anyway.
Originally posted by ZeldaTheSwordsman - December 11 2016 : 12:08:23 AM
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Dang dude no need to be edgy about it lol. You gotta cut some people some sack. :) Sometimes people have misconceptions about prices on things....His comment seemed pretty light-hearted as well.
Originally posted by kristofer4301Â -Â December 11 2016Â :Â 12:39:49 AM
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It didn't feel lighthearted to me.. It felt like he was bellowing at me to not modify my loco for no reason other than purported collector value
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Posted - December 12 2016 : 06:39:43 AM
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Got this on the weekend:
with the matching caboose:
Bought from the original owner who had it since she was a little girl.
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Posted - December 12 2016 : 06:53:00 AM
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Well I made the Wayne NJ train show last Sunday. I have list of treasures I got there. Best train thing I got is a HObbyline PRR passenger set from 1956. I've wanted that set for a long time. I didn't waste any time for It was running on the layout yesterday, and is still there.
Wayne NJ train Show 12-11-2016
HObbyline Pennsylvania Railroad 4 car passenger set
Coach - Morrisville, Coach - Trenton, Coach - Princeton, Observation - Yardley.
Lionel GP-7 Norfolk and Western 5710. another with a bad motor.
Model Power, F2A, Army DOD 113.
Gilbert 518 Kopper's tank car, Gilbert car.
Gilbert 518 Kopper's tank car, Varney car.
Gilbert 526 Green bay & Western reefer.
Model Power ( X-Marx ) box car COHIBA.
Athearn custom, Western Pacific box car WP 20984.
Varney Goodyear tank car UTLX 25149.
Lefton , Ceramic collector Railroad station HO scale, Santa Fe Route, Perris California.
Book Trains, " An Illustrated History ", by Franco Tanel.
Lofton ceramic station in HO scale
station with some Ho people.
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Posted - December 13 2016 : 07:49:06 AM
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quote:Got this on the weekend:
with the matching caboose:
Bought from the original owner who had it since she was a little girl.
Originally posted by IslandTrains - December 12 2016 : 06:39:43 AM
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Well needless to say I'm jealous. Beautiful find.
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Today I got a TYCO 1960 catalog. This is one of the few years that TYCO used the Gilbert passenger cars. I have a Canadian Pacific set. It is the only one not shown in the catalog.
frank
 
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Frank, Tyco only used Gilbert passenger shells in 1959. They were produced in B&O and Canadian Pacific. The New Haven set in 1960 catalog was a factory mock up for the catalog shoot. There are no known examples of long New Haven passenger cars.
http://gilbertho.org/rolling_stock/tyco_gilbert_passenger_cars.htm
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quote: quote:Got this on the weekend:
with the matching caboose:
Bought from the original owner who had it since she was a little girl.
Originally posted by IslandTrains - December 12 2016 : 06:39:43 AM
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Well needless to say I'm jealous. Beautiful find.
Originally posted by kristofer4301Â -Â December 13 2016Â :Â 07:49:06 AM
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me too
Have the boxcar?
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My wife took a friend out to lunch today for her friend's birthday. She came home with a box from her friends husband. It was toy trains he had as a kid and no longer wanted them. My lucky day!
I did clean them up. I was surprised that the my paper towel turned blue when I used a bit of alcohol to clean the engine. But was really surprised when the red started to come off of the boxcar when I just used warm water. Gotta be careful with this old stuff. The engine had the unpowered truck backwards and the mu-2 (?) truc was kind of dirty and would not pick up from the axles. A bit of magic liquid fixed that and it runs good now. I just need some traction O-rings for the wheels as the originals are worn off.
Now, I just need to figure out what I want to do with it.
BTW, I have no idea how much of the HO slot car stuff is any good or not.
Regards, Vic B.
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Posted - January 07 2017 : 08:21:18 AM
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| I think you could do well with the HO slot cars on eBay. That Superbird looks to be in good shape. I had one when I was a kiid. I think it came out in 1970ish.
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Posted - January 07 2017 : 3:23:55 PM
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quote: I was surprised that the my paper towel turned blue when I used a bit of alcohol to clean the engine. But was really surprised when the red started to come off of the boxcar when I just used warm water.
Originally posted by bitlerisvj - January 06 2017 : 10:03:40 PM
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Alcohol is a good paint stripper, so I'd keep it away from anything painted unless you want to remove it. That's funny about the water though, I have never heard of plain water removing paint from a car. Must be heavily oxidized (?)
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Posted - January 07 2017 : 3:29:42 PM
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* My Saturday trains from the Somerset New Jersey train show.
My finds are;
3 Penn Line passengers cars all Pullmans.
Marx 0-4-0t MYC
Mantua chemical tank car- Witco Chemical, Sonneborn Divison, White Oil department.
WCIX 102. I never seen this Mantua car before !
Vollmer building HO made in Western Germany. so it is very old, but looks like new. It is only missing one chimney.
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Posted - January 07 2017 : 9:24:41 PM
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My finds from the Somerset, NJ train show today..... Had a nice chat with Frank also!
Mantua Johnson Tank Car- $5
Tyco Canadiana Boxcar- $5
Athearn NIB Southern Pacific SD40T-2 $25 (This will be patched to UP)
2- IHC GG1 Shells for a re-paint project this spring. Both for $25.
Edited by - AF Kid on January 07 2017 9:29:42 PM
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Posted - January 08 2017 : 7:31:26 PM
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Hi Pete. It is always nice to see you at the train shows also. We Gabbed a lot on Saturday. I liked that. Hope to see you again soon.
Frank.
* Back from my Sunday at Summerset NJ's train show. Got some more stuff.
* First from our tables my friend Charlie had a pair on old Mantua brass and cast 4 window cabooses with a offset copula. Had is the key word here . Now I have them.
* From a Pennsy dealer we know well for years I got a Athearn B&O GP7, a Penn Line PRR F7A, two old Athearn GP35 drives, a Mantua MKT stock car, A Varney metal Swift reefer, and a Northern Pacific reefer by Athearn. A
nice one for it is all brass with a wood floor.
The last thing is a Marx UP F3A.
Frank
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Posted - January 09 2017 : 4:26:50 PM
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AF Kid you paid $25 for two plastic IHC shells? I paid less than $5 for an all-metal GG1 shell back in December. If you need it I'd be happy to send it off for a small trade, I initially bought it for a scrapyard piece, but no way in heck would I cut it up.
sim-al2
Also since they cut track maintaince the trains had huge trouble making over the railroad by the end
純那
yeah
They did a Rock Island volountarily
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Posted - January 11 2017 : 6:56:14 PM
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Your GG1 shell will not fit an IHC GG1 chassis......
Edited by - AF Kid on January 11 2017 6:56:35 PM
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Posted - January 12 2017 : 4:54:09 PM
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My apologies, I didn't know you already had an IHC chassis to go with it.
sim-al2
Also since they cut track maintaince the trains had huge trouble making over the railroad by the end
純那
yeah
They did a Rock Island volountarily
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Posted - January 13 2017 : 06:20:23 AM
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quote:Here are my finds fron the Allentown, Pa show from a few weeks ago...
Tha Bachmann NE Set was $230, Tyco Bi-Centennial $10, early Tyco B Unit- $10,
Athearn NIB Amtrak Baggage car $8, Amtrak Switcher $1- it neede a new motor-runs good now, Athearn chassis-$5, PA-1. Mantua Milk Bone Hopper car-$6- Anyone have any feedback on this??? I also got some Bachmann track for a new layout around the Christmas Tree.
Originally posted by AF Kid - December 07 2016 : 7:57:48 PM
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AF kid, $230, OUCH!!! About 4 years ago I wanted one but the prices were high on ebay. I just kept looking every night for a month and found one that ended around 230 in the morning. I struck with minutes left and won it for $91 bucks. The only thing it was missing was a DVD. I very rarely take it out the box, it's just too fast on the track....
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