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yay I got one!!
Marx caboose
Ever notice the S is a reversed Z intead? 
& that these cabooses came with either a black or silver cupola? 
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Congratulations! Your search for one of those has been a running theme on this forum. Victory must be sweet.
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Posted - December 22 2013 : 6:18:58 PM
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NOW you can post your train in SOTW. Get the track set up on the dumpster! 
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Posted - December 22 2013 : 8:57:24 PM
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 One of my Tyco Beer cars... Never used alcohol in my life but had to have this one
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Posted - December 22 2013 : 10:05:29 PM
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Hey Buss ! Great dumpster shot of the RI caboose.
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Posted - December 22 2013 : 10:13:39 PM
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** Here is my B&O covered hopper car.***
** I painted and decaled it. **
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Frank, is that a Life Like or Varney car or something else? I like it; I have several Life Likes I plan to operate should I ever actually build a layout.
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Posted - December 23 2013 : 07:28:24 AM
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Hi Glenn. You got it right. It is part of the Varney lifelike family of hoppers. I like them because their easy to find . Look nice. Have great paint and lettering.
frank
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Posted - December 23 2013 : 08:19:23 AM
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Walt - well I think thats one beer car I don't have in my collection 
Also I tried a 6 pack of that stuff & eww yuck Its very bitter
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Posted - December 23 2013 : 09:06:49 AM
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Beer's other name was called better,s. It also is made with something called bitter's. It should not be disgustingly bitter, just mild background bitter in taste.
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Posted - December 23 2013 : 09:19:16 AM
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just to keep the ball rolling one of my schlitz cars,ken
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Posted - December 23 2013 : 09:53:31 AM
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I don't have that car but back in the day I drank the Schlitz Little Joe at 25 cents a bottle.
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quote:Walt - well I think thats one beer car I don't have in my collection
Also I tried a 6 pack of that stuff & eww yuck Its very bitter
Originally posted by microbusss - December 23 2013 : 08:19:23 AM
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We'll Ben, my Father drank fairly heavily at times and Mom smoked a lot. I probably wasn't 10 years old yet when I knew for certain that I would NEVER want to use either one of them...
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hey, Walt I admit it I drink but so NOT excesive or crazy nor do I drink & drive nooooo
ok that last thing I did a couple times but no one caught me hehe
I has ALOT of beer cars too
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quote:Congratulations! Your search for one of those has been a running theme on this forum. Victory must be sweet.
Originally posted by scsshaggy - December 22 2013 : 1:13:18 PM
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Ben's webcam caught him as he opened the box:       
I guess it was destined to end up on top of a garbage can.
After the picture was snapped, it rolled off the lid onto the pavement. 
Enjoy.
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Posted - December 23 2013 : 3:39:38 PM
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quote: quote:| Originally posted by scsshaggy - December 22 2013 : 1:13:18 PM
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After the picture was snapped, it rolled off the lid onto the pavement.
Enjoy.
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NOOOO! & my sidewalk is made of bricks actually
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Posted - December 23 2013 : 6:17:32 PM
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quote:just to keep the ball rolling one of my schlitz cars,ken
Originally posted by catfordken - December 23 2013 : 09:19:16 AM
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As long as we're on Schlitz beer, here is a photo of one of the first car kits I built in S scale in 1972
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This was a Kinsman "box of sticks" as wood kits were called in those days. It was a fun job. A new S scale friend talked me into entering it in the 1973 NASG convention, and it won 2nd place. It has lost a roof hatch over the years, and it rolls a little hard now because it spends a lot of time on a little used spur with some other stored serviceable rolling stock
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Posted - December 23 2013 : 10:17:18 PM
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My tyco Alaska car. The box is original and even has a Sears Roebuck pricetag on it of $1.48.
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| I wonder what year that Sears sticker is. I remember going to Sears back in the late '50s and seeing just the most beautiful trains. Can't remember size, probably O, the detail was amazing.
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Posted - December 23 2013 : 11:05:03 PM
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I assume it was in the early 1970's given that this car was only offered for a short time. I say about 74 or 75' which means the car is older than me:)
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quote:hey, Walt I admit it I drink but so NOT excesive or crazy nor do I drink & drive nooooo
ok that last thing I did a couple times but no one caught me hehe |
Drinking never ends well for me so I rarely do it. Last time I got so drunk I fell asleep on my front lawn at 2am...five hours later I'm getting bounced around on a four ton forklift in 30degree weather and direct sunlight. That was a bad day....
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Posted - December 24 2013 : 02:46:54 AM
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Needless to say I don't have any interest in collecting beer cars...
Originally posted by DaCheez - December 24 2013 : 12:09:35 AM
[/quote] I'm agree with you, Eric. I have zero interest in the beer cars. I have two only because they are part of my Tyco collection...
Beer mixes with nothing that ends well....
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Posted - December 24 2013 : 03:08:17 AM
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The Schlitz beer refer is one, I'd like to find to go with my Pabst Blue Ribbon, and my Hamms Beer car as well.... my Gram, both him and her used to drink Hamms, and that to me is Rott Gutt YUCK!
I do have an HO scale Budweiser Beer trailer, for a truck......Be loaded on my Athearn 5 unit spine car
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Posted - December 24 2013 : 07:39:03 AM
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Trainminiature made 3 different Schiltz beer cars. you show the brown one already.
yellow single globe
yellow double globe
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Posted - December 24 2013 : 07:57:22 AM
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Here is a old wood kit, HO, probably by Main Line models.
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Posted - December 24 2013 : 12:16:38 PM
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| Stringbob, that Schlitz beer car turned out really nice from that box of sticks.
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Posted - December 24 2013 : 9:19:51 PM
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A Lionel HO Schlitz beer reefer
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Posted - December 24 2013 : 10:02:10 PM
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cool I has the Coors version of that car
old basement pic
yes its a Lionel too
In last weeks COTW we were discussing the Domino Sugar center-flow hopper car
Well here is mine
Was Tyco the only one making these cars or was AHM too? 
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Posted - December 24 2013 : 10:54:54 PM
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AHM was selling centerflows in the '70s.
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Posted - December 25 2013 : 08:21:12 AM
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| i can see i have a lot more schlitz cars to get ken
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Posted - December 26 2013 : 12:33:00 PM
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I think this is my only Beer car... by Athearn.
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Posted - December 26 2013 : 12:46:07 PM
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My COTW:
A Kemtron brass (Lindsay) powered boxcar:
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quote:hey, Walt I admit it I drink but so NOT excesive or crazy nor do I drink & drive nooooo
ok that last thing I did a couple times but no one caught me hehe
I has ALOT of beer cars too
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Actually, Bud Light goes great with a pizza!
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quote: quote:hey, Walt I admit it I drink but so NOT excesive or crazy nor do I drink & drive nooooo
ok that last thing I did a couple times but no one caught me hehe
I has ALOT of beer cars too
Originally posted by microbusss - December 23 2013 : 11:02:55 AM
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Actually, Bud Light goes great with a pizza!
Originally posted by String boBÂ -Â December 26 2013Â :Â 3:05:27 PM
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Something else that goes good with Bud Light, but watch the consequences
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That Oppenheimer Casing Co. car is sweet. And Sean, that powered boxcar is quite a find.
My COTW is rather boring compared to those. I've liked these Model Power 48' Old Time Wooden Passenger Cars. Although, I'm realizing that if you model 1890 to 1920 steam era passenger equipment, there is a wide array of styles and materials. In the background of this photo, to the right, is a MP car that I've had a while; repainted Tuscan and glazing and interior seats added (although, you have to have good lighting to discern the seats through the windows). My initial plan was to repaint this newest car Tuscan, though I've probably ruined the value of enough cars and locomotives defacing the manufacturer's original work.
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Hi All,
Microbuss: I'm glad to see you got the Marx caboose you have been after for so long. I love Marx toys of all kinds. Nice close up shot, I never really noticed how flat the ends and top are on these cabooses.
Barry: I really like the old time passenger car you have, was that part of a Christmas set? I ask because of the name on the side and the color, a very nice green. My collection of Christmas cars is growing slowly, inspired by Brianstyco. The car you painted on the right looks nice as well, nice touch with the person on the back.
Too much egg nog for the guys in front of the green car, LOL.
Lots of nice cars this week.
Thanks for sharing everyone.
Mytyco
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What relief,
Eggnog I was afraid there was a gun fight.
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quote:Microbuss: I'm glad to see you got the Marx caboose you have been after for so long. I love Marx toys of all kinds. Nice close up shot, I never really noticed how flat the ends and top are on these cabooses.
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Roof isn't flat that was just the way I tooked the pic
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| hi barry that dickens railroad car is sweet,ken
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Posted - December 27 2013 : 12:07:24 PM
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| I believe those Dickens cars were sold as a set by Hawthorne, but this particular one was individually boxed (?original box because it didn't say Dickens on the end?).
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Posted - December 27 2013 : 2:56:25 PM
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hi barry the set by modelpower,love it ken
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| That's pretty fine Ken. I think the other like coach that I painted Tuscan was originally Canadian Pacific. Do you know what year that Dickens set was produced? Thanks, Barry
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quote:Hi Glenn. You got it right. It is part of the Varney lifelike family of hoppers. I like them because their easy to find . Look nice. Have great paint and lettering.
frank
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I had a few of those Varney cars "back in the day", and I've seen them at garage sales and in "treasure piles" over the years. I am always impressed with their authentic appearance and realistic "patina".
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quote:Stringbob, that Schlitz beer car turned out really nice from that box of sticks.
Originally posted by Barry - December 24 2013 : 12:16:38 PM
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Barry:
Those were nice kits, but they looked a lot better with about a foot removed from the height of the sides, as I did with this car, and the Oppenheimer car thsat should be pictured here later. I also made an old time boxcar from an un lettered version. At one time, S was known as the "reefer scale" because that was about all that was available, other than AF conversions. I still convert AF cars, feeling they have the degree of realism that suits my needs. I run a fleet of AF converted boxcars as a grain hauling fleet, and a fleet of converted AF reefers that still await painting and lettering.
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My car of the week is a string of coal jimmies:
Long ago, there were little 2-axle cars for hauling coal from the mines to the market. I had no particular use for any, but I came upon an article by E.L. Moore describing his project in which he made one from a piece of yard stick, some other wood and an old railroad car truck. I built mine just because it seemed like a fun project.
The floor of the car is a piece of 1/8" wood. The walls are made of file folder cardboard braced with old scraps of balsa. The cars are weighted with taconite pellets. Coal is glued in around the pellets.
The cars are coupled together with drawbars instead of some form of link and pin couplers, but the end cars have knuckle couplers so they can run with my other rolling stock.
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| hi scsshaggy,sweet looking cars,surprised no one has made em before ken
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Posted - December 28 2013 : 6:04:13 PM
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Those are pretty fine Don. I'm curious why you modified the trucks; prototype or to look unique?
Check this out . . . this brass Mantua passenger coach sold for $140! I emailed the seller and he didn't have any idea why the bidding went so high (" the moon? "). Looks to me like somebody had "ants in their pants" to get one of these cars, hey?
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Posted - December 28 2013 : 6:06:45 PM
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hi barry i have about 10 or more of these,they are not that rare,itchy fingers or rich,only 2 bidders,2nd one bid up to $140,first bidder topped it and left a further six bids,so he really wanted it for some reason,ken
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| Yeah, I have several of them myself. I'm curious; how did you figure out there were only 2 bidders?
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Posted - December 28 2013 : 6:15:03 PM
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click on the bids,in this case 16 bids,ken
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quote: I'm curious why you modified the trucks; prototype or to look unique?
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The prototype had a suspension similar to a bobber caboose rather than a freight car truck. I just wanted to disguise the origin of the things to be less obviously trucks. With a bit more effort, I expect I could have gotten something more like the real thing, but these were just built on a lark.
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