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 Posted - January 19 2014 : 12:29:04 PM
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Starting off the week with a hard to find Mantua tanker.
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Posted - January 19 2014 : 12:38:37 PM
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nice car tom,mine is one of 3 old mantua reefers/boxcars i got years ago and just re-found,ken
tatty but i love em
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Posted - January 19 2014 : 12:46:08 PM
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neat tanker 
Here is one I got on Friday for $4
I think its a Marx
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Posted - January 19 2014 : 1:17:17 PM
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Mantua Valvoline Oil old tank car.
frank
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Posted - January 19 2014 : 1:39:56 PM
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Some great cars today!
I picked this Varney reefer up yesterday for $5.
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - January 19 2014 : 5:50:12 PM
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A quick little kitbash - it's a Blackburn patent beet rack built on a Tyco skid flat. I built the rack from Evergreen strips.
-Thomas
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Posted - January 19 2014 : 6:20:22 PM
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| hi thomas nice piece of work,looks good ken
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Posted - January 19 2014 : 8:18:03 PM
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A not so hard to find Tyco coal car...
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Posted - January 20 2014 : 11:54:43 AM
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My COTW:
From the collection of the late Ron Keith – known as “The Plow Man” for the many, many snow plow and flanger examples he built:
A Boston & Maine all wood (Ambroid?) snow plow!
Purchased for ~$34 last week along with the NH flanger I presented last week out of Calvary Canada!
Sean
"If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!" - Mario Andretti!
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Posted - January 20 2014 : 12:40:19 PM
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| hi sean great car,very well made,ken
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Posted - January 20 2014 : 1:20:09 PM
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Here are my cars of the week, I won these on ebay a while ago by happenstance. I logged on ebay and seen them right before they were about to end, I bid and won.
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Posted - January 20 2014 : 4:01:45 PM
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I likes them Sprague cars
Nobody likes mine? 
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 Posted - January 20 2014 : 6:42:18 PM
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That's a gorgeous plow, Sean, and what a deal on both. Excellent work there, Redwoods.
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Posted - January 20 2014 : 6:59:37 PM
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Bodacious MARX, BUSS... Good marks deserve recognition to make the grade! 
Finally, my input...
An Ulrich drop bottom gondola and Pacific Coast (GN international) X1 caboose by someone I don't know. The model is wood and metal, the trucks feature brass-strip leaf springs.
Someone in this forum has the prototype pic' of the caboose... that has me baffled 'cuz I don't remember the thread as to where
John
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"I love your catenary!"
Is that a power-trip or just another pick-up line?
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Posted - January 20 2014 : 8:12:35 PM
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| Cool scratch build Thomas. Now just a few tons of scale beets.
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Posted - January 20 2014 : 10:44:47 PM
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quote:
Someone in this forum has the prototype pic' of the caboose... that has me baffled 'cuz I don't remember the thread as to where
John
Originally posted by zebrails - January 20 2014 : 6:59:37 PM
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There's a picture of one like it in this thread, nest to the cool streamlined caboose: http://www.tycoforums.com/tyco/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=14275#75908
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - January 21 2014 : 9:43:23 PM
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Thank you Jerry.
I right-clicked the photo and saved it.
Nice COTW people... It's Tuesday... I wanna see more!
John
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Is that a power-trip or just another pick-up line?
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Posted - January 23 2014 : 4:55:22 PM
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John, that's a Silver Streak caboose: http://www.hoseeker.org/silverstreakinformation/silverstreakcupolacabooseinstr.jpg
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Posted - January 23 2014 : 6:29:25 PM
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I like this caboose with the Moto X ramp built on it ! Always fun to watch a motorcycle come down the tracks and do a backflip!
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Posted - January 24 2014 : 7:51:54 PM
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quote:
 Thanks, friend!
John
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"I love your catenary!"
Is that a power-trip or just another pick-up line?
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Posted - January 25 2014 : 7:58:40 PM
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throwing in my COTW. It's amazing what some paint, Atlas trucks and KD couplers can do (for the car) just as cool when you find some trucking decals and a razor saw for the trailers (painting these was a pain though!)
for the frame I used star brands SP sunburn red and the cribs used weathered wood
the deck was painted with Tamiya IJN grey weathered with a black wet wash
these will become modern PE terminal to terminal pig flats specifically used for the LTL trucking companies
the CF trailers were a PAIN to paint! I figured white would be fine but the old santa fe bled through tried to strip the paint...but this stuff was more stubborn than an ornery mule (the trailers gave in before the paint!) so I primered it finally and then applied the white (lesson learned)  still Tyco never looked so cool!
just me Ray... and just because I have Tyco doesn't mean I am not a model railroader
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 Posted - January 26 2014 : 2:33:04 PM
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rgcw5- I'd be willing to give up 2 of my UP trailers so you could paint them in CF
but I still want the trailers to have dual axels
CF went bankrupt in 2002 but Con-Way is its successor
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Posted - January 27 2014 : 10:02:00 PM
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You people with Sprague tankers: I believe Sprague Energy manufactured capacitors and resistors, no? I found a big old resistor labeled "Sprague 300 Ohms" the other day.
And that silver streak caboose, I has FIVE of them... NONE work... one of them I halfway built from a NIB kit, one I found mint-no-box (!!) at a flea market and BROKE , and the other three are bombed-out restoration cars... those leaf-spring trucks are always the best part if the car still has them.
--CRC
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Posted - February 02 2014 : 03:05:20 AM
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This is my COTW. I was hoping someone might have some info on these.
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Posted - February 02 2014 : 09:19:40 AM
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Nice hopper, metalsmith! Now it's going to bug me all day, trying to remember where else I saw one of those recently.
Here is some interesting info on Revere: http://reverewarehistory.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/revere-ware-history/
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