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 Posted - February 10 2014 : 5:49:22 PM
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MY COTW is a pair I picked up at a train show Saturday - an Accurail kit and an old AHM L&N flat.
The kit (T&RGW 40' box car) was super easy but looks great. I loved the graphics on it.
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - February 10 2014 : 7:07:56 PM
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I'll put on the recent Rock Island flats that I still have the photo in my phone. These are older Mantua with metal trucks... These are one (or two) of the few train cars that I still wanted to buy...
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Posted - February 10 2014 : 7:25:43 PM
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Its a rainbow!!
J.B.
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Posted - February 11 2014 : 01:02:57 AM
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love the boxcars & hey I took a pic of a Sabine River & Nothern boxcar in my town in Jan
Plus quite a few of the railroads don't exist either 
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Posted - February 11 2014 : 06:13:06 AM
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Second try:
Gilbert 502 MKT stock car
frank
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Posted - February 11 2014 : 10:04:25 AM
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My COTW is a recent addition:
Wood Craftsman Built HO Scale Poultry Car Kit
Sean
"If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!" - Mario Andretti!
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Posted - February 11 2014 : 10:12:20 AM
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some real nice cars here this week,my car is a budweiser car,ken
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Posted - February 12 2014 : 7:12:36 PM
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quote:Its a rainbow!!
Originally posted by SPSF_SD45Â -Â February 10 2014Â :Â 7:25:43 PM
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Awesome rainbow - I'm a shortline per diem boxcar fanatic, I've got 7 of those same cars and I think I'm up to 23 or 24 by now. SOOOO jealous of that EStLJ car, I saw a pic of the real one and haven't been able to find the HO version. Love the Tex-Mex car too!
--CRC
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Posted - February 13 2014 : 07:44:25 AM
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I love my car of the week. The last time I seen this on eBay it went for $63. When it came up again I was ready to do battle, but fortunately I won it for only $19.
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Posted - February 13 2014 : 08:46:56 AM
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| Nice!
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Posted - February 13 2014 : 4:10:45 PM
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Quote: "Awesome rainbow - I'm a shortline per diem boxcar fanatic, I've got 7 of those same cars and I think I'm up to 23 or 24 by now. SOOOO jealous of that EStLJ car, I saw a pic of the real one and haven't been able to find the HO version. Love the Tex-Mex car too!"
Thank you for the kind words. I also collect these roundhouse and athearn shortline boxcars. I feel the price is right on them, and with a few upgrades they run as well as any high quality car. This is about half of my current collection actually. I have 10 of these cars in the SPSF scheme
The EStLJ car is almost done, I was doing it as a BN patch job. Just need to find the letters.
Show us your collection if you get the chance!
J.B.
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Edited by - SPSF_SD45 on February 13 2014 4:14:48 PM
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Posted - February 15 2014 : 1:32:40 PM
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Here's my car (or waycar) that I "scratchbashed" about 10 years ago or so. One of my first chop jobs. This car was a prototype from a wreck rebuild back in the 80's. Hope you enjoy!
Modeling the Modern Pacific Electric, freight operations in HO scale.
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Posted - February 15 2014 : 2:11:41 PM
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| hi SD9_Cadillac,great looking waycar,getting so many ideas for myself ken
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Posted - February 15 2014 : 5:37:34 PM
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quote:hi SD9_Cadillac,great looking waycar,getting so many ideas for myself ken
Originally posted by catfordken - February 15 2014 : 2:11:41 PM
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Great looking caboose! I 'scratchbashed' a similar one from a pile of junk not too long ago, not as good as this one but was a fun project, I'll have to dig it out and post it.
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - February 17 2014 : 9:05:34 PM
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quote:Quote: "Awesome rainbow - I'm a shortline per diem boxcar fanatic, I've got 7 of those same cars and I think I'm up to 23 or 24 by now. SOOOO jealous of that EStLJ car, I saw a pic of the real one and haven't been able to find the HO version. Love the Tex-Mex car too!"
Thank you for the kind words. I also collect these roundhouse and athearn shortline boxcars. I feel the price is right on them, and with a few upgrades they run as well as any high quality car. This is about half of my current collection actually. I have 10 of these cars in the SPSF scheme
The EStLJ car is almost done, I was doing it as a BN patch job. Just need to find the letters.
Show us your collection if you get the chance!
Originally posted by SPSF_SD45Â -Â February 13 2014Â :Â 4:10:45 PM
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I'll get to it eventually, I promise! And if you could spare a set of decals for your SPSF cars, I'd love to paint one up myself if I find an undec one sometime! One thing about the roundhouse cars as well - I've never liked their flat brakewheels, and the chain isn't molded on like the athearn ones, so what I do is swap out for a kadee brakewheel and (this is one of the few superdetails I like to indulge in) a little segment of real HO-scale chain from the brakewheel to the frame. Look for the combo-door version as well, in all my hunting I've only ever found one, a MoPac car.
EDIT: almost forgot - just found the Sierra RR Box like yours. Make that 8!
--CRC
Edited by - PRR 4800 on February 17 2014 9:07:22 PM
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