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 Posted - April 02 2014 : 2:49:04 PM
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usable condition, preferably with opening doors. Need two or three, any road. Tyco, Mantua, or Life Like with horn hook couplers. Will buy or trade.
PM me.
Chops124
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Posted - April 02 2014 : 2:56:45 PM
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ohhh  you meant cattle cars
I was thinking you meant race cars 
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Posted - April 02 2014 : 3:21:18 PM
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I can't imagine how you become the top comment member on the forum...
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Posted - April 03 2014 : 1:30:39 PM
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Miracles never cease. Yes, CATTLE cars. And I don't mean cattle AUTOMOBILES. I actually dislike automobiles. Death traps that eliminated affordable passenger trains and street cars, er, that is TRACTION, not automobiles.
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Posted - April 09 2014 : 02:05:17 AM
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Thank you to JNTX who traded me a truly awesome Mantua stock, er, cattle car to a BN box car! This stock, er, cattle car is headed for the COTW eventually, once I install circus elephant, sawdust, etc.
I am tempted to paint the elephant pink, as in "pink elephant," but visually that might distract from a beautiful vintage model.
Thanks also to sister May in Palmetto, FL, who sent me a vintage Mantua stock, er, cattle car- I have yet to open it up, but am told it is nicely "toasted" with age. Gotta love that dust: poor man's weathering technique.
Enjoying the teasing. LOL.
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Posted - April 11 2014 : 11:53:26 AM
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| would it matter if the cars had doors on them?
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Posted - April 11 2014 : 7:45:53 PM
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I had 4...then you said something about elephants...the next thing I knew, my Triceratops, Brontosaurus and Stegosaurus had homes too...
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Posted - April 12 2014 : 01:35:54 AM
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Crikeys! That is the very boxcar JNXT sent me, and the black one is identical to the one my sister also sent me. Even the elephant is about a spot on match. Either twisted minds think alike, or the world is more saturated with Tyco than I ever knew.
It never occurred to me, however, to have a triceratops peering out of the car- nifty touch. Also, the classic, old school Tyco scenery you have achieved is a delight to observe.
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Posted - April 12 2014 : 6:05:48 PM
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| Thanks...the scenery was exactly what I set out to do...a form of rebellion to the years of meticulous scenery I've done in the past. The MKT car is a Life Like, the UP car is an old Revell...
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Posted - April 13 2014 : 01:19:07 AM
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I have a fairly meticulous layout, in DCC I am planning, after I finish out this Tycomania Train Set. It is somewhat liberating to have some simple enjoyment. The next layout is going to be a pleasure, but not an easy one. I am going to have enlist some guys from the Club who are pretty darn meticulous. Tyco allows me to be loose, and that is fun. Again, I salute your old school classic look. It is a pleasure to look at.
P.S.: I picked up two more identical Mantua Rio Grande black stock, er, cattle cars for $3 a pop at Tin Plate Henry's today. Gotta stop it there, this train is getting very long. My New Haven train, for which I finally found a matching caboose, burned the motor on a nice vintage Athearn F unit. Will publish the back story in the Railroader Press of Loose Ends.
My sister May, and I, both love the triceraptops, if I go that route, just remember that Mark Twain said the sincerest form of flattery is plagerism.
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