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 Posted - April 06 2014 : 7:53:40 PM
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Life-Like Firehouse...had it out today long enough for a couple pics...
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Posted - April 06 2014 : 10:35:39 PM
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Nice! I have one too!
Here's a new building kit I got for my layout...
The Atlas elevated gate tower! It does look rather nice.
Curiously, the instruction sheet has a copyright year of 1962 (despite it looking relatively modern, with the Atlas URL on the bottom.) I guess that's when they first released that building kit...
But I guess it's because Atlas is one of those companies where many of their products haven't changed since they first came out way back when (though Atlas first began making nickel-silver track in the '80s.)
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Posted - April 07 2014 : 12:44:18 AM
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| This ceramic model of the Tara house from the movie "Gone with the wind" shows the elegant but simple lifestyle people had back in the day. 
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Posted - April 07 2014 : 12:10:09 PM
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Here's a $5 find at the train show, an Esso station, unknown manufacturer.
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - April 09 2014 : 03:40:23 AM
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Hopefully this reply ends up on the right box. Super sweet LL fire house. If it is just "out to have its picture taken," would you entertain the idea of a trade?Gawd I hate these cutsy icons. Doesn't anyone know how to write any more?
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Posted - April 09 2014 : 03:44:05 AM
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Posted - April 09 2014 : 03:45:56 AM
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Well my reply to fire house blew right past that box, so let me try to reply on ESSO station: Evocative minimalist piece the likes I have never seen. Sorry if my format is bolloxed, please correct me accordingly.
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Posted - April 09 2014 : 03:47:25 AM
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       #!$!@#%#@$#!!
Signing off. Good night.
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Posted - April 09 2014 : 06:30:01 AM
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Don't you love technology, Jeff?
Yeah minimalist is a good word for the gas station, I thought the word Gasoline was missing an E at the end but that is the way it is molded, with no E at the end.
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - April 09 2014 : 09:54:32 AM
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you can go back & DELETE the comment or even EDIT the comment too
The Esso (S.O. = Standard Oil) could be a Pola or some EU manufacture
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Posted - April 09 2014 : 9:59:22 PM
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| That Esso station is pretty clean Jerry.
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Posted - April 09 2014 : 10:33:53 PM
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quote:That Esso station is pretty clean Jerry.
Originally posted by Barry - April 09 2014 : 9:59:22 PM
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Thanks. It really caught my eye. Has that streamliner look to it. Kind of hard to see in my photos but it has an interior as well.
I may eventually paint the pavement and the roof but I'm going to leave this alone as much as possible.
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - April 10 2014 : 8:17:07 PM
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It's a German model of some kind. I have a different variation of Esso station, same signs but different building shape if I remember. Might get around to digging it out.
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Posted - April 11 2014 : 11:56:41 PM
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I have a couple for my new layout...
Tyco Lighted Colonial House. I haven't wired it up yet.
Bachmann Plasticville barn. I didn't care for the solid red color on the doors and other trim, so I painted them white.
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