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 Posted - June 14 2014 : 12:38:02 AM
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You may be wondering, why is there a new COTW so early? Well, the answer to that question is that I will be leaving on a vacation and I won't be back for about a week so I wanted to post my OTWs early before I forget. Anyway, my COTW this week is a CSX caboose I got in my first train set.
-Steve
"A lot of modellers out there who go to these train shows see broken HO stuff and go, 'This is useless' when, in reality, they can still be used for modeling whether it's as a prop on your layout or a cool project to make something old new again."
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Posted - June 14 2014 : 01:46:18 AM
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A pair of Purina box cars...
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Posted - June 14 2014 : 03:39:02 AM
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Older and newer versions of Mantua/Tyco's CB&Q caboose:
Walt, I'm jealous of the red one!
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Posted - June 14 2014 : 08:13:01 AM
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I might have all the versions of the Tyco Purina
Anyway here are 2 toy store boxcars & one is extinct! 
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Posted - June 14 2014 : 10:53:25 AM
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quote: I know which one it is. It's Kaybee. (Never heard of them before now, believe it or not.)
-Steve
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Posted - June 14 2014 : 12:32:55 PM
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Being fathers day weekend,,i can't think of anything that goes better with a grilled hotdog than a nice cold rootbeer
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Posted - June 14 2014 : 12:36:34 PM
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KayBee had stores in shopping malls. I remember going into a KayBee and seeing a Life Like (or Industrial Rail?) Georgia Railroad 55 ton hopper lettered "Railroad" with "Georgia" left off. Now I regret not picking it up!
Glenn
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Posted - June 14 2014 : 12:53:15 PM
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quote:I might have all the versions of the Tyco Purina
Originally posted by microbusss - June 14 2014 : 08:13:01 AM
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Do you might have the red version ?
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Posted - June 14 2014 : 6:28:43 PM
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quote:
Do you might have the red version ?
Originally posted by walt - June 14 2014 : 12:53:15 PM
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mmm I think so I'd hafta look see
One I want is the AHM All-Door boxcar
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Posted - June 15 2014 : 11:20:14 AM
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I can think of one thing that rivals the Root Beer....
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Posted - June 15 2014 : 1:39:54 PM
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Continuing Adams' train of thought, but a little more old school:
As for KayBee: Man, I really miss that place. They only had LL and Bachmann trains and buildings, but they had Atlas track. Not much of any of it, in my experience, but enough to help a guy get started.
They also had model kits of cars, planes, etc., and all the paint and such for them. Seems like those are harder to find now days as well.
I spent a lot of time there up until they closed suddenly about 2005-2006. Not sure exactly when, but I do remember taking my youngest girl there when she was a baby.
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Posted - June 15 2014 : 1:56:37 PM
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| I remember KayBee in the mall in Chesterfield, Missouri in the 70's, before I moved to Texas. As young, "serious" modelers, we tended to look down on it, but we still went in and browsed now and then. They carried a lot of AHM--most not very good quality, but I'd like to get some of those AHM/Rivarossi passenger cars at the prices they had back then!
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 Posted - June 15 2014 : 7:08:34 PM
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Yes it is sad that Kay Bee is gone, they were run into the ground by a group corporate raiders who called themselves "Bane Capital". But look at the bright side, with all the money Mit Romney made from that deal he was able to afford an elevator for his car.
Proudly keeping Tyco Pluggers out of landfills since 2016
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Posted - June 15 2014 : 8:42:26 PM
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The graphics on this car are incredible. I live in St. Louis which is the home of AB Brewery and cars like this are very collectible around these parts. quote:I can think of one thing that rivals the Root Beer....
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Posted - June 15 2014 : 9:08:03 PM
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very true metalsmith1
AMC has told me some cars like the Tyco Hershey boxcar are at $15-$20 where he lives 
& I bought mine for $4?? Something wrong here
I has all these cars but the CSX caboose in here
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Posted - June 15 2014 : 11:25:12 PM
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quote:The graphics on this car are incredible. I live in St. Louis which is the home of AB Brewery and cars like this are very collectible around these parts.
Originally posted by metalsmith1Â -Â June 15 2014Â :Â 8:42:26 PM
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I live on the other side of the state. It seems like AB has a firm grip on everything. A case of Busch light is always about 2 bucks less than Coors light. Any beer car gets a premium around here.
BTW: I've been away for a while, but I'm glad to see Ben's dumpster-cam is still up and running. Believe it or not, that's the highlight of my day.
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Posted - June 16 2014 : 6:00:15 PM
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quote:
BTW: I've been away for a while, but I'm glad to see Ben's dumpster-cam is still up and running. Believe it or not, that's the highlight of my day.
Originally posted by burlington77Â -Â June 15 2014Â :Â 11:25:12 PM
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IT IS??
Well you can see its usually a UBER nice day when I take pics
Sometime I gotta find ALL my beer & any alcohol related cars I have & take a pic of ALL of them
root beer will be included too
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Posted - June 17 2014 : 9:28:02 PM
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My COTW is a 2-fer, a Life-Like (?) Browning B&O crane car matched up with a small B&O flat car of unknown manufacture. The crane car was a yard sale box find, another one that was in sad shape but with a careful clean-up and untangling of the 'cable' it's in good shape - the flat car was an el cheapo find at a train show.
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Posted - June 17 2014 : 10:02:25 PM
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quote:a small B&O flat car of unknown manufacture.
Originally posted by JNXT 7707Â -Â June 17 2014Â :Â 9:28:02 PM
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MDC - It's one of those little shorty flat cars from Roundhouse.
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Posted - June 17 2014 : 10:14:36 PM
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What a great scene. I love the Pinto 2 door wagon. My grandma had one, I spent a lot of time in that thing going with her to garage sales.quote:My COTW is a 2-fer, a Life-Like (?) Browning B&O crane car matched up with a small B&O flat car of unknown manufacture. The crane car was a yard sale box find, another one that was in sad shape but with a careful clean-up and untangling of the 'cable' it's in good shape - the flat car was an el cheapo find at a train show.
Originally posted by JNXT 7707Â -Â June 17 2014Â :Â 9:28:02 PM
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Posted - June 17 2014 : 10:18:54 PM
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quote:
MDC - It's one of those little shorty flat cars from Roundhouse.
Originally posted by scsshaggy - June 17 2014 : 10:02:25 PM
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Thanks sschaggy and now that you say that, it has Roundhouse written all over it (figuratively not literally). It's a neat little car.
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Posted - June 17 2014 : 10:47:52 PM
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quote: quote:
MDC - It's one of those little shorty flat cars from Roundhouse.
Originally posted by scsshaggy - June 17 2014 : 10:02:25 PM
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Thanks sschaggy and now that you say that, it has Roundhouse written all over it (figuratively not literally). It's a neat little car.
Originally posted by JNXT 7707Â -Â June 17 2014Â :Â 10:18:54 PM
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Now the real trick is to find the Athearn Blue-Box version of the 30' shorty flatcar. I'll post a picture of mine if I ever dig it out...
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Posted - June 18 2014 : 01:24:55 AM
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| My vote for COTW: that crane car and runner up: Hires Root Beer.
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Posted - June 18 2014 : 1:29:40 PM
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What, we're voting now? I vote for the Burlington cabooses! ...no, wait...can we vote for our own stuff? 
Glenn
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Posted - June 19 2014 : 12:58:46 AM
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From the emoticons, it appears you voted three times in a row.
I'll vote for your Auto Loader you sent me if I can get my %%$#
camera to function properly! While I'm at it, I'd like to vote
on that tablecloth. It really coordinates with those lovely
Chessie BLT's, I mean BL 2's.
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Posted - June 19 2014 : 11:16:37 PM
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| Perhaps we should begin a tablecloth if the week threadTOTW
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Posted - June 20 2014 : 09:57:43 AM
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quote:My COTW is a 2-fer, a Life-Like (?) Browning B&O crane car matched up with a small B&O flat car of unknown manufacture. The crane car was a yard sale box find, another one that was in sad shape but with a careful clean-up and untangling of the 'cable' it's in good shape - the flat car was an el cheapo find at a train show.
Originally posted by JNXT 7707Â -Â June 17 2014Â :Â 9:28:02 PM
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Its Life-Like Cause L-L had a construction set with the same crane 
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Posted - June 21 2014 : 12:05:45 AM
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quote: quote:My COTW is a 2-fer, a Life-Like (?) Browning B&O crane car matched up with a small B&O flat car of unknown manufacture. The crane car was a yard sale box find, another one that was in sad shape but with a careful clean-up and untangling of the 'cable' it's in good shape - the flat car was an el cheapo find at a train show.
Originally posted by JNXT 7707Â -Â June 17 2014Â :Â 9:28:02 PM
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Its Life-Like Cause L-L had a construction set with the same crane
Originally posted by microbusss - June 20 2014 : 09:57:43 AM
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Alright guys....here's where things get all "Twilight Zone" weird...We were talking about Kay-Bee toys. One of the first things that popped into my head was that I purchased a Life-Like "construction site" set from them back in the early 90's. It had a fence, I-beam building frame, various materials/figures and a CRANE. That same crane has now shown up this week on a flat car, which Micro/Ben has pointed out was used on treads as the crane in that building set. Oooooooh....freaky stuff going on here!
By the way, nice to see AMC still cruising the highways in that crane shot. There used to be a guy on here with AMCGremlin as his handle.
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Posted - June 21 2014 : 12:12:15 AM
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quote:
Alright guys....here's where things get all "Twilight Zone" weird...We were talking about Kay-Bee toys. One of the first things that popped into my head was that I purchased a Life-Like "construction site" set from them back in the early 90's. It had a fence, I-beam building frame, various materials/figures and a CRANE. That same crane has now shown up this week on a flat car, which Micro/Ben has pointed out was used on treads as the crane in that building set.
Originally posted by burlington77Â -Â June 21 2014Â :Â 12:05:45 AM
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Yeah! I want that set again too!
Oh the L-L building magazine had several suggestions what to do with Construction Site
Junkyard or scrap yard
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Posted - June 21 2014 : 01:51:03 AM
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| Cool scene Jerry.
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Posted - June 21 2014 : 09:16:21 AM
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burlington77, don't you see Rod Serling at the wheel of the Pacer?
I kind of got the same feeling from the crane car in a different way - I had sold one just like it on ebay about a year ago, trying to thin out the collection. Then last month this one arrives laying in a heap at the bottom of a big yard sale box. ("It's baaaaa-aaack")
So I'm keeping this one!
I'll post the crane with treads in the AOTW soon just to make sure your memories are all back
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Posted - June 21 2014 : 12:27:27 PM
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quote:burlington77, don't you see Rod Serling at the wheel of the Pacer?
I kind of got the same feeling from the crane car in a different way - I had sold one just like it on ebay about a year ago, trying to thin out the collection. Then last month this one arrives laying in a heap at the bottom of a big yard sale box. ("It's baaaaa-aaack")
So I'm keeping this one!
I'll post the crane with treads in the AOTW soon just to make sure your memories are all back
Originally posted by JNXT 7707Â -Â June 21 2014Â :Â 09:16:21 AM
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The fact that "it's back" is actually kinda creepy but kinda cool at the same time.
-Steve
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