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Happy ID4!
Train set found at garage sale for $5! Was $10 
cars from left to right
MKT stock car
ATSF caboose
ATSF switcher loco
UP MOW gondola with 3 pipes load
Swift reefer
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Posted - June 28 2014 : 11:57:35 PM
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$5 for all that? SCORE!! 
Nice set Micro-B! Have you tried out the loco yet?
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Posted - June 29 2014 : 12:18:04 AM
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quote:$5 for all that? SCORE!!
Nice set Micro-B! Have you tried out the loco yet?
Originally posted by JNXT 7707Â -Â June 28 2014Â :Â 11:57:35 PM
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You can get some sweet stuff for crazy cheap at garage sales sometimes. I've seen other people on this forum get great stuff for really cheap at garage sales.
-Steve
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Posted - June 29 2014 : 01:18:04 AM
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Hey, the stock car's a bonus!
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Posted - June 29 2014 : 11:01:30 AM
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quote:Hey, the stock car's a bonus!
Originally posted by gmoney - June 29 2014 : 01:18:04 AM
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true but I don't need the tracks 
I got too many!
no I haven't But I will today after mowing for 4 hours 
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Posted - June 29 2014 : 2:19:33 PM
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Set of my own making of sorts, click on the link below to see it
in action.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veZKNkqP5bE&feature=player_detailpage
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Posted - June 29 2014 : 4:53:19 PM
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quote:
If you're going to show promotional shots of F units pulling matched box cars, you need to know how 1950's promotional film background music really sounds:
http://youtu.be/EuBRMuz77kc
Carpe Manana!
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Posted - June 29 2014 : 6:56:18 PM
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Nice Tyco set! I've got a switcher like that, complete with the MU-2 drive.
I bought a 1979 Tyco Burlington Northern train set from a thrift store near my brother's college last fall, sans locomotive, for only six bucks. (Besides, who needed that crummy un-prototypical PowerTorque-powered BN GP-20, when I had a better Mantua version to pull those cars?) Now I upgraded some of the cars with knuckle couplers, and am using the power pack it came with to control my turnouts and Tyco "Prestomatic" accessories on my layout!
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Posted - June 29 2014 : 7:00:00 PM
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quote:Nice Tyco set! I've got a switcher like that, complete with the MU-2 drive.
I bought a 1979 Tyco Burlington Northern train set from a thrift store near my brother's college last fall, sans locomotive, for only six bucks. (Besides, who needed that crummy un-prototypical PowerTorque-powered BN GP-20, when I had a better Mantua version to pull those cars?) Now I upgraded some of the cars with knuckle couplers, and am using the power pack it came with to control my turnouts and Tyco "Prestomatic" accessories on my layout!
Originally posted by wiley209Â -Â June 29 2014Â :Â 6:56:18 PM
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Nice! Looking forward to seeing it on your OTWs if you ever do of course. 
-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 29 2014 : 9:01:23 PM
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My SOTW is an old American Flyer Prestone Car Care Express. Don't know much about it, was found in a junk box at an antique store.
     
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Posted - June 29 2014 : 9:06:11 PM
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I was looking for one set but found these instead... A Santa Fe passenger set... 
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Posted - June 29 2014 : 10:42:27 PM
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JNXT, nice find. Even if it doesn't work it looks like you could easily get it working again. Walt, I like the coaches in that set you got there. The only thing you're missing is obviously a Tyco/Mantua Santa Fe F-A unit. Nice set otherwise.
-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 29 2014 : 10:51:30 PM
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Oh I should mention that I don't want ATSF caboose, Swift reefer, UP MOW gondola with 3 pipes load & transformer
As I already have those
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Posted - June 29 2014 : 11:09:42 PM
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Jerry
The Prestone Car Care Set came out in 1960. The rolling stock are all common . The locomotive is rare and has a value range of $50.00 to $200.00
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Posted - June 30 2014 : 06:30:06 AM
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quote:Jerry
The Prestone Car Care Set came out in 1960. The rolling stock are all common . The locomotive is rare and has a value range of $50.00 to $200.00
Originally posted by waw47Â -Â June 29 2014Â :Â 11:09:42 PM
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Thanks for the info! Can't remember what I paid for it but it was next to nothing. There is a loose wire between the loco and the tender so it needs a little work, but I like it as a display piece anyway - reminds me of when I was a kid.
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Posted - June 30 2014 : 06:33:42 AM
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quote:I was looking for one set but found these instead... A Santa Fe passenger set...
Originally posted by walt - June 29 2014 : 9:06:11 PM
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Beautiful set, Walt! Looks to be in excellent shape.
I have one just like it - except Micro-B has the F unit and you have one more car than I do.
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - June 30 2014 : 10:08:35 AM
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UPDATE!
While taking all the unwanted track out I discovered another car!
Its a Hooker Chemicals tank car! 
it was in a long box under the Tyco label on the box
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Posted - June 30 2014 : 11:34:45 AM
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quote:UPDATE!
While taking all the unwanted track out I discovered another car!
Its a Hooker Chemicals tank car!
it was in a long box under the Tyco label on the box
Originally posted by microbusss - June 30 2014 : 10:08:35 AM
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Good job, microbusss!It doesn't look to bad either after doing a bit of research to see what it looks like.
-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 30 2014 : 12:04:11 PM
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quote: Walt, I like the coaches in that set you got there. The only thing you're missing is obviously a Tyco/Mantua Santa Fe F-A unit.Nice set otherwise.
Originally posted by kovacste000Â -Â June 29 2014Â :Â 10:42:27 PM
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I actually have several F-A Stephen, too many! however they are in a different box so I didn't look for them....
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Posted - June 30 2014 : 12:14:34 PM
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quote: Oh, okay.I think I have two F-A units lying around in my model railroad collection. Maybe three if you count in my F-A shell I got in a lot of H0 scale freight cars I got from my model train group.
-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 30 2014 : 1:08:47 PM
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quote:UPDATE!
While taking all the unwanted track out I discovered another car!
Its a Hooker Chemicals tank car!
it was in a long box under the Tyco label on the box
Originally posted by microbusss - June 30 2014 : 10:08:35 AM
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b:
So what you are saying is, you bought a box from a garage sale and found a dead Hooker hidden in it.
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Posted - June 30 2014 : 2:20:55 PM
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So what you are saying is, you bought a box from a garage sale and found a dead Hooker hidden in it.
Originally posted by Autobus Prime - June 30 2014 : 1:08:47 PM
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Yup & it's Hooker Chemicals, you sillies XD
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Posted - June 30 2014 : 4:14:57 PM
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Starting to see more and more American Flyer on here! Nice set Jerry! Never seen a prestone Atlantic steamer! I myself collect Flyer S and HO.
" Heck with counting 'em rivets, TRAINS ARE FOR FUN! Not called the Mad Scientist for nothing either!"
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Posted - June 30 2014 : 5:55:43 PM
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quote:UPDATE!
While taking all the unwanted track out I discovered another car!
Its a Hooker Chemicals tank car!
it was in a long box under the Tyco label on the box
Originally posted by microbusss - June 30 2014 : 10:08:35 AM
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ummmm...picture? 
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - June 30 2014 : 7:09:16 PM
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ummmm...picture?
Originally posted by JNXT 7707Â -Â June 30 2014Â :Â 5:55:43 PM
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will post it in next weeks COTW
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Posted - July 01 2014 : 6:19:34 PM
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quote: quote:UPDATE!
While taking all the unwanted track out I discovered another car!
Its a Hooker Chemicals tank car!
it was in a long box under the Tyco label on the box
Originally posted by microbusss - June 30 2014 : 10:08:35 AM
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b:
So what you are saying is, you bought a box from a garage sale and found a dead Hooker hidden in it.
Originally posted by Autobus Prime - June 30 2014 : 1:08:47 PM
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I'd laugh if that were the first time I'd had that happen...
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Posted - July 01 2014 : 8:57:02 PM
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I picked up this sweet "six pack" on Tuesday night, the boss said he'd just put out the old Life-Like cheesy (his word) beer cars upstairs in the store for 5.99. He took them out of the original boxes and threw them (boxes) outside, and showed me. Want'em? Um...yeah. AND the cars. I've seen/heard of the 6-pack set, but this is my first set, AND with all the original cardboard and pieces. Not mint, but still all there. :D Not sure what he's gonna charge me, less than the price on them I think. :) All the cars are mint, were probably never used. I've seen a few here and there, but never all 6 of them. Been wanting the Tuborg boxcar, I used to drink Tuborg Gold in my teens, I liked it. But most of these are hard to find nowadays. Me thinks the boss missed the boat on this "set", he probably coulda got more than the $36 he had just the cars listed for (on Ebay), if he had the whole cardboard pieces with them. Now I have them. Heh heh heh....
 
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Posted - July 01 2014 : 9:05:12 PM
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quote:Now I have them. Heh heh heh....
Originally posted by AMC_Gremlin_GTÂ -Â July 01 2014Â :Â 8:57:02 PM
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And now we hate you Jerry
What a cool set
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Posted - July 01 2014 : 9:35:50 PM
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ohhh you WILL gimmie ONE 6 pack please
Alot of these brands are now owned by Pabst & MillerCoors
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Posted - July 01 2014 : 10:23:45 PM
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Jerry, Life-Like made 2 Canadian beer cars.
http://www.hobeercars.com/pics/lifelike/okeefe.jpg
http://www.hobeercars.com/pics/lifelike/molson-mbrx-333.jpg
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Posted - July 02 2014 : 12:20:33 AM
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Those are some tasty beer cars.
-Steve
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Posted - July 02 2014 : 01:41:51 AM
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quote:Oh I should mention that I don't want ATSF caboose, Swift reefer, UP MOW gondola with 3 pipes load & transformer
As I already have those
Originally posted by microbusss - June 29 2014 : 10:51:30 PM
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just me Ray... and just because I have Tyco doesn't mean I am not a model railroader
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 Posted - July 02 2014 : 09:31:57 AM
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Originally posted by rgcw5Â -Â July 02 2014Â :Â 01:41:51 AM
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yup its true I have them cars already
Do not want duplicates
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Posted - July 03 2014 : 6:34:25 PM
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Back at the end of May gmoney posted pictures of several pieces of rolling stock that were available at an antique shop near to him. I got him to get me a couple of cars and mail them to a friend of mine. I got to Watkins Glen, NY the last week of June and picked them up. I now have a Durango train, although a short one. The searchlight caboose is one of the cars Glenn got for me. Thanks Glenn.
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Posted - July 03 2014 : 7:59:25 PM
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quote:Back at the end of May gmoney posted pictures of several pieces of rolling stock that were available at an antique shop near to him. I got him to get me a couple of cars and mail them to a friend of mine. I got to Watkins Glen, NY the last week of June and picked them up. I now have a Durango train, although a short one. The searchlight caboose is one of the cars Glenn got for me. Thanks Glenn.
Originally posted by Retired Alex - July 03 2014 : 6:34:25 PM
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kool I got one too & a few extra stock cars sans doors
Am looking for the streamlined Durango caboose
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Posted - July 03 2014 : 9:08:47 PM
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btw? the loco WORKS!
Will post this & Hooker Chemicals tank car in next weeks OTWs
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Posted - July 03 2014 : 10:43:08 PM
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quote:Back at the end of May gmoney posted pictures of several pieces of rolling stock that were available at an antique shop near to him. I got him to get me a couple of cars and mail them to a friend of mine. I got to Watkins Glen, NY the last week of June and picked them up. I now have a Durango train, although a short one. The searchlight caboose is one of the cars Glenn got for me. Thanks Glenn.
Originally posted by Retired Alex - July 03 2014 : 6:34:25 PM
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You're welcome, Alex! I'm glad the cars arrived safely; I always worry about how USPS, UPS, etc. will handle a package.
If you need the BN boxcar, Southern pulpwood car, and Virginian hopper to finish that Durango set I can hook you up.
Glenn
I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"
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Posted - July 04 2014 : 9:22:27 PM
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quote:btw? the loco WORKS!
Will post this & Hooker Chemicals tank car in next weeks OTWs
Originally posted by microbusss - July 03 2014 : 9:08:47 PM
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The people selling that stuff have no idea what that stuff is worth.
-Steve
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Posted - July 05 2014 : 01:31:34 AM
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Dig that orange radiator glow.
Jerry, nice Flyer score. The reference I checked says that set was a 1960 production, a few years before they closed their doors. I knew it was a late model by the plastic drivers. I don't think it had the chug & smoke unit either.
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Posted - July 05 2014 : 12:34:01 PM
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Starting to see more and more American Flyer on here! Nice set Jerry! Never seen a prestone Atlantic steamer! I myself collect Flyer S and HO.
" Heck with counting 'em rivets, TRAINS ARE FOR FUN! Not called the Mad Scientist for nothing either!"
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Posted - July 06 2014 : 01:48:40 AM
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Super sharp, now I am on the hunt for one! quote: quote:Back at the end of May gmoney posted pictures of several pieces of rolling stock that were available at an antique shop near to him. I got him to get me a couple of cars and mail them to a friend of mine. I got to Watkins Glen, NY the last week of June and picked them up. I now have a Durango train, although a short one. The searchlight caboose is one of the cars Glenn got for me. Thanks Glenn.
Originally posted by Retired Alex - July 03 2014 : 6:34:25 PM
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You're welcome, Alex! I'm glad the cars arrived safely; I always worry about how USPS, UPS, etc. will handle a package.
If you need the BN boxcar, Southern pulpwood car, and Virginian hopper to finish that Durango set I can hook you up.
Originally posted by gmoney - July 03 2014 : 10:43:08 PM
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