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My Microbusss teaser of the week ( oops, sorry, wrong place  ) is this Tyco Budweiser closed hopper I just got last week. Got a boxload of vintage Mantua, I bought it mainly for the two Santa Fe Piggyback trailers and this car, but the others are nice enough, I may have to make a Mantua consist with them  .
Anyway, this hops-ser needs a bit of cleaning, but seems otherwise intact. Now all I need is a Dale Earnhardt, Jr. HO train to go with it. 
Jerry
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Posted - September 21 2014 : 10:19:19 AM
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For this week, my COTW is a boxed Tyco Virginian hopper I got for $7. It's not too bad actually.
-Steve
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Posted - September 21 2014 : 10:46:38 AM
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oooo I want that car, AMC
Here are 3 I got from members here TY
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Posted - September 21 2014 : 11:45:44 AM
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A commemorative boxcar from the Scenic Railroad in Cumberland, MD.
http://tycodepot.com/
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 Posted - September 21 2014 : 6:23:13 PM
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Hi AMC_Gremlin_GT,
hops-ser
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Posted - September 21 2014 : 8:25:51 PM
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My Life- Like Bi-Level Auto Carrier. A gift from my wife about 10 years ago. I love it but size of the cars vary greatly from the slot car part of my layout. I will display this somewhere in my toy room.
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Posted - September 22 2014 : 11:31:02 AM
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3 flats that I have been working on for the past 2 weeks.
This is an AHM flat car.
This was advertised as a Tyco flat car. It is exactly the same as the AHM but with no markings on the bottom to say who made it.
The flat with the lumber load has no markings at all either.
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Posted - September 22 2014 : 11:40:09 AM
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| Those cars look like their really being put to work Alex.
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Posted - September 22 2014 : 7:43:19 PM
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quote:3 flats that I have been working on for the past 2 weeks.
The flat with the lumber load has no markings at all either.
Originally posted by Retired Alex - September 22 2014 : 11:31:02 AM
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That there is an Ertl flatcar. Yes, the company known for toy tractors and trucks once attempted to make HO trains. The gondolas are alright but I never liked the flatcars. The giveaway for an Ertl flatcar is the ludicrously thick wooden deck, exceeding a scale foot in height.
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Posted - September 22 2014 : 7:50:49 PM
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@PRR 4800, thanks for the ID. I knew someone here would put a name to it.
Did some Googling. They produced HO rolling stock from 1997 to 1998 and only produced 3 cars - the flat, a low side gondola and a box car. People either seem to love them or hate them, no in between. Possibly the thickness of the floor of the flat was to give it some weight, just guessing as this seems to be the biggest gripe about the car besides plastic wheels.
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Posted - September 22 2014 : 9:23:31 PM
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Really nice flatcars! The loads look really great, am I correct that those metal pieces are electronic parts? The weathering on the decks looks good as well, especially with the variation between the boards.
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Posted - September 22 2014 : 10:35:58 PM
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The cable rolls are a Proser laser cut cardboard kit and the vertical piece on that car is something I cobbled together from a plastic parts sprue and I don't know what. It just seemed to fit together and look half decent. All the rest are freight loads that I purchased from Ebay already made up. All seem to be made from spare/broken parts of one description or another. I recognize the valve handles on the short pipes as sew on dress snaps. The orange vertical pieces are the snap in truck pins from Athern trucks.
Unfortunately I am of an age where I am not steady handed enough to be able to do small work like this anymore. Maybe that's why the weathering on the decks came out half decent, my hand was shaking enough that the effect was totally random - not what I initially intended at all.
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Posted - September 23 2014 : 11:22:39 AM
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My COTW is my latest metals project. It is a solid brass cast scrap metal flat.
It started out as a scrapbox Varney flat and I added wax copies of New Bright wheels and also the rejects from my first run of Tyco C-430 HiAd truck sideframes. The sideframes are plated with nickel silver.
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Posted - September 23 2014 : 1:22:58 PM
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I got that and the C&H car....side note, the Athearn hopper underframe fits real good with a teeny bit of modification
just me Ray... and just because I have Tyco doesn't mean I am not a model railroader
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Posted - September 25 2014 : 08:33:34 AM
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My COTW is a Ulrich General Service (GS) drop bottom gondola for... Enterprise Railway Equipment Company
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Posted - September 27 2014 : 12:32:35 PM
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I picked this up this morning at a yard sale for 50 cents. There's no manufacturer's name on the bottom and it has narrow spaced wheels, more for N scale, even though it is close to HO.    
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Posted - September 27 2014 : 12:51:38 PM
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| badman55 - what you might of found is a HOn3 or close caboose <3
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Posted - September 27 2014 : 10:34:05 PM
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quote:
um...I'm at a loss for words...
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Posted - September 27 2014 : 11:04:10 PM
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What in the name of humanity is that bizarre caboose? It just cannot exist, it defies all railroading logic. 
-Steve
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Posted - September 27 2014 : 11:23:09 PM
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Now that's an interesting find! I would say kitbash, but from what I can see there are no seams or anything like that, and the gauge of the wheels seems strange.
It looks like some cheap quality car made for a cheap train set, the kind that are sold in toy stores and have a gauge which is close, but never quite fits with any kind of model train equipment.
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Posted - September 27 2014 : 11:56:14 PM
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That long caboose has some nicely molded detail for a toy. You got plans for it?
Glenn
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Posted - September 28 2014 : 4:04:29 PM
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quote:That long caboose has some nicely molded detail for a toy. You got plans for it?
Originally posted by gmoney - September 27 2014 : 11:56:14 PM
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Yeah, I might graft the ends from a junker caboose onto the ends maybe put some four wheel passenger trucks or express trucks on it and either run it in a consist or just side line it and make it a bar and grill joint. It is an unusual piece that caught my eye and for only 50 cents was a good score. Not many model railroaders in my neck of the woods.
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