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 Posted - November 23 2014 : 1:29:37 PM
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I've been working on getting this set together for a couple of years now, having been on a tight budget for a while.
Finally got a good paying job that leaves a little left over for hobby stuff.
Started with a custom painted Model Power E7 and added the cars from the last two local train shows.
Just have two more to add, Bachmann full-dome cars that I'll attempt to paint.
In all, just over $100 for the whole set. Not bad, I think.
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Posted - November 23 2014 : 5:58:22 PM
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Nice set! Those colors always remind me of fall season. Anyway, here it is - my Microbusss brainbuster! We both wanted these cars, and I found them ALL at one show, one vendor on Saturday. For 35 GW's, I got all 3, with boxes and papers.  And I'm sure I'll make someone  too! 
I will post more in-depth photos of these 3 cars in another forum, maybe not tonight, but soon. They're just too good to not be documented well.  And a one, a two, a three...
The infamous Walthers Tongue in cheek models! I SHOULD have bought the O gauge beer car,too, the vendor had that, but I was trying to be good. Honestly. Maybe if he still has it next year, when I plan to attend again, I can snag it too. The peanut One car is a hoot, I love the pics of Jimmy Carter, and the Peanut One signage. The car that may be easiest to repro, though, is the Impact Test Car. I may try to market a limited run, as the diode/light assembly and the pinball are probably the two most unique things for it, oh and the clear plastic sides. But I can probably find all that. I was just flabbergasted to find all 4 at one vendor, and for a reasonable price, too. I guess my Karma was good that day. Like, Microbusss?
Jerry
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Posted - November 23 2014 : 7:46:01 PM
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Not a set as in I bought this set but as in I put this set together.
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Posted - November 23 2014 : 8:18:09 PM
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what?? no Jail Box?? booooo
the beer car won't work with today's beer cans 
You gotta have the old steel or aluminum straight cans 
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Posted - November 23 2014 : 8:22:14 PM
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BEAUTIFUL set, Evan! Quite a consist
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - November 23 2014 : 10:35:37 PM
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Nice score Jerry, I was not aware of the peanut car. I'll add that to my wish list.
Tom
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Posted - November 23 2014 : 10:49:26 PM
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Well, again, I'm reaching a bit here, but here is a one car "set" of a vintage Tyco
Log Unloader. It came complete in its box with a log dump car and a set of three
logs that get pitched into a track side bin. The little button has a warning emblazoned
in gold colored relief: "PRESS: DO NOT STRIKE." Thank heavens, I was all ready to
smack the red button as hard as I could.
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Posted - November 23 2014 : 10:54:15 PM
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quote:Not a set as in I bought this set but as in I put this set together.
Originally posted by thetramp - November 23 2014 : 7:46:01 PM
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Nice home built set there, Tramp! Good eye!
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Posted - November 24 2014 : 12:37:00 AM
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My set for this week is a AHM/Rivarossi Western & Atlantic old time passenger set with link and pin couplers.
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Posted - November 24 2014 : 02:43:52 AM
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quote:My set for this week is a AHM/Rivarossi Western & Atlantic old time passenger set with link and pin couplers.
Originally posted by oldtimer52Â -Â November 24 2014Â :Â 12:37:00 AM
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Awesome... without airlines! As they should be for that era.
John
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Is that a power-trip or just another pick-up line?
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Posted - November 24 2014 : 08:26:31 AM
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quote:My set for this week is a AHM/Rivarossi Western & Atlantic old time passenger set with link and pin couplers.
Originally posted by oldtimer52Â -Â November 24 2014Â :Â 12:37:00 AM
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That's shaping up to be one sweet-looking train.
Carpe Manana!
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Posted - November 24 2014 : 10:09:38 AM
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| Thanks. I also have the similar set from roundhouse for the D&RGW which will be headed by my 4-6-0 D7RGW in the yellow (Bumble Bee) livery. Am trying to find some more link and pins for that one as well.
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Posted - November 26 2014 : 7:44:23 PM
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Never seen model link and pin couplers before. Pretty neat.
My great grandfather was a brakeman on the Pennsylvania
in the link and pin era. He got his head trapped between two
freight cars when the slack action hit. Fortunately, for my
lineage, someone saw him and the engineer pulled the cars
apart. He lived to a ripe old age, literally in the shadow of the
Horseshoe Curve, after a healthy fifty some year career.
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Posted - November 26 2014 : 8:07:48 PM
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Here is my TYCO Pennsylvania Railroad old time 1880 passenger set.
** 4-6-0 with combine and two coaches.
frank
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