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 Posted - November 30 2014 : 10:59:44 AM
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For this week, my COTW is a Life Like Western Maryland coal car that I got at a train show a while back.
-Steve
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Posted - November 30 2014 : 11:16:20 AM
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My COTW is this Athearn Santa FE boxcar I picked up at a train show as part of a lot. Cost of this car - $.75.
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Posted - November 30 2014 : 11:21:03 AM
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quote:My COTW is this Athearn Santa FE boxcar I picked up at a train show as part of a lot. Cost of this car - $.75.
Originally posted by thetramp - November 30 2014 : 11:16:20 AM
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 You definitely did better than I did. I got my COTW for $5 as is. Good job, man.
-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 - November 30 2014 : 11:21:52 AM
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ok ONE car from the train show on Saturday for $5
& I KNOWS one of you has this car already 
yes that IS snow too
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Posted - November 30 2014 : 11:49:32 AM
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quote:My COTW is this Athearn Santa FE boxcar I picked up at a train show as part of a lot. Cost of this car - $.75.
Originally posted by thetramp - November 30 2014 : 11:16:20 AM
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Nice car! You can find those at train shows in the $3 box but they always have stirrups missing.
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - November 30 2014 : 12:16:27 PM
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My COTW is a pair of Roundhouse(?) Conrail coal hoppers I snagged from the dollar box at a hobby shop in Wildwood NJ a couple months ago. With different numbers, no less 
All they needed was some coal loads and a little touch-up here and there.
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - November 30 2014 : 5:25:40 PM
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I'm surprised I didn't show this here yet...
Bachmann's animated stock car with horses bobbing through the windows! Very reminiscent of Lionel's old "rodeo" car of the 1960s...
(You'd think Bachmann would've tried this back in the 1970s or 1980s, or even TYCO would've done it!)
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Posted - November 30 2014 : 6:01:33 PM
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quote:My COTW is a pair of Roundhouse(?) Conrail coal hoppers I snagged from the dollar box at a hobby shop in Wildwood NJ a couple months ago. With different numbers, no less
All they needed was some coal loads and a little touch-up here and there.
Originally posted by JNXT 7707Â -Â November 30 2014Â :Â 12:16:27 PM
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Jerry, those coal hoppers look brand new. Good find.
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Posted - December 01 2014 : 02:32:54 AM
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A rare and unique Ferrocarrill Mexico dormitory car,owned by club president, Mario
Almeida. Today at the 42 Annual Open House.
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Posted - December 01 2014 : 07:59:21 AM
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This week a COP and HOBO chase car by Lionel #0357.
toptrain
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Posted - December 01 2014 : 11:03:55 AM
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A rare and unique Ferrocarrill Mexico dormitory car,owned by club president, Mario
Almeida. Today at the 42 Annual Open House.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â December 01 2014Â :Â 02:32:54 AM
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who made that Shell tanker in the back?
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Posted - December 01 2014 : 2:38:10 PM
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Will look it up. One of our members used to be an OTR trucker
and does a lot of tractor trailer modeling. We have an
abundance of his trucks on the layout.
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Posted - December 01 2014 : 3:14:33 PM
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My COTW is a pair of Ulrich general service drop bottom gondolas:
Sean
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Posted - December 01 2014 : 4:38:28 PM
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My COTW is this Walthers circus animal car.
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Posted - December 01 2014 : 4:46:41 PM
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quote:Will look it up. One of our members used to be an OTR trucker
and does a lot of tractor trailer modeling. We have an
abundance of his trucks on the layout.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â December 01 2014Â :Â 2:38:10 PM
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kool I do too but never was a trucker
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Posted - December 01 2014 : 5:07:56 PM
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| ALL Nice pieces guys! Awesome car from Redwoods, neat pic from Chops!
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Posted - December 01 2014 : 8:56:51 PM
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Got these at the Greenberg Show in Edison, NJ on Saturday.
I got this because Carstens just went under - So no more MRC or Flying Models. It's a little beat up.
I hit the jackpot on these. They're all from a guy who had a couple of cardboard boxes labelled $2.00. Some were even wrapped up in bubble-wrap. I had to peel them to see what they were. Most were in great shape.
  
This is the real bargain (like the $2.00 cars weren't for only $1.00
This was a highly unusual haul. I don't think I've ever seen anything like this at a Greenberg Show. I never saw the guy with the $2.00 boxes before and probably never will again!
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Posted - December 01 2014 : 9:00:21 PM
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killer haul, man! I want these!!
Edited by - microbusss on December 01 2014 9:01:25 PM
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Posted - December 03 2014 : 8:43:48 PM
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That is some great cars. Back in the day, I used to work at Eckerd. If you ever want to sell that car, give me first shot at it. Thanks
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Posted - December 09 2014 : 4:49:59 PM
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Some history on those cars of yours, since they're so neat:
The Carstens car, that exact one you have in your picture, I've met before. It showed up at Penn Valley Hobbies in Lansdale about 2 years ago, with the broken grabirons, brown wheels and McHenrys just like that. The owners retired and began liquidating their entire stock (several hundred HO locos and over 1500 cars new and used, plus N, Z, a little Lionel, and a metric ton (very funny!) of airplane and car and ship kits) shortly afterwards. They closed down for good earlier this year and I wondered where the last of the cars went, since a couple hundred remained unsold the last time I stopped by before they closed, that one included. Apparently THAT'S where they went!
The Athearn B&LE boxcar there was one of my first Athearn blue-box cars, except I recently read that the B&LE boxcar was only released as part of sets produced for Cox by Athearn, never individually, which makes them rather hard-to-find.
Apparently I left my browser open with this all typed a few days ago but forgot to hit "post new reply", sorry 
--CRC
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Posted - December 10 2014 : 10:38:16 AM
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PRR 4800-
Cool to hear about the Carstens Car! (I see that RMC has been picked up by another publishing company.)
The Bessimer & Lake Erie was actually a RTR COX car, in a Cox box labeled B&LE. It was used and the couplers are missing, but you're right, I believe it was made by Athearn.
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Posted - December 10 2014 : 5:01:36 PM
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Red car, reporting marks "CCCX"...hmm...
"In Soviet Russia, Coke enjoys you."
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Posted - December 10 2014 : 7:37:50 PM
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Red car, reporting marks "CCCX"...hmm...
"In Soviet Russia, Coke enjoys you."
Originally posted by Autobus Prime - December 10 2014 : 5:01:36 PM
[/quote]The Soviets have overrun Coca Cola!Just joking of courseIt actually looks pretty good, though.
-Steve
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