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 Posted - December 07 2014 : 12:28:25 AM
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 Posted - December 07 2014 : 01:30:18 AM
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My COTW:
A TM Train Miniatures Reading Lines Mennonite Central Committee 40' Steel Boxcar
Sean
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Posted - December 07 2014 : 01:52:38 AM
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Mustangs, I actually posted a Trains Miniature car just a couple of weeks ago.  My contribution to the COTW for this week is an AHM box car with the box dated February 22, 1973.
-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 - December 07 2014 : 09:41:29 AM
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My COTW is an unusual one, I haven't seen this one before until it showed up at my train shop in an estate lot. MINE! HO scale Lionel circus car, I didn't even know Lionel did one of these.
Jerry
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Posted - December 07 2014 : 10:45:38 AM
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Also a Lionel car, a track cleaner, moderately non-functional.
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Posted - December 07 2014 : 10:49:30 AM
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Jerry, that is a good looking car. For that matter, all the cars look great. My two cars this week are Bachmann cars that I picked up in the lot at a local train show. Cost each, a whooping .75 cents. I have two more left to show from that lot.
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Posted - December 07 2014 : 11:34:21 AM
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did you know Bachmann made a BLANK EL boxcar?
weird Yes?
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Posted - December 07 2014 : 12:16:14 PM
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My COTW is a pair of old-time cars I got from Chops some time ago.
This started out as a Mantua ATSF combine. I stripped and repainted it for the T&T.
This is a Mantua W&ARR horse car with metal trucks. I liked the naturally weathered look, gave it a little touch-up here and there then left it alone.
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Posted - December 07 2014 : 2:10:42 PM
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| Jerry, your Lionel Circus car goes with the Lionel giraffe car.
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Posted - December 07 2014 : 11:41:47 PM
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From Mantua
[URL=http://s1202.photobucket.com/user/jbsmith966/media/album2/003-5.jpg.html] /tyco/forum/uploaded/jbsmith966/003-5.jpg [/URL]
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Posted - December 08 2014 : 08:25:08 AM
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quote:My COTW is an unusual one, I haven't seen this one before until it showed up at my train shop in an estate lot. MINE! HO scale Lionel circus car, I didn't even know Lionel did one of these.
Jerry
Originally posted by AMC_Gremlin_GTÂ -Â December 07 2014Â :Â 09:41:29 AM
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Jerry; They made a whole circus train set . You may remember the Giraffe car that would duck its head to clear a tunnel entrance.
frank
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Posted - December 08 2014 : 08:43:59 AM
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** My car of the week, like almost always, would nicely fit in to a Old kit car category. It is a war emergency gondola that was made for almost every railroad during WW1 and 2. The USRA was having various companies build them in large numbers during the war.
* This is a old kit car from around the 1950-60's time period. It is like many others made with die cast gondola walls and a wood floor. I found mine as you see it completely built , with trucks and couplers and in a well weathered patina. I would say ready for a set of decals.
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Posted - December 08 2014 : 2:01:06 PM
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Nice looking car Frank. Any idea what the herald is? It resembles a Life-Like logo, but I seriously doubt that's what it is.
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Posted - December 08 2014 : 3:49:53 PM
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quote:** My car of the week, like almost always, would nicely fit in to a Old kit car category. It is a war emergency gondola that was made for almost every railroad during WW1 and 2. The USRA was having various companies build them in large numbers during the war.
* This is a old kit car from around the 1950-60's time period. It is like many others made with die cast gondola walls and a wood floor. I found mine as you see it completely built , with trucks and couplers and in a well weathered patina. I would say ready for a set of decals.
frank
Originally posted by toptrain - December 08 2014 : 08:43:59 AM
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That there is an Ulrich kit, one of my favorites, introduced 1953. IIRC they came in PRR, LV, ROCK, and undec. I can't see them but there should be a whole lot of closely-spaced wood cross-beams along the whole underside of the car; my undec car has them but my Rock car is missing them, as some modelers never bothered to install them. Nice find either way! 
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Posted - December 09 2014 : 12:15:14 AM
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Get me a ticket on the Tonawah and Tidewater! I don't even care
where she goes! I just want to ride it!
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Posted - December 09 2014 : 11:20:37 PM
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My AHM Lipton Hopper...
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Posted - December 10 2014 : 08:13:29 AM
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quote: quote:** My car of the week, like almost always, would nicely fit in to a Old kit car category. It is a war emergency gondola that was made for almost every railroad during WW1 and 2. The USRA was having various companies build them in large numbers during the war.
* This is a old kit car from around the 1950-60's time period. It is like many others made with die cast gondola walls and a wood floor. I found mine as you see it completely built , with trucks and couplers and in a well weathered patina. I would say ready for a set of decals.
frank
Originally posted by toptrain - December 08 2014 : 08:43:59 AM
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That there is an Ulrich kit, one of my favorites, introduced 1953. IIRC they came in PRR, LV, ROCK, and undec. I can't see them but there should be a whole lot of closely-spaced wood cross-beams along the whole underside of the car; my undec car has them but my Rock car is missing them, as some modelers never bothered to install them. Nice find either way!
Originally posted by PRR 4800Â -Â December 08 2014Â :Â 3:49:53 PM
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A nice observation and good post Connor. It seems to me that in the past a few companies were producing this car in kit form. I know this type car was made in various lengths. I do have a few a different lengths. I haven't made one from a kit so your observations and conclusions, seem correct to me.
Again Connor a good post.
frank
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Posted - December 10 2014 : 7:45:18 PM
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Got another addition to my Christmas train!
So what if it's no longer 1979? Still looks pretty cool! Plus, A.H.M. was up there with Bachmann and TYCO at the time when it came to dominating the HO train market.
Of course I took it out of the box, replaced the X2Fs with knuckle couplers (using the Life-Like knuckle couplers, as they fit in easily.) Now it's part of my Christmas train consist:
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Posted - December 10 2014 : 8:20:52 PM
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I dig the paint scheme on that Sun Oil Company tank car JBsmith. Sometimes I think about having a consist of a bunch of them. When I was a kid, we'd drive by the Sun Oil refinery in Toledo, Ohio. There'd always be a mess of those cars and they'd all be dirty and slimy.
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Originally posted by jbsmith966Â -Â December 07 2014Â :Â 11:41:47 PM
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Posted - December 12 2014 : 2:19:00 PM
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What can be said about this week's offerings? "THEY'RRRRE GREAT!" By the way
Wiley, I love that brass track on green grass thing you're doing there. When I rebuilt
my Tycomania layout, I happily signed on to that bandwagon. Beautiful work there.
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Posted - December 12 2014 : 3:03:20 PM
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Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â December 12 2014Â :Â 2:19:00 PM
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AHM made one before this with a blue roof & ends & I got both
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Posted - December 12 2014 : 9:07:04 PM
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I have the one with blue roof and ends that came with a promotional train set from Kellogg's.
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