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 Posted - December 14 2014 : 12:38:48 AM
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My COTW offering is a Roundhouse Model De Casting / MDC New Haven Caboose kit
I've had this car since I was 14! Over 30 years!
Sean
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Posted - December 14 2014 : 08:12:52 AM
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Good morning Sean.
Today I post my just refinished Gilbert reefer #2. It is a old 1939 kit Gilbert called HO#2. I did it with different trucks and couplers. I also used a set of Clover House Swift's Bacon rub on lettering.
frank
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Posted - December 14 2014 : 08:22:39 AM
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My COTW is this re-purposed Nabisco car, soon to be sporing AMC auto parts inventory. :) Finally getting my AMC consist project moving along. New decals came Friday, so the game is afoot...
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 Posted - December 14 2014 : 09:22:02 AM
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rear car of Aerotrain
it even has fins & a wraparound windshield on the rear! 
Do we love this?
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Posted - December 14 2014 : 11:49:18 AM
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Nice COTWs so far, guys. My COTW for this week is an N scale Lima Atlantic Coast Line stock car.
-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 14 2014 : 1:59:37 PM
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quote:
NICE CHOICE BEN!
GIMME! GIMME!!
Sean
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Posted - December 14 2014 : 2:01:42 PM
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quote:
NICE CHOICE BEN!
GIMME! GIMME!!
Originally posted by Mustangs_n_Trains - December 14 2014 : 1:59:37 PM
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no way, Jose' hehe I wants moar cars for it
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Posted - December 14 2014 : 5:26:18 PM
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My cars this week are the last of a lot I bought @.75 each. The first car is an Athearn, the second a Life Like and the third has no markings but has screw in trucks.
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Posted - December 14 2014 : 9:20:47 PM
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tramp, that was one of the deals of the century. Beautiful cars.
My COTW is an AHM C&O heavyweight duplex sleeper. I added kadees and metal wheels.
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - December 15 2014 : 6:55:40 PM
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Athearn 50ft mechanical reefer,from a collectors series, rest is self evident.
[URL=http://s1202.photobucket.com/user/jbsmith966/media/album2/004-5.jpg.html] /tyco/forum/uploaded/jbsmith966/004-5.jpg [/URL]
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Posted - December 15 2014 : 7:16:06 PM
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quote:Athearn 50ft mechanical reefer,from a collectors series, rest is self evident.
[URL=http://s1202.photobucket.com/user/jbsmith966/media/album2/004-5.jpg.html] /tyco/forum/uploaded/jbsmith966/004-5.jpg [/URL]
Originally posted by jbsmith966Â -Â December 15 2014Â :Â 6:55:40 PM
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"C.C.C.X" Hmm, I didn't know Coca Cola was part of the Red Army.
-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."
Edited by - kovacste000 on December 15 2014 7:16:48 PM
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Posted - December 15 2014 : 8:57:59 PM
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quote:Athearn 50ft mechanical reefer,from a collectors series, rest is self evident.
 [/URL]
Originally posted by jbsmith966Â -Â December 15 2014Â :Â 6:55:40 PM
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ooooo I want one!!
Edited by - microbusss on December 15 2014 8:58:39 PM
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Posted - December 15 2014 : 9:28:54 PM
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My nephew has been building a Coke train... I will get to see it on Christmas Day... I'm not sure how many pieces he has at the time...
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Posted - December 16 2014 : 12:48:12 PM
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Another car for my Christmas train!
Another one of Bachmann's animated stock cars, but a Christmas one with reindeer!
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Posted - December 16 2014 : 2:00:07 PM
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| I wanna do one of these but with South Pole & Northern
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Posted - December 16 2014 : 4:13:12 PM
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quote:My cars this week are the last of a lot I bought @.75 each... the third has no markings but has screw in trucks.
Originally posted by thetramp - December 14 2014 : 5:26:18 PM
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Roundhouse. The later version with the stirrups molded into the frame, instead of into the shell like the first generation of this car (otherwise identical) that had a cast frame over an Athearn car floor. I've always thought these rib-side 40' boxcars are just so cool Love it!
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Posted - December 17 2014 : 3:15:17 PM
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| Very colorful cars this week. This one is an Athearn 1974 reefer. 
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Posted - December 17 2014 : 4:24:04 PM
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My two bits for the week. Found the passenger and combine cars for my Sampson, corrugated, streamlined set.
passenger car.
combination car.
add these two new ones to the ones I got earlier, and tada, new construct(after I restore the sleeper, diner and observation cars.
Of course, to be pulled by a Hobbytown EMC E-7 A & B units(both powered by a DC91 motor).
Hopefully it will be a nice set when I'm done. All manufactured in the 1950s.
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Posted - December 19 2014 : 4:08:18 PM
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Late again this week!
An old Athearn 50's metal & wood car.
Not one truck spring was harmed during assembly.
Evan
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Posted - December 19 2014 : 4:23:48 PM
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Bonus points for having the strangest mixed-up trucks I'ver ever seen: one Andrews and one Hyatt roller bearing, both sprung, and white metal to boot! Who made those?
And the car sitting atop them isn't half bad either I have 2 of the Sentinel version of the Athearn metal box, but no Time-saver yet. Lucky...
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Posted - December 19 2014 : 4:35:01 PM
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Doh!
I never noticed the unmatched trucks.
Got the car minus trucks, and replacements were in a bag together.
Fine, I'll fix 'em!
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Posted - December 19 2014 : 7:16:59 PM
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quote:Late again this week!
An old Athearn 50's metal & wood car.
Not one truck spring was harmed during assembly.
Evan
Originally posted by PGE33Â -Â December 19 2014Â :Â 4:08:18 PM
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I love those metal cars. They have an authentic look plastic can never quite convey.
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - December 19 2014 : 8:20:00 PM
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Aaaaaaaargh! Dying of envy in the high mountains of El Paso. But, keep 'em coming!
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Posted - December 19 2014 : 8:23:36 PM
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Couple of vintage Amfleet coaches, hauled by recently dual motored GG1.
Speaking of re-purposing, the coaches sport a single blue band instead of
red, white and blue. Makes me wonder if Tyco was re-purposing some B&0
stock-in-hand.
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Posted - December 19 2014 : 9:09:55 PM
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| Nice shot, Chops!
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Posted - December 19 2014 : 10:41:21 PM
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That reindeer stock car is pretty cool. I'm gettin' this vision of a scene with a stock pen full of reindeer and a loading operation with a bunch of those elves rustlin' things around.
quote:Another car for my Christmas train!
Another one of Bachmann's animated stock cars, but a Christmas one with reindeer!
Originally posted by wiley209Â -Â December 16 2014Â :Â 12:48:12 PM
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Posted - December 20 2014 : 09:36:46 AM
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Ah, this is what I want to do ,well, DCC my Amtrak GG1 ( Tyco ). I traded my good Amtrak one to Microbusss, I'll probably take my other AMtrak shell and put it on the PRR version he traded me. No one in my club runs a GG-1, so I figured I should be the first to do so. I've got the Amtrak passenger cars already, so it's just a matter of starting the project. I need to FINISH my TYco Auto loader project first, though. well, that may still take awhile, so maybe I"ll try to squeeze in this one, DCC'ing it shouldn't take as long as the AMC fleet project. 
Jerry
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Couple of vintage Amfleet coaches, hauled by recently dual motored GG1.
Speaking of re-purposing, the coaches sport a single blue band instead of
red, white and blue. Makes me wonder if Tyco was re-purposing some B&0
stock-in-hand.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â December 19 2014Â :Â 8:23:36 PM
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