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 COTW January 11, 2015 - January 17, 2015
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Chops124
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My tweenage daughter has me watching re-runs of the "Walking Dead." This
is a tribute car. Alas, they are too tall to fit under the Life Like Lighted Bridge.
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kovacste000
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I like that, actually. All it needs is some weathering and the people painted and there ya go! My COTW is an N scale Southern Pacific hopper made by Atlas.
-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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thetramp
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My COTW this week is an Athearn Carnation Milk car bought off a guy from another website.
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lloydvfp844
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Picked this up for $3 at a local Hobby Shop. I opened it up and found that one side of car, part of the Pepsi logo is missing...
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walt
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Lloyd, I've never seen a Tyco Pepsi box car with a peeling label! Or maybe it's gone from someone's error. However, there's a few Tyco cars that have paint label peeling issues..
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Chops124
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That's a score!
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kovacste000
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My COTW this week is an Athearn Carnation Milk car bought off a guy from another website.



Originally posted by thetramp - January 11 2015 :  2:20:54 PM

The cool thing about that car to me is that Carnation Milk used to have a factory in my hometown.They moved to a town named Carnation down the road from it and all that's left of the one in my hometown is the smoke stack, which is in the middle of a parking lot. Here's what it used to look like circa 1910ish;

Here's what they've done with it last year;

Just thought I'd share it with you all.
-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 January 12 2015 09:33:24 AM
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rgcw5
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Another "Tycobash" ( the good kind) reworked boxcar for PE in the early weathering stages
just me Ray... and just because I have Tyco doesn't mean I am not a model railroader
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PRR 4800
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Another "Tycobash" ( the good kind) reworked boxcar for PE in the early weathering stages

Originally posted by rgcw5 - January 12 2015 :  5:43:19 PM



Is that... Roof of the modern 50', sides of the ordinary 50' plug door? I do like it. Caught me off guard for a moment, couldn't tell what it was but I knew it was something different. Nice!
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Stephen, that stack is cool and looks really bizarre sticking out of a parking lot. They should build a huge fireplace & grill into the bottom and use it for cookouts.
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Another "Tycobash" ( the good kind) reworked boxcar for PE in the early weathering stages

Originally posted by rgcw5 - January 12 2015 :  5:43:19 PM



Is that... Roof of the modern 50', sides of the ordinary 50' plug door? I do like it. Caught me off guard for a moment, couldn't tell what it was but I knew it was something different. Nice!

Originally posted by PRR 4800 - January 12 2015 :  6:11:26 PM



Yup, the roofs and ends are Branhline parts everything else is the original car...(OK,OK the sides are sue me)
just me Ray... and just because I have Tyco doesn't mean I am not a model railroader
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wks
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Nice photos and interesting story Stephen.
This car is a 7-11 AHM car.
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kovacste000
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Nice photos and interesting story Stephen.
This car is a 7-11 AHM car.


Originally posted by wks - January 14 2015 :  11:48:04 AM

Thanks.I just felt like I had to do that since that was the first thing I thought when I saw the picture of that refrigerator 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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toptrain
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** For this week I'll stay with a Gilbert car that has some Marx Heritage. That this car is of Marx Design is easy to see.
* A automatic Gilbert Hay Ejector car. Railroad- New York Central. NYC car recording number, and Gilbert catalog number 33819.

Frank
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walt
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My input is a Tyco Ajax hopper...
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