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 Posted - March 29 2015 : 11:08:20 AM
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This week's COTW from me is a Con Cor Illinois Central coach in H0.
-Steve
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Posted - March 29 2015 : 11:57:47 AM
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This week, a before and after.
John English 60' coach.
It had a fairly nasty paint job, so into the stripper with it.
Afterwards, a polishing with Autosol applied with pieces of carpet, and it's blinding.
I must try it on some brass.
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Posted - March 29 2015 : 12:11:43 PM
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quote:This week, a before and after.
John English 60' coach.
It had a fairly nasty paint job, so into the stripper with it.
Afterwards, a polishing with Autosol applied with pieces of carpet, and it's blinding.
I must try it on some brass.
Evan
Originally posted by PGE33Â -Â March 29 2015Â :Â 11:57:47 AM
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WOW that is amazing. What a transformation. I'd be hesitant to paint that.
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Posted - March 29 2015 : 12:28:19 PM
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My COTW is an Atlas hopper with a gravel load. I bought 2 of these on e-bay.
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Posted - March 29 2015 : 2:16:00 PM
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My car of the week could be considered as one car or five. It's a set of coal jimmies connected with drawbars, only having couplers on the two on the end:
In the May, 1967 issue of Model Railroader, E. L. Moore had an article called "Six Ton Jimmy." Some time ago, there were little 4-wheel carts called Jimmies in which coal was transported by rail. They were not much more than mining carts, but they traveled on common carrier rails. E. L. Moore described how he modeled them using sections of a wooden yardstick for a chassis and freight car trucks to mount the wheels.
While they're a bit old fashioned for my layout, I wanted to build some just for the fun of it. Because it was just an impulse build and because E. L. Moore projects were frugal by nature, I figured to do it on the cheap. I had some 1/8" thick wood and cut out the floors I needed. Framing was cut from scraps of balsa and planking was scribed file folder cardboard. The folders were too dog-eared and used up for their original purpose. The ghost of Mr. Moore would like it that way.  Each Jimmy is weighted with four taconite pellets with sand glued in around them and coal glued on the top. Here's a view as you would normally see it:
Here's how the underside is built:
The wheels mount in old archbar trucks from the parts box. They're modified to look less like normal freight car trucks. This is an end car with a coupler on one end and the drawbar on the other.
Here's how they all couple together as seen from below:
Carpe Manana!
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Posted - March 29 2015 : 2:28:27 PM
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Aaaargh! Now I want to model a mine! Splendid
assemblage topped by a Shay.
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Posted - March 29 2015 : 8:31:11 PM
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I'm not gonna make this private, I'll let Gomer Pyle introduce my COTW, golly! Well, Shazam! Thank you, thank you very much! Picked it up a few weeks ago at a a thrift store. Nice piece.
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Posted - March 29 2015 : 8:42:42 PM
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Here's an unknown maker, old wooden craftsman car.
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Posted - March 29 2015 : 10:25:58 PM
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& now all FOUR DC cars at once!
Jealous anyone?
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Posted - March 30 2015 : 12:05:47 AM
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My car of the week is a neat old wood boxcar that came in a group of stuff I got
off of eBay. It has Central Valley trucks, but no other markings. May try to
restore it if possible.
The Fox type trucks have individual springs for each wheel. Haven't seen those
before.
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Posted - March 30 2015 : 01:09:26 AM
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quote:My car of the week is a neat old wood boxcar that came in a group of stuff I got
off of eBay. It has Central Valley trucks, but no other markings. May try to
restore it if possible.
The Fox type trucks have individual springs for each wheel. Haven't seen those
before.
Originally posted by oldtimer52Â -Â March 30 2015Â :Â 12:05:47 AM
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It's old and unique, I know that much.
-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 - March 30 2015 : 10:58:46 AM
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Those are some fine trucks George. The Michigan Southern line has a pretty good bunch of history; ultimately became part of New York Central, I believe.
quote:My car of the week is a neat old wood boxcar that came in a group of stuff I got
off of eBay. It has Central Valley trucks, but no other markings. May try to
restore it if possible.
The Fox type trucks have individual springs for each wheel. Haven't seen those
before.
Originally posted by oldtimer52Â -Â March 30 2015Â :Â 12:05:47 AM
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Posted - March 30 2015 : 12:10:23 PM
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Hmmm. This looks like this will be one of those "keep as is" cars. Judging by
the way the couplers are made, this may have been an early (late 50's or early
60's) Roundhouse kit. Thanks for the input on this.
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Posted - March 30 2015 : 2:51:38 PM
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As close as I could get to Scsshaggy's mine train.
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Posted - March 30 2015 : 5:10:25 PM
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quote:
As close as I could get to Scsshaggy's mine train.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â March 30 2015Â :Â 2:51:38 PM
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That one car has more capacity than all five jimmies.
Carpe Manana!
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Posted - March 30 2015 : 8:15:53 PM
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| Great looking cars as always. This vintage mantua car I picked up at Edison NJ yesterday.  I used garbage can at NJ Transit station near Edison NJ with new rail equipment nearby.
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Posted - March 30 2015 : 8:31:34 PM
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| Hah!
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Posted - March 30 2015 : 9:08:13 PM
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quote:| This vintage mantua car I picked up at Edison NJ yesterday.
Originally posted by wks - March 30 2015 : 8:15:53 PM
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I once rode in a car that looked about like that in the Nevada State Railway Museum, except that the road name was Virginia and Truckee. That's a neat old time car.
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Posted - March 31 2015 : 07:33:41 AM
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My COTW is a Tyco Victorian railways caboose or gaurds van to match my LOTW. Microbusss, I am and nice set . Tony
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Posted - March 31 2015 : 08:59:18 AM
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quote:
Originally posted by skimpy tone 44Â -Â March 31 2015Â :Â 07:33:41 AM
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OOOO! I want one!
& I knows the VR didn't have cabooses/vans like that either
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Posted - March 31 2015 : 09:50:33 AM
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quote: quote:
Originally posted by skimpy tone 44Â -Â March 31 2015Â :Â 07:33:41 AM
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OOOO! I want one!
& I knows the VR didn't have cabooses/vans like that either
Originally posted by microbusss - March 31 2015 : 08:59:18 AM
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 As far as I can tell, they didn't. That would be pretty cool to find one of these things, though.
-Steve
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Posted - March 31 2015 : 11:44:48 PM
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My COTW is an IT boxcar from Life Like.
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Posted - April 01 2015 : 1:04:41 PM
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quote:My car of the week is a neat old wood boxcar that came in a group of stuff I got
off of eBay. It has Central Valley trucks, but no other markings. May try to
restore it if possible.
The Fox type trucks have individual springs for each wheel. Haven't seen those
before.
Originally posted by oldtimer52Â -Â March 30 2015Â :Â 12:05:47 AM
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Pretty sure it's a Central Valley kit all the way through. I've got one in PRR that isn't built yet. Those couplers with the vertical trip pins are just old kadees - no indication of the car's manufacture other than that it was assembled in the 60's (I think).
--CRC
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Posted - April 01 2015 : 1:26:41 PM
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nice stuff, guys
Here are 2 Hogwart's Express coaches by Bachmann
Do want more of these cars
& just for fun a BN boxcar by AHM
kool yes?
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Posted - April 01 2015 : 1:48:18 PM
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My COTW is an Athearn Conrail wide vision caboose.
Tim
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Posted - April 01 2015 : 2:11:44 PM
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Bachmann Whitehouse Cider..
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Posted - April 01 2015 : 2:33:15 PM
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My car of the week is actually 2 cars. Both run but the one in back has "wonky" front wheels that I am trying to sort out.
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Posted - April 03 2015 : 7:35:09 PM
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| I didn't know that Bachmann made a Hogwart's piggyback passenger car..
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Posted - April 03 2015 : 11:28:04 PM
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quote:I didn't know that Bachmann made a Hogwart's piggyback passenger car..
Originally posted by oldtimer52Â -Â April 03 2015Â :Â 7:35:09 PM
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ohhh Quiet you
I just stacked them like that to get a good pic
Yes do want more cars for it
Plus the stations & accesories
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Posted - April 03 2015 : 11:54:18 PM
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quote:My car of the week is actually 2 cars. Both run but the one in back has "wonky" front wheels that I am trying to sort out.
Originally posted by Retired Alex - April 01 2015 : 2:33:15 PM
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"Wonky" meaning no front rail wheels? Shouldn't be to hard with the front one as a sample. I actually have one of those...a 49.
/tyco/forum/uploaded/ScaleCraft/20150403235326_resizedwillys.jpg
3/4 race 50 Merc, Mustang II front end, Mustang read, tilt column....
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Posted - April 04 2015 : 12:15:08 AM
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quote:I didn't know that Bachmann made a Hogwart's piggyback passenger car..
Originally posted by oldtimer52Â -Â April 03 2015Â :Â 7:35:09 PM
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That's just perfect, man. But dang, gorgeous train set.
-Steve
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Posted - April 04 2015 : 08:50:58 AM
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quote: I actually have one of those...a 49.
3/4 race 50 Merc, Mustang II front end, Mustang read, tilt column....
Dave
Originally posted by ScaleCraft - April 03 2015 : 11:54:18 PM
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yeah a 2 door
But Jeep really did make them with FOUR doors
do want one!
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Posted - April 04 2015 : 09:12:13 AM
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quote: quote:My car of the week is actually 2 cars. Both run but the one in back has "wonky" front wheels that I am trying to sort out.
Originally posted by Retired Alex - April 01 2015 : 2:33:15 PM
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"Wonky" meaning no front rail wheels? Shouldn't be to hard with the front one as a sample. I actually have one of those...a 49.
/tyco/forum/uploaded/ScaleCraft/20150403235326_resizedwillys.jpg
3/4 race 50 Merc, Mustang II front end, Mustang read, tilt column....
Dave
Originally posted by ScaleCraft - April 03 2015 : 11:54:18 PM
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No, I have the front rail wheels just didn't put them on for this picture. Behind the rubber tires is a plastic wheel flange to keep the car on the track. It isn't square to the axle and when the car travels down the track it wobbles and jumps up and down.
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