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 Posted - April 26 2015 : 08:57:50 AM
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Ok, "plowing" ahead with the COTW first post  , another piece I bought Thursday from a customer estate lot. Actually, I'll do a double-post, as I got two plows in this lot, Justin will be getting the orange and gray one eventually.  I'm sure he'll need it in sunny Florida.
Jerry
 
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Posted - April 26 2015 : 09:36:25 AM
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Nice cars Jerry. My car this week is an Athearn Southern Pacific double door boxcar.
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Posted - April 26 2015 : 10:51:44 AM
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quote:Nice cars Jerry. My car this week is an Athearn Southern Pacific double door boxcar.
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Originally posted by thetramp - April 26 2015 : 09:36:25 AM
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Nice car. It looks a bit too modern to have friction bearing trucks, though. Slap a couple of Atlas 70 ton roller bearing trucks under it and it'll roll like it's gliding over the track! On topic, my COTW is an 80's coil car: 
I dunno who made it, but, it looks like it was made from a kit. I bought it last year at the same train show I bough my Bachmann 86 foot auto rack from.
I'm home schooled, I love to work on cars and anything with an engine and wheels, I love model RR'ing, and listening to Dire Straits.
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Posted - April 26 2015 : 11:37:31 AM
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The SP boxcar was actually built with friction bearing trucks (I checked when I built mine), and the coil car's a Walthers kit from a few years ago 
You'd be surprised what was built with friction vs roller bearing trucks in the 60's. I rebuilt a box of four covered hoppers recently - 3 Airslides (B&O, Milwaukee, and Nebraska Consolidated Milling) plus an old craftsman-kit B&O 2-bay cement hopper - and when I went and looked them all up, three of four had the wrong kind of trucks! The two B&O cars had friction bearing trucks and the other 2 airslides had roller bearings, but when I checked prototype photos as I was finishing up, it turned out that the B&O cars were both ordered with roller bearings, while Nebraska Consolidated's cars had friction bearings. Only the Milwaukee car was right! Never trust that the trucks that come included with a kit are the ones that belong on the car...
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Posted - April 26 2015 : 11:53:09 AM
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quote:The SP boxcar was actually built with friction bearing trucks (I checked when I built mine), and the coil car's a Walthers kit from a few years ago
You'd be surprised what was built with friction vs roller bearing trucks in the 60's. I rebuilt a box of four covered hoppers recently - 3 Airslides (B&O, Milwaukee, and Nebraska Consolidated Milling) plus an old craftsman-kit B&O 2-bay cement hopper - and when I went and looked them all up, three of four had the wrong kind of trucks! The two B&O cars had friction bearing trucks and the other 2 airslides had roller bearings, but when I checked prototype photos as I was finishing up, it turned out that the B&O cars were both ordered with roller bearings, while Nebraska Consolidated's cars had friction bearings. Only the Milwaukee car was right! Never trust that the trucks that come included with a kit are the ones that belong on the car...
Originally posted by PRR 4800Â -Â April 26 2015Â :Â 11:37:31 AM
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Interesting. The late 50's and early 60's were pretty mix matched times in railroading, anyways. It was a transition for a lot of things, EMD prime movers moving from non turbo to turbo, with the GP30, cars were still ordered with friction bearing trucks, but they were slowly getting replaced with roller bearing trucks, it was all confusing and chaotic.
I'm home schooled, I love to work on cars and anything with an engine and wheels, I love model RR'ing, and listening to Dire Straits.
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Posted - April 26 2015 : 11:57:17 AM
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My COTW is an Athearn Santa Fe caboose from the late 1950's in decent condition besides a rusted out ladder and a couple of other parts like that.
-Steve
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Posted - April 26 2015 : 12:25:18 PM
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Tyco crane and caboose. Nicest example in my collection.
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Posted - April 27 2015 : 11:30:54 PM
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I got these last summer at a flea market.
$5 for the three.
I bought them for the wheels, but I may just keep them intact.
Different numbered Proto's.
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Posted - April 28 2015 : 2:09:46 PM
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| Sweet red gons, don't see that every day.
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Posted - April 28 2015 : 2:26:39 PM
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This piece was reconstructed using an Electroen (Spain) three plank wagon and
added on olive oil amphorae. I used to have a similar piece by Electroen that
had three or four small amphorae that had a band of red painted around the
necks. That piece was thrown out by some idiot movers when I was mustering
out of the Army in 1991. I had purchased the original piece in England about
1975. My sister and I combed the globe, via internet, even locating a 1975
catalogue to try to locate it, but none to be found. Even found a lone Electroen
dealer (kind of a back-of-the-shop affair in Carlstadt, New Jersey, who had
heard of the piece, but didn't know of any extant. Appears to be OO in a 1/72nd
size, just a bit bigger than HO, using HO track.
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Posted - April 28 2015 : 2:49:51 PM
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quote:
This piece was reconstructed using an Electroen (Spain) three plank wagon and
added on olive oil amphorae. I used to have a similar piece by Electroen that
had three or four small amphorae that had a band of red painted around the
necks. That piece was thrown out by some idiot movers when I was mustering
out of the Army in 1991. I had purchased the original piece in England about
1975. My sister and I combed the globe, via internet, even locating a 1975
catalogue to try to locate it, but none to be found. Even found a lone Electroen
dealer (kind of a back-of-the-shop affair in Carlstadt, New Jersey, who had
heard of the piece, but didn't know of any extant. Appears to be OO in a 1/72nd
size, just a bit bigger than HO, using HO track.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â April 28 2015Â :Â 2:26:39 PM
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A very different car! I like the tie-downs holding the little amphorae to the car, a detail that's often overlooked.
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Posted - May 02 2015 : 7:58:36 PM
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Nice stuff Guys! Love the plows Jerry!
My COTW is a Penn Line piggyback!
Sean
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Posted - May 02 2015 : 9:00:29 PM
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| H'aint never seen a Hinde & Dauch, afore; nice find!
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