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 Posted - April 26 2015 : 09:06:39 AM
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More pieces from the Thursday lot buy, I can use a few of these for HO pieces. The larger Lesney car is obviously too big, but the rest are pretty much HO sized. Overall, a nice little group of usable stuff. The trailer is by Tootsietoy, never seen one this small before. The Mustang Boss is a Monogram car, I think they came out in the early 2000's, I have a few others like it somewhere.
Jerry 
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Posted - April 26 2015 : 11:59:14 AM
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I love Lesney cars, man. Just something about those old Matchbox cars. So yeah, my AOTW is a bunch of old switching machines.
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Posted - April 26 2015 : 2:43:41 PM
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I like that Mustang. I wish I had picked up those Monogram cars when they were readily available. My accessory of the week started out as a key chain. He's GORT from 'When the Earth Stood Still' He's now serving as a 'Tin Man' for the Fox Valley Texaco. A little over sized, but he was only a buck. 
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Posted - April 26 2015 : 6:03:31 PM
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hehe I has the Robot from Iron Giant
It originally came with the VHS tape
Here he is
Would like to find more of this robot or row-butt as some say 
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Posted - April 26 2015 : 10:03:32 PM
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That thing would actually be quite scale if you used it on like N scale.
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Posted - April 26 2015 : 10:12:20 PM
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I'm liking the robots guys! I like the Iron Giant even as a adult!
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Posted - April 26 2015 : 11:39:41 PM
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| Nice! "The Iron Giant" was a fun movie. The giant robot even causes a train derailment at one point in the movie; it was pulled by a N&W J-class steam locomotive, driven by caricatures of veteran Disney animators Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston (both of whom were real-life train buffs), and all they got from the wreck was a big bump on the head!
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Posted - April 27 2015 : 10:41:08 AM
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quote:Nice! "The Iron Giant" was a fun movie. The giant robot even causes a train derailment at one point in the movie; it was pulled by a N&W J-class steam locomotive, driven by caricatures of veteran Disney animators Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston (both of whom were real-life train buffs), and all they got from the wreck was a big bump on the head!
Originally posted by wiley209Â -Â April 26 2015Â :Â 11:39:41 PM
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yeah & they both were in The Incredibles too
One of them died before the premiere of that movie too
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Posted - April 27 2015 : 11:22:30 AM
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quote:GORT from 'When the Earth Stood Still' He's now serving as a 'Tin Man' for the Fox Valley Texaco.
Originally posted by Gary BÂ -Â April 26 2015Â :Â 2:43:41 PM
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I like that use of the tin man. I call that kind of signage "Route 66 Kitsch" after all of the similar works that adorned that highway in its golden age. It adds a flair of individual color to a roadside business.
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Posted - April 27 2015 : 2:29:26 PM
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[/quote]
I like that use of the tin man. I call that kind of signage "Route 66 Kitsch" after all of the similar works that adorned that highway in its golden age. It adds a flair of individual color to a roadside business.
Originally posted by scsshaggy - April 27 2015 : 11:22:30 AM
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That's exactly what I'm aiming for. Someone on another forum referred to my layout as a collection of Americana. I never planned it that way but I see what he means. Since he said that, I've been making it more so.
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Posted - April 27 2015 : 4:14:14 PM
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I drilled some holes and planted a few trees ...
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Posted - April 27 2015 : 8:20:21 PM
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Those trees look fabulous and four lanes no less!
I like the trademark street light poking in on the
left. Great bill board, too.
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Posted - April 27 2015 : 8:22:19 PM
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quote:More pieces from the Thursday lot buy, I can use a few of these for HO pieces. The larger Lesney car is obviously too big, but the rest are pretty much HO sized. Overall, a nice little group of usable stuff. The trailer is by Tootsietoy, never seen one this small before. The Mustang Boss is a Monogram car, I think they came out in the early 2000's, I have a few others like it somewhere.
Jerry
Originally posted by AMC_Gremlin_GTÂ -Â April 26 2015Â :Â 09:06:39 AM
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These cars are nifty. That blue one appears to be a Ford Galaxy. My old man had one
back in the day, such a capacious ride compared to the econobox I own. One thing: the
dip stick was about an inch short, so it was always running low on oil, which doomed
it.
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Posted - April 27 2015 : 10:13:24 PM
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| & I think that red truck which is missing a green bed is a Barclay
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Posted - April 27 2015 : 10:43:43 PM
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quote:
These cars are nifty. That blue one appears to be a Ford Galaxy. My old man had one
back in the day, such a capacious ride compared to the econobox I own. One thing: the
dip stick was about an inch short, so it was always running low on oil, which doomed
it.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â April 27 2015Â :Â 8:22:19 PM
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Early 60's Lincoln Continental with suicide rear doors. Or at least their representation of one. If Lesney, should say on the bottom.
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Posted - April 27 2015 : 11:19:51 PM
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quote: quote:
These cars are nifty. That blue one appears to be a Ford Galaxy. My old man had one
back in the day, such a capacious ride compared to the econobox I own. One thing: the
dip stick was about an inch short, so it was always running low on oil, which doomed
it.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â April 27 2015Â :Â 8:22:19 PM
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Early 60's Lincoln Continental with suicide rear doors. Or at least their representation of one. If Lesney, should say on the bottom.
Originally posted by ScaleCraft - April 27 2015 : 10:43:43 PM
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 I have a Matchbox Ford Galaxie myself and it looks totally different from this thing.
-Steve
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Posted - April 28 2015 : 12:04:27 AM
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| http://forum.love-fords.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=997&d=1278779239
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Posted - April 28 2015 : 2:44:19 PM
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| Regular Wheels Matchbox series #31. Love the car Jerry! I have a boxed light green one...
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Posted - April 28 2015 : 6:34:34 PM
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quote: Gorgeous car, I gotta say.
-Steve
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Posted - April 28 2015 : 7:24:50 PM
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They were. No sure I like the gangster versions they are becoming with 20"+ wheels and lowered.
I used to work on these when I worked for Lincoln-Mercury. They are odd...the power steering pump is INSIDE the timing cover, drives on the crank.....seals go bad, you dump ATF into the crankcase...the rear doors will not open with the windows all the way up. Microswitch in the door handles....actuate, relay bank behind rear seat back opens side windows about an inch and a half and remember...close the door, window pops back up.
Convertibles..and convertible hardtops...a MAZE of switches and motors.
To give you an idea (memory here), operate a hardtop lowering, two vertical screws in the decklid unscrew the front corners...when unscrewed (mircoswitch) motor lifts decklid (hinge at rear), halfway up the front foot of the decklid folds out from parked position (and I may have hardtop and soft top confused) to fill the void left by the "C" pillar, then decklid proceeds to full up.
When up, trips a microswitch, causing the lead screws holding the front of the roof to the top of the windscreen start to unscrew. When done, motor starts lifting top. Halfway up, another microswitch for hardtop versions usually flips the front 8-12 inches of the roof back and under while top proceeds down..when down, ANOTHER microswitch tells motor to stop, decklid starts down, when down, lead screws tighten front corners to body..and the process stops.
On the hardtop versions there is a big, square metal container bolted to the trunk floor.
THAT is where you put things, as the rest of the space is mechanism and top when it comes down.
Had one come in with the top halfway down and stuck. Guy had borrowed his neighbors Licoln to go golfing. Threw the clubs and bag just "in the trunk", decided to lower the top on the way home.
There is no "stop, go the other way".
Had this little Japanese guy worked in the shop..they picked him up, fed him nose first into the open end of the trunk, with a flashlight, where he operated the microswitches in sequence until the car though it was all the way down, then we hit "up" and the top came up, and Toktaru Ami got lifted back out.
Seriously.
Dave
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Posted - April 28 2015 : 7:47:17 PM
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Dave that story is priceless.
I'm still laughing with the visual of that poor little guy "going in".
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Posted - April 28 2015 : 8:44:24 PM
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Oh gawd, poor guy Both the golfer and the Japanese fellow...
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Posted - April 28 2015 : 9:28:00 PM
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I feel for the car owner - his careless neighbor jacked up his Lincoln!
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Posted - April 28 2015 : 11:33:45 PM
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| Back to school for me. Nice pieces anyhows.
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Posted - April 29 2015 : 12:50:38 AM
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British crossing gate. In practice, the motorist would swing the gates shut
across the tracks while crossing, and then open them again. All metal,
stamped Dublo-Hornby and then Meccano on the bottom. Having a devil
of a time trying to decide what to do with it. Quintessentially British, it
doesn't fit my time period and will require placing it on a spur as all the
other mainline is double or triple tracked. I know, it's only rock and roll,
but I like it...
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Posted - April 29 2015 : 07:07:25 AM
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Actually There usually is a guard at these to open & close the gates
Unless its a private crossing Then you had to literally telephone the dispatcher to see if it was safe to cross
There is only a few manually Level Crossings around UK now
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Posted - April 30 2015 : 12:33:59 AM
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| Wow! You guys are sharp! I never knew that either!
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Posted - April 30 2015 : 06:08:19 AM
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2 examples
ok there IS a crossing you gotta do yourself 
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Posted - May 02 2015 : 7:56:35 PM
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Nice Stuff guys!
Here is my ACOW.. It is a Kemtron work train with a Lindsay teaspoon of power. I know I have posted one of these before, but not this one! This one I just purchased!
The nice part... he sent a second Lindsay Teaspoon of Power motor. It has the typical affliction of zimax rot, but it is definitely good for parts for the others I have needing them!
All for $65!
Sean
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Posted - May 02 2015 : 8:57:38 PM
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Micro- the images don't appear, please try again!
Do you happen to know what era the English
crossing gate come into being?
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Posted - May 02 2015 : 10:31:31 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P91S-FxVQm0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRQt_PMhBXY
try that, Chops
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