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 COTW May 3 - May 9, 2015
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kovacste000
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For this week, my COTW is a Revell 1956 New Haven box car that's actually quite battered.
-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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My car this week is this athearn Burlington box car that I bought back in the late 60's.
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Wow, that NH is one primo weathering job. Nice
Burlington, tramp. I will be digging deeper to
find you that power torque truck; swear I have
one some where.








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I finally scored on one of the Iron City beer cars, I've been chasing this one for a while.
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Originally posted by thetramp - May 03 2015 :  11:57:19 AM



Athern? really?
Cause it resembles the slightly longer unloading boxcar from Tyco
Same exact numbers too!

Would like to find the U.S. Mail boxcar set too
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Originally posted by thetramp - May 03 2015 :  11:57:19 AM



Athern? really?
Cause it resembles the slightly longer unloading boxcar from Tyco
Same exact numbers too!

Would like to find the U.S. Mail boxcar set too

Originally posted by microbusss - May 03 2015 :  4:26:31 PM



Just be make sure we're all confused, here is my Tyco red box Burlington box car. Even has the same stirrup missing! Doesn't have the black in the Burlington logo though.
http://tycodepot.com/
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Originally posted by thetramp - May 03 2015 :  11:57:19 AM



Athern? really?
Cause it resembles the slightly longer unloading boxcar from Tyco
Same exact numbers too!

Would like to find the U.S. Mail boxcar set too

Originally posted by microbusss - May 03 2015 :  4:26:31 PM



Just be make sure we're all confused, here is my Tyco red box Burlington box car. Even has the same stirrup missing! Doesn't have the black in the Burlington logo though.



Originally posted by JNXT 7707 - May 03 2015 :  4:48:43 PM



My bad. After I cleaned of the bottom, it says Mantua. I should have put on my glasses. the bottom of the car is metal, it has screw in trucks. You have a good eye Jerry.
Edited by - thetramp on May 03 2015 7:54:20 PM
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Nice boxes this week guys. I'm afraid you won't see me as a COTW contributor often but I got this old AHM Circus car I found at a flea market staring at me, so I thought I would share. $5 in box marked as 2.99 original price.
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Putting up a customized passenger car, got this in a box lot from a train guy at my LHS a few weeks ago. Trucks are broken, but the passenger car itself is fairly nice. I like Observation cars, will work on this one later.

Jerry

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Very colorful cars this week. This one an N scale Atlas car.
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Nice find Gremlin, that is a keeper. WKS- fabulous
use of color on color. The glint of the stream
below makes me want to jump into it.

No more excuses, I need to pull out the
Winter/Fall layout and start shooing some
"film."

Dang, all those beautiful red box cars
make me want to start collecting red
Tyco boxcars for a red train. I got PC green,
B&M blue, Conrail blue, Rio Grande yellow...
The slippery slope is beckoning, must stop...
must...run...can't...breath...
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Yorkshire pudding and roast beef on the menu today. As a boy of 7, I recall
watching the hedgerows roll by from a dining coach. Happy train memories.

I also remember, a few years earlier, trying to sleep in the "soft class"
(no Capitalist first, second, third class in the USSR) of the overnight
express from Stalingrad to Leningrad. It was like being a Vulcan space
craft with such a rough ride it was a wonder it stayed on the rails.
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Nice boxes this week guys. I'm afraid you won't see me as a COTW contributor often but I got this old AHM Circus car I found at a flea market staring at me, so I thought I would share. $5 in box marked as 2.99 original price.

Originally posted by Gary B - May 03 2015 :  8:28:47 PM



Well, you might not post a COTW too often, but when you do, you don't
monkey around!

I see these things routinely getting $40 on ebay.
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quote:
Nice boxes this week guys. I'm afraid you won't see me as a COTW contributor often but I got this old AHM Circus car I found at a flea market staring at me, so I thought I would share. $5 in box marked as 2.99 original price.

Originally posted by Gary B - May 03 2015 :  8:28:47 PM



Well, you might not post a COTW too often, but when you do, you don't
monkey around!

I see these things routinely getting $40 on ebay.

Originally posted by Chops124 - May 08 2015 :  01:26:03 AM

Oooooooooooohhhhhh!!! I get it.
-Steve

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[quote
I see these things routinely getting $40 on ebay.

Originally posted by Chops124 - May 08 2015 :  01:26:03 AM

[/quote]

yeah?
How about IN the box?
I has one like that
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I see these things routinely getting $40 on ebay.

Originally posted by Chops124 - May 08 2015 :  01:26:03 AM



yeah?
How about IN the box?
I has one like that

Originally posted by microbusss - May 08 2015 :  10:15:01 AM

[/quote]Yep. Seen one in the box at the train shows, too. It's crazy what they sell for.
-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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I love the monkeys. $40? Well mine was $5 in the box, I got a coach too for the same price. But no monkeys.
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