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With all this talk about slippery slopes, I thought it would be fun to see what slippery slopes everyone else has. For the uninitiated, a slippery slope is whatever locomotive, rolling stock or accessory that you just can't seem to get enough of....far beyond the point of what you would ever "need".
I know gmoney has a thing for Tyco working covered hoppers. Micro-Ben has a slippery slope with EVERYTHING on it.
Mine are:
Con-Cor E7s, Morrison-Knudsen hoppers, and streamline passenger cars. I'm sure I can add to that list  
Add to that Athearn Blue Box F7s. Can never truly have enough of these things.
And go ahead and add any Athearn Blue Box loco.
http://tycodepot.com/
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 Posted - May 10 2015 : 7:10:29 PM
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Mine seems to be, no, IS, passenger cars.
I'll get a loco I really like, and then that thing takes over.
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One of my slippery slopes is E units, in HO scale, mainly Proto 2000 E7's and E8's, and in real life, just any E unit. Another one is my obsession for very long and large freight cars. That's why I have an Athearn HO scale 86 foot autoparts boxcar and a Bachmann HO scale 86 or 89 foot tri level autorack. So, E units and very long and large freight cars are what I can't get enough of. Yikes.
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 - May 10 2015 : 7:46:50 PM
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| I see a chassis and I think, "Ooo-Ooo, I can find a shell for that"!, and then I see shells, and its "Ooo-Ooo, I can fit them on some chassis".....then I end up with miss-matchs....so now I have more on the way... and this really long AHM chassis that doesn't fit anything...I can't imagine what fits it, maybe HOSeekers can help, nice blow-ups of locos...
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Posted - May 10 2015 : 7:52:16 PM
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Anything to do with the transition era! And Tyco I don't own!
" Heck with counting 'em rivets, TRAINS ARE FOR FUN! Not called the Mad Scientist for nothing either!"
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Posted - May 10 2015 : 8:55:57 PM
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Varney. Cast locomotives, be it diseasemals or steam. I have enough Docksiders (as many as there were late), more than enough 2-8-0's. Plenty of die cast F-3's, even drilled the portholes out.
Metal Varney freight cars.
I have Mantuas, mostly older die cast, couple of plastic shelled, like the 4-8-0.
I have had to stop buying as I don't have enough display space.
Last one was a second English Yardbird.
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Posted - May 10 2015 : 9:18:59 PM
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I've settled down a bit in the past few years, but Tyco streamliners have always been my thing...
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Posted - May 10 2015 : 9:28:53 PM
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quote:I've settled down a bit in the past few years, but Tyco streamliners have always been my thing...
Originally posted by DaCheez - May 10 2015 : 9:18:59 PM
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Oh my....aren't those pretty....
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - May 10 2015 : 9:56:56 PM
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quote: quote:I've settled down a bit in the past few years, but Tyco streamliners have always been my thing...
Originally posted by DaCheez - May 10 2015 : 9:18:59 PM
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Oh my....aren't those pretty....
Originally posted by JNXT 7707Â -Â May 10 2015Â :Â 9:28:53 PM
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Yeah, I agree with that, most definitely. 
-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 - May 10 2015 : 10:17:36 PM
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quote:I've settled down a bit in the past few years, but Tyco streamliners have always been my thing...
Originally posted by DaCheez - May 10 2015 : 9:18:59 PM
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yeah! I want the UP ones Darn it!! 
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Posted - May 10 2015 : 10:35:30 PM
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Mine is anything that I perceive to be a bargain, or that I can "fix." This leaves me with a lot of projects, and while I make progress completing them, the new projects come in faster than the old projects get completed.
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Posted - May 10 2015 : 11:06:56 PM
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This sounds more like a Model Railroader Addicts meeting than anything else. That being said,
my "slippery slope/addiction" is AHM/IHC/Rivarossi/Pocher 4-4-0s and 2-4-0s. Also on the list
is Mantua/Tyco 4-6-0s and 4-8-0s. Add to that Roundhouse old time passenger and freight cars
and any other type of pre-1900 stuff. Addicted or no, let the FUN BEGIN/CONTINUE!!!!!!
MPH, Amen to that. I have about a dozen of those "projects in progress". on top of everything
else.
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 Posted - May 10 2015 : 11:13:59 PM
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Hi! I am Junior Green and I am a FT Hoarder. It all started many years ago. I wanted an FT A&B set in my engine collection. I found a brass Hallmark set at a train show. It was a Powered A with a B dummy. I was unable to make it run. My skill set was not up to the task of modifying a Athearn chassis to fit at that time. A few years later I found a Set of Cary metal bodies at a local used store. Two F7 Blue Box frames and I had my first running set! I then wanted a ABBA set. Cary units were out of production. I obtained 2 early Bachmann A units that ran poorly. I traded the brass units for a couple of P1000 F3As for the A shells. I found B unit shells at Walthers. I modified a couple of Athearn F7 dummy frames to fit the B Units. Oh Boy my own ABBA set. Then My friend gave me a set of Stewart AB FTs. Then Bachmann introduced their 8 wheel drive units, and it has been all down hill from there. Every time I find a FT bargain, BOOM!
Regards John **************************
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing Trains. <> Junior
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Posted - May 10 2015 : 11:40:00 PM
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Rivarossi and early Mehano C-Liners. Don't ask how many I have, cuz I couldn't tell you. I'll have to take inventory one day.
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Posted - May 11 2015 : 12:23:33 AM
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quote:
...I know gmoney has a thing for Tyco working covered hoppers...
Originally posted by JNXT 7707Â -Â May 10 2015Â :Â 6:09:01 PM
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Jerry, you forgot the Tyco CenterFlows, Mantua reefers, Tyco (and other) 4-bay hoppers, and Varney/Life Like flat cars! (Did I forget anything?)
And Mark, even though I already had the TOHD (Tyco Operating Hopper Disorder), it was a bargain Tyco Morton Salt CenterFlow that instigated the rest!
Glenn
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Posted - May 11 2015 : 8:27:20 PM
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OK, I'm the odd ball around here. Buildings, I just dig buildings.
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Posted - May 11 2015 : 9:07:33 PM
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| The piggyback flats with truck trailers... But have gotten off the slope some time back..
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Posted - May 12 2015 : 3:40:11 PM
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quote: Hi! I am Junior Green and I am a FT Hoarder.
Regards John **************************
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing Trains. <> Junior
Originally posted by JRG1951Â -Â May 10 2015Â :Â 11:13:59 PM
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Junior: I stand in awe of your FT Slippery Slope. Perhaps there should be a Junior Green Trophy for slipperiest slope of the year or something.
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - May 12 2015 : 4:04:59 PM
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I'll be happy to find ONE FT b-unit shell.
Not a true FT unless it's a set, right?
Train show here in Victoria on the 24th.
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Posted - May 12 2015 : 4:33:37 PM
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Jerry,
I still look for them on eBay, I have couple on watch now. I have managed to control the habit for several months now. But I still I wake with the urge to buy another set
Evan,
Bachmann sells FTB shells as parts & engines are sometimes reasonable on eBay. Often the online store have just B units and they discount them to clear them out.
Powered Unit
http://www.ebay.com/itm/T05-Bachmann-HO-11806-Powered-B-O-EMD-FTB-Unit-Road-None-/351388184305?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item51d05e2ef1
Shell
http://estore.bachmanntrains.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=66_68_204
Good Luck, John
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. <> Thomas Jefferson
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Posted - May 13 2015 : 02:46:23 AM
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When I was a kid, coming of age in the '70's, I wanted to work for the railroad.
Railroads, particular in the Northeast, were in terrible disarray: Penn Central
leading the implosion. My parents, fearing the worst, did their best to dissuade
me of my childish fascination with trains, but that innate desire stuck with me
all my life, and so my slippery slope began with a few Tyco PC pieces and just
continued to gnaw away at me. Now I have scads of PC, mostly Tyco, because
that has beaucoup nostalgia for me as a kid.
This beat-up, graffiti splattered train in some nameless rundown yard is an
expression of that angst. Railroading is something I really wanted to pursue
as a young guy- but I was confronted with all these uncertainties and
negatives. Looking back, I think I would have done all right with it.
I have to say, that when I first stumbled over the TF, a year or so ago, I was
dumbstruck that there are a bunch of other guys who love Tyco as much as
I do, and actually collect, repair, run, upgrade, and research the stuff. The
TF really lit my fuse. Going in Circlez was like finding the Dead Sea Scrolls
for me.
Mama's, don't let your babies
grow up to be cowboys...or for that matter rail hands.
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Posted - May 13 2015 : 03:14:03 AM
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Finished wiring up the first section of the Britomania Layout this evening. My son
Jonathan, 12, is having a gas making the trains run. I used some older Tyco while
he gets the hang of operations, which he did remarkably quickly. Perhaps he will
too slide down the Slippery Slope. The Shell tank car is a gift from WKS, the
Docksider a gift from a pal at the El Paso Model Train Club.
Reeves, the cat, is both alarmed and mystified by all these weird things scurrying
around in circles.
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Posted - May 13 2015 : 7:11:57 PM
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Chops, your son looks like he's in love with those trains. It's nice to see that in the digital age. I also noticed the Rivarossi simplified Dockside on the head end.
Nice shot of Reeves, but are the denizens of your layout ever terrorized by a 50 foot meezer?
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 Posted - May 13 2015 : 8:18:08 PM
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Chops,
I had a layout cat for my layout in Odessa, a number of years back. It was great fun to tease her with my trains. I would stop a train and when she would go check it out, I would start it. She would jump about 18 inches straight up. She had the last laugh, one day she slapped one and it hit the floor.
New rule no cats in the layout room.
Regards, John
Women and cats do as they please. Men and dogs need to accept that. <> Junior
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Posted - May 13 2015 : 10:29:29 PM
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Well, I guess my obsession is " all trains, all the time". LOL! I always find more stuff to collect. As far as the MOST of one kind, hands down, that has to be the Tyco bi-level auto rack, I bought and bought and bought, and finally, late last year, I got started with the Kadee and metal truck conversions, and got about 12 of them done. I still have an equal amount not done, but I may leave them Tyco stock. :) At any rate, I think I've saturated my collection ( and brain ) with enough of them that I won't be buying anymore ( I think ).
 
Haven't done much lately on my AMC train, since the successful Bi-level test runs, I've had other things happening I have to take care of, so the AMC consist project is in Idle right now. HOpefully get back to it soon. But this one aspect of the Model Train hobby has hooked me.
Jerry in VA
" When life throws you bananas...it's easy to slip up"
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Posted - May 20 2015 : 1:20:44 PM
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Proto E units. I have at least 20. PA units in all roads and Erie builts. Early diesels are me favorites
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Posted - November 01 2015 : 8:48:16 PM
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| My "slippery slope"/ addiction is Rivarossi/AHM/IHC/Mehano C-Liners. I just love them.i had a Baltimore & ohio as a kid which wouldn't run. I think it turned into an obsession akin to adopting stray cats.i want to give them all a home. Running or not. I keep buying them and restoring them, collecting them, or stripping them for parts. I know some guys hate them and consider them junk but to me they are something special.
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Posted - November 01 2015 : 9:30:41 PM
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well mine is ad/billboard cars
real or fake
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