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 Posted - April 15 2007 : 5:51:32 PM
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Hi guys,
Just returned from the show in Timonium MD. and found a few deals.
Tyco Penn Central C430,MU-2 motor,all handrails,runs great! $10.00
Tyco UP long hi cube boxcar,$2.00 w/box
Tyco Canadiana caboose $4.00
Tyco Baby Ruth reefer $1.50
Tyco Chattanooga caboose,yellow/red $1.50
Life like Conrail set,F7,2 cars,caboose $10.00
Not a bad day eh?
Carl T.
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Posted - April 15 2007 : 6:15:14 PM
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Hey Carl:
Well done on the PC 430. I have one to, pretty much perfect, but I paid around $20 cause I got it off Ebay.
Again "well done!"
-Gareth
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Posted - April 15 2007 : 8:37:32 PM
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I got the 2 covered hoppers from the same guy with that boxed UP car.
Some guys from the WM hostorical society were selling Atlas 60's auto parts cars, upgraded to metal wheels and kadees... in WM paint individually renumbered, for ONE DOLLAR EACH!!! KA-CHING!
Found me some more of those oddball clamshell-gon coil cars, a Lionel RailBox, a LL Rock hopper, and two Hookers (the TANK CARS you sick monkeys!) for $20 altogether.
Big find was a Kader GS-4 upgraded to an English's drive system, in SP Daylight, for $40. And a Bachmann Chessie E60CP (or whatever that stubby little electric they made is called); hadn't seen one of those before.
Met a few people I knew online from the Weathering community. God, such impressive work to see in person! Got an early example of a famous artists' work for a song, and it puts most guys' (including my own) to shame.
Nice show. Not much for Tyco as it were, but for multiple interests it was well worth the drive to see it. Just wish it hadn't rained the entire way back... 7+ hours of windshield wiper vision will make any man dizzy...
Edited by - GoingInCirclez on April 15 2007 8:46:32 PM
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Posted - April 15 2007 : 8:53:18 PM
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| Envy you guys...that's just a few short miles from my boyhood home. Don't get a whole lot of shows around here...but then I set up my beach chair on the Gulf of Mexico just down the street and remind myself that you folks are envying me right about now[;)]
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Posted - April 15 2007 : 9:13:24 PM
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GIC:
Maybe that was an AEM-7 you were thinking of? Sorta looks like a Amtrak Toaster with pantographs!?
-Gareth
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Posted - April 15 2007 : 10:17:25 PM
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WOW GIC,
7 1/2 hours driving?
Glad I'm only 25 minutes from Timonium.
I also picked up a 6" Marx freight car for 5 bucks.
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Posted - April 15 2007 : 11:39:22 PM
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LOL yeah. Hardcore, right? [}:)]
Actually I should qualify, that in this case the trip was as much about the journey, as the destination. In 1999 my employer had me driving all over the eastern US (I put 8,000 miles on my 12-year-old Thunderbeater in 2 1/2 months), and the run from KY to the eastern seaboard, via WV and 1-68 thru Cumberland, MD was one of my favorites. I hadn't been that way in years and it had been calling me all thru that time...
Maryland is such a beautiful state. Seeing the vistas creep up; charging up the 6% 13-mile grade; FINALLY stopping at Sideling Hill - that's what this trip was all about.
Coming back, the rain subsided a bit in the Senandoah Valley in WV. Wow - seeing the light filter through the cloudcaps, bathing the rolling springtime cloaks of green and amber in softness as the vapors rose anew from the peaks - a vision as close to heaven as I'll ever see.
I love road trips, can't you tell? [:D]
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Posted - April 16 2007 : 01:37:41 AM
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This is what Tony is talking about. Its Bachmann item # 0741 and is classified as a GE ( General Electric ) E60CF .
A lone amature built the ark! A large group of professionals built the titanic!
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Posted - April 16 2007 : 12:30:25 PM
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Yarrgh, Thar be the one! She's a beaut!
Actually, I knew that this is as much a pie-in-the-skied loco "model" as you'll ever come across (superceded only by Bachmann's The Rock electric), but... this very same Chessie electric DID immediately remind me of something: the proposed ACE 3000 "Modern Steam" locomotive that was talked about in the early 80's.
I have a book with a very nice artist's rendering of a Chessie ACE 3000, and it looks a lot like that electric, believe it or not! Just replace the frame and trucks with 4-8-2 running gear, and there you go.
If I get time and remember, I'll have to scan that page from the book. I have looked for this pic online without success.
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Posted - April 16 2007 : 2:29:40 PM
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Those two Bachmann Electrics, E60CF and E60CP, enter their proudct line around 1979-80...they might be cloned from the American GK models...but I'm not certain of that. The American GK originals appear to have been made by Athearn for American GK. The models ride on Athearn underframes and the tooling certainly favors Athearn work.
The B'mann did the single-ended E60CF in that neat Chessie and Santa Fe passenger warbonnet. The double-ended E60CP got the cool The Rock blue and Amtrak. The N-scale E60CP in Amtrak still may be in B'mann's line today...the HO-scale examples are gone by the end of the '80s as I recall.
After American GK folded up, Walthers picked up their line. The electrics have been gone from the Walthers line for some time, but the Budd Amfleet cars have the origination in the American GK line and are still around today with improvements.
Tony Cook
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Posted - April 16 2007 : 3:21:55 PM
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Heh, I don't even like electrics all that much, yet I've somehow stumbled onto 3 of the 4 B'manns that were made. Of course that Rock one was a no-brainer, and somewhere I ended up with the Amtrak shell. Now this wierd Chessie one to boot. It's wierd how this hobby can make one's tastes meander around.
Thanks for confirming the release dates on the B'man models. I suspected they pre-dated the ACE 3000 / 6000 proposals... but when you see that rendering I mentioned, you'll be hard pressed not to wonder if it wasn't partly inspired by the E60 - like a chicken/egg dilemma of sorts.
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 Posted - April 16 2007 : 9:28:27 PM
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Dam
I sure wish I had known their was going to be a train show there
I set home board to death all weekend. I only live 20 minutes away from there and to make things worse I got my tax refund back last week so I had plenty of mad money to blow on new toys.
I guess that's what I get for putting my train collecting hobby on the back shelf for a few years.
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Posted - April 17 2007 : 07:19:48 AM
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quote:Dam
I sure wish I had known their was going to be a train show there
I set home board to death all weekend. I only live 20 minutes away from there and to make things worse I got my tax refund back last week so I had plenty of mad money to blow on new toys.
I guess that's what I get for putting my train collecting hobby on the back shelf for a few years.
Originally posted by tjdreams - April 16 2007 : 9:28:27 PM
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A reminder to everyone...please post known train show dates and locations...you never know who might not have known about 'em.
[:)]
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