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Getting a head above the rest today, I finally scored an HO scale Lionel giraffe car, for $10, BIN on Ebay. Been wanting one of these, but wasn't gonna pay a ridiculous price for one, so when I saw this one, I grabbed at the chance. No long shot wait here!  Pretty cool car, I intend to make a wild animal train eventually. Not necessarily a Circus train, although I can use it for my Royal American train I have as well.
Jerry in VA
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Posted - August 09 2015 : 12:34:29 PM
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My COTW for this week is an AHM made in Taiwan AL&S box car. Very interesting railroad name, haven't heard of it often. 
-Steve
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Posted - August 09 2015 : 11:51:12 PM
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I live close to the A&S mainline and I get to see it often. It is very short in length, about twelve miles give or take from East St. louis to Mitchell Illinois. The operate a major classification yard in East St. Louis that handles the bulk of train blocking in the region. quote:
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Posted - August 10 2015 : 12:00:57 AM
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quote:I live close to the A&S mainline and I get to see it often. It is very short in length, about twelve miles give or take from East St. louis to Mitchell Illinois. The operate a major classification yard in East St. Louis that handles the bulk of train blocking in the region. quote:
Originally posted by metalsmith1Â -Â August 09 2015Â :Â 11:51:12 PM
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Theyre still around? I didn't know, I figured they merged with Penn Central or something.
-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 - August 11 2015 : 11:19:04 PM
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| hey, Jerry if you needs to know what the activator to make the ji-raff duck let me know
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Posted - August 12 2015 : 01:30:15 AM
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A giraffe tootles on by...
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Posted - August 12 2015 : 09:41:55 AM
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Posted - August 15 2015 : 11:18:14 AM
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just love this old northeastern models caboose
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Posted - August 16 2015 : 12:46:58 AM
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