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 Posted - July 10 2016 : 11:00:45 AM
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Tyco glow-in-the-dark tip hopper. This section of the Tyco Expander Layout
substitutes for the coal tipple in the original plan.
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Posted - July 10 2016 : 11:32:46 AM
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Nice car! I just got a Tyco Scenes brochure yesterday from the train shop. Very good shape.
Anyway, my COTW is a NC caboose, unknown maker. No markings on the botton, has body-mount couplers. Never seen this one before. So I'm doing a COTW / ID needed post here. LOL.
Jerry
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Posted - July 10 2016 : 11:45:45 AM
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Looks like an Athearn...and those are Athearn trucks...I'd call it an Athearn caboose until I heard otherwise.
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - July 10 2016 : 11:51:55 AM
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quote:Looks like an Athearn...and those are Athearn trucks...I'd call it an Athearn caboose until I heard otherwise.
Originally posted by JNXT 7707Â -Â July 10 2016Â :Â 11:45:45 AM
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Yes, a quick Googly search confirms it IS an Athearn. Looking at the trucks, yeah, that should have been a giveaway too.  My CN collection continues to grow...unintentionally for the most part. :)
Jerry
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Posted - July 10 2016 : 4:57:31 PM
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Rust on the axles, must be pretty vintage.
Why they didn't mark the bottom is another
question. Also, the underframes of Athearns
usually have an air reservoir and a bit more
detail to the frame, no?
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Posted - July 10 2016 : 5:44:45 PM
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Here is a Atlas 2 bay cover hopper in Lehigh valley red paint. Got it yesterday.
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Posted - July 12 2016 : 7:20:54 PM
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My car of the week is a Tangent 6,000 gallon 3-C tank car lettered for Cosden & Co. Petroleum Products out of Tulsa OK.
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Posted - July 12 2016 : 8:09:37 PM
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quote:Rust on the axles, must be pretty vintage.
Why they didn't mark the bottom is another
question. Also, the underframes of Athearns
usually have an air reservoir and a bit more
detail to the frame, no?
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â July 10 2016Â :Â 4:57:31 PM
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I don't think any of my BB Athearns are marked as Athearn.
I'm not an Athearn expert Chops, and I agree that on first glance at the bottom it doesn't have that Athearn BB 'look' (meaning the exposed weight under the plastic framework of the chassis). So I'm making a guess that it is an early model that preceded the common BB construction.
I would like to see some definitive documentation to put the question to rest though. Jerry, what did you get from your Google search that confirmed it was an Athearn?
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - July 12 2016 : 8:33:52 PM
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N scale Bachman Gerber
that is so NOT how you spell "strained" 
Anyone need this?
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Posted - July 13 2016 : 12:13:49 PM
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quote:Nice car! I just got a Tyco Scenes brochure yesterday from the train shop. Very good shape.
Anyway, my COTW is a NC caboose, unknown maker. No markings on the botton, has body-mount couplers. Never seen this one before. So I'm doing a COTW / ID needed post here. LOL.
Jerry
Originally posted by AMC_Gremlin_GTÂ -Â July 10 2016Â :Â 11:32:46 AM
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I think you may be looking at an MDC ,
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Posted - July 13 2016 : 1:07:14 PM
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quote: quote:Nice car! I just got a Tyco Scenes brochure yesterday from the train shop. Very good shape.
Anyway, my COTW is a NC caboose, unknown maker. No markings on the botton, has body-mount couplers. Never seen this one before. So I'm doing a COTW / ID needed post here. LOL.
Jerry
Originally posted by AMC_Gremlin_GTÂ -Â July 10 2016Â :Â 11:32:46 AM
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I think you may be looking at an MDC ,
Originally posted by time warp - July 13 2016 : 12:13:49 PM
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I did some more looking, went to HOseeker and poked around MDC Roundhouse and Athearn. All I could find in any of the MDC catalogs he had posted was the Roundhouse Old-Timer caboose.
I looked on Athearn and found this diagram that answers my original question regarding the usual BB method of the exposed weight. It shows the weight above the floor, and it matches what I can see on Jerry's photos. So combined with the Athearn trucks and a pretty common Athearn-looking shell, I'm calling it a definite Athearn (for now anyway lol).
http://hoseeker.net/athearninstructionscars1960/Standardcaboose50.jpg
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - July 15 2016 : 12:19:22 AM
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The Tyco Ajax Hopper
Edited by - walt on July 15 2016 12:23:10 AM
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