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Five bucks, from The Tramp's collection. I've been running the heck out of it.
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Posted - July 31 2016 : 12:19:30 PM
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| Looks good Chops! Glad you like it.
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Posted - July 31 2016 : 5:21:31 PM
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| I vaguely remember having one of those twenty years ago, on my original layout, but I can't be sure. Nice looking car!
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Posted - July 31 2016 : 6:27:54 PM
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My COTW is actually "Cars" :D
2 Life-like passenger cars. I saw the full-dome in the back of a stall at a flea market (the guy sells trains and other stuff). He let me look, found the coach underneath it, and a Golden Eagle 630 was on the shelf above it. Paid $20 for the lot (I figure $10 for the loco, $5 ea for the coaches). First "Shorty" passenger cars I've had.
Sorry, camera sucks.
 
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Posted - July 31 2016 : 6:30:30 PM
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| Nice pieces, great find.
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Posted - July 31 2016 : 7:04:07 PM
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quote:I vaguely remember having one of those twenty years ago, on my original layout, but I can't be sure. Nice looking car!
Originally posted by DanMacKÂ -Â July 31 2016Â :Â 5:21:31 PM
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I got one too
I think the boxcar is either a old Marx or Varney mold
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Posted - July 31 2016 : 8:18:01 PM
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My blast from the past is a loud one, a Cox Hooker Headers boxcar. I now have 3-4 of these, need to get them all together for a run around a layout this year. Or next, most likely. Anyway, va-ROOOOOM!
Jerry
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Posted - July 31 2016 : 9:18:54 PM
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Nice car Jerry!
You need the Championship Trails flats to go with it. (Truck and car)
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Posted - July 31 2016 : 11:12:23 PM
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Pemco CN Boxcar...
Mike
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Posted - August 01 2016 : 12:45:06 PM
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neat car
Do it say Canadian on the other side?
Anyway here are ones I just got in the mail 5 minutes ago
now I has BOTH Life-Like Vlassic boxcars! 
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Posted - August 01 2016 : 5:08:54 PM
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AHM steam sound car. It takes a 9V battery and chuffs when it's moving. It has a couple contacts on one of the trucks to trigger the chuffs. Personally I think it sounds like a steam engine sneezing. 
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Posted - August 01 2016 : 7:30:41 PM
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| Aaaaargh! I wants the Ajax!
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Posted - August 01 2016 : 8:16:59 PM
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quote:Aaaaargh! I wants the Ajax!
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â August 01 2016Â :Â 7:30:41 PM
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hey it was for sale in here once
I just POUNCED at it before you
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Posted - August 01 2016 : 9:09:13 PM
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The Like-Like Spotlight Caboose. 
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Posted - August 02 2016 : 9:25:33 PM
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quote: quote:Aaaaargh! I wants the Ajax!
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â August 01 2016Â :Â 7:30:41 PM
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hey it was for sale in here once
I just POUNCED at it before you
Originally posted by microbusss - August 01 2016 : 8:16:59 PM
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Double Aaaaaargh!
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Posted - August 02 2016 : 9:40:39 PM
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quote:Nice car Jerry!
You need the Championship Trails flats to go with it. (Truck and car)
Originally posted by DanMacKÂ -Â July 31 2016Â :Â 9:18:54 PM
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Yeah, I already have a few of those as well.  They'll be running together I hope.
Jerry
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Posted - August 05 2016 : 7:59:49 PM
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Figured I should contribute something to the entertainment. I do enjoy looking at the photos and photo stories frequently, and bein' summer, I can appreciate folks doin' other things and gettin' the heck outside. I haven't been doin' much with trains, except watchin' this site for inspiration and day dreamin' a bit. I did just make a purchase, of either an Ulrich or Selley or something or other "Sierra" combine.
I got this one mostly to get the end platforms which I was missing for that yellow coach in the background. And to use the arch bar trucks from the combine, on the coach.
The "chain" detail on the end is somethin' new for me.
These cars, as short as they are, seem like sort of a rarity in the real world, and I'm wondering what other Roads may have used them, aside from the far west logging and mountain roads?
The combine below is the first Sierra type car I got, and subsequently was looking for a coach to complete a little train.
I don't imagine I'll get after this car until it gets chilly enough outside to drive me in, but this is my 2 cents.
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Posted - August 05 2016 : 8:46:16 PM
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neato
I want one with V&T on it hehe
Also need the Hooker boxcar
Edited by - microbusss on August 05 2016 8:57:50 PM
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Posted - August 05 2016 : 9:52:43 PM
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| Yeah Ben, you seem to know a bunch about real railroads . . . and I know the V & T has a couple of these. Any others, that come to mind?
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Posted - August 06 2016 : 2:09:17 PM
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I believe that the D&RGW has a few as well. If memory serves me right (right, at my age),
This type of passenger car was designed for use on the narrow gauge railroads in the mountains.
Roundhouse made a line of them as the "Overton" type of cars.
My car this week is the Armour Cloverbloom Butter billboard car. Model is Roundhouse and the
decal is Champ.
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Posted - August 06 2016 : 2:12:52 PM
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quote:Yeah Ben, you seem to know a bunch about real railroads . . . and I know the V & T has a couple of these. Any others, that come to mind?
Originally posted by Barry - August 05 2016 : 9:52:43 PM
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UP & Central Pacific prolly had some
I wants V&T cause I has a few cars & the Tyco General with V&T on them
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