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 Posted - October 01 2016 : 9:41:57 PM
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since there isn't one
Thought I'd start with this $5 AHM find from toy show today
You ain't getting this one Chops 
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 Posted - October 01 2016 : 10:19:28 PM
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I bet that'll make him hoppering mad
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 Posted - October 01 2016 : 10:50:20 PM
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| Don't think I've ever seen a Penn Central hopper like that. Cool find.
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Posted - October 01 2016 : 10:56:21 PM
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LOL! Nice looking car Microbuss.
Here's mine from my recent haul. It was sealed. I committed a sin by opening a Sealed mint-in-box Tyco accessory. My defense? I wanted to run it!
I find it odd this particular car has the trailers back to back as opposed to nose-to-tail like most other ones. It's shown this way in the box image too. How'd they get it on there?
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Posted - October 02 2016 : 01:50:12 AM
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Athearn tank car. Will get Bettendorf trucks and Kadee's soon.
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Posted - October 02 2016 : 08:51:32 AM
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quote:LOL!
I find it odd this particular car has the trailers back to back as opposed to nose-to-tail like most other ones. It's shown this way in the box image too. How'd they get it on there?
Originally posted by DanMacKÂ -Â October 01 2016Â :Â 10:56:21 PM
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Yes, that IS odd. I have a sealed BN set like yours, but I'm not gonna open THAT one up to check it! I DID look at 3 or 4 of my Santa Fe versions I had easily accessible, and they all face the same direction, ie nose to tail. I suspect it was something they did early on, then realized it was a mistake, and changed it. Those trailer holders are just clip-in anyway, so you can carefully pry them up and turn them around if necessary. But it is strange they pictured it that way, too. Maybe it was the Tyco Crane that puts them on the trailer. 
For my COTW, I give you this little flat with a PT motorized frame on it. I am NOT sure what the frame fits, though. I don't recognize it...is this a powered tender frame? With plastic wheels facing the shot, I'd say it probably is. I've just never taken one apart before.
Jerry
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Posted - October 02 2016 : 10:53:25 AM
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lol. I'm more of a runner, so I opened it ;)
I'll probably switch it around eventually.
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Posted - October 02 2016 : 11:10:27 AM
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my cars this week a five car pullman set,ken
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Posted - October 02 2016 : 11:53:41 AM
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quote: quote:LOL!
I find it odd this particular car has the trailers back to back as opposed to nose-to-tail like most other ones. It's shown this way in the box image too. How'd they get it on there?
Originally posted by DanMacKÂ -Â October 01 2016Â :Â 10:56:21 PM
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Yes, that IS odd. I have a sealed BN set like yours, but I'm not gonna open THAT one up to check it! I DID look at 3 or 4 of my Santa Fe versions I had easily accessible, and they all face the same direction, ie nose to tail. I suspect it was something they did early on, then realized it was a mistake, and changed it. Those trailer holders are just clip-in anyway, so you can carefully pry them up and turn them around if necessary. But it is strange they pictured it that way, too. Maybe it was the Tyco Crane that puts them on the trailer.
For my COTW, I give you this little flat with a PT motorized frame on it. I am NOT sure what the frame fits, though. I don't recognize it...is this a powered tender frame? With plastic wheels facing the shot, I'd say it probably is. I've just never taken one apart before.
Jerry
Originally posted by AMC_Gremlin_GTÂ -Â October 02 2016Â :Â 08:51:32 AM
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Definitely looks like it. the lugs on the ends are for the truck frames to swivel on.
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Posted - October 02 2016 : 1:11:06 PM
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It's the drive for the Tyco 2-8-0/0-8-0.
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Posted - October 02 2016 : 1:33:58 PM
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quote:It's the drive for the Tyco 2-8-0/0-8-0.
Originally posted by Redneck Justin - October 02 2016 : 1:11:06 PM
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oh yeah
the tender drive 
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Posted - October 03 2016 : 09:43:23 AM
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My COTW is an Authenticast side-dump car... Picked up with this lot of cars...
Here is an image of one I found on line...
Sean
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Posted - October 03 2016 : 11:17:18 AM
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A Potlatch by Life Like. It was one of my early pieces that got me hooked on vintage
70's and 80's HO.
I was rather enjoying this piece until I saw Micro's posting of that PC hopper. Now I am
green with envy. Curse you, Micro! I hope it snows early in Nebraska!!
BTW, that GN with the load is pretty durn cool. As Mark Twain said, "Plagiarism is the
sincerest form of flattery," so I think I might knock up a version of that myself.
I've scads of empty flat cars.
Edited by - Chops124 on October 03 2016 6:53:26 PM
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Posted - October 03 2016 : 11:51:49 AM
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quote:
I was rather enjoying this piece until I saw Micro's posting of that PC hopper. Now I am
green with envy. Curse you, Micro! I hope it snows early in Nebraska!!
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â October 03 2016Â :Â 11:17:18 AM
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hey dude Relax!
Train show coming up in 3 weeks at same location as toy show
will look for one
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Posted - October 03 2016 : 12:10:28 PM
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Oooooooooooooooooh . Watcha ya want in trade? No, you can't have my
Maxwell House!!!
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Posted - October 03 2016 : 12:12:50 PM
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I think I want like 20 of them. 
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Posted - October 03 2016 : 7:02:26 PM
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quote:Oooooooooooooooooh . Watcha ya want in trade? No, you can't have my
Maxwell House!!!
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â October 03 2016Â :Â 12:10:28 PM
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already got the hopper one
& you know you can go back & edit your comment
Instead of making a new one
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Posted - October 04 2016 : 06:23:05 AM
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quote: quote:It's the drive for the Tyco 2-8-0/0-8-0.
Originally posted by Redneck Justin - October 02 2016 : 1:11:06 PM
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oh yeah
the tender drive
Originally posted by microbusss - October 02 2016 : 1:33:58 PM
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Nice old stuff. A Trix Twin caboose. A old name. The Texaco tank is Internetional, it is old it is big it has paper sides IMP couplers. Those colorfull cars, that look new, but aren't, are they all old metal Varneys. The real old ones had wood floors, The not so old had die cast floors. The newest ones plastic floors.
Good find Frank
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