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 Posted - July 23 2017 : 1:28:22 PM
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Well after being laid up since February I am finally getting back into the train room and doodling around. I completed this little project last week. A log load represented by real twigs held in place by butcher's twine dyed black to represent cables. I can't find my pack of come alongs or I would have added them to each cable.
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Posted - July 23 2017 : 6:44:07 PM
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Glad you're back at it, Alex. Impressive piece. I especially like that coil tucked into
one end. Looks like that if I were to pick it up it would leave handfuls of grime and
rust behind.
No camera yet, so this is from the Chopchives, one of my very favorite pieces.
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Posted - July 23 2017 : 7:37:07 PM
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I like any RR car with logs on it. That's a real nice car Alex. And the Sanka hopper is a favorite. Here is a skid flat I converted for hauling logs.
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Posted - July 23 2017 : 8:27:33 PM
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quote:Glad you're back at it, Alex. Impressive piece. I especially like that coil tucked into
one end. Looks like that if I were to pick it up it would leave handfuls of grime and
rust behind.
No camera yet, so this is from the Chopchives, one of my very favorite pieces.
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After 2 weeks in the hospital and drinking the only decaff coffee they served (Sanka instant) I now run at the sight of anything with Sanka written on it. Otherwise a sharp looking car.
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Posted - July 24 2017 : 10:21:06 AM
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This is one of the three roof made for these cars for AHM by Pocha, later Riva Rossi, then Mehano for IHC.
This is the monitor roof car, the oldest style of the three 1860's
This is the second style of 1870's. Here is an older Western And Atlantic baggage car. A car not made for a long time.
This is the roof seen on the last of these cars made.
nk
Frank
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Posted - July 24 2017 : 11:35:13 AM
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 quote: quote:Glad you're back at it, Alex. Impressive piece. I especially like that coil tucked into
one end. Looks like that if I were to pick it up it would leave handfuls of grime and
rust behind.
No camera yet, so this is from the Chopchives, one of my very favorite pieces.
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After 2 weeks in the hospital and drinking the only decaff coffee they served (Sanka instant) I now run at the sight of anything with Sanka written on it. Otherwise a sharp looking car.
Originally posted by Retired Alex - July 23 2017 : 8:27:33 PM
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 Posted - July 24 2017 : 12:35:23 PM
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quote:
After 2 weeks in the hospital and drinking the only decaff coffee they served (Sanka instant) I now run at the sight of anything with Sanka written on it. Otherwise a sharp looking car.
Originally posted by Retired Alex - July 23 2017 : 8:27:33 PM
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am looking for Sanka Coffee tho!
Can't find it in my areas! 
Anyway here is a Mehano OM boxcar
have got several of these
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Posted - July 24 2017 : 1:58:31 PM
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My COTW offering this week is an HO Scale Varney Ohio Seamless Tube Division Steel Roll Gondola
Sean
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Posted - July 24 2017 : 3:48:40 PM
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Gotta add my 2 this week. Got lucky and found a couple of good'ens in evilbay.
First off is a Holly Sugar hopper, got it for less than $10.00.
The other is a good ole 7-11 boxcar. Been wanting one of these for a while.
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Posted - July 24 2017 : 6:26:36 PM
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the 7-Eleven boxcar is the reason I wants 3-4 Tyco Baskin-Robbins buildings 
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Posted - July 24 2017 : 7:14:57 PM
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"Revelling" in my post, this weeks COTW for me is this Revell Cox flat with trailer. Both made by Revell Cox , pretty unusual, came through my shop, so I picked it up.  I'm not sure the container is period correct, but it fit on the truck trailer, so I took it , too.
Jerry
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Posted - July 24 2017 : 10:02:54 PM
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AHM...
Mike
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Posted - July 25 2017 : 1:22:37 PM
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Do those frames separate? Just take a few off the top layer and you'd have a couple to sit around your junkyard/scrapyard/dump, and still have a convincible load
sim-al2
Also since they cut track maintaince the trains had huge trouble making over the railroad by the end
純那
yeah
They did a Rock Island volountarily
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Posted - July 25 2017 : 7:57:41 PM
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quote:Do those frames separate?
Originally posted by Pokemonprime - July 25 2017 : 1:22:37 PM
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Yes, they do, I have several of these cars I've collected over the years. A custom AHM done by WISE, they're hard to find, and sell (usually) for over $25 apiece. The frames come on a plastic tree, and you break them off and put them on flat cars. One day I'll get my frame consist rolling.
Jerry
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Posted - July 28 2017 : 01:43:36 AM
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That Varney gon is to die for. Beautiful piece.
Tried out, finally, my new pawn shop camera today. This thing is magnificent, at it only cost $40. The
coach is vintage Rivarossi, a diner, NOS. I love the way it sticks out a bit like an ugly duckling in the
earliest days of Amtrak when a lot of equipment didn't match so well. Light as a feather, I had to
put a weight in it to make it track properly.
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