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 Posted - July 25 2017 : 10:02:54 PM
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I just won an evilbay auction and these cars are included. Has anyone ever seen this type
before? There are enough parts for me to restore them but I would liker to have an idea
of what they are.
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Posted - July 25 2017 : 11:31:44 PM
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They may also be coal jimmies. Long ago, coal was hauled in little short cars like that from some of the mines in PA. I don't know much more about them than that.
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 Posted - July 26 2017 : 01:32:12 AM
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OR they could be carts from UK!
You know they used 4 wheeled goods cars 
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Posted - July 26 2017 : 09:04:23 AM
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* They are the coal jimmies as Shaggy says. On early railroads like the Central Rail Road of New Jersey which had multiple tracks, they used these in special oar trains (Coal drags) on their mainlines. These trains went on this line loaded from the Wyoming Valley mines in Pennsylvania down to the coal docks, Port Johnson in Bayonne, NJ. These Jimmies are seen on many old postcards of Bayonne railroad scenes.
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Posted - July 26 2017 : 12:17:39 PM
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| I know at least one of the older kit companies made these, but for the life of me I can't remember who. Nice pieces for sure!
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Posted - July 26 2017 : 3:26:39 PM
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Thanks all. There are enough good pieces there so that I can make molds and remake the
parts in resin. Might even make a small construct of them...
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Posted - July 27 2017 : 12:40:19 AM
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I might try my hand at scratchbuilding a couple, they seem fairly simple. (Famous last words yeah yeah )
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Also since they cut track maintaince the trains had huge trouble making over the railroad by the end
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They did a Rock Island volountarily
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Posted - August 04 2017 : 5:17:48 PM
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Red Ball made a kit for these cars in conjunction to their more common 4-wheel flatcar. As I haven't been able to find any in real life I can't say if these are them, but yours look to be scratched from balsa wood, so I would say probably not. Nice find for sure, I love homemade oddball freight stuff like these
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