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My car(s) of the week are these Fleischmann double-decker Santa Fe Passenger cars. Underneath they say, "Made in Western Germany", so they must be from the cold war era. Make me an offer.
 
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Posted - August 13 2017 : 9:15:37 PM
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My car of the week is a Bilbert Sinclair 126 tank car.
frank
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Posted - August 13 2017 : 11:19:45 PM
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| Paul, that Santa Fe liner is pretty fine. Looks like it's been sittin' in the yard out of service for a spell, but ready to go when called up.
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Posted - August 14 2017 : 3:29:13 PM
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I snapped up those coaches, love that crusty look of these
odd West German ducks. Will fit in, with some coupler
modification on my fleet of Amtrak transitional era trains.
I had to pay extra for the rust.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Baltimore_and_Ohio_Columbian_Strata_Dome.JPG
http://www.umcycling.com/amabekcdomeobschi173w.jpg
The first few years of Amtrak proved to be a rainbow of color
with locomotives and passenger cars being placed anywhere and
everywhere on the system. The big change was not really 1 May
1971 but 7 November, 1971 when equipment was shuffled around
and the individual trains received their Amtrak numbers. Most of
those numbers are still in use today.
Edited by - Chops124 on August 14 2017 3:37:10 PM
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Posted - August 16 2017 : 4:29:23 PM
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My latest 2 boxcars (just arrived today) are new additions to my "chewing gum" construct.
Bubble Yum boxcar
Bazooka bubble gum car with red roof
Now, I just need to find the Bazooka car with the white roof.
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Posted - August 16 2017 : 8:39:47 PM
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http://www.ebay.com/itm/HO-TRAIN-CAR-BAZOOKA-BUBBLE-GUM-/292210292150?hash=item44091735b6:g:lwIAAOSw1OlZjGYX
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Posted - August 16 2017 : 9:02:25 PM
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| Thanks Dan. Got it marked.
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Posted - August 16 2017 : 10:48:10 PM
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Good luck, let us know if you win
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Posted - August 16 2017 : 11:49:07 PM
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OOOO! a few moar billboard boxcars in there!
saw a Hostess caboose & the reporting marks are C.A.K.E. 
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Posted - August 16 2017 : 11:53:29 PM
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My car this week is a Tyco Walking Brakeman car, I am planning on making it a powered haunted boxcar project. I FINALLY found some CD-ROM drives with regular DC motors rather than stepper motors, and stripped them down for the motors last week. I think I can use one of these 3-7 volt motors to power the boxcar's axle. Will find out, anyway. Not sure if I'll keep the walking part active if I do it for this car. But should be a fun project. At least the car has the openings in the chassis bottom for the rubber band already! 
Jerry
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