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 Posted - October 29 2017 : 07:22:24 AM
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Not a great photo, but an active line up of the many, many steam rollers and other nifty
construction pieces received in a trade from RP model railroads this week past. Makes for
an interesting haul. I was, however, not careful about the 2% grade, and I toasted a motor
in a cloud of gray smoke a minute after I snapped off this down grade shot. No worries, I
have an extra BB motor on hand, and will be a little more careful!
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Posted - October 29 2017 : 2:24:38 PM
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Woah - those construction vehicles look great on those flatcars! 
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Posted - October 29 2017 : 6:19:10 PM
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Here's my AOTW offering:
An assorted mix of rather colorful cars and trucks. I do plan on painting some before adding to the layout.
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Posted - October 29 2017 : 9:37:23 PM
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My AOTW(s) are a billboard and street sign. Another trash find at my train shop that I rescued. Made up an AMC billboard sign to put in it. Will work on the street sign as well. Plasticville, both of them.
Jerry
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Posted - October 29 2017 : 9:59:35 PM
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Wow! That Matador is bad a****. Wasn't one featured in a James Bond
film, too?? I'm not a "car guy," except AMC would definitely be a
weak spot in my armor.
Those cars are major over-the-top way-2-cool, RP. Home run!
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Posted - October 30 2017 : 07:38:51 AM
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I have some neat cars too. Two of them are U.S. built road racers. A Ford GT40 and a Chevy vet. Both are no tops.
frank
* With these two racers the U.S. showed the racing world what we can do!
Hot wheels called this one the FORD GTX1. Out of the way Farrie we finished 1-2-3 in the Lemans. Eat our dust.
This vet was no slouch either. A pair of speed kings.
toptrain
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Posted - October 30 2017 : 10:41:53 AM
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quote:Here's my AOTW offering:
An assorted mix of rather colorful cars and trucks. I do plan on painting some before adding to the layout.
Originally posted by RP model railroads - October 29 2017 : 6:19:10 PM
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nooo don't paint those collectable cars!
I'm not gonna on mine
I think the ones in bag at right are valuable
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Posted - October 30 2017 : 4:12:58 PM
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Well, actually, I was considering just painting some of the trucks (the ones that I'm sure to add to the layout.) Microbusss, the bag of cars on the right, is valuable????
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Posted - October 30 2017 : 7:50:38 PM
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quote: Microbusss, the bag of cars on the right, is valuable????
Originally posted by RP model railroads - October 30 2017 : 4:12:58 PM
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I think those were made in the 1960s I think cause even *I* has a bunch of them cars as well
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Posted - October 30 2017 : 9:04:18 PM
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I bought a new 1975 V8 Gremlin... What a sleeper until modified...
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Posted - October 30 2017 : 10:47:56 PM
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quote: quote: Microbusss, the bag of cars on the right, is valuable????
Originally posted by RP model railroads - October 30 2017 : 4:12:58 PM
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I think those were made in the 1960s I think cause even *I* has a bunch of them cars as well
Originally posted by microbusss - October 30 2017 : 7:50:38 PM
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Woah! I didn't know that, and now I'll keep those cars in their original schemes. 
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Posted - October 31 2017 : 12:01:21 AM
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| Gremlin, Pinto, Matador, Comet...ah, those were the days!
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Posted - November 02 2017 : 3:27:45 PM
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well I did say I had a few
United Van Lines Chevy Van
had to toss out original box cause it got wet & dirty 
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Posted - November 04 2017 : 1:22:22 PM
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Got this neat little "accessory" in the mail today...
Essentially, it's a clone of A.C. Gilbert's "smoke in tender" mechanism that was used for a brief time during the early post war years in some of Gilbert's American Flyer S and HO scale locomotives. I'll post more about it as I get time to go down the rabbit hole with this thing...
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Posted - November 04 2017 : 8:31:26 PM
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Does this count as an AOTW? lol
$30 at my LHS.
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Posted - November 04 2017 : 9:26:35 PM
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I love flat loads...
Mike
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Posted - November 04 2017 : 10:30:54 PM
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Be interesting to see how that thing works.
quote:Got this neat little "accessory" in the mail today...
Essentially, it's a clone of A.C. Gilbert's "smoke in tender" mechanism that was used for a brief time during the early post war years in some of Gilbert's American Flyer S and HO scale locomotives. I'll post more about it as I get time to go down the rabbit hole with this thing...
Originally posted by Localoid - November 04 2017 : 1:22:22 PM
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