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 Posted - May 13 2018 : 10:14:22 PM
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Double dipping this week....
Up first, my Tyco Popsicle 62' Express Reefer!
Next, the Del Monte 62' box car. Both of these were obtained at great prices, in nice shape, and are awesome additions to RETRO TYCO.
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Posted - May 14 2018 : 11:17:47 AM
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cool
Walmart makes those Twin Treats now
but I wouldn't be surprised if they are made by Popsicle
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Posted - May 14 2018 : 12:56:08 PM
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My COTW offering... A vintage wood & metal (details) craftsman built ballast car:
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Posted - May 14 2018 : 3:25:59 PM
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quote:My COTW offering... A vintage wood & metal (details) craftsman built ballast car:
Originally posted by Mustangs_n_Trains - May 14 2018 : 12:56:08 PM
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Car is one half of Ambroid's 50th-Anniversary 2-car special kit (Kit 1st #8, made 1960), which built this Milwaukee gon as well as an N&W wooden war-emergency hopper. Very nice!
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Posted - May 15 2018 : 07:47:41 AM
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Sean is that gondola an old original Roundhouse. One of the first ones with a wood floor and not the latter metal floor.
My car of the week is a Varney metal reefer. Great Northern .
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Posted - May 15 2018 : 10:58:31 AM
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Tyco...
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Posted - May 15 2018 : 4:15:21 PM
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quote:Sean is that gondola an old original Roundhouse. One of the first ones with a wood floor and not the latter metal floor.
Originally posted by toptrain - May 15 2018 : 07:47:41 AM
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The most similar other kit I can think of is the Walthers gondola (prewar release) with a wood floor and cast metal sides. Roundhouse and Mantua's 40' gondolas were 100% metal.
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Posted - May 16 2018 : 06:33:59 AM
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Sean I never seen a Ambroid gondola with metal sides before. Only all wood ones. But I did see that when on Roundhouse and Varney ones when they went to metal sides had wood floors first, then changed to metal floors. Also the international line of HO Cars had metal sides and wood floors.
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Posted - May 16 2018 : 09:24:51 AM
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quote:Sean I never seen a Ambroid gondola with metal sides before. Only all wood ones. But I did see that when on Roundhouse and Varney ones when they went to metal sides had wood floors first, then changed to metal floors. Also the international line of HO Cars had metal sides and wood floors.
frank
Originally posted by toptrain - May 16 2018 : 06:33:59 AM
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Frank,
It is made of all wood with only metal details.
Sean
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Posted - May 16 2018 : 5:12:00 PM
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quote: 
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â May 16 2018Â :Â 3:47:28 PM
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