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 Posted - June 13 2018 : 08:59:30 AM
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So I stopped in at a flea market along Route 22 on my way across PA on Sunday, and while there weren't many trains to be found, one vendor had a single box of HO... a very dirty box of HO. She said she had just gotten them from someone that day and hadn't yet put them out for sale as they're so filthy--they had been found in the aftermath of a basement flood and were covered in a fine layer of silt! Well, I'm no stranger to salvaging rolling stock with unusual problems, and I ended up getting about half of what was in the box (the balance being a bunch of common Tyco stuff, mostly track, and a Life-Like teakettle that was all seized up.)
There were a total of three Penn Line PRR coaches, two still in their (dirty but not too water-damaged) boxes! The one out of its box looks so shiny because I already took off the shell to wash it. Turns out all this stuff is in excellent condition and all the dirt just washes right off with a toothbrush! I'm planning on cleaning them all, taking a wire brush and some WD40 to the trucks, replacing the screws and swapping horn hooks for Mantua automatic couplers, and running the three as a set behind a Bowser G5 I picked up in the spring. Up at the top is an orphaned Athearn piggyback trailer that was in there all by itself, no other Athearn anything to be found. I had an odd number of the Wabash ones anyhow.
There was a single loose freight car too, with no others in sight: a Varney metal 50' flatcar in a roadname I hadn't seen yet, Union Pacific. Very cool.
Last but not least, something a bit different. I'm not a Penn Line expert yet but I believe these two to be trainset box filler pieces from whatever set these PRR coaches were from. Each has a wood block inside. Vendor said she had no idea what they were and was probably going to throw them out, but since they seemed to match the coaches she had at least brought them along in the box. I have no particular use for these, but I wanted to rescue them. Is there anyone restoring a Penn Line set out there that's in need of these? They will be getting washed with the rest of the stuff, and it'd be nice to find someone who can use them.
Also, there was some dude with a Tyco Turbo set in its box. Anyone looking for one of those?
--CRC
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Posted - June 13 2018 : 10:39:28 AM
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I might have a match for the piggyback just got to FIND it
It was probably the remenants of Penn Line Pennsylvania steam set ( Say that three times fast)
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Posted - June 13 2018 : 3:48:39 PM
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Whopping cool find, and to save it from the dust bin of history.
What intrigues me is that the window insets appear identical
to the window insets found on Tyco coaches. Is there a
connection here?
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Posted - June 13 2018 : 3:49:29 PM
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PRR 4800 & Thesiding are correct. Inserts of a train set.
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/penn-line-ho-5807-k4-passenger-set-468517530
Edited by - waw47 on June 13 2018 3:51:08 PM
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Posted - June 13 2018 : 6:32:45 PM
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Whoa! Nice finds, and rescues from a flood, PRR 4800!! Congrats.
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Posted - June 14 2018 : 8:51:05 PM
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quote:Whopping cool find, and to save it from the dust bin of history.
What intrigues me is that the window insets appear identical
to the window insets found on Tyco coaches. Is there a
connection here?
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â June 13 2018Â :Â 3:48:39 PM
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They sure do look like the same window strips in the original Penn Line cars as are found in Life-Like and Tyco cars from later years, although I don't know how that came to be.
Update: set inserts have been washed and are drying, Varney flatcar and its trucks and couplers are all being washed one by one, and I have to figure out how to get the plastic floor out of the flatcar because it seems to be full of silt in the narrow gap between the floor and the metal shell. 
--CRC
Edited by - PRR 4800 on June 14 2018 8:52:59 PM
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