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Think I got this oil tank from a card stock kit that was complete, but in a
discard bin. I rather like the level of detail, inasmuch a card stock kit can
have, including the shadow of the guy hiking up the ladder.
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Posted - June 18 2018 : 9:24:31 PM
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how about a Matchbox dragster beetle?
or would you prefer a entire mostly plastic vehicle collection?
the ones on the far left & under that are Barclays
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Posted - June 19 2018 : 01:41:21 AM
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Those are pretty amazing. I love those one piece cars in the center top row,
I've got a couple on the Tyco Mania layout. They are instantly recognizable
as automobiles, but are none the less utterly bizarre. Do they come from
a Game of Life set, or something?? VW is mega cool.
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Posted - June 19 2018 : 11:19:26 AM
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My AOTW offering this week is a 1978 The New York New Haven & Hartford Railroad Mechanical Department Facilities Maps diagram book. Was pretty excited to receive this.
Sean
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Posted - June 19 2018 : 3:55:36 PM
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quote:Those are pretty amazing. I love those one piece cars in the center top row,
I've got a couple on the Tyco Mania layout. They are instantly recognizable
as automobiles, but are none the less utterly bizarre. Do they come from
a Game of Life set, or something?? VW is mega cool.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â June 19 2018Â :Â 01:41:21 AM
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no idea just a bunch of cars I picked up & purchased here & there
the Game of Life ones are like N scale or tinier
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Posted - June 19 2018 : 11:44:44 PM
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Mustangs,
Congrats on your find. Never having seen such a book, could you post a few photos so I can better understand what it is? Much appreciated.
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Posted - June 20 2018 : 02:04:19 AM
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A Tyco Blinking Traffic Light. Modified to where the RED light blinks instead of the yellow.
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Posted - June 20 2018 : 07:34:10 AM
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| Pretty neat, Walt, never knew Tyco made such a thing.
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Posted - June 20 2018 : 8:11:44 PM
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quote:Pretty neat, Walt, never knew Tyco made such a thing.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â June 20 2018Â :Â 07:34:10 AM
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I believe Life-Like made the same type of traffic light too 
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Posted - June 21 2018 : 09:38:23 AM
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quote:Mustangs,
Congrats on your find. Never having seen such a book, could you post a few photos so I can better understand what it is? Much appreciated.
Originally posted by Brian4321Â -Â June 19 2018Â :Â 11:44:44 PM
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Brian,
Here are a couple images from inside the book. It is an invaluable 11"x17" 35-page tool for someone like me who has future aspirations of building a New Haven themed model railroad.
Sean
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Posted - June 21 2018 : 11:21:33 AM
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Mustangs,
Thanks for sharing. Those blueprints and pictures are awesome and will provide you with great specs to create your layout. Looking forward to seeing it someday.
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Posted - June 21 2018 : 5:50:39 PM
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That is pretty amazing, that Facility Maps. The Springfield Terminal
jolted my awareness of how this small Class 1 served so many
Northeastern Seaboard cities, and, alas, what a sitting duck it
was when Ike's Interstates rolled in and flattened an entire
industry to near extinction.
I've been over that bridge in that picture many hundreds, or
more times, I don't think there is even a vestige of the
old NYNH&H terminus there, least not to my awareness.
Perhaps they built the Basketball Museum on top of it,
or something.
Regretably, that entire section is entirely
ghetto now, and is about as secure as Beriut.
Nothing like a massive Federal improvement
plan to really get things going.
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Posted - June 21 2018 : 7:13:20 PM
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quote:Those are pretty amazing. I love those one piece cars in the center top row,
I've got a couple on the Tyco Mania layout. They are instantly recognizable
as automobiles, but are none the less utterly bizarre. Do they come from
a Game of Life set, or something?? VW is mega cool.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â June 19 2018Â :Â 01:41:21 AM
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if you'd like I could get pix of all those plastic cars I have
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Posted - June 21 2018 : 7:29:38 PM
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| Please do, you have magnificent collections.
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Posted - June 22 2018 : 09:40:21 AM
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quote:That is pretty amazing, that Facility Maps. The Springfield Terminal
jolted my awareness of how this small Class 1 served so many
Northeastern Seaboard cities, and, alas, what a sitting duck it
was when Ike's Interstates rolled in and flattened an entire
industry to near extinction.
I've been over that bridge in that picture many hundreds, or
more times, I don't think there is even a vestige of the
old NYNH&H terminus there, least not to my awareness.
Perhaps they built the Basketball Museum on top of it,
or something.
Regretably, that entire section is entirely
ghetto now, and is about as secure as Beriut.
Nothing like a massive Federal improvement
plan to really get things going.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â June 21 2018Â :Â 5:50:39 PM
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Here is the current Googgle Earth aerial of the Springfield Terminal.
Here in PA, we have a website where we can find free historical aerials of anywhere in Pennsylvania dating back to the early-mid 1930's.
http://www.pennpilot.psu.edu/
Massachusetts does not seem to offer this without paying for it, so unfortunately, in order to model the New Haven I need to buy books like this in order to get an idea of what things looked like in those areas in the past. Connecticut does have a website however...
http://magic.lib.uconn.edu/mash_up/1934_aerial_index.html
Sean
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Posted - June 22 2018 : 11:23:17 AM
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cool
you can see where the roundhouse WAS
that'd be a cool place to Metal Detect hehe
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