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 Posted - January 12 2020 : 10:21:15 AM
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Set of Rail Boxes. (Layout: El Paso Model Train Club)
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Posted - January 12 2020 : 10:55:23 AM
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you need (as do I) the Walther's Jail Box car 
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Posted - January 12 2020 : 4:30:03 PM
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| I'm not a big fan of the Jail box, box car. To me it's corny...
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Posted - January 12 2020 : 8:12:03 PM
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quote:I'm not a big fan of the Jail box, box car. To me it's corny...
Originally posted by walt - January 12 2020 : 4:30:03 PM
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yes it IS corny but I wants one
cause years ago when it was new I saw a ad for it
Later the image stuck in my mind & until a few years ago I didn't know it was a Jail Box I saw!
the ad showed the interior of the boxcar with the prisoners all around it!
wish I could get one along with the Oscar, Piker & Jimmie Carter's peanut shaped car too
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Posted - January 13 2020 : 09:33:46 AM
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The triang ATT Rocket.
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" It's a Heck of a Day " !!!
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Posted - January 17 2020 : 02:47:53 AM
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I am particularly dying over that Triang Rocket. Very hard to come by. I've tried
to buy them on eBay, but always get outbid, or the unit is non working.
It was 1999 I traded a Dapol Dean Goods for the Triang Rocket set and
ran the living daylights out of it at train exhibits- enjoyed every lap.
This is a digital photo of an analog photo of it running at the 1999 Great
American Model Train Show:
I wore out the motor in mine, although the motor was never particularly good
in this Triang production. I am presently waiting for an N scale motor
to install into a modified chassis in one of the coaches, so the coach
will be motorized as a pusher for the entire consist. It may work, it
may fail. We will see.
Below is a military set, custom built by Gordon Pugh, photographed
past November at the El Paso Model Train Club. Gordon, a Vietnam
Vet, modeled what he was around at that time.
Edited by - Chops124 on January 17 2020 02:54:52 AM
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Posted - January 17 2020 : 10:06:48 AM
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Nice photo of the military train Chops. Its nice to see that the club is not to worried about scale .I see lots of Matchbox, Hot Wheels and Tootsie Toy around.
Bill
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Posted - January 17 2020 : 1:58:51 PM
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Fortunately, El Paso is a small city, and cannot afford to be to
exclusive, so a variety of modeling styles and contributions
get folded into the mix.
From time to time there have been mutterings about having
a rule for "steel wheels only" and "Kaydee's only, attached by
bolt," but fortunately this gets shouted down.
Actually, there is a scientific article in where plastic versus
steel wheels were compared in laboratory conditions, I'll
try to find it and post it under 'Loose Ends.' The question
was which wheel makes track dirtier. I recall, in the last
analysis, the result was "neither."
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