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 Posted - October 26 2006 : 6:31:49 PM
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 if anyone can give me details would be very very grateful its an all metal item,ken
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 Posted - October 26 2006 : 7:13:27 PM
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Actually, Ken, it is a plastic flat car, old blue-box and red-box range in RTR (except, of course, minus the funky UK buffers and Trix Train couplers on your example!) Appears, also to be missing standard brown plastic side rails, a pretty typical absence.
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Posted - October 27 2006 : 05:11:26 AM
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hi ma have a read,they say a little knowledge is dangerous,why i hate buying hear in uk,ken
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Posted - October 27 2006 : 11:17:38 AM
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Ken:
See what you mean. Oh, well; we all make mistakes. I mis-identified the couplers in my first pass. They are dublo, not TTR. At least the seller got that right (but that's about it.)
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Posted - November 03 2006 : 12:25:56 PM
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hi having read and looked i decided to purchase to put back as original,cost under $2,marked mantua number 3228,but sorry magnolia academy.its diecast metal,see photo,ken
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Posted - November 03 2006 : 11:08:23 PM
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Ken,
Here's the US Navy Flat Car's listing in a '50s TYCO Catalog..
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Posted - November 03 2006 : 11:30:58 PM
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Hi Ken. What MA was saying was that the flatcar was plastic top with metal underframe. The Early 1950s Mantua / Tyco flatcar were completely diecast catalog # T308. They came in bare metal or blackened metal. The mid to late 1950s the flatcars were plastic with metal underframe catalog #314. US Navy being 314B. Here is a picture of the T308. I have posted other pictures of the 314B on your other post. Carl
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