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 Posted - January 08 2009 : 06:56:02 AM
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can anyone shed light on this item,trailer states trailer train,containers are marked,AMERICAN EXPORT ISBRANDTSEN LINES,and the track below is tru scale,A E I L was formed in 64 and ended in 73,its the maker of the item i would like to know ken
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Posted - January 08 2009 : 08:40:53 AM
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| I would say Athearn if it was just the car, but with the containers, I don't know. Does it look like the containers were part of the original model?
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Posted - January 08 2009 : 08:43:04 AM
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| hi chris its not here yet ken
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Posted - January 08 2009 : 08:46:51 AM
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| i am beginning too think its athearn having looked at athearn on hoseekers site ken
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Posted - January 10 2009 : 11:33:20 AM
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OK, I'm sorry but can't help it anymore and I have to ask: Is there any rhyme or reason to what you buy and collect? Or do you just buy whatever? Or get stuck with weird leftovers in lots, or...?
Don't take that the wrong way... but for like a year now I've been befuddled and amused by all the seemingly random stuff you post that you've bought or want to buy but have no idea what it is... Kinda like Wall-E finding things (if you've seen that movie)  . I think we need a "Ken's Scavenger Hunt" forum - it'd be even more exciting than the LotW and CotW!
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Posted - January 10 2009 : 11:37:47 AM
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please delete see below
Edited by - catfordken on January 13 2009 08:04:04 AM
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Posted - January 10 2009 : 11:43:22 AM
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please delete see below
Edited by - catfordken on January 13 2009 08:04:43 AM
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Posted - January 12 2009 : 05:26:50 AM
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Looks like a special run display piece using an Athearn car. When Athearn introduced those cars they had containers for them that I don't think have ever been reissued.
I've had a few oddball Tyco cars the same way - they'd be on a piece of Tru-Scale track with the screws run right through it to hold it all together. They were uncataloged roadnames on standard cars, but I forget now just what I had (sold them fairly quick to collectors).
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Posted - January 13 2009 : 07:51:40 AM
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using internet and info you guys gave me,and a hint from gic,i received the peice and it was made for the international standards organization,when they had a meeting to standerdise container sizes,glad i got it,bit of history,will go on my shelves for the kids,thanks for help and hints ken
 
end ramps/locks came in a pkt
Edited by - catfordken on January 13 2009 07:53:08 AM
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Posted - January 13 2009 : 2:19:53 PM
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Do the doors on that 40' container open? It looks like there's an oversized finger tab provided to open them. I think I've seen similar tooling for "opening door containers" on some old "hot wheels" (Zee? Yatming? Road Champs?) diecast trucks sold in the 80's, a few of which I still have somewhere.
Definitely an awesome piece. Great find for the intermodal fan.
The flat car, as now seen more clearly in your pictures, is Athearn. Recent blue-box kits still include the black shoes for the containers, and/or you could install the two hitch posts in the middle of the deck.
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Posted - January 13 2009 : 2:42:33 PM
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tony i give up,where does the quess work stop and the knowledge begin,you are right yet again,i think we should have a stump gic posting,my little joke,would you clean or leave as is ken
ps all three containers open
Edited by - catfordken on January 13 2009 2:44:29 PM
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Posted - January 28 2009 : 06:50:16 AM
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| Athearn's original containers did not have opening doors, so I'm not sure what those are.
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