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 Posted - July 08 2009 : 9:15:38 PM
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I got this a long time ago in a box lot of freight cars from a garage sale:
It's labeled as Bachmann on the blister the weights sit in. My best guess is that it's what's left of an operating caboose. If anybody knows for sure, then I'll know what to look for in the way of parts.
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Posted - July 08 2009 : 11:50:51 PM
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I have the remains of a bachmann caboose with some sort of mech in it (i think it's sposed to move a person as the door closes) and it's quite different from what you posted. The mech is different, the car is a little shorter, and the chassis is molded with the walkway and steps all as one. To me, your car looks more like some kind of boxcar
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Posted - July 20 2009 : 1:55:12 PM
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Well, I think I answered my own question...
While just randomly going through the 1983 Bachmann catalog on the Resource site, the Powerhouse train set caught my eye...there was a powerhouse boxcar in that same lot of cars as the operating frame, along with the caboose, U-boat loco and...a UP cattle car with no frame...
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r132/tonycook1966/Bachmann%201983%20Catalog/83_Bach_04_800x600.jpg
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r132/tonycook1966/Bachmann%201983%20Catalog/83_Bach_05_800x600.jpg
Not to mention also coming from that garage sale in a box of detail parts were the two guys with "zombie arms" off the platform of the automatic cattle loader, all the cattle, and some wayward fencing, plus the "automatic switch" with the semaphore signal.
I had no idea of the origin of any of these things, as they didn't look like standard Bachmann stuff.
Lots of mysteries solved! And that UP stock car will finally roll again.
Now, does anybody know how rare this set was?
(Golly...I just realized that the bulldozer from the pipe loader is currently a load on one of my Athearn flat cars!!!)
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Posted - July 20 2009 : 4:45:55 PM
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well I has one car from that set 
It's abit different but think it is the one from the set just designed differently
Edited by - microbusss on July 20 2009 4:47:17 PM
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Posted - July 20 2009 : 8:44:39 PM
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I was wondering what on earth this could be...glad you figured it out!
    
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Posted - July 23 2009 : 7:54:55 PM
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Here's the car reassembled after probably over a decade of being scattered and forgotten:
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