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I was just thumbing through that, Mike. It's a great book, especially for someone like me who grew up in the 80's-90's and missed a lot of things. It's quite a bit different than the literature I grew up with, and much more interesting.
Speaking of such, I have another question for anyone who knows: Were sprung trucks more common years ago? I've got things that I thought I recognized, like Athearn kits, but they have sprung trucks. Did kits come with them, or were they add-ons? Any insight would be appreciated.
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Posted - September 26 2010 : 09:26:49 AM
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In the early daze, many kits came with them sprung...Varney, Athearn, MDC to name a few. The logic at the time was that it helped the cars track better, though that debate was never really settled.
The HO Primer was the book that really got me going back in '74, that and Bill McClanahan's "Scenery for Model Railroads".
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Thank you Bulington for the great link! It helped me a lot.
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Posted - September 26 2010 : 8:50:52 PM
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Thanks for the info, Shaygetz. The HO primer has led me to another question: It shows a Lionel AC transformer being used with a Lionel rectifier to run HO trains. Do things like this still exist? Has anyone used them? There's something vaguely exciting about the idea of running my HO trains with my Postwar ZW.
Steve--that site is excellent. The guy that created it used to post on here.
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Posted - September 26 2010 : 9:39:54 PM
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quote:Thanks for the info, Shaygetz. The HO primer has led me to another question: It shows a Lionel AC transformer being used with a Lionel rectifier to run HO trains. Do things like this still exist? Has anyone used them? There's something vaguely exciting about the idea of running my HO trains with my Postwar ZW.
Originally posted by burlington77Â -Â September 26 2010Â :Â 8:50:52 PM
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Exciting, eh? ...like watching your loco go up in a pretty puff of blue smoke...
I'm sure you could find one on eBay or at a swap meet.
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Posted - September 28 2010 : 10:51:04 PM
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Two things: first of all, the HO primer is awesome. I wish everyone on this board had the chance to read it. It really gives insight into the "heyday" of HO. I grew up with the pre-packaged, plastic, ready to run Life-Like/Bachmann stuff, with the Athearn blue boxes being the most serious items around. All of that was simply put it together, plug it in, and run it--no skill involved. The primer really shows the skill that went into modeling, building, and wiring before that. It's sure a lot different than the Life-Like "Basics for Beginners" that was my bible in my early days.
Second, Microbuss: I did a little test on the gondola/containers issue. They fit in all my Life-Like, Roco, and Bachmann gondolas. They did not fit in Mantua or Tyco gondolas. Basically, look inside for the small diagonal support ribs. It it has three or none, they should fit.
Next weekend is busy...a birthday, school stuff, and a small train show. But even with that, I'll still have my eyes on the garage sales.
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Posted - November 13 2010 : 1:34:17 PM
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well guess this means sales are over  Cause this is all I found
I knows some of you have a few thousand of these
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Posted - November 14 2010 : 5:13:56 PM
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Here is some of the items I purchased at a Garage sale a few weeks back..  Carl
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Posted - November 14 2010 : 6:56:21 PM
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quote:Here is some of the items I purchased at a Garage sale a few weeks back.. Carl
Originally posted by VintageHOÂ -Â November 14 2010Â :Â 5:13:56 PM
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I'd say you should be happy! YOu got a nice Cox set, an MDC Boxcab, and lots of other neat trains. Hope it was a good price, too! Definitely a good score.
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Posted - November 20 2010 : 09:46:42 AM
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2 sales happening here This is all I found for $5 MINUS the Alex Lion plush
Later this morning I'm going to Alliance,NE for a train show Will post what I see & get(?)
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Posted - March 16 2011 : 11:59:55 PM
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Anybody been to any sales yet? It's almost that time of year again. My local paper has had 2-3 ads for the last couple weeks, but no trains.
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Posted - March 17 2011 : 06:32:10 AM
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quote:Anybody been to any sales yet? It's almost that time of year again. My local paper has had 2-3 ads for the last couple weeks, but no trains.
Originally posted by burlington77Â -Â March 16 2011Â :Â 11:59:55 PM
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Just getting warm in Virginia, I haven't seen any signs up yet for any this past weekend. Can't be far off, though. :)
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Posted - March 17 2011 : 10:02:05 AM
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YAY! thread revived! There's a big house sale 40 miles away on Friday May or may not go cause of work  Ain't found much this year since Jan the week after New Year's But you know how early season sales are? You get little or nothing 
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Posted - April 16 2011 : 4:57:21 PM
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YES! Looky what I found! 
These were about $1 The Vette is still sealed!
$5 for this picture
May sell or trade these
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Posted - April 25 2011 : 3:29:48 PM
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well found these cars for $10
Do hate spening so much for cars
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Posted - April 25 2011 : 5:21:42 PM
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Hey Buss. Your new lnes look to be in good condition. Good luck Buss.
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This is all I found
only stuff that was in box was decals & models of guns
The decals
Roco Minitanks Decals!
the gun models Sorry if pic doesn't show detail
one decal I couldn't get a good pic was for a USMC 2 1/2 ton truck
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Posted - May 14 2011 : 12:35:56 PM
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YAY! got stuff again
All this was $5
Tyco Cliff Hangers set Not all there But was $2 Yes will sell this But if someone only wants the tracks, car & other stuff That fine I'll recycle the box
Inside box
This one don't count as a friend got it for me at a auction for $2.50
Hess Race Truck $3 Not HO scale
Will sell or trade off this stuff & it will be cleaned too
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Posted - June 03 2011 : 12:59:39 PM
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Well found some BN stuff for a quarter Has NINE maps So will keep one & sell or trade the others
Got another bar sign It the one on the right
Saw this at a sale in a grade school but not for sale  It looked like a old pull-top can even though it was dated 1991
Never know where you'll find Tyco products
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Posted - June 04 2011 : 8:08:21 PM
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Last week was one of the best garage sale outings I've ever had. I got a trunk full of stuff--antiques and junk of all types. I got a Model Power set with a Chessie Plymouth switcher, some cars, track, and transformer. Today wasn't nearly as good, but for 50 cents I scored this nice hat:
There was a woman selling this and a few other unmarked ones. I hope her husband doesn't go looking for this come Monday morning!
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Posted - June 04 2011 : 8:49:28 PM
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Here are my finds:
$1 Anyone recognize it?
RoCo Bridge $5
This guy I bought this from had 2 O scale trains Lionel & Marx & said he had more HO at home So I gave him my phone # to call me
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Posted - June 06 2011 : 6:12:22 PM
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I don't think I ever posted this find from a few weeks ago:
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Posted - June 15 2011 : 4:57:09 PM
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ok this really isn't train related but were $10 at a garage sale She had on them $4 each & in frames!
Sold the 1915 & 1916 plates for $200!
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Posted - June 25 2011 : 3:49:03 PM
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06/25/2011
Today I say a train set with Marx & others with a blue & yellow striped nose Hustler fot $150 Also 1 block from my house He had old vehicle models for $15 each!
I got 3 Matchbox Volvo container trucks at 25cents each Will post truck pix later
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Posted - June 28 2011 : 11:42:27 PM
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Today I say a train set with Marx & others with a blue & yellow striped nose Hustler fot $150
Originally posted by microbusss - June 25 2011 : 3:49:03 PM
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I've noticed that the prices seem to be up this year. I think the American Pickers/Pawn Stars/Storage Auction shows have inspired some amateur antique dealers.
I never posted all this. I got it a few weeks ago. It also had an oval of track and the normal small Model Power power pack. Paid $10, probably a good price, but I didn't exactly feel great about it. Had to buy it though because it's a Chessie.
I'll probably let my daughter play with it. I don't really care for the bright colors of it all.
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 Posted - June 29 2011 : 06:04:22 AM
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Hi burlington77,
Nice catch! The screw sticking out of the bottom of your Chessie engine needs to be tightend up, otherwise the body will drag along the tracks.
My Wife picked these up for me at a garage sale. $2 for the train set and that included a bunch of track a bridge and a Tyco and Model Power transformer.
I'm not sure what she paid for the cars and trucks. I love restoring and or customising these things.
Thanks for looking and sharing.
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Posted - June 29 2011 : 06:22:53 AM
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Way to go. She's good! She needs her own reality show along the lines of the auction and pawn shows :) Nice finds.
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Posted - July 08 2011 : 10:41:41 PM
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Well, today was the second dismal garage sale week in a row. I'm still waiting for a "big score" like the ones I found last year.
The small city I go to usually has 120+ sales every Friday, with the number a little lower on Saturday. The last couple weeks it was under 70 each day. The only "neat" thing I found today was an old rotary dial phone for a buck that I rewired and it works. Old things were built to last.
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Posted - July 09 2011 : 10:08:52 AM
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quote:The small city I go to usually has 120+ sales every Friday, with the number a little lower on Saturday. The last couple weeks it was under 70 each day.
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Burlington77!! How in the H*LL are you able to go to ~120+ garage sales in one day? I am lucky if I hit one a year. How do you find the time... You got 8 rain deer and a sleigh?
I used to like to go to garage sales, house / estate auctions and flea markets all the time when I was in my late teens. I am 40 now, with two small kids and a wife that HATES "other peoples junk" and refuses to ever buy anything "old" or used. I on the other hand, especially like the old and don't mind the used, if it works or is fixable.
I went to an estate auction a couple months ago...spent ~3-4 hours including travel to and from, threw a few bids in on some nice (and not so nice) vintage HO stuff and did not get a single scrap. The prices went so high, I could not believe it. They went higher than what they would have sold for on eBay, even if correctly listed. Blew my mind!
My father-in-law goes to garage sales often though. Once he found one collection, but again the guy wanted so much for each piece, it was not worth even trying for. My best finds came from posting wanted ads on Craig's-list. I have had no luck though, trying to pursue items that were actually listed there though.
I would love to run into those big scores too... I think the best I ever had was one purchased sorta through eBay. I purchased a lot of ~100 cal-scale / Kemtron brass detail packets for ~$100 form a seller who emailed me immediately after I paid. He said: "I have thousands more and no time to list them, please make me an offer. if you are interested." He was right...thousands... I sent him $2,300 which is as I explained to him, "a low-ball offer, but is all I could come up with within two weeks". He took my offer. I sold off just the brass trucks from that lot and more than quadrupled my return. I have pretty much kept all the rest of the lost wax brass detail parts for my own use. That was a score that I not seen the like of since. My very first score, however, was listed on ebay as "31 Black Train Pieces". The listing had 2-3 really dark and bad pictures. I could tell though there were at least 2 articulated locos in the lot. In fact, there was a Bowser Challenger and a custom scratchbuilt/kitbash Mantua 2-6-6-2 logging locomotive with an all brass boiler featuring an opening smokebox. I paid ~$330 for 17 steam engines and 14 tenders. Six of the engines and eight tenders were all brass. Every engine was highly super detailed with weathering, lanterns, jewels, fiber optic lighting, brass castings, etc. I sold only 3 of the engines and have kept the rest. Below are a sample of the engines in this lot:
This caboose came from the same seller, but was in a lot of "28 Red Train Pieces":
That was about ~6 years ago now and there has only been one or two major scores like that since... But I really paid for the them. One did produce this however:
It is an HO scale Brass Kosmos Timber Company's #11 standard gauge 2-6-6-2. # 37 of only 208 units made. I got it like this:
I sent it to a brass collector friend of mine in VA who restored it on trade for another locomotive.
I just wanted to say, I really appreciate you guys being here on this forum and forums like this. It gives me the chance to share these great finds. I live with my wife, two daughters..my Mothr-in-law moved in last fall None of the females in the house care to hear anything about my trains and none of my friends my age ...or even older in fact, collect trains. Our dog is female as well. She is my buddy though and never leaves my side.
Sean
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Posted - July 09 2011 : 9:04:02 PM
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Burlington77!! How in the H*LL are you able to go to ~120+ garage sales in one day? I am lucky if I hit one a year. How do you find the time... You got 8 rain deer and a sleigh?
Originally posted by Mustangs_n_Trains - July 09 2011 : 10:08:52 AM
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I don't actually go to all of them, that's just how many I have to choose from. People are pretty good about listing trains in their newspaper ad when they have them.
By the way, I'm lucky in that this is a family thing. My wife loves old things, my older kid loves anything, and the baby doesn't complain too much. The pace is much slower with kids, though. My wife and I used to cover more sales when we were alone, but I can't complain.
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Posted - July 09 2011 : 9:06:44 PM
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I figured as much as i was really just being silly...
Sean
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Posted - July 10 2011 : 12:03:25 AM
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Actually just one. But I've never seen them listed on another forum lol. I just keep them on a display rack. Someday I'm sure they'll be used for photo-op purposes. But got them off my parents friend who collected hallmark stuff and was cleaning out some things.
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Posted - July 10 2011 : 07:00:56 AM
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| hi sean theres an old saying,its not the quantity but the quality that counts,that logger is fantastic,and a nice piece of history,keep em coming,ken
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 Posted - July 10 2011 : 11:33:29 AM
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You're right Ken...although as can clearly be seen in some of my pictures, I do both quality and quantity.
It is the quantity part that my wife keeps complaining about.
Sean
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Posted - July 10 2011 : 11:43:28 AM
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| sean you are right in what you say,in your case its quantity and quality,keep em coming ken
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Posted - July 10 2011 : 1:27:29 PM
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| I definitely lean towards quantity rather than quality, but unfortunately there's not much quality available around here. In fact, I've never seen locomotives like that other than on the internet, not even at the local train shows. I don't think I've ever seen anything brass like that, but big steam engines in general seem hard to come by. Like I've said before, I think it's a regional thing.
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Posted - July 10 2011 : 4:05:39 PM
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Well did see another Tyco race set with Lambos Was $10 dropped to $5 But as seen above I gotta sell that Vette one 1st
Worse I got was a box of records for $1 sold off a few for 50 cents & $1 Box of records had Goonies & WarGames soundtracks
Yes I post alot in here Do apologize for that =( But sometimes I find neat stuff Like the ceramic depot above & the old Nebraska plates
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Posted - July 10 2011 : 5:49:38 PM
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Sean, I think you should open a vintage HO warehouse so the rest of us schlubs could come a pickin'. Too bad a business like that wouldn't pay all the bills.
Is that a Mantua Mikado with elephant ears? That's a really interesting look, although I'm lukewarm about the twist tie on the headlight.
And that logger is gorgeous, but for some reason your before shot isn't displaying.
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Posted - July 10 2011 : 5:54:22 PM
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| all seans photos are showing for me ken
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Posted - July 10 2011 : 6:07:13 PM
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Found this today at the Alemany flea market. $3. Very interesting little engine.
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Posted - July 10 2011 : 7:47:00 PM
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It showed up right after I posted that, natch.
quote:all seans photos are showing for me ken
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Posted - July 11 2011 : 9:48:17 PM
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Nice little engine Redwoods. It's a little scratched, but for $3 you can't complain Fleischmann, yes? I have a red on just like it 
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Posted - July 11 2011 : 11:42:28 PM
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quote:I definitely lean towards quantity rather than quality, but unfortunately there's not much quality available around here. In fact, I've never seen locomotives like that other than on the internet, not even at the local train shows. I don't think I've ever seen anything brass like that, but big steam engines in general seem hard to come by. Like I've said before, I think it's a regional thing.
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Burlington77, Unless regional includes the internet, I would have to agree. It is pretty much the only way I buy. There are few shows and no hobby shops anywhere near me. I buy almost exclusively on-line.
Sean
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Posted - July 11 2011 : 11:59:16 PM
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quote:sean you are right in what you say,in your case its quantity and quality,keep em coming ken
Originally posted by catfordken - July 10 2011 : 11:43:28 AM
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Funny thing happened this week... I saw this posting on eBay and i had to bid:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200625967523&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT
The Signal Hill and Crossfield cars struck my eye. You see. The lot I spoke of earlier of the 31 Black Train Pieces and the 28 Red Train Pieces and the ## Brown Train pieces... etc... This was 5-6 years ago and I had purchased nearly 1/3 of the entire collection that had been listed in dozens of small lots of a hand full of pieces. Well they were all detailed and were decaled for a make believe line called... Signal Hill...
So I had to buy these two cars when I saw them. I was not sure, but now that they have made it here, I am convinced it was once part of the collection I purchased several years ago...
The yellow car shown below has all the same level of details and even has nudie pictures hanging on the walls, just like the nudie pictures hanging on the walls of the red (Signal Hill) caboose I showed earlier...also shown below.
That was just too cool!. As soon as i saw it, I called the seller and asked him if he has any more..
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Posted - July 12 2011 : 12:03:29 AM
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quote:Nice little engine Redwoods. It's a little scratched, but for $3 you can't complain Fleischmann, yes? I have a red on just like it
Originally posted by DaCheez - July 11 2011 : 9:48:17 PM
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Actually, I couldn't believe the price. I was ready to offer more. So no complaints at all.
I took it apart this evening, oiled the bearings and put a touch of grease on the gears, and it sprang to life. Very nice. I also realized after a closer inspection that this particular model is made for a "cog" railway. It has a large gear on one of the axles designed to engage a rack so that it can climb steep grades. Very cool.
Hmm, do I need a 12% grade somewhere on the layout?
Edited by - Redwoods on July 12 2011 12:04:26 AM
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Posted - July 12 2011 : 12:05:20 AM
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Burlington77, Unless regional includes the internet, I would have to agree. It is pretty much the only way I buy. There are few shows and no hobby shops anywhere near me. I buy almost exclusively on-line.
Originally posted by Mustangs_n_Trains - July 11 2011 : 11:42:28 PM
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Yes, the internet is a whole other thing. Sadly, the internet has become the main way I purchase many things...trains, DVDs, records and CDs, you name it. It seems like the stores don't have anything worthwhile anymore.
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Posted - July 12 2011 : 08:24:55 AM
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| sean,great little package and great it fits into a previous buy,it must have taken the maker of the cars hours,so what you paid is well cheap ken
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Posted - July 12 2011 : 11:23:11 AM
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quote:sean,great little package and great it fits into a previous buy,it must have taken the maker of the cars hours,so what you paid is well cheap ken
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I would actually place it just a smidge above stealing it... My bid was over 3x what it sold for because I knew the quality of the workmanship, having already owned several pieces of this collection.
It just makes me sick knowing I missed out on the "## Brown Train Pieces" lot...which were ALL passenger cars. I still remember looking into the windows of the cars (in the bad photos) and being able to see some fine details poking through. It was not until the "Red Train Pieces" came to my door and I saw the 8 caboose cars with fully detailed interiors that I realized that the Brown lot my computer decided to freeze on must have been a real gem.
Sean
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Posted - July 12 2011 : 11:28:10 AM
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| those cars would look great with dim lighting and a few figures laying on the bunks etc,great buy anyway,good luck with your treasure hunting,finding em is fairly easy but to win is even better ken
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Posted - July 13 2011 : 12:52:19 PM
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quote:hi sean theres an old saying,its not the quantity but the quality that counts,that logger is fantastic,and a nice piece of history,keep em coming,ken
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Thanks Ken!
I sometimes fear people might think I am showing off when i post some of my stuff, and sometimes they might be right, but above all else, i really like the pieces and some of them are so special, I really think they deserve to be shared.
Take this piece for instance:
Ebay listing I have of it (for information seeking only)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=370344789179&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT
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I have had it listed on eBay for almost 2 solid years now strictly for the purposes of finding out who made it. I think I have nailed down (or at least got in a fishing line - not yet pulled in) the builder's name. It is too special a piece to leave sit on a shelf and not share with everyone. So far, the listing has been viewed over 10,500 times.
Sean
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