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| sean theres a good old saying,if you got it,flaunt it,and you got it,ken
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Posted - July 13 2011 : 4:48:54 PM
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Hi Sean,
Do you have a web site??
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Posted - July 13 2011 : 7:51:13 PM
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Hi Ken, No webpage, but my flickr page is about as close as I come:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9977705@N05/sets/
May I ask why?
Sean
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Posted - July 18 2011 : 11:23:03 PM
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YAY! 5 pages 
Anyway here is also what I got from a place called Doll Factory in Wyoming
Thought this was a interesting find its a Zylmex Crown school bus! 
I got it with the Isuzu Bonnet bus,Toyota Dyna truck,& a Fuso gas tanker for $2 The do have more Tomicas there & Tootsietoys I paid $3 for the fire truck & its missing one extending ladder 
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Posted - August 12 2011 : 4:17:45 PM
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Got these for $10 today Who makes the USAF Rocket Fuel tank car? 
Frame is broken
early 1960s RR Model Craftsman mags $3
Other mags & a old Walther's catalog
Anyone want the mags or the How-To books? 
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Posted - October 11 2011 : 6:15:15 PM
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There Never Is Anything Train Where We Live. The Rarity is Something Not Thomas. Only Found One Thing. Cheap Giveaways.
I Just Noticed This-I Have The Jet Fuel Car! Its Missing A Coupler.
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Posted - October 11 2011 : 7:53:40 PM
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Jackpot! I Found My Summer Score! Last Summer, We Vacationed In TN, And I Went To A Store Right Before Closing, And Found These In A Corner. They Were $2.50 A Pop! Atlas RR, Good Finds, Engines Trash Though. 
Caboose Has Kadee Wheelsets With Swirls On Them, And Kadee Trucks. The Whole Lot Was $18! I Cant Get That Much At A Show Even At That Price! Kadees Probaly Were Worth The Whole Purchase. Very Nice. I Lost Them in My Closet After Summer Last Year, And The Caboose Stayed Out. Cant Find Box Though.
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Posted - October 12 2011 : 5:21:04 PM
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Hey Buss !!
the tank car is Marx just like the NYC caboose.
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Posted - October 12 2011 : 5:37:46 PM
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Ben:
If you're interested in collecting old MRR mags, you're paying WAY too much! I mean if there is something specific in an issue sure, but you shouldn't be paying more than 50cennts per if you're buying a batch.
If you have a local hobby shop ask them if they know someone who's selling a whole collection. you'll get a better deal.
I have about 30 Train Videos all professional. Two or three will be converted to DVD but the box is going on Craigslist for $30 I see guys selling them at train shows for $5+ each and laugh as I walk by.
Also you might want to consider scanning what you want then selling them to recover your money PLUS someone else gets that material to use and learn from, since back then RMC and MR you could actually learn things from them!
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Posted - October 13 2011 : 3:21:22 PM
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| Romcat I paid $3 for ALL of them no LHS here sorry I hafta go to Denver Region to find the closest one & its in Westminster
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Posted - October 13 2011 : 3:45:41 PM
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Hey Ben:
Glad to hear you wern't ripped off.
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Posted - October 13 2011 : 7:36:56 PM
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| np romcat & since there is no LHS for 200+ miles I have to go to garage sales, antique & 2nd hand stores for trains
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Posted - October 17 2011 : 6:59:31 PM
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Im Going to go to a flea market tommorow. Hope to find something. Wish me luck:P
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Posted - December 03 2011 : 8:22:13 PM
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Hit the fleamarkets for the the first weekend of summer, bombed out at the garage sales, yard sales and market stalls but a car boot sale found fortune in fourteen freight cars for forty dollars (slightly more in American pesos) after haggling. Check out the brand:
No Sohio tankers or Maxwell House hoppers, just a fairly common lot pre-fitted with nickel-silver wheels, brass axles and plastic knuckle couplers so a good deal all up. Gluing the brake wheel back on the Wesson tanker was the only assembly required, easy-peasy!
The seller asked if I was interested in some more unboxed Tyco he had home, WOULD I EVER! Maybe... for the right price. Gave him my number but he's yet to call, think I played it too cool.
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Posted - December 03 2011 : 8:39:46 PM
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I'll accept tykowolf's sumission As its summer Down Under
Oh you BETTER get those loose Tycos
I sees the Old Spice & its one I don't have Yet
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Posted - December 10 2011 : 5:18:31 PM
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Hi, microbusss! Don't think I'll be getting the loose Tycos.  It's been a week and I haven't heard from the guy. Oh well, them's the breaks!
The Old Spice is a real looker so I've posted it in COTW at your suggestion.
UPDATE: Got a call back yesterday from Ken. (No, not that Ken, or that Ken either! What is it with Tyco and Kens?) The remainder of his Tyco collection is now the property of one tykowolf Esq. Seems it needed a bit of a clean to bring it up to scratch and fine job he did to. Mostly duplicates of what I have already but also few new ones. Plus a diesel and caboose!
The Best Christmas Ever! 
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Posted - December 24 2011 : 8:17:48 PM
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| congrats Tho you could sell or give us the extras
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Posted - December 25 2011 : 5:04:24 PM
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quote:congrats Tho you could sell or give us the extras
Originally posted by microbusss - December 24 2011 : 8:17:48 PM
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No way busss! I've already put them to good use.
Anyway, just how many Tyco Burlington Northern 50 footers do you really need?
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Hi All,
I have not had much to post lately, So I thought I would show a few things my Wife and I picked up over the weekend. No Trains but some train related items.
The first is a bin of Diecast cars that we picked up cheap. A lot will go to the grand kids, Some to my parts tub and some to Grandpa (Me) LOL!
Next is a Bowser reference manual from 1991.
Next is a Bowser reference manual from an unknown year but older than the 1991 edition.
Next is a 1992 Mantua price and parts order list with reference manual. It has almost 50 locos and rolling stock listed with exploded views with parts numbers. This is not in a bound book form, more like a book report binder. Maybe from a repair shop or something.
Thanks for looking.
Mike
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KEEP A HOLD ON THOSE BOOKS!! 
Bowser Manufacturing...
http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=5unkctcab&v=001UGlpv9WiH3UhNNgxegaDNKf5cU4NXxH4KDmKF417nQ69gHnkDrsA1bRf2h5RLxOOUzcvFWeNE0qvc0qgtLEUiEuHwWbt_T-VHnG5g4mmQ8g%3D
"It is with the utmost sadness that we report that Lew English, Sr, co-founder of Bowser Manufacturing Company passed away
on Feb 3, 2012."
For those who were/are familiar with the model train products.
John
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Posted - February 11 2012 : 2:25:36 PM
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First time at a train show in a couple years. Think I was a little rusty as I was a bit too willing to jump at items...but at least I bade an offer each time less than the sticker...and the seller bit every time.
This is the the lot...
/tyco/forum/uploaded/Mustangs_n_Trains/20120211141439_001.JPG
in all, I walked in pre admission fee with $200 and walked out with $1. I think it was a good day considering I had to buy each pretty much one lot at a time. The TYCO 2-8-2 I purchased while walking to the door. He was asking $50 for the engine and the junk cars surrounding it. I offered $35. I only wanted the engine and the TYCO bobber. The navy car has glue all over the deck, but the steps are there. I might get a few $ for the bobber & flat and the engine is going straight to the chop shop.
The Bowser Pacific is near perfect and the Mallet I purchased it with, I bundled the two and talked the seller down $25 less for.
The New Haven & B&M cars I collect so I purchased each at $3-$4 each.
The Penn Line floodlight trailer with box was $15. It is missing the cab, but I have an extra one here at home. The Ulrich tilt-cab tractor was $5. and the three precision scale brass smokebox cover front-mount feedwater heaters I offered $10 for. Out of the 30 some gallons of brass cast details, these are the only three like this I will have.
They are the types that would go on an engine like this:
http://www.trainmaster.ch/X-726.htm
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Sean
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Posted - February 22 2012 : 5:05:06 PM
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Hi All,
We picked up a few more things this past weekend.
First is a nice batch of cars, a lot of older ones from the 70s in great shape.
Second is a train set. It is missing the caboose, but I have plenty of spares.
Thanks for looking.
Mytyco
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Posted - February 22 2012 : 5:29:28 PM
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| yo mytyco I MIGHT have the caboose for that set! OOOOOO
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Posted - February 26 2012 : 2:56:48 PM
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I did buy a Life Like slotcar set. Suprisingly, 2 of the 5 cars were Tyco! Got 2 sets for $20 becuase it had no box today! Then 3 weeks ago, I got a Tonkin Frieghtliner with trailer its a Conway Frieght for $5 new in box!
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Posted - March 31 2012 : 7:20:54 PM
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well today I hadda work in Wyoming but we passed the same garage sale twice & they had trains! So I went back & got a few & spent $13 on some cars & a building
Will post in COTW & BOTW what I got
The town was about 40 miles each direction from where I lives It was closed by the time I got there but still got trains hehehe
Getting more when I go back
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Posted - April 16 2012 : 4:16:47 PM
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Ok I did go back I got a few locos & cars a building for $55
Will post more in here when I finds moar trains
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Posted - April 27 2012 : 6:55:27 PM
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| no trains or vehicles at sales yet but it still early Hope to find trains again this year
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Posted - April 27 2012 : 7:59:15 PM
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I gotta share my Marklin train set and my 3 slot car sets still. Forgot about my semi truck too! Pictures to follow soon!
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Posted - April 27 2012 : 9:33:33 PM
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quote:First time at a train show in a couple years.
...... I walked in pre admission fee with $200 and walked out with $1. I think it was a good day ....
Originally posted by Mustangs_n_Trains - February 11 2012 : 2:25:36 PM
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Now, that's what I call shopping at a train show!!!
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Posted - April 27 2012 : 11:44:20 PM
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yeah hope M_n_T saved some money for food, snax & drinks
Even I try to make sure I has enough for that when getting trains
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Posted - April 28 2012 : 2:24:46 PM
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I did see one of them Bachmann train sets at a garage sale for $10 I thought it was too much money & it was one of them CHEAP made sets
Also this happened on my way home 
I wasn't the only one who got a flat in that area Three others were doing the same
I should of taken the pic before I took it off but I was in a rush
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Posted - April 28 2012 : 4:21:55 PM
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What happened to you, Ben? Was your tire taken out by the hub spikes on Bond's Aston Martin?
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Posted - April 28 2012 : 5:22:21 PM
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quote:What happened to you, Ben? Was your tire taken out by the hub spikes on Bond's Aston Martin?
Originally posted by NickelPlate759Â -Â April 28 2012Â :Â 4:21:55 PM
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I have no idea & it certainly wasn't caused by the weight of the water heater in the back of my truck Nor the county road I drove on before
Something in the road cause 3 others & me to pop our tires
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Posted - April 28 2012 : 6:58:12 PM
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I've never seen a 360 degree catastrophic failure of the sidewall like that. Weird. It's a good thing you didn't lose control.
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Posted - April 28 2012 : 7:38:54 PM
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quote:I've never seen a 360 degree catastrophic failure of the sidewall like that. Weird. It's a good thing you didn't lose control.
Originally posted by NickelPlate759Â -Â April 28 2012Â :Â 6:58:12 PM
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It's possible it popped & I kept driving on it So that why it shredded like it did
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Posted - April 28 2012 : 10:06:36 PM
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Damn Ben thats shreaded! WOW! Looks like you and a few others hit some serious pointy things.....errrrrr
My best "yard sale" items is an 8 car set of N&W IHC passenger cars for $16.00 for the set! Worst part? ALL are missing the add on handrailing, and only 2 cars, have their trucks and wheelsets! (I'm adding metal Athearn trucks, with Jay-Bee wheelsets so.....THEN once in "running" condition, will be painted in B&O all blue paint with single dulux yellow pin strips!
Had railing, will be custom fitted metal, bent to fit in the factory holes!
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Posted - April 28 2012 : 11:35:20 PM
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| I should mention the tire is a Firestone DARN
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Posted - August 03 2012 : 2:53:47 PM
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well I found these CD-Rom games for $1 each
oops took a pic of my reflection
This is the regular version The Deluxe one is much better
Anyone need that game?
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Posted - August 03 2012 : 3:18:32 PM
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traintown, a great game!!!! I love mine!
I buy, repair, and collect
http://scvr.weebly.com/
http://seyboldlocomotiveworks.weebly.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheDeputation?feature=watch
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Posted - March 01 2015 : 10:53:18 AM
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quote: quote:Here are today's finds:
The GG1 is spotless and runs like new, but it wasn't exactly a bargain. Despite that, I couldn't pass it up.
Originally posted by burlington77Â -Â July 16 2010Â :Â 5:23:06 PM
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Pay over $50 for it? Those AHM GG1's are supposedly good if they were made by Rivarossi, I think the Mehano version AHM GG1 wasn't so good, i fI remember what a guy told me about them. They seem to run about $50-100 at shows and on Ebay. I'm still trying to get an old Penn Line GG1, but those sell high(er).
Jerry
Originally posted by AMC_Gremlin_GTÂ -Â July 16 2010Â :Â 6:23:40 PM
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Did you just say that Mehano GG1's are bad?I have one and it runs smooth as silk that I got yesterday for $40 with 3 not-so-great coaches.
-Steve
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Posted - November 03 2020 : 4:08:35 PM
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Another thread for viewing.
I rarely look at garage sales but I recall getting this car at a sale earlier this year near Mineola New York.
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Posted - September 09 2024 : 6:37:41 PM
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I got this one years ago at a local garage sale.
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Posted - September 09 2024 : 9:29:00 PM
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heh been TOO long since I saw this & have posted 
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