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 Posted - December 20 2009 : 01:19:04 AM
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Athearn Mill Gons to go with my LotW.
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Posted - December 20 2009 : 10:32:52 AM
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Nice car Loopy, here's a Cox flat with trailer.
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Posted - December 20 2009 : 1:27:02 PM
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In the non-Tyco theme, here's another:
So I'm not a big billboard fan, but this is another rare exception. It's a Lionel-HO from the 70's, was hard for me to find.
So what do you see in the graphic: a ball laughing its way through a cluster of hapless pins, or some sort of yin-yang motif?
Regardles, there's nothing better to deliver the load of balls for this year's Annual Saint Canard 10th Frame Brewchug and Pretzel Festival 
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Posted - December 20 2009 : 3:58:53 PM
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quote:In the non-Tyco theme, here's another:
So I'm not a big billboard fan, but this is another rare exception. It's a Lionel-HO from the 70's, was hard for me to find.
So what do you see in the graphic: a ball laughing its way through a cluster of hapless pins, or some sort of yin-yang motif?
Regardles, there's nothing better to deliver the load of balls for this year's Annual Saint Canard 10th Frame Brewchug and Pretzel Festival
Originally posted by GoingInCirclez-December 20 2009: 1:27:02 PM
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Boy, that is a real hard to find item. I've seen pretty much everything Lionel made in HO back in the 70's, but I've never seen this one back then. Must have been a specialty item Lionel made. I haven't seen it in any of the catalogs from 1974 to 1977.
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Posted - December 20 2009 : 10:55:54 PM
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Here's a Model Power searchlight car. From what I've read on here, it's based on an old Marx mold.
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Posted - December 21 2009 : 10:26:40 AM
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quote:| So I'm not a big billboard fan |
No But I IS!! I wants! Y'all should know I'm big into billboard/ad cars 
Gotta find that one too Also like the unusual cars such as that searchlight car & stuff that Lionel had that others did in HO Such as the Switchman
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Posted - December 21 2009 : 11:41:13 AM
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My choice for this week is a Ertel flat car with load.
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Posted - December 21 2009 : 4:00:50 PM
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Got a new kit. Maybe I post finished car. - Erich
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Posted - December 22 2009 : 11:58:06 PM
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Here's my Mantua flat...
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 Posted - December 23 2009 : 12:03:40 AM
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Hi All,
Great cars guys! My Cotw is a 1979 AHM fifty foot Christmas car. I forgot I had it till I started digging through some train boxes next to one of my computers I was working on. It was a nice suprise.
I hope you enjoy the picture.
Mike
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Posted - December 23 2009 : 12:56:11 AM
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quote:Hi All,
Great cars guys! My Cotw is a 1979 AHM fifty foot Christmas car. I forgot I had it till I started digging through some train boxes next to one of my computers I was working on. It was a nice suprise.
I hope you enjoy the picture.
Mike
Originally posted by mytyco-December 23 2009: 12:03:40 AM
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Nice car - looks like a Tyco knock off on the box car itself
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Posted - December 23 2009 : 01:45:33 AM
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Very nice cars! I love that AMF car. I have seen it before searching for AMF equipment on eBay. I am a huge bowling fan and also love to bowl so it caught my eye.
I HOPE EVRYONE HAS A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR! FOR THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS, THEN HAPPY HAUNAKA!!!.....LOL
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Posted - December 24 2009 : 11:44:48 AM
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quote:Hey Loopy,
Check out the spelling of Philadelphia on your PBNE gondola. It is a misprint! It is missing the second "i".
John
Originally posted by TycoJohnny-December 23 2009: 2:14:02 PM
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Good eyes, John. For a few moments I thought I was getting a Christmas present! However, when I examined the cars under a glass I saw that all four logos were the same... with Philadelphia mis-spelled on each. But wait, when I looked at the loco logo, it too has Philly mis-spelled, both sides! I have the loco posted as TLoW. Anyway, thanks for the heads up and Merry Christmas.
Loopy
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Posted - December 24 2009 : 12:16:00 PM
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quote:Boy, that is a real hard to find item. I've seen pretty much everything Lionel made in HO back in the 70's, but I've never seen this one back then. Must have been a specialty item Lionel made. I haven't seen it in any of the catalogs from 1974 to 1977.
Originally posted by badman55-December 20 2009: 3:58:53 PM
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I looked sporadically on ebay for that car for 2 or 3 years - even before joining this forum - and never found one; this can only mean there's about 6 of them there now. It's just one of many, many uncataloged cars from Fundimensions Lionel. As you note, their catalogs of the era were pretty sparse, but the Greenberg Guide to Lionel HO Vol. 2 has it pretty well covered.
You can always tell a Lionel car (even some of the ones made by Kader and others) from the road number. Lionel always used a sequential series per model, per year. For example, the "88512" in on the AMF boxcar roughly means
88 - Car series, in this case the 40' boxcar
5 - production year; "5" being 1975, "6" being 1976, and so on
12 - roadname in sequence. So there are (at least) 12 cars in the 40' boxcar range. But I don't think that's per year. If 88408 was the last boxcar from 1974, the next one was 88509. I don't have my book in front of me to check my facts or specific examples, but I think that's how it went.
Lionel's own tooling always followed some version of this numbering scheme. The outsourced cars by Kader and others may or may not have done so. For example, the Kader coil cars most certainly did NOT - they were identical to Bachmann, AHM, etc. But I think the Kader boxcars and/or hoppers may have as they were exclusive to Lionel (by roadname at least).
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Posted - December 25 2009 : 5:50:56 PM
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quote:quote:In the non-Tyco theme, here's another:
So I'm not a big billboard fan, but this is another rare exception.
Originally posted by GoingInCirclez-December 20 2009: 1:27:02 PM
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Boy, that is a real hard to find item. I've seen pretty much everything Lionel made in HO back in the 70's, but I've never seen this one back then. Must have been a specialty item Lionel made. I haven't seen it in any of the catalogs from 1974 to 1977.
Originally posted by badman55-December 20 2009: 3:58:53 PM
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I've seen exactly ONE of these at a train show, and they wanted $20 for it. More than I wanted to pay, I used to bowl alot, but haven't in 10 years ( since I met my future wife, so my interest shifted I guess :) ) I'd still like to have one, though. - Jerry -
" When life throws you bananas...it's easy to slip up"
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Posted - December 26 2009 : 03:01:32 AM
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quote:My choice for this week is a Ertel flat car with load.
Originally posted by toptrain-December 21 2009: 11:41:13 AM
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I love the donkey engine, Frank. Was that included with the flatcar, or is it a detail you added?
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Posted - December 27 2009 : 5:34:40 PM
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quote: It's just one of many, many uncataloged cars from Fundimensions Lionel. As you note, their catalogs of the era were pretty sparse, but the Greenberg Guide to Lionel HO Vol. 2 has it pretty well covered.
Originally posted by GoingInCirclez-December 24 2009: 12:16:00 PM
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Ah, but it was cataloged...twice...by Lionel-HO...
1975...
/tyco/forum/uploaded/Tony Cook/09_Lionel_1975.jpg
1976...
/tyco/forum/uploaded/Tony Cook/08_Lionel_1976.jpg
Visit the Lionel-HO Resource for more...
http://www.ho-scaletrains.net/lionelho1970scatalogresource/index.html
Tony Cook
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http://ho-scaletrains.net
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Posted - December 27 2009 : 6:15:08 PM
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I have that crane and work caboose!
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