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 Posted - March 07 2010 : 4:47:28 PM
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ok don't have a pic but lets do a track cleaning thread GO!
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Posted - March 07 2010 : 5:09:10 PM
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OK there MB!
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Posted - March 07 2010 : 5:24:40 PM
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and mine,the infamous cmx,ken
/tyco/forum/uploaded/catfordken/4410250467_d6553468df_b.jpg
http://www.dccsupplies.com/documents/gen/CMX-man-generic.pdf
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Posted - March 07 2010 : 5:28:17 PM
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Why infamous, catfordken?
Never mind, I just read your CMX thread. Maybe I should've asked, whey are they so friggin' expensive retail!
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Posted - March 07 2010 : 5:38:48 PM
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i believe from ones i have tried and various other means,these are very good,i was lucky but would not pay $125 or any where near it ken
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Posted - March 07 2010 : 5:52:04 PM
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Saw one yesterday at the LHS. Was suprised how small it was!
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Posted - March 07 2010 : 6:42:18 PM
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Here are two photos of a Revell track cleaning car. Both sides because they are very differant. frank
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Posted - March 07 2010 : 6:50:18 PM
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Nice stuff guys...yeah, I choked when I saw how much they wanted for one of those, Ken...
Ye olde classic Life-Like, modified with Kadees and Walthers trucks...
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Posted - March 07 2010 : 8:52:37 PM
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Funny you started the cleaner thread. I had just taken pictures of a few cleaners a few weeks ago. Here are 3 Revell variations and 2 AHM units.  Carl
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Posted - March 08 2010 : 12:00:09 AM
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Worth reposting. Old Revell unit of my friends I did some work on.
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Here's one for you, a MOW/track cleaner from a strange parallel universe where nothing is as it appears. I got the columnar thingys on eBay; I was confused and I thought they were something different, but I guess they're supposed to attach to some Roundhouse car. They've got little abrasive disks on the bottom of the spring-loaded bit. So I had to figure out something to do with them. The Life-Like track cleaner car was broken, from an eBay lot, the tank was in two pieces, the whole bottom including the pad were just plain missing. So I glued the tank together, repainted the car, relettered it with some leftover New Haven decals from a box car kit, aggressively (abusively maybe?) weathered it, trimmed an old Athearn bottom to fit, stuck on some spare Roundhouse trucks, and solvent welded the columnar track-cleaning thingamabobs to each end. Still have to stick some couplers on there. Not sure I can bear to watch this thing going around the track, though. It might have to sit off in one corner, part of some disturbing circus sideshow of mutant freight cars singing "gooble gobble, gooble gobble, we accept you, we accept you, one of us!"
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Posted - March 08 2010 : 11:05:41 PM
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How would you guys rate your track cleaners? Ken says his is pretty good Also anyone got weird or odd ones? 
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Posted - March 08 2010 : 11:26:53 PM
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Bob, your columns came off of one of these...
...I sold it some time back. I'd like to find one of these, I've only seen one in the last 30 years...
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Aha! What I bought was the Track Cleaner Accessory Kit mentioned in the box on the right. I guess I didn't know I was supposed to already have the rest of it. Or it was unclear it wasn't part of the kit.
The thing is giving me a headache looking at it. Or maybe that's the MEK I used to weld the plungers to the frame.
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Posted - March 10 2010 : 12:38:36 PM
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got these off ebay this week,the santa fe & disneyland coaches
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Posted - March 11 2010 : 9:14:31 PM
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quote:Here's one for you, a MOW/track cleaner from a strange parallel universe where nothing is as it appears. I got the columnar thingys on eBay; I was confused and I thought they were something different, but I guess they're supposed to attach to some Roundhouse car.
--Bob
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FYI, Bob, those columns fit the Roundhouse MDC Boxcab track cleaner. Those (boxcabs) come in different colors from black to silver to yellow(rare), and lately highly prized ( and priced ) on Ebay. I've picked some up at train shows for around $10, but they're selling on Ebay whole for $25+ each in the last 6 months, people seem to be grabbing them up. Not sure why, they have issues with the power shaft couplings, but I like them myself, and have 3 or 4, some powered, some just unpowered versions. You can get the track cleaner in either configuration.
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Posted - March 12 2010 : 10:13:47 AM
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quote:got these off ebay this week,the santa fe & disneyland coaches
Originally posted by royal blue - March 10 2010 : 12:38:36 PM
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* J. Good for you. You now have the Passenger cars. Keep looking the others are out there somewhere.
* About Disneyland locomotives. Walter Disney loved his trains. He put trains in every park. Every number was different. Tyco, in their Disney set call their loco, #3 the E. S. Marsh. Tyco used their Rogers 4-6-0 which had #3 molded into its smoke box door. That is why that set has a loco #3. Disney's loco #3 was the R.E. Broggie. The Broggie is a 4-6-0. The Disney loco E. S. Marsh is a 2-4-0. The name that is on the Tyco Disney set's is E. S. Marsh. Ahm's 2-4-0 J. Boker would make a nice E.S.Marsh.
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Posted - March 18 2010 : 2:59:30 PM
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neat cars guys  odd that there's shovels a washboard & a broom molded into the Revell cars & grafitti on them One being the "Kilroy was here"
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Posted - March 18 2010 : 3:25:21 PM
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another one hits the market,but not cheap ken
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Posted - March 23 2010 : 12:39:17 AM
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quote:quote:got these off ebay this week,the santa fe & disneyland coaches
Originally posted by royal blue - March 10 2010 : 12:38:36 PM
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* J. Good for you. You now have the Passenger cars. Keep looking the others are out there somewhere.
* About Disneyland locomotives. Walter Disney loved his trains. He put trains in every park. Every number was different. Tyco, in their Disney set call their loco, #3 the E. S. Marsh. Tyco used their Rogers 4-6-0 which had #3 molded into its smoke box door. That is why that set has a loco #3. Disney's loco #3 was the R.E. Broggie. The Broggie is a 4-6-0. The Disney loco E. S. Marsh is a 2-4-0. The name that is on the Tyco Disney set's is E. S. Marsh. Ahm's 2-4-0 J. Boker would make a nice E.S.Marsh. Yea I think I did good,I even got the loco running,here it was wound so tight with hair and lint it wouldnt move. when i clean it up ill post some pics of it,but im still on the hunt for the other cars.Thanks for your input.J.
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