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 Posted - January 02 2007 : 11:41:02 AM
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Here's an interesting pair...
Seller says the Keebler 50' Plug Door is AHM, which I believe I have seen in the past...however that blue 40' GTE Box Car is a new one for me. Anyone know its story?
Tooling looks like Kader-Bachmann-Lionel...maybe? Though AHM had that 40' Box Car for a time too. Hmmm....[?]
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 Posted - January 03 2007 : 01:22:21 AM
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I have the Keebler 50' Plug Door , and it is a Tyco.
Ray
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Posted - January 27 2007 : 03:18:39 AM
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The 50' Boxcars: Tyco VS. AHM subject posting is a great help in identifying your boxcars.
John
I believe someone else identified the GTE boxcar as an early Athearn.
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Posted - January 30 2007 : 12:30:21 AM
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| The GTE may well be an Athearn, but looking at those couplers made me think it might be a Marx product? Marx did produce HO "scale" products for a while with dummy knuckle couplers.
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Posted - January 30 2007 : 12:37:28 AM
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Marx did produce knuckles, but they were grossly oversized.
I'm the one who won that lot - the GTE box was retrofitted with Kadees (with missing/cut trip pins). I actually got that car for the owner of my haunt, who retired from the telco industry here in KY. And I *thought* he said GTE, but it turns out I was mistaken (GTE did most of the telco in the immediate area, but he actually wokred for AT&T / Bellsouth on the boundary fringe [Oops!]... but he was tickled nonetheless. Traded me a Shark and an unopened Pennsy operating Dump car for it (not so much "traded" as much as "refused to charge me" after I gave it to him [^]).
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