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 Posted - January 09 2011 : 10:39:09 AM
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found this today,if you hit the circle it explodes ken
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Posted - January 09 2011 : 11:32:56 AM
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quote:found this today,if you hit the circle it explodes ken
Originally posted by catfordken - January 09 2011 : 10:39:09 AM
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I thought Lionel was the only one with exploding box cars. Apparently not. Not sure who would have copied that car. Marx, maybe?
EDIT 11:39 AM - Ah, it's a Tri-ang version! See this web address. Overseas copy :
http://www.elaines-trains.co.uk/index.php?pg=x&cat=1274
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Edited by - AMC_Gremlin_GT on January 09 2011 11:35:44 AM
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Posted - January 09 2011 : 11:35:28 AM
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hi jerry triang did one in there transcontinental sets,my thoughts lean toward mehano,who did make for others but i will check out marx thanks ken
have just checked lionels ho version its very similar which sort of confirms my thinking that lionel got an outsider to make it ken
Edited by - catfordken on January 09 2011 11:45:20 AM
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Posted - January 09 2011 : 11:46:54 AM
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hi jerry so who made it rather than box it,as all look the same apart from wording ken
ps thanks for help
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Posted - January 09 2011 : 11:50:43 AM
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Ken when I look at the two I see the same car with different lettering. Only difference is the ladder on one side.
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Posted - January 09 2011 : 11:59:35 AM
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even interior is same ken
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Posted - January 09 2011 : 12:16:58 PM
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quote:hi jerry so who made it rather than box it,as all look the same apart from wording ken
ps thanks for help
Originally posted by catfordken - January 09 2011 : 11:46:54 AM
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well, I'm just an internet troller, no expert on the manufacturing end. Since the Tri-ang version says Warhead, and not Explosive, that's who SOLD it, who made it, I have no idea. With the hook-n-loop couplers that's usually European makes. There seems to be no documention on HOseekers site for Mehano, who made items for other companies. That would probably fill in the gaps in knowledge if we knew what they made for whom, but who knows if that knowledge will ever become available. All I can do is find out who sold it under their own name, not who made it, except for finding others who might know. And I learn more each day. 
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Posted - January 09 2011 : 12:19:58 PM
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| hi jerry thanks for all your input and understand your answers many thanks,triang,lionel,who else,who cares i like it ken
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Posted - January 09 2011 : 12:58:49 PM
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Ken : They will look . They are interesting. They are fun. 3 out of 3 aint bad.
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Posted - January 09 2011 : 1:02:38 PM
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| hey frank you are right there cheers ken
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Posted - January 09 2011 : 2:05:28 PM
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 That is neat & Model Power makes a exploding boxcar But idk who else did AHM? IHC?
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Posted - January 09 2011 : 11:15:46 PM
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Microbuss,
The car I'm thinking about is the car where the sides fold down to expose 2 anti-aircraft guns inside.
Cox-> AHM -> Model Power
The same might be true of the exploding sides car that Model Power has, don't know off the top of my head on that one.
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Posted - January 10 2011 : 10:54:33 AM
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Tri-ang also produced copies of the Lionel operating helicopter car and circus car with the giraffe.
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Posted - February 01 2011 : 12:54:56 AM
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That car is in the Lionel HO book, but even they're not sure what the story is on it other than everything but the sides are from Lionel dies, or exact copies thereof. The trucks and couplers on this one suggest Tri-Ang though.
Lionel made their version, it's from the Hobbyline dies they picked up about 1958 to start making their own trains (along with some English dies for the FA and 4-6-2/2-8-2).
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