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 Posted - February 02 2011 : 4:32:32 PM
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First a Southern Pacific Winged, Overnight Merchandise Service. A black car with yellow details. very neat looking.
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Posted - February 02 2011 : 4:36:09 PM
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2 second is The old Dutch Cleanser Reefer. THE CUDAHY Reefer line
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Posted - February 02 2011 : 4:39:20 PM
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3 is a reefer again. Pluto Water
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Posted - February 02 2011 : 4:43:51 PM
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4 is again another reefer. Rath Black Hawk Ham.
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Posted - February 02 2011 : 4:50:19 PM
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5 is a Candy reefer Baby Ruth, Curtis candy company.
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Posted - February 02 2011 : 5:12:44 PM
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There's a railroad museum at French Lick, IN & from what I could tell they have that boxcar at their museum 
& the resort still exists too! 
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Posted - February 03 2011 : 12:11:28 PM
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7 is Silver Edge Beer
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Posted - February 03 2011 : 12:17:16 PM
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8 is Pabst Blue Ribon Beer
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Posted - February 03 2011 : 12:22:42 PM
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9 is a box car with a color full eye catching look.
* the B&O Sentinal
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Posted - February 03 2011 : 12:25:34 PM
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Another Box car. mayse the only one I have that is a wood sheated outside barced type.
The B&M
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Posted - February 03 2011 : 12:47:27 PM
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11 is another reefer that TM did in 3 different designs.
* Schlitz Beer. the double globe.
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Posted - February 05 2011 : 09:47:51 AM
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Another Box car,
* The B&O 1950- 60s steel box car
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Posted - February 05 2011 : 09:50:32 AM
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Trainminature made a second B&O box car. This is a model based on a PRR prototype.
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Posted - February 16 2011 : 9:06:58 PM
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14 A trainminature beer car. The Budweiser green SRLX 1804
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Posted - February 17 2011 : 11:38:32 AM
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Here is another beer car. Edelwiss Brew.
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Posted - February 17 2011 : 1:19:30 PM
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Is it correct that Walthers picked up the tooling for most if not all of these? I have the Old Dutch car but it's attributed to Walthers.
I just found a Schlitz car with similar duplicated graphics as the one posted here, but it's an old kit with wood body and paper sides. No clue as to the maker.
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Posted - February 19 2011 : 5:10:07 PM
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quote:Is it correct that Walthers picked up the tooling for most if not all of these? I have the Old Dutch car but it's attributed to Walthers.
I just found a Schlitz car with similar duplicated graphics as the one posted here, but it's an old kit with wood body and paper sides. No clue as to the maker.
Originally posted by spiderj76Â -Â February 17 2011Â :Â 1:19:30 PM
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Tony ; Look at the color of the frame and everything underneath the car except the trucks. If it is black it is TM. if it is a light brown, it is Walters.
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Posted - February 19 2011 : 5:13:54 PM
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18 A Box Car CN Canadian National railroad. This is a Plug Door type.
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Posted - February 19 2011 : 9:02:08 PM
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Is there a source for parts for these box cars?
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Posted - February 19 2011 : 9:40:35 PM
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quote:Is it correct that Walthers picked up the tooling for most if not all of these?
Originally posted by spiderj76Â -Â February 17 2011Â :Â 1:19:30 PM
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I believe so. I have 4 original kit TM pieces, two undecorated box cars, an undecorated caboose, and an undecorated F7 ?, all translucent white. I want to make a ghost train, and I found out that Walthers had the tooling. I ordered an engine from them back before Christmas, and it has an updated running chassis, but retrofits the original shell JUST fine on the Train Miniature engine. So I have a modern DCC'able engine that I can use the original TM shell on, and be able to run it via Digitrax without a lot of engine work. I think I read Walthers had the rights and molds to the TM line. How much they're going to reproduce, I don't know. Instead of Train Miniature, they're called Trainline under Walthers. Here's a link to the engines -
http://www.hobbylinc.com/cgi-bin/s8.cgi?str_s=fa-1&submit=Search&cat_s=UB&mfg_s=wtl#
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Posted - February 20 2011 : 07:10:11 AM
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The engine you speak of is a Alco FA1 not a EMD F7. And yes Walters has the dies now. They have been making the FA. In the past they have made the cars.
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Posted - February 20 2011 : 3:05:55 PM
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quote:The engine you speak of is a Alco FA1 not a EMD F7. And yes Walters has the dies now. They have been making the FA. In the past they have made the cars.
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I stand corrected.  My bad. I forgot again. Train Miniature only had the one engine type, actually the A/B units FA-1 and FB-1. They offered no other choice (that I know of ). I have two of the A units like this shell pictured below. The chassis is the new Walthers Trainline version, which I slip the TM shell on. There's no tab to catch it, though, so I'll have to find a way to secure the shell to the newer chassis. But at least I can DCC this one and use it on my club layout,eventually. Here's my partial set of TM cars and engines.
The undecorated kits came in black and clear plexiglass cases, with all the parts inside to assemble it after painting. Since I'm doing a ghost train, I'm going to just put decals on the outside without paint, maybe, and light it from the interiors with greenish LEDs, hopefully with a cycling dim-and-bright effect. Will also be a great Halloween consist.
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Posted - February 23 2011 : 4:49:39 PM
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23 CNJ Box Car. A spacial release from the New York Society of Model Engineers. It was a special release only aviable thru the club and the Jersey Central Historical Society..
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Posted - February 28 2011 : 2:07:15 PM
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A Trainminature box car Central Of New Jersey, #21036
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Posted - March 10 2011 : 10:10:09 AM
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25 Here's another CNJ box car. A all steel, CNJ #21615, in brown.
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Posted - March 26 2011 : 7:31:06 PM
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26 This is another CNJ box car. In a light green version of the previous car, same number.
frank
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Posted - April 19 2011 : 4:22:15 PM
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Now another CNJ box car. Made with TM dies, released by Walters
CNJ green 21075
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Posted - July 28 2011 : 11:24:40 AM
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28 Here is a CNJ box car that was set up for high speed passenger service. Out of all 6 different CNJ Trainminature box cars only thr last is a wood sided box car.
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Posted - July 29 2011 : 7:16:36 PM
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Since these are Jersey Central Line, is there a "Snookie" or "The Situation" car or should I "forget about it"?
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Posted - July 31 2011 : 09:14:24 AM
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29 A Box car Cotton Belt #33559.
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Posted - December 21 2013 : 09:14:36 AM
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post 30
* Found my old posts on Trainminiature. I never really finished this thread. It will take a long time.
I'll post my Bi-Centennial cars here. First is Connecticut.
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Posted - December 22 2013 : 5:37:35 PM
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| Walthers has always been a sort of collecting house for older HO lines, and when they decided to go into HO scale with frieght cars and such, they picked up the TM tooling - in fact, I have one TM car here in a TM box that says right on it made by Walthers. Essentially they rebranded the stuff and that was the beginning of their modern product line.
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Posted - December 23 2013 : 2:03:03 PM
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I'll chime in with two Train Miniatures products I got for Christmas waaay back when I had no whiskers rather than gray ones.
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Posted - December 24 2013 : 09:33:40 AM
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post 33
second car.
Here is a Williamsburg Bi-Centennial car. It got to me in a very roundabout way. Back in 2012 ken and I were trading trains. This car came from Ken. So thank you again Ken.
If you look in the upper right hand corner there is a price tag from Mega Models LTD. 26 Rathbone Place W.l It cost 2.20 LBs. For me a very unique sticker. This car traveled over 6,000 miles to get into my box of trains.
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Posted - December 27 2013 : 08:58:54 AM
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third car.
Here is the New Jersey Bi-Centennial car by Trainminiature. One of the 13 colonies' that came together in 1776. In my post 30, 12-21-2013, I posted the Connecticut colony car.
and on 12-24-2013 the Williamsburg car.
About this car set. There are sets within sets. They all have white car bodies, but different color roof, and end color, and door color. I think no one has ever made each set where all cars are colored in the same way.
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Posted - December 27 2013 : 09:28:44 AM
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| nice cars again from you frank,and it was a pleasure to help you get the set ken
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Posted - December 28 2013 : 07:31:33 AM
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Ken it is always nice to get a little help from your friends.
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Posted - December 31 2013 : 12:03:07 PM
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New Bi-Centennial car is Delaware.
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Posted - December 31 2013 : 12:30:19 PM
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thought i would put this here as well ken
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Posted - December 31 2013 : 5:49:47 PM
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I really like the TM cars. The boxes seem to scale a bit small, but they make a small layout look larger. I've got three awaiting trucks and couplers.
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Posted - December 31 2013 : 6:23:21 PM
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Another one to add to the Train Miniatures collection:
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - December 31 2013 : 7:03:14 PM
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quote:I really like the TM cars. The boxes seem to scale a bit small, but they make a small layout look larger. I've got three awaiting trucks and couplers.
Originally posted by Adams - December 31 2013 : 5:49:47 PM
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* There were many different size box and reefer cars from 1910 to 1940. Very common to see a train in a photo of back then with many different size cars in it. I have seen a few.
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Posted - December 31 2013 : 7:21:56 PM
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| I agree with you, Toptrain about the variety in sizes. A lot depends on the style of car and livery. I would say the Frisco and Pacemaker boxes I posted would not have existed (especially with a plug door!). The older Mopac might be more realistic. To me, TM's reefers seem to hit the mark well, along with the wood-sided boxes.
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Posted - December 31 2013 : 7:51:37 PM
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Two more, Katy wood reefer, and a steel box that I lettered for a defunct Texas short line.
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Posted - January 01 2014 : 09:08:15 AM
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Back to the Bi-Centennial set;
Georgia :
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Posted - January 01 2014 : 09:49:16 AM
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When I found that Dresser Minerals car, I was looking for reefer bodies to repaint for a project. It was dirt cheap, intact, and I didn't give it a second look until I got home. What a surprise - this was an excellent car! No way was I re-doing anything on it except couplers and wheels.
The funny part was that I also picked up a Walther's kit at the same show, which turned out to be a TM reefer! A Pacific Fruit Express.
And I never even knew what Train Miniatures was 
Edit: Speaking of which, here is the Walther's PFE reefer for comparison:
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - January 06 2014 : 4:06:03 PM
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Another Colony car is Maryland. And Jerry the SP UP Pacific fruit Express plug door reefer is in great shape. Looks like new.
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Posted - January 06 2014 : 4:13:41 PM
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Next colony car is Massachusetts.
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Posted - January 06 2014 : 4:16:44 PM
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Next would be New Hampshire.
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Posted - January 06 2014 : 4:21:01 PM
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Here is the colony of New York car.
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Posted - January 06 2014 : 4:44:24 PM
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The colony of North Carolina Bi-Centennial car
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