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I believe this to be an Athearn piece. Just got done adding end rails and ladders from the junk box. Best I could
do. I realize, from the photo, it really needs some "windows." Parked on the Jade Fog Fog spur. A shipment of
Fogite ingredients due soon.
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Posted - October 18 2020 : 02:11:00 AM
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My AHM Canadian Club. Liked this piece and bought it several years ago new in box.
  
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Chops the Fogite is nasty stuff it looks to have turned that man at the sanding depot to stone.
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Posted - October 18 2020 : 09:01:16 AM
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That caboose is awesome!
This car went from chops, mistakenly to Erik, and finally back to me! It's missing an ice hatch and two Ice hatch doors, so I'll have to hunt those down at a future train show. I also need to make the brake wheel staff and pop a brake wheel on there. I'm also doing some brown paint detail on the ladders and grabs. It has nice set of sprung trucks too! Thank you chops!
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Posted - October 18 2020 : 10:45:27 AM
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Hah, hah, hah! I had not noticed that before! He is turned into a veritable pillar of salt!!
Glad the reefer found its proper owner! That reefer was part of a generous donation from
The Siding specifically to encourage younger modelers, which are becoming a rare breed.
In tribute to our newest contributing member, Tater1337:
I think it is a Pemco. Lots of fond memories watching GT rumbling about in Northern Vermont.
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Posted - October 19 2020 : 07:52:27 AM
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Here are a pair of HObbyline tank cars. The Cities Service and CONOCO cars.
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Posted - October 19 2020 : 10:07:49 AM
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Posted - October 19 2020 : 12:17:31 PM
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This was bought for $1 in a junk box at an outdoor train show this weekend.
Life-Like auto racks bought from His Majesty, Sir CHOPS and in the middle of converting to customs
and a highly coveted SEARS Lionel boxcar
For mid-Atlanticans- bookmark this address:
https://renningers.net/event-category/kutz-events/
It is an outdoor antiques and flea market in Kutztown, PA where I and some friends all found gobs of affordable trains. With other venues closed this is an EXCELLENT replacement for Greenberg and the fabled ATMA Show. It will be chilly but they have a show here on December 5! Start hoarding cash!
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Posted - October 19 2020 : 3:30:36 PM
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Woah Nelly! Love that Hot Wheels Auto Rack! PC auto rack is spot on!
Is that Sears a Tyco product? I have never seen nor heard of such an
item. Thank you for posting!
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Posted - October 19 2020 : 4:09:55 PM
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Thanks Chops. The SEARS is a Lionel. Rarely do they make it out of the boxed sets at shows and even if they do, they are generally $40-50 as solo items. Most sellers are wise to their relative rarity and collectability due to the pedigree. I just like them for their color!
I won't say what I paid for it out of fear having the authorities summoned for theft!
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Posted - October 19 2020 : 6:41:46 PM
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I like the Sears car too and the calm color of green. I ciuld buy one of those someday even though I don't need anymore rolling stock.
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Posted - October 19 2020 : 6:59:45 PM
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quote:Thanks Chops. The SEARS is a Lionel. Rarely do they make it out of the boxed sets at shows and even if they do, they are generally $40-50 as solo items. Most sellers are wise to their relative rarity and collectability due to the pedigree. I just like them for their color!
I won't say what I paid for it out of fear having the authorities summoned for theft!
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I think I gave $5 or less for mine IDR
Am getting a surprise soon I hope
when that boxcar was made ALL Sears vans & trucks were that color!
I know cause my dad bought a 74 Ford pickup with a utility box & liftgate that was from Sears from a auction & it was THAT color!
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Posted - October 19 2020 : 9:24:29 PM
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Awesome finds, el rojo grande! I will have to check out that event, as Kutztown is not too far away from where I live, in PA.
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Posted - October 19 2020 : 9:38:56 PM
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quote:
Need that Bubble Yum to go with my Tyco one
& hey if you're gonna do Hot Wheels
Might as well do Matchbox too 
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Posted - October 19 2020 : 10:59:11 PM
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Nice , Mike! I have hooker headers on my Trans Am but I have never bought this box car... 
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Posted - October 19 2020 : 11:36:49 PM
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RJ: what about a Lesney Auto Rack?? 
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 Posted - October 20 2020 : 2:51:54 PM
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2 Lionel Hy-Cube boxcars I just got in the mail
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Posted - October 20 2020 : 8:17:34 PM
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quote:
In tribute to our newest contributing member, Tater1337:
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â October 18 2020Â :Â 10:45:27 AM
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(reviewing my pic in my phone)....
NOW I GET IT
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Posted - October 20 2020 : 9:56:36 PM
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I think I might have other beat this week for COTW
no, this is (almost) not from my nostalgia
in 76 I got the centennial steam engine, but no cars
last week I lost 3 auctions for the engine, but won these, plus the baggage car(en route)
now I need to get the engine to complete this set, one part of my nostalgia plans
I think I (almost) have the other part done, but something still doesn't look right. going to be visiting my parents and see if they can help jog my memory
autos are out of my childhood toys that my parents have been unloading on me this past year, at least the ones closer to ho scale than the matchboxes (most tootsietoys)
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Posted - October 20 2020 : 10:08:59 PM
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Tootsietoys!
I has a mountain of those
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Posted - October 21 2020 : 12:24:40 AM
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| Tootsie toys most cool, I’ve never seen the pick up. Wonder where they made those, and out of what? Really nice coaches. Good luck on the hunt for the locomotive. Be careful you don’t get a junker, might be worth to pay up for NOS, return policy, or better yet, at a train show.
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Posted - October 21 2020 : 02:38:42 AM
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I never had very many Tootsie toys that I can remember. I did get interested in the Matchbox cars and trucks. 11 of these are my actual ones I had as a kid. I stored them in the enclosed headboard of my bed for years.
 
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Posted - October 21 2020 : 04:17:44 AM
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Beautiful collection. I had some little match box as a kid,
my parents got me as a kid, probably to get me to shut up.
We were following Dad around Moscow, in the height of the
Cold War, and I remember spending hours opening and closing
the bonnet and running it along the walls of these decrepit
brick buildings as we hiked down empty streets. Why Dad dragged the whole family to behind the Iron Curtain?
I sometimes wonder if he was using the family as a human
shield. Gee, Pop, can we take a swing through North Korea
now that we’re over here?
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Posted - October 21 2020 : 09:51:38 AM
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quote:RJ: what about a Lesney Auto Rack??
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â October 19 2020Â :Â 11:36:49 PM
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Hmmmm. That doesn't seem to have the same swagger as Hot Wheels...
But since we're talking car models here, I just found an antiques/record store right next to the Strasburg Railroad that has a display case full of 1960's Matchbox trucks that you would swear were just brought back via time machine travel from England they are in such mint shape.
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Posted - October 21 2020 : 11:15:46 AM
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quote:Tootsie toys most cool, I’ve never seen the pick up. Wonder where they made those, and out of what? Really nice coaches. Good luck on the hunt for the locomotive. Be careful you don’t get a junker, might be worth to pay up for NOS, return policy, or better yet, at a train show.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â October 21 2020Â :Â 12:24:40 AM
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Chicago, Illinois!
diecast
Midgetoys was their competitor & were made in Rockford, Illinois
if that had a steam engine I have one 
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Posted - October 21 2020 : 12:12:54 PM
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Cox had a TOFC version for Sears. This is how it was bought, but believe me, it was shopped right away and hit the rails with a few improvements.
I thought I had a shot of it finished upbut I don't.
So here are two more customized:
MDC covered hopper with Micro Scale Simpson Paper decals that begged to have old Bart added! This isn't the worst decal job you've ever seen, Just taken before Solvaset had dried and snuggled decals down flat.
And an Athearn flat carrying bronze dinosaur sculptures.
That's a quick way to use up all those toy dinos underfoot that you or your kids left on the floor!
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Posted - October 21 2020 : 5:00:49 PM
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| !!! I've gotta do a dino load. That is too cool! Nice PB.
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Posted - October 21 2020 : 10:59:27 PM
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quote:
hey I wanna sees the front of that Stego!
Do want Sears TOFC!
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Posted - October 22 2020 : 12:29:24 AM
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Here we go- the finished product
And while a little dark here is the Stegosaurus front view
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Posted - October 22 2020 : 07:58:19 AM
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oh neat
just thought the Stego resembled MY group
yet it doesn't
Sorry if pic isn't a Car
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Posted - October 22 2020 : 08:22:45 AM
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| Rojo Grande’s appear to be cast in bronze.
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Posted - October 22 2020 : 09:42:43 AM
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The paint is a hammered bronze or something like that. On smooth surfaces it gives a mottled testure. I think nI sued it on the flat car of ship screws right next to it.
It looks like the Buss is set to build a unit train of dino statues! You can ship them to the National Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado!
https://www.nps.gov/dino/index.htm
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Posted - October 22 2020 : 10:15:02 AM
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quote:
It looks like the Buss is set to build a unit train of dino statues! You can ship them to the National Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado!
https://www.nps.gov/dino/index.htm
Originally posted by el rojo grande - October 22 2020 : 09:42:43 AM
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naaah!
gonna use them IF I ever get the rest of those Flintstone buildings from McDonald's & Burger King hehe
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