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A rarely seen manufacture is the Ulrich company. Their most common freight car is the all-metal 34' 2 bay hopper with many road names that came as a kit. This one is a little rarer. The all-metal flat with a trailer. Mine has the B&O Tofcee Service trailer and the flat car like most all are unlettered. I only had 1 before yesterday. I took my Saturday walk around the Meadowlands Flea market and found this one
Does anyone know what Tofcee stands for? I sure don't.
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Posted - November 29 2020 : 08:47:02 AM
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My COTW will be my Burlington Northern Gondola that I purchased to go with my BN Train.
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 Posted - November 29 2020 : 2:19:08 PM
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a original Tyco caboose with loop n hook couplers! 
May change one to a horn hook coupler
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Posted - November 29 2020 : 4:49:41 PM
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Cool stuffs, guys, I'll throw something down later. The internet: all the stuff we never knew before! 
How about a recipe for meatballs and grapes?
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Posted - November 29 2020 : 5:47:54 PM
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TOFCEE was a trademark used by the B&O for their version of Trailer On Flat Car.
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Posted - November 29 2020 : 6:33:34 PM
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My COTW offering is this Bachmann L&N blue quad hopper
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Posted - November 30 2020 : 02:43:08 AM
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I never had this one as a kid but MOST of my train stuff back then come from this store. It's a favorite just for those memories. A very hard car to find now.
  
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Posted - November 30 2020 : 07:28:33 AM
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Jeff, thanks for that photo of the real Tofcee service car and trailers.
Bill, Thank you for the definition of Tofcee. I am 74. the B&O came right through my town, and it is something I never knew.
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Posted - December 01 2020 : 09:54:57 AM
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Frank, I was curious about the building in the background of the TOFCEE van. This popped up on the
web, from a time when America actually made stuff. In the early 1990's I was often employed
hauling industrial machinery from Detroit to the Mexican border, for export for their booming
industrial economy. Going to bite my tongue now, probably said too much already.
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