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Post by seayakbill on Sept 28, 2024 12:10:25 GMT
Northern Pacific Terminal switcher, a subsidiary of the Northern Pacific RR
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Post by healey36 on Oct 5, 2024 12:35:30 GMT
A faded Flyer 3201 cabin car waiting for a trip through the polishing shed: We'll see how it looks coming out the other side.
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Post by af3020 on Oct 5, 2024 15:47:30 GMT
A few boxcars
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Post by healey36 on Oct 5, 2024 16:01:39 GMT
Outstanding, but what's that car in the second row from the bottom, all the way on the right? Looks like it's made from salvaged lithographed bits, and recently.
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Post by af3020 on Oct 5, 2024 16:52:34 GMT
Healey36, it's a tool test car made from scrap CP passenger car litho sheet stock. From time to time the Flynn's offered a tool test car for sale on e-bay. I made it a point to get several of them, purchased one of their production CP engines and made my own New Marx Canadian Pacific Scrap train set.
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Post by healey36 on Oct 5, 2024 19:37:44 GMT
Now that is pretty neat!
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Post by atsda on Oct 7, 2024 16:06:23 GMT
AF3020, very interesting. Alfred
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Post by david1 on Oct 8, 2024 2:54:49 GMT
My first train set was a Marx set that came in a box that had a black and silver steam engine in CP/NYC I think along with a couple of cars, all tin. It was a wind up set. My brother and myself ran it to death. We loved that set. We destroyed it eventually. But heck we had alot of fun!!!!
Dave
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Post by healey36 on Oct 12, 2024 18:37:38 GMT
Still need to polish the couplers and wheels, but I'm calling the Lionel 813 stock car done: This has been sitting behind, under, at the back, and over the workbench for a long time. Finally got around to putting it back in service. Thanks to the late, great George Tebolt for the repro roof, now painted a decent shade of pea green.
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Post by harborbelt70 on Oct 12, 2024 20:11:34 GMT
I thought that I would add this into the Side Shot Saturday thread (1) as it relates to a specific passenger car interest I have mentioned here before and (2) despite the fact that I have not seen or been able to find this set. It has kind of become my obsessive Holy Grail or search and rescue item.
This is a Marklin 6 car set originally released last year, in HO scale but 3rail AC powered, which models the CIWL “Edelweiss” train built along Pullman lines in the pre-war period:
It’s kind of odd by US standards as the set includes two blue baggage cars with cupolas that look vaguely like domes but are not.
I no longer have any interest in or capacity for paying Lionel prices for the junky ABS passenger cars they currently produce so I am scratch-building the UP power car I have also posted about before and looking at HO scale quality items as I already have a few of that kind. Looking at various global user forums I see that supply chain delays have plagued US customers for these models and it shows no sign of getting better.
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Post by seayakbill on Oct 12, 2024 22:32:18 GMT
Grand Daughters pink auto collection at the local McDonalds.
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Post by harborbelt70 on Oct 14, 2024 8:39:24 GMT
Still on the hunt for this set (and not finding it Stateside), so this is as close as I have got to something approaching unboxing:
It’s all pretty colorful but I am no closer to getting hold of one.
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