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May 23, 2019 at 1:16 pm #6250bargetanikaParticipantMay 23, 2019 at 8:14 pm #9391peggyrothschildParticipant
Certainly creative decal work. 😆
May 25, 2019 at 2:07 am #9392bargetanikaParticipantLaff no. 2, or maybe a mystery, how Tyco came up with NOT&M for a toy train set “cattle car.”
June 2, 2019 at 5:21 pm #9400bargetanikaParticipantLaff No. 3
Some seller thinks someone is actually going to buy this! At that price!
June 6, 2019 at 9:51 pm #9408bargetanikaParticipantAugust 21, 2019 at 11:52 pm #9428bargetanikaParticipantAugust 22, 2019 at 6:46 pm #9429peggyrothschildParticipantPat
I know the choice of the Bachmann boxcar is ‘unusual’ butHere’s what I’m been using with ‘goo gone’ in the tank.
https://www.traintekllc.com/cmx-ho-scale-track-cleaner/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMItIux7o-X5AIVnx6tBh2NhQHWEAkYAiABEgKTE_D_BwEBut recently….also spot cleaning the track and locomotives with WD-40 Electrical Contact Cleaner. Locomotive headlights are brighter and seeing the startup sequence quicker. Highly recommend – also works well on a 43 year old Triumph Lucas system!
Charlie
August 29, 2019 at 2:22 pm #9431Mike VanaParticipant@Patrick wrote:
Laff no. 2, or maybe a mystery, how Tyco came up with NOT&M for a toy train set “cattle car.”
Maybe a grey builders photo with black letters? Still MoPac was orange to Tyco but Santa Fe stock cars were teal green— I don’t think they knew about boxcar red. So I took a rattle can of rust colored primer to mine in 1968 since it seemed unnatural plus walthers decals. It looked like something worthy of a 7 year old. What is solvaset anyway?
I think the Mantua Heavy is a scaled up narrow gauge car that can be a stand in
Jim Ogden
August 30, 2019 at 3:34 pm #9433bargetanikaParticipantWhat a deal! Free shipping!
The way I see it, this guy ought to pay me $20 to take it! With free shipping! 😮 😆 😆
August 31, 2019 at 3:40 pm #9434Bud MossParticipantOh my! Even if you collect old offbeat MoPac stuff, this is pretty bad. Should be on sale for a buck or two at the most. Jerry
September 1, 2019 at 1:27 am #9436bargetanikaParticipantThis is the second beat up broken lemon hopper a guy in CA is squeezing as hard as he can.
Do some people actually consider stuff like this collectible? This looks like something from the 30’s or 40’s with overlays embossed with rivet detail.
At some point this was a great model for its time rolling proudly on someone’s layout. If it could tell the stories it’s seen…..
September 1, 2019 at 4:53 pm #9437bargetanikaParticipantThis ought to fit very well between a Sunshine boxcar and a Westerfield OB car! 😮 😆
September 1, 2019 at 7:38 pm #9438Bud MossParticipantYes, people do collect this sort of stuff, even wrecks like this. For many years the Amarillo Railroad Museum used to take all our great custom cars to the Oklahoma City Train Show in December and made almost no profit. We were lucky to pay our booth charges. Then, last year, we hit on the idea of selling donated material that we had no use for. Lots of this stuff is very old, parts missing, inaccurate paint schemes, etc. We sell most of it for from $1-10 depending on condition. Guess what, where we used to take home maybe a couple hundred dollars net, we netted over $4,000, yes four thousand, last year! The “junk” sells. I bet we could easily get $5 for that old beat up MoPac car.
Jerry
September 1, 2019 at 7:49 pm #9440bargetanikaParticipantUnbelievable 😮 😮 😆 😆
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
September 7, 2019 at 12:48 am #9449bargetanikaParticipantThis looks like something I might have done in high school. But it’s “vintage!” So hurry up!
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