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Well, now comes the biggie:

the big box

My purchases from Cabin Fever on 8/14 arrived 8/23 after one day in transit PA-NYC, and boy it's a big box. I posed one of my NKP Berkshires atop it for size comparison -- it's 24" by 16" by 12" and weighs in at 24 pounds. Careful carry to a spot big enough to sit it down

Within is 16 freight cars from the MTH auction, the most I've ever scored, and as of this writing, I have photographed all of them for this thread (and my collection inventory). Took two days to do it too. Some cars got more than one photo owing to one oddity or the other stemming from these being sell-offs from MTH's former warehouse. That being said, in order to avoid flooding the thread (and gobbling up all my spare time), I'll post these one lot at a time and give others a chance to post their stuff before adding additional entries.

Leading off is this two-piece case of 20-95234 Premier 60' TTX flatcars with ScaleTrax crossovers, released in June 2017

20-95234 [93600)

Above: TTX 93600, Below: TTX 93639

20-95234 [93639)

And the two of them together...

20-95234 pair

The coupler cut levers are user-installed accessories, since installing them significantly affects the minimum radius curve these cars can handle.

20-95234 detail

Ever wonder what these cars looked like from the backside? Well wonder no more. Also, the track section is held on with a twist tie.

20-95234 [93639) backside

Can you tell what is off about these boxes? I didn't notice this till I was packing the cars up after the photo session. If anyone else has cars like this, are your boxes the same? (I have some 60-footers carrying ScaleTrax switches, theirs don't exhibit this discrepancy).

20-95234 box header

14 more cars to go

[Previous: My Class A with aux tender and caboose] -- [Next: Part 2 - Bulkhead flats w/Scaletrax]

---PCJ

(Another one of those posts where half the pictures break every time I edit the post, forcing me to go back in, delete and re-add them)

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