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@pennsyfan posted:

I’ve been patiently waiting to get these geeps out of the boxes. I finally cleared the tracks today after I completed my clearance testing.
As the first picture attests I certainly don’t need more PRR geeps. But I felt it was a community service to keep these excellent condition engines from the scrapper. The restored 2028 is really well done and the 8357/58 are L/N but have been run. All in all it was a bargain.


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They look great Bob. I have a few MPC GEEP's and they are solid runners.

Keep up the good work.

Bob

Hi, Pete - are those two crate loads affixed to the flats, or just lying upon them? If they’re affixed, what did you use to accomplish that? Thanks.

Mark, they are “sort of” affixed. The crates have six of the vertical supports that fit into holes in the deck. They used heat to affix them on the underside. After removing the frame (easy) I was able to just gently pry the load off. After adding weight I used canopy glue to hold them down.

Pete

@Norton posted:

Mark, they are “sort of” affixed. The crates have six of the vertical supports that fit into holes in the deck. They used heat to affix them on the underside. After removing the frame (easy) I was able to just gently pry the load off. After adding weight I used canopy glue to hold them down.

Pete

Pete, Those are great cars. They have very nice details. I have a AHM consist of boxcars, flats, and gondolas. They were made by Rivarossi, and as I remember were from the same molds as the Lionel Standard 0 cars. I replaced the trucks with Standard O trucks.

@pennsyfan posted:

Pete, Those are great cars. They have very nice details. I have a AHM consist of boxcars, flats, and gondolas. They were made by Rivarossi, and as I remember were from the same molds as the Lionel Standard 0 cars. I replaced the trucks with Standard O trucks.

I too have some of these cars, mostly through a collection purchase by a club a friend of mine is a member of. After filling in some gaps via Ebay, I have a more-or less complete set of AHM O scale (and older Atlas, via the same channels), three boxcars, four reefers, and three each of the gondola and flatcars. Being that I intend to keep these together (perhaps with along with the Atlas cars, depending on their performance), I elected to skip changing out the trucks. But I did locate and secure enough conversion couplers (a single Ebay seller has them) to replace the funky horn-hook ones that were the default on AHM, so at least they'll mate with typical 3-rail couplers, even though they're fixed like the 1970's Atlas ones.

---PCJ

(maybe I'll call it the "Plastic Wheel Parade")

@leapinlarry posted:

@Yellowstone Special, Hi Vern, guess what, I found one of those beautiful shinny Sante Fe REA refrigerated express cars today, (with your kind help) and will post it when it arrives. MTH did a really fine job with this car. Happy Railroading Everyone

Really? 😉 That’s awesome, Larry and nice going. Looking forward to seeing photos after you get it.

@pennsyfan posted:

@RailRide I just put all mine on the track; a few less than what you listed.

The Standard O trucks put those cars kinda high up in the air

Here's my lil' collection of AHM: The boxes when new had a tear-off panel over the clear window. Some of my acquisitions still have that panel intact, so I elected to leave it in place. Some of these boxes (like the UP gondola) are slated for repairs with cloth tape and PVA glue like that used on books, to make them a little sturdier, and I'll either re-glue or replace the windows with clear acetate. I also made up a styrofoam insert to straighten the warped cardboard of the more worn boxes, so I can gently moisten them with a clothes steamer. Hopefully they should hold their corrected shape once dry.

(The PFE dupe is thanks to being a little quick on the Ebay trigger--I didn't check to see if I had that one since the very-good-condition box had my attention. I'll have to own up to that one )

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At least one of these cars were fitted with Atlas O couplers (which won't grab a 'claw') and perhaps one other was fitted with Kadees. My plan is to retrofit all of these with the AHM conversion couplers shown below. They give you the equvalent of the 1970's Atlas couplers, which aside from being non-operating, will mate with typical 3-rail couplers.

ahm conversion couplers

---PCJ

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