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Well, I'm sorry to say that all I have to offer this week are a few scrap Marx Canadian Pacific cars pulled by a Marx CP engine.
The cars are modern Marx tool test cars made from scrap metal lithographed for CP passenger cars.
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George , I think it is now the little bell sign on the right side of the header .
Got some TRICO peoples to complete some scenery. They where made in Japan in the thirties and are inspired of LIONEL ones. They seem to be fairly common and not expensive, production seems to have been important.
Have a nice weekend, Daniel
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@Summerdale Junction posted:George , I think it is now the little bell sign on the right side of the header .
Thank you. I think I have it set. Itโs hard to tell the state of it on my mobile device.
@Chris Lonero posted:
I dig the Ranger tower!!! Have to make one of those!, lighted no less lol
@Dennis Holler posted:I dig the Ranger tower!!! Have to make one of those!, lighted no less lol
Is that what that is? Nice! Who makes it tho. I can't see the plate.
balidas - that's the famous Ranger Rapunzel fire tower - no stairs - just have to wait for her to let down her hair.
I enlarged the photo, the base appears to belong to a Lionel rotary beacon and the top house has Erector markings on it. Looks like someone did a nice hybrid here. At first glance, thought it could have been Colber. Miketg
Dorfan O coal train.
Steve
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Well it looks like a great weekend and lots of std gauge...Craig you posted a video of your new car running in a std gauge oval. The car is really cool but I wanted to ask what is the curve radius or dia that you used in that oval. I have not been able (space) to run std gauge in many years, but your oval looks like something I could accommodate even if only at Holiday time.
My newest acquisition is a Hafner 1010 freight set. I posted a picture of this on the "Hafner Trains" thread but I wanted to include some additional photo's here. Papa Eastman and Jim O'C sent me some excellent information to help me date the set and it appears to be 1938 through 1951 then stopping with the Wyandotte acquisition (although everyone agrees that "new old stock" was likely sold until it ran out. ) Using 1951 as the likely latest year, that makes this set as a minimum near 70 years old and perhaps as old as 80 + years. I find it to be in remarkable condition either way with nearly no play marks or scratches, and the track that came with the set does not look like anything has ever been run on it. So anyway here is my contribution this weekend.
Here is the mighty 1010 steamer, pulling her whole train across my mantle! The paint missing on the cow catcher is almost the only sign of use in the entire set.
Here is a picture of the 1010 and her chrome sided tender
Here is the automobile car (note not just a box car but an automobile car-interesting choice)
Of course here in Texas we are always interested in the cattle car!
What freight train of the 1930's-1950's would be complete without a caboose
Happy Memorial Day everyone. Let us all remember our veterans without whom we might not be here.
Don McErlean
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Really nice condition Hafner, Don!
George
Thank you George!
Don
Don,
You note that Hafner called their boxcar an "automobile car" instead of just a plain box car. Oddly enough, American Flyer did the same, with both smaller and larger cars.
without and with doors
Larger cars,
1112 early with orange litho and white lettering
1115 later with white lettering (note the lithograph is too high and the American Flyer lettering is hidden by the roof)
1115 late with black lettering, again note the American Flyer lettering is hidden by the roof.
1112 later with red lithograph
Early 1115 with red lithograph
NWL
NWL: Right!! I had forgotten that Flyer also used the name โautomobile carโ. In fact I have a red 1112 like you pictured and the prototype RR did transport autos in box cars. Thanks for the post. Great pictures
Regards. Don
...and speaking of transporting automobiles in boxcars let's not forget Ives's contribution to that mode of product movement.
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