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Sunday Photo Fun - 10/8/23

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Sunday Photo Fun - 10/8/23
Posted by fifedog on Sunday, October 8, 2023 5:19 AM

Three cabeese for thee...

Picked up this very rare MTH/Railking bobber caboose, when I stopped by the Martinsburg Roundhouse show last week. It was issued in 2004, and the only piece of rolling stock Mike's lettered for the C&P.

FedEx man dropped this off a few weeks ago. It is a special run MTH caboose from Legacy Station. Ms Kelly had ordered it for my birthday, back in the Spring.

...yes, but will it handle O-27 curves...? Here is TEXX 100 caboose, mated with a special depressed center flat car with 10 trucks, 5 on each end. That's FORTY wheels. Transportation Techknowlodgies Services caboose has Canadian National lineage, and was visiting Cumberland on this overcast day.

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Posted by smokey1 on Sunday, October 8, 2023 12:18 PM

Looking good Fife

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Posted by Northwoods Flyer on Sunday, October 8, 2023 2:36 PM

Ives Cabooses

 

Their own design

 

Using American Flyer's body

Sharing with Lionel

Using Lionel's body

Collaborations during the bankruptcy

Enjoying the World's Greatest Hobby

Northwoods Flyer

 

The Northwoods Flyer Collection

of

American Flyer Trains

"The Toy For the Boy"

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Posted by pennytrains on Sunday, October 8, 2023 5:56 PM

Fife: because people like to say shnabel Wink

Big Smile  Same me, different spelling!  Big Smile

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Posted by fifedog on Sunday, October 8, 2023 6:45 PM

I wasn't sure about the schpelling...Laugh

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Posted by philo426 on Tuesday, October 10, 2023 7:32 AM

https://youtube.com/shorts/WydpCZM6jkk?si=et5PX9Vb4jmqI3KK

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Thursday, October 12, 2023 8:35 AM

philo426

https://youtube.com/shorts/WydpCZM6jkk?si=et5PX9Vb4jmqI3KK

There you go, lit it up for you!  

 

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Thursday, October 12, 2023 8:38 AM

Great find on the C&P caboose Fife!  I've never seen one myself.  In fact I counted myself VERY lucky when I found an MTH NYO&W bobber caboose at a show, and I haven't seen one since. 

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Posted by fifedog on Thursday, October 12, 2023 9:27 AM

Thanks Flint. What made it even better was that Mike's did its homework. It is properly numbered and lettered. The prototype was destroyed in an accident in 1908. The rest of the bobber caboose fleet were cupola-less. I was going to scratchbuid one of those, then I found 134.

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