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please help identify this boxcar as to who the maker is and approx year

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Posted by Curmudgeon on Monday, May 20, 2013 5:53 PM

Those look like Thomas fixed 3-rail couplers. Before plastics, bodies were metal like that. Too much missing to make it worth anything. End, doors, roofwalks.

I've had some like the one shown in the past. Didn't suit my needs so they went down the road.

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Posted by rtraincollector on Monday, May 20, 2013 4:26 PM

Even thou I don't know much about kit cars I do rememebr a lot of them would use trucks from where ever they could get them the cheapest back then so these could very well be early atlas trucks on a kit type car.

Now the big question any body want it for shipping only as I have no use for it and willing to pass it on if someone could use it somehow.

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Posted by phillyreading on Monday, May 20, 2013 4:15 PM
It don't look like it has 2 rail couplers as 2 rail, 2 rail is very much scale style O, has couplers seperately mounted to the frame of the freight car and not onto the truck assembly. Maybe an early Atlas O gauge that was modified? I am only taking a guess, as the couplers might be early Atlas O.
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Posted by cwburfle on Saturday, May 18, 2013 7:37 AM

I do not think that is an AMT/KMT/Kusan car. As far as I know, their freight cars were molded plastic. Other than the doors  on boxcars, their bodies were molded in one piece. Reefers had the doors molded as part of the body.

The car looks like a kit built piece to me.

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Posted by rtraincollector on Friday, May 17, 2013 6:57 PM

cool not sure what to do with it thou lol

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Posted by anjdevil2 on Friday, May 17, 2013 6:45 PM

RT - it looks like it's AMT/Kusan... best guess

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please help identify this boxcar as to who the maker is and approx year
Posted by rtraincollector on Friday, May 17, 2013 6:24 PM

I got this boxcar in a auction and theres no makings as to maker but its all metal and to me the couplers look 2 rail O. Maybe early A.F. O gauge not sure. Missing one door the wheels
&Axles and one end

 

 

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