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QUOTE: Originally posted by NYCRR1 spankybird, Why would you send him to the Postwar site? I think that site is awesome but not relavent to his request. NYCRR1
QUOTE: Originally posted by Kooljock1 Steel, Some things you should know about collecting MPC: 1. Up until the Southern Crescent set of 1977 there were no operating couplers on the "Baby Madison" cars. They had plastic "dummy" couplers screwed in the car bodies. These cars would un--couple easily on uneven trackage, and the screw post the coupler attached to would snap right off the frame if therre was too much pressure (ie too many cars) put on it. 2. The Milwaukee Road Baby Madisons were VERY difficult when it came to replacing the light bulbs. You needed to cut plastic with a very sharp knife. This was changed to the tabbed windows method of holding the roof to the frame with the PRR cars of 1974. 3. The 4-4-2 engines used in the Milwaukee, Broadway, Capitol, and various freight sets used an odd throw back e-unit. This unit's design was a LIONEL design that pre-dated LIONEL's take-over of Ives, using a pendulem. It works well, but only has two positions. Jon [8D]
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