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    Posted 5 years ago

    fortapache
    (3439 items)

    Picked these up for $4 each at PCC. At first I thought they were Athearn but they are all metal. Typical HO train cars are plastic with a metal bar on the underside for weight. Just like real train cars HO train cars need some weight to keep them on the tracks. These are high quality cars. I think those are Kadee couplers. Those are couplers that look like actual train car couplers. Could be Accurail. I will keep looking.
    Anyway 40 foot boxcars are the #1 train cars I buy as the 40' boxcar was the most common cars of 50s-70s which goes with most of my locomotives. So when I see boxcars it is all good. These also have great graphics.
    My favorite is the boxcar in photo #3. It is a wooden metal boxcar. Actually it is a metal model of a wooden boxcar. Boxcars were originally made out of wood but started switching to metal in the 1920s.
    Last is a stock car. Looks like a boxcar but is made for carrying cattle.
    Too bad it takes so much effort to make an HO layout. I just want to lay out the track and set up some buildings and so on.

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    1. fortapache fortapache, 5 years ago
      Thank you very much Ms.CrystalShip. Luckily I still have my trains although not the layout. It was held up in the garage with a pulley system so it could be raised and lowered.
    2. Lata Lata, 4 years ago
      Nice Boxcars! very uncommon in metal, have you found out the maker, and have you built the layout for them?
    3. fortapache fortapache, 4 years ago
      Thank you very much Lata. Never found the maker and no layout yet. I was just going to make a static display with 40' boxcars.

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