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[early0electric]

Here's a couple of other rare beasties I've picked up in the last few weeks. This is a 601 and 602 in Olive. Both have no stamping on them whatsoever. The pics show them in comparison to the usual  Dark Green cars The only other pair I have seen or heard of was sold by Jim Lyons of WV. Jim had bought a lot from Lou Redman when Lou was selling off his collection. Comparing pictures, these are not the same ones Jim had. So there are 2 sets of these cars that are known as far as I know.
 

 

[Terry]

I have the two cars from Jim Lyons got from Redman.

 

Do they match the green 203 tanks? They don't really match the olive 154s.

Here's something new:

 

[early0electric]

The cars don't really match the green 203, at least not the one I have. They seem to match the dark olive 152 which kind of makes sense as outfit 162 came with 152, 601, 602 (2 car set). And these have only been found in pairs. You can probably rule out the 154, outfit 164 (154, 601, 601, 602) 3 car set. But then there's the absence of lettering and absence of anyone or anything to corroberate just what these cars were, so, who knows???

Nice thin rim 5 Special!

[Terry]

I bought three 5 locos in a 3 week period. One a week.  I posted the thick rim version with pedestal headlight earlier in this thread that dates from from about 1912-15. The last 5 came in today from Bertoia.

I opened the box and it was double boxed:

 

That shows the inner box pulled out of the peanuts. The inner box has the receipt taped to it.

Opening the inner box reveals more peanuts:

 

After pouring some peanuts off, the loco comes out in it's cocoon:

 

I don't like it when the trains come in wrapped in bubble wrap and teped, but the brown tape they used did make it easy to pull off.

Here's the loco:

 

They made a little bra for the front end. The paper is actually a thick tissue paper. Nice stuff.

Here it is in all it's glory:

 

Fantastic packaging. The shipping was not cheap, but they did a great job packing. I've bought expensive items from other auction houses and had them damaged from poor packing. That box would have to be run over or dropped into a lake to damage the train.

It's a thick rim with slide on headlight and wire handle reverse unit from 1912.

Here it is with it's  younger brother:

 

And with it's older brother:

 

Note that the thin rim loco has different lettering and straight couplers, but otherwise is the same as the 1912 thick rim loco.

[pjdog350]

What gauge are they terry. Standard gauge?

[early0electric]

That's a pretty good pickup for 3 weeks! All it takes is availability & $$$!

[Terry]

I had money put aside from when I sold the O gauge accessories I didn't use on the layout. I bought the brown roof 800 boxcar Larry shared last week too. The box is in the living room by the front door along with some bills.

There are some fantastic trains trading hands right now. Don Lewis sent me pictures of this set last night:

 

Ten years ago I would have been drooling over that. Today, it's not something I want. I never had the loco in the set. 

I'll start a new thread with the full set of pictures.

[early0electric]

I'm sure we all have a little emergency stash for certain items, but it's the availability or lack of that keeps us on our toes.

[early0electric]

Here's my latest in brown. It's also known to come in green.

Sorry, I couldn't resist...

[Terry]

That got a laugh out of me. Thanks.

[starfire700]

It looks like a Hudson to me...........

[romiin]

Just need a hopper car (olive green)

[romiin]

lumber load

[romiin]

my 254 loco

[romiin]

Need a bit of track to mount it on. I will pick some ones brains on how to hook up some power to run the lights