I like that it also looks like a realistic freight car. Too many commemorative cars look like display pieces that would sit on a shelf and not actual serious models somebody would want to run on a layout.
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I was lucky enough to happen to find one of these, it was going to be listed on Facebook before I snatched it up
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The only train store in Phoenix in that directory that is still in existence is Coronado Scale Models.
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Thank you for your information, azrail. I looked up Coronado Scale Models’ location on Google Maps, but I couldn’t find the store. It seems they specialize in mail-order sales of Proto48. (ProtoCraft website)
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Firewater & Kicking Horse Railroad
NMRA Heritage Collection issue #8, 1997
Athearn 40’ slide-door boxcar
F&KH was the layout of Billings McArthur, who lived in Chicago, Illinois. A model with the same design and car number appears in an advertisement for Verney on page 383 of the June 1948 issue of Model Railroader magazine.
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Coronado has ads in the NG&SL Gazette. Their niche is narrow gauge supplies. Same address as in the 1982 directory.
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Hollywood & Western Branch Line
NMRA Heritage Collection issue #9, 1998 for Jim Trout
Athearn 40’ wood-side reefer
Page 383 of the June 1948 issue of Model Railroader magazine
For details of the 4-10-2 steam locomotive, see page 29 of the Varney catalogue (HOseeker.net).
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That Hollywood car reminds me of the Canadian car with the recumbent First Nations girl…
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Eh?
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(For some reason, I have to edit a number of my replies when the quote feature does not take. It happens on my laptop and on my iPhone, not always but sometimes.)
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Great Gulch Yahoo Valley & Northern Railroad
NMRA Heritage Collection issue #6, 1996 for Al C. Kalmbach
MDC/Roundhouse 40’ outside braced single-door boxcar
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Alturas & Lone Pine Railroad
NMRA Heritage Collection issue #11, 1999, for Whit Towers
MDC/Roundhouse 50’ plug-door boxcar
This paper was in the box and appears to be a copy of the NMRA Bulletin. See Wikipedia for more about Whit Towers.
Whit Towers: en-academic.com
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At the time, the Brookfield WI location was in the Brookfield Square Mall. The attached photo is from their later location at a different strip mall in Brookfield.
East Towne and West Towne are both malls in Madison, and Capitol Court was a mall in Milwaukee.
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Thank you for following me, WSOR_3801. According to your comment, Hobby Horse had four stores at the time.
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So: East and West Towne in Madison, Brookfield Square in Brookfield, and Capital Court in Milwaukee? Was there a name for the place in Brookfield they went later?
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Prospect and Upper Ridge Railroad
NMRA Heritage Collection Issue No. 4 released in 1994 for Bud Sima
MDC/Roundhouse 36-foot wood sided reefer
Cover of the Oct. 1978 issue of RMC magazine
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Walthers 50th anniversary 1982
Walthers/Silver Streak stock#929-297 US$12.95 w/o trucks & couplers
Page 48 of the Mar. 1982 issue of MR magazine
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That looks fantastic, BN7150
Paul.
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Ah, the future that never was. Did anyone model HPIT or Iron Highway?
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