Does anybody know what this is?

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A left-handed bacon stretcher?

A Klingon flatcar-of-prey?

A cat detector car?

A digitally-enhanced boxcar underframe?

A troll-mobile?

I dunno…

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Perhaps it is an old caboose lighting assembly? It looks about right…

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Do YOU know what this is ???

Judging by the rubber band on the one end, it obviously converted horizontal rotation to vertical rotation. What drove it, and what it was driving is obviously missing … got me beat !!!

Mark.

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Nope, I don’t know, either. I saw it on eBay, and the even the seller doesn’t know.

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Push/Pull catenary wire cleaning car.

There are two “cut outs” directly behind the brackets on each side that line up with the axle that is closest to the middle of the car on each end. Looks like it would convert the horizontal rolling of the axles to the verticle axle which appears to have some sort of cleaning or abrasive pad on it…

…Atleast that’s my guess.

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Could be what’s left of a Lionel exploding boxcar after it explodes…

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looks like a gazinda? becuase somewhere out there is a gazonda that belongs to it…

glenn

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Maybe the guts to some kind of operating cattle car. (or milk or mail car?) The spacing of the ties on the track don’t look like standard HO, but I doubt that’s a clue to anything.[%-)] It definitely looks like all the parts aren’t there.

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It’s the guts of a Tyco walking brakeman car.

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That would make sense.
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?sofocus=bs&sbrftog=1&from=R10&satitle=walking+brakeman+car&sacat=479%26catref%3DC6&sargn=-1%26saslc%3D2&sadis=200&fpos=ZIP%2FPostal&sabfmts=1&saobfmts=insif&ftrt=1&ftrv=1&saprclo=&saprchi=&fsop=1%26fsoo%3D1&coaction=compare&copagenum=1&coentrypage=search&fgtp=

Couldn’t find a Tyco.

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missing car shell, band and brakeman

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Thanks…That explains the slot on the top of the shell. Guess I shoulda showed that pic, too.[D)]

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The track is Tru-Scale Ready Track.

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“Klingon flatcar-of-prey”

ROTFLMA!!![(-D][alien][(-D]

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I believe that it is the club car for hand car operators![:-^]

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Here is a link to the actual model: http://tycotrain.tripod.com/redboxerafreightcars/id3.html I wonder how well it actually worked? Unlike Lionel, which used a motor for many of its action cars, this relied on the wheelsets for power.

Jim

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My first reaction to the pic was maybe the Kadee momentum car but it uses only one end for the momentum flywheel.

I think the momentum cars are a great way to simulate real train mechanics.