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Microtrains next boxcar load?
« on: September 17, 2012, 05:18:29 AM »
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Re: Microtrains next boxcar load?
« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2012, 09:44:20 AM »
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Oh I'd be son in for that just to get the ladder truck!

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Re: Microtrains next boxcar load?
« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2012, 01:51:33 AM »
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I would jump on that for 100 bucks if the ladder truck wasn't what the mine de-mucker was .
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Re: Microtrains next boxcar load?
« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2012, 08:16:26 AM »
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I think the ramps are about 50% too short... :facepalm:
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Re: Microtrains next boxcar load?
« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2012, 11:47:06 AM »
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Pretty cool. I remember reading in the B&M Bulletin about how Milford, NH had their new fire truck delivered the same way.

Quote from: Rasputen on September 19, 2012, 08:16:26 AM
I think the ramps are about 50% too short... :facepalm:

Just pull the boxcar forward.... I think I have unloaded motorcars from trailers with short ramps in the same way! :facepalm:
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Re: Microtrains next boxcar load?
« Reply #5 on: September 20, 2012, 12:14:48 PM »
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Notice that the boxcar is a PRR round roof (not a wagontop, they were B&O only) with end doors.  Read an article years ago about them shipping firetrucks and I remember a photo of an extra long boxcar they had (believe only 1 made) for shipping long hook and ladder trucks.  Wish I could find the photo of that car.
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Re: Microtrains next boxcar load?
« Reply #6 on: September 20, 2012, 12:28:55 PM »
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Anybody see that high and large cab whatever parked just past the fire truck . I think it is a old flatbed truck , but not sure ?
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Re: Microtrains next boxcar load?
« Reply #7 on: September 20, 2012, 12:32:39 PM »
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Quote from: up1950s on September 20, 2012, 12:28:55 PM
Anybody see that high and large cab whatever parked just past the fire truck . I think it is a old flatbed truck , but not sure ?

Think that's a pickup truck.  Anyone wonder how much gas costs at the Gulf station across the street?
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Re: Microtrains next boxcar load?
« Reply #8 on: September 20, 2012, 12:37:21 PM »
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Quote from: Rasputen on September 19, 2012, 08:16:26 AM
I think the ramps are about 50% too short... :facepalm:

I agree. Probably why everyone is standing around looking, and nobody is in the drivers seat. Very cool photo Chris.

Quote from: Bob Bufkin on September 20, 2012, 12:32:39 PM
Think that's a pickup truck.  Anyone wonder how much gas costs at the Gulf station across the street?

$0.21 a gallon in 1944. That is $2.57 in 2010 when adjusted for inflation.

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