12-22-2011, 07:43 PM
Yeah Pete I know what you mean. When I stripped and repainted a Lionel boxcar at the museum for my N scale railroad you would have thought I had defaced the Mona Lisa or something! 
Of course over the years several Lionel collectors told me they had that car! 
One even said it took him forever to find it as "weathered" cars were very unusal for Lionel (that was the only true part of his story). But he had to have one as he grew up next to the Nantahla Midland's tracks in east Tennessee.
Pete you have seen the Nantahala Midland and you know that wasn't possible! Hell, it doesn't even make it out of my spare bedroom here in NC much less make it all the way to Tenn.
Of course over the years several Lionel collectors told me they had that car! One even said it took him forever to find it as "weathered" cars were very unusal for Lionel (that was the only true part of his story). But he had to have one as he grew up next to the Nantahla Midland's tracks in east Tennessee. Pete you have seen the Nantahala Midland and you know that wasn't possible! Hell, it doesn't even make it out of my spare bedroom here in NC much less make it all the way to Tenn.
Mike
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