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I have a new custom Clementine Gold Mine Hopper build I'm working on. I saw this on a YouTube video and thought I would give it a try. I will post more pictures when get further along.
 

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I have made a little more progress on the gold mine hopper and trailer.
 

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I have made a little more progress on the gold mine hopper and trailer.
Looking good!

On an off note, I noticed your handle is possibly referencing a ‘69/‘70 Super Bee?

For the love of God if you own a ‘70 Bee I’d love to see a pic of it. Those oval grills integrating as a bumper is simply beautiful…
 
Nice work! I like doing those kind of things more than running the trucks. A different looking action station but still very Tyco is cool, have to keep the feel. I was checking out the Tyco HO railroad cow loader modified to load them into a trailer on the facebook group. Those crazy zombie cows running around crack me up, I'd having it loading them into a UFO on a trailer.

So you have a '69 and '70 Super Bee? So that's what it means. I'm not real bright. they for sale? :ROFLMAO:
My sig thing is just my boring initials and birthdate, I could have made it "Red68GTO'Vert" for my car, but I figured that name had already been taken, :LOL:
 
No, it's a play on words if you will. B is the first initial of my name. And the other is my birthday. But my father in law once owned a super bee.
Looking good!

On an off note, I noticed your handle is possibly referencing a ‘69/‘70 Super Bee?

For the love of God if you own a ‘70 Bee I’d love to see a pic of it. Those oval grills integrating as a bumper is simply beautiful…
 
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If any one is curious here is the kit I used. And Purina kit as well. Tyco never made a Purina dump car. I'm going to paint a gravel trailer red, white, and blue.
 

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Great kitbashing of the Tyco train accessories for use with US1. I have a few of these, but the conveyor belts are disintegrating. Not trying to change the thread topic, but any ideas on where to get a replacement belt?
 
Not a bad price for the sealed box, but still worry about disintegration of the rubber after 40-50 years even in a sealed box. There has to be a way to create this.
 

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