{"id":1150,"date":"2008-04-16T22:46:37","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T03:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2008-04-16T22:46:37","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T03:46:37","slug":"cnj-1000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=1150","title":{"rendered":"CNJ 1000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Astro Craft Brass Import<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/160408al.jpg\" title=\"Rough Astro Craft Brass CNJ 1000 Boxcab\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/160408a.jpg\" alt=\"140408b.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A couple weeks ago I was sent a link to an auction on eBay for this Astro Craft brass model of CNJ 1000.   I managed to outbid a few others to get a hold of it.  While not in the best of condition, all the parts were included and I believe I can fix it up into a respectable model.<\/p>\n<p>I had planned to buy a set of Northwest Shortline PDT power trucks to power it as the old motor and gears in this model are useless.  I gave them a call today only to find out they have discontinued the small versions as they can no longer get the motors, and to top it off they are retiring after 50 years in business and currently do not have a buyer for the business.  \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>So if you have a PDT with a 7&#8242; wheelbase and 36&#8243; wheels (they made these) you have a buyer&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/160408bl.jpg\" title=\"Rough Astro Craft Brass CNJ 1000 Boxcab\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/160408b.jpg\" alt=\"CNJ 1000\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rivet detail is a bit crude and there aren&#8217;t enough of th&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Geez, I just turned into one of those, I feel like I should have a shower.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/160408cl.jpg\" title=\"Rough Astro Craft Brass CNJ 1000 Boxcab\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/160408c.jpg\" alt=\"CNJ 1000\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/160408dl.jpg\" title=\"Rough Astro Craft Brass CNJ 1000 Boxcab\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/160408d.jpg\" alt=\"CNJ 1000\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This looks like it might be a good project, but I probably won&#8217;t start on it for a while, at least until there is some track to run it on.<\/p>\n<p>-T.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astro Craft Brass Import A couple weeks ago I was sent a link to an auction on eBay for this Astro Craft brass model of CNJ 1000. I managed to outbid a few others to get a hold of it. While not in the best of condition, all the parts were included and I believe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}