I went on another spree last week. First up an eBay purchase of a Central Operating Lines club car from Long Island. The club made theses reefers with the names of four different dairies from each of the villages, Amityville, Babylon, Holbrook, and Ronkonkoma, the club had called home up to that point. They also had tankers made for oil companies in those villages. I already had the Amityville Farms reefer. This paint scheme is reminiscent of the NYC Merchants Despatch scheme so these two along with a MTH RK die cast NYC MDT reefer and a Lionel NYC Milk car and one or two other dairy reefers I have will make up a nice little milk train.
Several years ago I picked up some K-Line Western Pacific feather boxcars. A blue, purple and yellow, also the Girls Train pink feather on white. I added a Weaver orange boxcar with the black feather. These two K-Line cars popped up on eBay so all these years later I've added the green and the red.
Next up I needed some parts from our friends at Trainz. Those parts are the little package on the right in the last picture buying those parts led to buying some other items on my wish list. First this K-Line New York and Atlantic ballast car. I was never a big ore car guy, I thought they were so small as compared to other rolling stock that price for ore cars should have been significantly less than they usually were. Until recently I only had five, three K-Line NYC that made it home from a train show for the princely cost of $5 each, a K-line Great Northern and a Lionel B&LE that to my dismay doesn't quite measure up to the K-Line cars. The NYC cars have been re-badged as Kennecott Copper Corp. to go with my KCC MP15. Well a visit back to Long Island back in May found me in Nassau Hobby with @RSJB18. When Bob left me unattended because he had to return to work I bought a custom run MTH Great South Bay reefer and some custom run Lionel ore cars decorated for the Long Island Railroad and New York City Transit posted here previously. Well those three ore cars looked real nice behind my LIRR Beep. EBay searches yielded two more K-Line Long Island Railroad Ballast cars also posted previously. Trainz had this NY&A ballast car. NY&A took over freight operations from the LIRR back in the 90s so this guy will fit right in.
I couldn't pass up this Easy Streets van for the price.
Now I have a coach to pull behind my K-Line F unit.
These K-Line horses are destined to become Clydesdales and the little bag contains the parts that started it all. There's also a Revell Model kit of an A-10 Thunderbolt II, built Fairchild Republic in Farmingdale, NY, near Massapequa where I lived for 30 years, and based at Myrtle Beach Air Force base near where I live now so I think it deserves a spot on the layout, even if only periodically.
