Buy anything cool lately?

Matt,

That's a good looking piece of wall art..congratulations.

I needed some parts to complete a small O-Gauge passenger car. I called a dear friend in Florida to see if he had any. He had just the part. He said that he would mail the half dozen parts to me. I didn't think about it any longer. The parts arrived in a priority mailer. Inside the USPS mailer was a like new Parts Envelope from Madison Hardware that had my parts..                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Wow!  That is a very cool poster of Madison Hardware.

Me? Three MTH Premier ATSF Hudsons: you've heard about 'em by now on another thread, so no pictures here.

4 Lionel Items in the past 2 and every item was still sealed in the box.

#21752  Conrail JB Hunt Trailer Unit Train

#8006 Lionel's JC Penny's 4-6-4 Silver Shadow Hudson with Display Case

#18314 Century Club GG1 with Display Case

#18045 Gray Commodore Vanderbilt

I picked up some items at the Hamburg, PA show last Sunday:

6464-525 M&StL Boxcar and 6802 LL flat with girders to complete a 1958 Super O GP9 set for the dealer I repair for.  He has the other cars, the GP in OB and the set box.

A chrome Marx two light tower.  I'm trying to replace the black towers on my layout with the harder to find chrome ones.  I've got 6 or 7 now.

Many parts.  The two shops I service for continue to keep me very busy.

Haven't bought a thing since my LHS closed on May 1.

I'm buying a new house, well new to me!  And it's got a 20x16 TRAIN ROOM with a smaller adjoining room for a workshop with a closet plenty big for boxes!  

tackindy:

Congratulations on your new home and train room.

You, a case of YARDS Pale Ale

Matt

Thank you

I hope our Michael's has it I would love to hang it up in the train room !!!

Also I have to say buying those LionChief steamers: Hudson, Mikado and a Pacific was a very cool buy. Loads of fun !!!!

Sure did. A set of 21" K-Line Daylight Lightweight passenger cars.

Yes a new dehumidifier.. keeps the basement dry and cool!

Got my WP tender back from Alex M. Now re lettered for Union Pacific. 

So now my UP EM1 joins my fleet of UP steam locomotives. A fantasy, yes but it looks great and runs and smokes great.

Nothing since that Stone Mill kit I hunted for a few years.  I have it  built and am building it a log flume ...only about 3/5th of one of two towers needed built cutting and notching bamboo stakes.Not an exciting job, and I am a slacker, but am even thinking about building a cabin and log shafthouse from this stuff...hope I forget about that.  Uh, wasn't that Drake (first) Oil Well in Pa. built with logs? (never mind)

Yes, a special bottle of Woodford Reserve.

Studying for a license I need for professional development.  Hope to have it soon.

Trains-A UP baggage car that I searched forever to find.  4 MTH UP Turbines.

Picked up a Corgi Schaefer Beer semi with a 1950's Mack cab. 

Art

Guys!!! That is not just some poster that you can get at Michaels. That is a signed and numbered Angela Trotta Thomas print circa 2001. She only made 750. Only the frame came from Michaels. I have a copy too. I met Angela at the TCA convention in 2002 and bought that one and two others.

I recently scored a goodie from Trainz on the bay. I finally found a K-line 21" Milwaukee Road skytop obs to complete my set which will be pulled by 261, for excursion specials on my layout. It should be here later this week.

Hey Elliot, I'm gonna stop buy tomorrow after work and drop off your 2 Canada hoppers from MTH and some more wire

"It's got cop suspension... cop brakes..."

Sounds good Matt. If you make it before 6 you could meet Patrick.

By the way, what number is the print? Mine is 326.

Originally Posted by Matt Makens:

Hey Elliot, I'm gonna stop buy tomorrow after work and drop off your 2 Canada hoppers from MTH and some more wire

Sounds good Matt. If you make it before 6 you could meet Patrick.

By the way, what number is the print? Mine is 326.

Mine is 203

I recently bought what must be the absolutely coolest train ever. A pair of Lionel Legacy SP Daylight RF-16s and a rake of Lionel 18" Daylight coaches to go with them. 

Recently I made a couple of acquisitions at incredible prices.  The first was a Lionel legacy SD 70ACE in the fantasy Virginian livery for only $320.00 from Sidetrack Hobbies.  The other was a set of MTH 418 Standard Gauge orange Passenger cars I won on E-Bay for the incredible price of $230.00.  This set is in virtually like new condition.  I don't get lucky very often so this was quite unusual for me. 

just purchased two Kline Reading ore cars

and a Lionel CP GP-9 powered unit off the For Sale

forum.

Is this a great place to shop or what.

I could get fat and happy using this computer thing,

(although Im not particular about computers)!!!

Lionel's Milwaukee E9 set, and a bottle of this equally rare stuff...

Hey Jon, Ill be at the hobby store at 7

10-4, see ya then. However, don't expect any Green Spot, it's a distant memory.

"I finally found a K-line 21" Milwaukee Road skytop obs"

Great find Elliott. One of the nicest style observation cars ever made.

Thanks Brian, and I agree.

I should have thought to ask you this a long time ago. Did K-line ever release the six car Milwaukee Road set that included the Cedar Rapids? The one I found was the Dell Rapids. At this point, I'm just happy to have one, but if I was going to get picky about it, the Cedar Rapids would be the bomb.

Oh my, May train budget took a big time plunge in the red and  June isn't doing very well in the first week either. But, ya just can't take it with ya.

Still having fun.

Larry

Absolutely! Got the 3rd Rail/GGD B&O Columbian Passenger cars!

Now I gotta get the layout expansion done so that I can run them!

Jim

A 1/48 scale U.S. Navy Elco 80' PT Boat by Merit.

Added to my beer cars.

Steve

Steve, that beer car is frickin sweet

Almost another birthday and I have NOT bought the farm. 

Have been purchasing lots of "cool" stuff for my layout project: Engines, some rolling stock, and just purchased about 30 switches/turnouts. (Enough to do "Phase One" when I am ready to start that.)  Acquiring is fun... it's the work that follows that I sometimes bog down in!

Nothing since YORK.  Probably nothing til YORK either?

the list is too long .

5-tunnel portals

3 retaining walls.

9 ore cars

2 coal cars

2 box cars

UP Berkshire JR

Crescent locomotive works station and 2 short 1 long platforms

Cresent Locomotive works servicing platforms

Cresent Locomotive works watchman shed

2 cruise commanders

1 railsounds

1 water tower

1 SD40 T-2

6 fastrack switches

50 10 inch track

coal tower

 this list doesn't include any wood or scerney ground cover I bought which I bought ballast tree's and such.

Don't ask my wife she might say I have an Issue. but the way she is looking at it it's cheaper than my hotrod. last summer it got new paint new suspension new trans new motor  new radiator new drive shaft, new exhaust. new sound system, so trains are cheaper

here is the watchman shanty and the servicing platforms

Just received the MTH tinplate Armor set. The cannon unit will be protecting the nuclear reactor.

A CNJ switch stand.