Buy anything cool lately?

Hey P51-- Sorry I missed you at the Monroe show.  I was in the 4-H building by the main entrance.  Selling DVD's and some old accessories from my grandfather's live steam 2 1/2-inch gauge railroad.  THAT stuff sold-out two hours before the show opened to the Public.

Now then, you guys have to start keeping me away from Shows or wherever model trains hibernate with choice items for sale.  The checkbook was flying again !!

Bought 31 postwar freight cars for an average $ 4.00 each.  Not too bad a condition. Just clean the bodies and wheels- a little lube and should be OK.

Bought a "brand new" # 132 Station (in orig box) for $ 65.00 !  YES, that's what I said..  Bought a new pair of '022' switches (in orig box) for $ 50.00 !!  Bought the 3-car set of silver PFE's by Lionel for $ 100.00 !

My wife Suzie bought $ 80.00 worth of cattle and misc farm animals !  Crazy, huh ?

Bought another new Rail-King # 262 crossing gate!  Bought Lionel # 2332 GG-1 (NEW in Box) for approx $ 300.00 !  She wanted the RED loco but settled on GREEN !!

Well, she'll be surprised:  When I got home--I ordered her a RED GG-1 from Williams.(online)

She doesn't know as yet..  Thank goodness !!!!!  (grin)

Also over the weekend, I got crazy on Ebay...

Bought some Trolley's---  A Santa Fe ALCO A-B-A Set..  An additional powered B-Unit.

Am putting together the Santa Fe "Super Chief" --  minimum of FOUR motors and several cars-- all MTH...  I'll post photos when the time comes.  Should be a beaut!

There were a few other odds & ends..  I scraped the bottom of the financial barrel and "treated myself" to a beautiful Southern Pacific Cab Forward, AC-12, # 4294 from MTH.

Suzie doesn't know about this either--as YET!  If you guys never hear from me again, in the future, you'll know what happened !!  (grin)

In closing,  I do NOT go out and buy model trains like this, which started in October-'14...  I normally don't have that kind of loot!  BUT, in return, I had a team of four men here this past Friday and they added "Central A/C" to our Lennox furnace, which she has always wished for!  That was VERY pricey!  SO--  I took some loot out of my 401K account, and got A/C for her and a few trains for ME !!

However, the shopping extravaganza has now come to an end... !!

Construction of the NEW layout is just about to really begin!   More info on Layout/Design forum as well as the Electrical forum.  Cheers to all!

KRK

At Saturday's Greenberg Show in Edison, I purchased "Potomac Yard: The Gateway Between the North and the South." Authored by James Foley and published by the RF&P Historical Society, the book covers the period from 1880 to 1920. It is a huge volume full of extremely detailed text supplemented by diagrams and illustrations and has received favorable reviews. At almost 800 pages, I questioned whether I really needed 7 pounds of information on just one yard; however, Potomac Yard was such a pivotal facility in its day it does indeed deserve extensive documentation. The dealer told me Volume 2 covering the 20s onward is in the works. I'll need to reinforce the shelf these two books are sitting on for sure!

Bob

I didn't restrict the content of this thread to just trains. 

A Tamiya Spray Work Paint Stand.

Holds small parts, bodies, etc. and it rotates.

Jim,

That looks like a handy little device.

I bought a chocolate orange for my wife............. I ate it!!

just got this from da-bay

Grabbed this off of EBay, for my city of Los Angelos passenger train,

Thanks to an alert by a fellow OGR forum member I bought this off Amazon2 days ago....and it came today1!!!

It's a Williams Christmas set with a 4-6-0, reefer, gondola and caboose. It also has a decnt loop of EZ track and transformer.

My out of pocket??? $9.00!!!!! the flash sale price was $104.00 and Amazon owed me a credit of $95.00.....so needless to say.......Good deal!!!

I had not seen the EZ Track....kinda like it better than Lionel Fastrak but doubt I'll use it other than under the tree.  Locomotive will get reworked and painted as will the reefer. The rest the wife will use under the tree. 

Thanks for the heads up!!!

Amazon listed these as 'damaged boxes' which mine was.....a 3 inch cut in the outer box and the carry handle torn off......box is heading to the trash so I didn't care!

Bought 2 sets of MTH Premier Amtrak Superliners from the OGR For Sale forum today.

Wanted to buy the deluxe foam loco cradle from Collectors Choice.  Called today, and he is out of foam...waiting for a delivery.  And, he does his work in the garage where the temp is now too cold to cut the foam.  So, it looks like it will be a few weeks until he can make any more cradles.

I don't know if you would call this cool, but it was needed. It's not the 665/2065 I had been chasing, but real life raised it's ugly head.

Don't you hate when you have to buy real life necessity items instead of using the money on train stuff?

man do I! I had my price in my sights, one beat up enough for my sites, a nice fixer upper. Even found an extra tender that was damaged for the project I had in mind for the locomotive, and whamo!oh well, gotta be a grown up part of the time I guess!

It was a krazy kinda K-Line day.

An Adolphus business car

The 1:64th O gauge Big Boy with TMCC

And last, a scale EP5 in the iconic dress.  Conventional control but with cruise.

Bruce

You would look funny walking in the snow with the 665

  Trying to ride one to work would be funnier

 If I ever were to become homeless, you'd know me when you saw me. I'd be carrying a 2037(mine before birth), and my (brothers) 665, heading south to warmer layouts. If I don't dodge, and you hit me with the Dodge, just right, I bet you won't damage the trains.

Just picked up this beautiful Lionel Trains shelf a week or so back. For a guy that likes dealer items as much as I do this fit right in. It's my understanding that there were less than 50 of these produced and I can understand why. At almost 8 feet long and 30-40 pounds they would have been a challenge to ship. Thrilled to have this in the train room. 

I picked up this Like New circa 1965/1966 Lionel 773 Hudson complete with the backwards installed water scoop on its undersized 773W New York Central Tender at the Allentown (Spring Thaw Meet?) a few weeks ago.  It runs as good as it looks.  As good as the new stuff looks I still always make room for some classic Lionel history.

Scored an MTH Baldwin M-1 off eBay, which arrived this week.  Got to take it for a test run around the guest bedroom last night.  Sound doesn't work, but the seller probably said the battery likely needs changed.  I don't have a huge interest in the C&O, but it's a bit of an oddity & thought it would be a fun addition.  Might pair it w/the new C&O 21" Lionel passenger cars, in time.  I'd also like to eventually upgrade to DCS, if possible. 

Nothing big or exciting. But the town finally received their first Ambulance. Beforehand, Taxi, or police cars were used.

You would look funny walking in the snow with the 665

  Trying to ride one to work would be funnier

not me, the wife, my '88 Dodge pickup is still ticking 

I've been buying scenic items galore. People figures, trees, crates , hydrants, phone booths, fencing, and textured stone patterns from Scenic Express. Also purchased three dozen 12V LED bulbs (bayo and screw base) , and 20 lamp posts from the Chinese direct on eBay, no middleman. You can buy the LED bulbs for about 40-50 cents each shipping included and the lampposts for about $1 shipped. Also purchased 20 Chinese rectifier boards for $1.00 each direct and we are ready to start the lighting.

I got myself a nice Caddy srx to go to the train shows this summer……. But I won't have any money to buy anything……...

3rd Rail E7

I don't often get exited about freight, but that is a very cool rolling billboard.

The graphics dept. earned their checks there.

got a great buy on a N&W J with a rebuilt drive by JERRY WHITE. he was a custom locomotive builder and rebuilder of drives. he is in the 2 rail O Scale Hall of Fame. 

  Yesterday, I bought another RMT Bang switcher at my LHS.  This Bang is a #92314 Santa Fe.   The price was right, and I had a Lionel/MPC A. T. & S. F. 9071 bobber caboose to go with it.  I bought the caboose a couple of years ago at an anitique mall for 3 bucks.  

   I now have a total of seven Bangs in my fleet.

Today I bought a DEWALT DWS-780 12-in 15-Amp Dual Bevel Sliding Compound Miter Saw at Lowes.  They were offering the heavy duty miter saw stand free with purchase of the saw.  Not directly model train related.  But it will definitely help with building the bench-work for the new layout this Spring/Summer.

I got a Williams NYC Dreyfuss a few weeks back. Now I needed a set of streamline cars for it to pull. My modeling of the NYC is just as a road with trackage rights on my layout....and while I love the Dreyfuss getting 100% correct cars was tough. So for my Dreyfuss.....

I got these today for it to pull.......

I know it didn't have a dome car....and smooth sided would be better.....but these were a deal and what I wanted to spend......and I REALLY like them. Williams 72 ft flutted cars.

Can't wait to run these on the layout........thx

Gentlemen,

   I did pick up some special run Atlas O Steam Era Box Cars for my Logging Train.

The detail on these Master Series Atlas O Box cars is real impressive.

PCRR/Dave

Bought my friends Pennsy RF-16s. He needed the cash to buy a new engine, I ended with something I can use and wanted for awhile.

My first big steam is on it's way in the form of this bad boy!

Last week I bought 3 1:43 scale autos at Rite Aid, a 1955 TBird, a 1953 Chevy Bel Air and a 1953 Caddy. Sunday at a show I bought some WS figures, plus a Lionel Standard O REA reefer, a Lionel NYC operating box car and an Industrial Rail NYC hopper. Pictures are attached.

Does a new fridge count?   

I picked up three used buildings at the monthly DuPage show. 

Art