Buy anything cool lately?

Well, yesterday, the Fedex guy brought Suzie the CSX engine she wanted / SD-70ACe .

Beautiful !!

KRK

Well not really, as there are photos of CZ streamlined cars included in with heavyweight cars, when they were being "transported/broken in" to staging points such as Denver or Chicago. Thus, on occasion, I'll be able to add the CZ domed observation onto the rear end of my CB&Q heavyweight Exposition Flyer" train, to depict it being transported to Chicago. 

Aluminum...

The CSX engine is nice !!

got these from a forum member this week.

Well it's over a month ago but I bought a 1988 Chessie trains set still in shrink wrapped box. thought I had pics will have to do that tomorrow. ahh found it on even thou hard to see the shrink wrap is on the bottom box as was when left the factory. the lid fitted over it all. 

Picked up these 2 Lionel uncatalogged Dow Chemical cars at York.

    Bill T

A wise man once said, " More Power!"

These effectively solve any concerns I might have had about powering the future layout.  Both arrived in working condition and looking like the one on the right. 

Bruce

rtraincollector, ive wanted that set and the CP rail SD40 set since I was 10 an id drool over them at the hobby shop. They still have em  soooo cool. Love it

New from Menard's.

These fantastic books arrived today, along with some ERR stuff.  

Picked up this Ives Std Gauge 3241, freight cars and bridge from a forum member.

Steve

My grandfather always keeps a look out for train stuff for me at Estate sales he goes to in the area.  This time he must have committed highway robbery.  He got me 5 K-Line scale heavyweights and said he only paid about $12 each (these are the nice ones with the interiors).  I have three of the six cars from the Rio Grande set (baggage, diner, observation), and the diner and observation from the Southern Crescent set.  My plan is to run a long mixed excursion train with those as well as my MTH Congressional cars, as is often seen on fan trips today.

That's allot of bad kids!

There's probably that many the world over, Adriatic!   

yesterday got a  premier CSX Dash 9 diesel powered and dummy for a good price on e-bay

Picked up this airbrush for those bulk spraying projects, like painting track, dull-coating, or spraying underframes of several cars in 1 session. 2 different size bottles, and 3 different needle/tip combos. Shoulda bought this a long time ago!

Picked this up from Ebay. 1959 Lionel 1615 B&M set. A little grimy but in good condition.

The New Haven 6464 should be a B&M 6464 I wonder if it came this way? The Maintenance car has broken railing normal. The airplane is in great shape and looks to be original. 

A bonus with the set was a Marx crossing gateman and two street lights.

franktrain

it's been awhile since I posted on here haven't been buying much other than scenery and wood. but I did pick up a mystery box from menards a few weeks ago and yesterday I ordered the Evo hybrid from trainworld. some more scenery stuff from scenic express 124 trees to be exact and a 6 pack of ground cover again. then a month or so ago I ordered a new bridge I don't know what it is I always have bridges on my layouts I have 7 right now and added an 8th but the 8th is 5 ft long 1 ft high made out of aluminum it should be arriving in the next few days along with the Evo and scenery stuff.

here's where the bridge is going . where the caulk gun is is one end and where the trees are is the other end. the upper loop should be interesting. thoughts are with the window blinds open it should make for a neat view with the shadow of the bridge across the layout.

The bridge is incredible!

thank you can't wait for it to show up . when it does I will post pics. I'm thinking some led lights added to it might look cool to. 2 red ones on top points and maybe lights fixtures down the middle shining down on the track. not sure yet.

The bridge looks super.  It reminds me of the Sewickly Bridge (highway) that crosses the Ohio River just downstream of Pittsburgh.  When it was refurbished, it lost the open lattice look, but still retains the original form.  I crossed it weekly when I went back to college night school 10 to 15 years ago.  It also reminds me of the P&LE bridge a little farther downstream between Beaver and Monaca.

Model is a generic design loosely based on the famous P&LE bridge located at Beaver Pa.

from the instructions

I need to post something new as well.  I called to preorder an MTH Imperial N&W J 611.  However, Pat from Pat's Trains told me he  had2 left from the 2014 catalog.  I bought one.  It is really nice, however my NYC Madison heavyweights just don't look right with it.  ;-). I don't know when I will be able to remedy that problem.  ;-)

Yes, that's it!  I like it.

instructions state 2 of these bridges would closely replicate the prototype. but I don't have 10 ft of space for that much bridge

now i'm thinking can I redesign to get 10 ft for a bridge HMMM that would be cool .

Well to me one alone just doesn't look right.  However, I am biased, I don't have to redesign a layout, and I don't have to come up with the money to pay for it!  ;-)

it is possible to do 2 of them but I think if I did it would over power the rest of the layout being such a big feature.  where it would fit I would have a curve into the bridge the a curve after the bridge the whole wall would be the bridge. that doesn't include the small truss bridge that is on one end either.

  I just bought a Williams by Bachmann B & O F7 A-A set from from Trainworld.  The price was right; it was worth the wait.  Yesterday, I purchased a Model Power by MRC #6061 Park Scenes set from my LHS. 

I just bought an MTH Premier Western Maryland 70 ft. passenger coach and baggage car.

Now i can run an authentic Western Maryland passenger train .... being that most of their Passenger trains were only two cars long ... consisting of a coach and a combine or baggage car.  All i need now is a scale Western Maryland K2 Pacific steam loco. or an Alco Hammer Head diesel to be 100% prototypically authentic.  Until that day comes, these cars will have to ride behind my Western Maryland scale Lionel H7 Consolation and MTH Premier Western Maryland BL2 ... although these two locos never really pulled passenger trains on the prototypical Western Maryland.

Also purchased a Maryland and Pennsylvania MTH Premier caboose. This looks great with my MTH SW 1 Ma and Pa switcher!  My hat is off to MTH for producing many different short line road name models.... which it seems no other manufacturer offers. 

Agreed!  It would over power all but the larger layouts.  One is cool!

That's a beautiful loco, Mark. Do you have any problems running Railking locos on FasTrack? There are a couple of Imperial locos I'd like to get.

never had an issue with my RailKing stuff on Fastrack. 2 rail king f3's and a broadway express set . all on fastrack with no issues. soon to be a Railking evolution hybrid too

Thank you Joe!  I have not had trouble with the track.  I did have trouble with a FasTrack switch, but the problem was with the switch, not the RailKing.  The pilot wheels would split the points and start to go in the diverging route, and the drivers went the straight route.  Needless to say, it didn't get very far before the pickup roller shorted.  This problem happened with my RailKing, LionChief Plus, and MPC steamers.  I had to fiddle with the points to get them to seat against the rail harder.  Now I haven't had any trouble, but I only have 2 switches at this time.

looks pretty close to it, I just saw it the other day.