Buy anything cool lately?

Ralph,  I have the MTH Premier B+M 38-2.  It is one of my favorites as it was local in the Boston area. The level of detail on these MTH engines is simply amazing.   Enjoy your B+O GP 35 , it is a beauty. 

NS6770Fan,  I did check out the couplers.  Pried on the rear one a little bit and got it to open.  Shot both of them with a little dry lube and now they work like their supposed to.  I discovered the the rear coupler cut arm was missing.  I looked in the box for it but didn’t find it.  I don’t see it in one picture I took the other day,  which was right after I took it out of the box, so I think it’s missing.

 Above are shots of my other recent acquisitions.  The MTH George Bush funeral train baggage car, an MTH CNW waffle side box car, two MTH 8000 gal. Tank cars for either MOW or work trains, an MTH ATSF crane tender to go with the matching crane which will in a work train and an MTH ATSF operating dump car to go in the MOW train.

 

Larry

I bought two new cars from @MrMuffin'sTrains.  They had a name your price sale on an EOTD husky stack and also picked up a Santa Fe Wi-Fi caboose.  I didn't open them until tonight but am looking forward to running them.

John

Railroad Belt

Made in the USA with real leather.

Sold by: Schrader's Railroad Catalog • 230 South Abbe Rd. • Fairview, Michigan 48621

Gary

That's a nice belt, Gary!  I'm wearing one with a different train pattern that my wife ordered from Schrader's years ago.  It has held up very well!

Purchased a few things this month. Last week I bought this:

I have been wanting another Atlas O Horizon car for a long time, and I finally have this one on the way. It's gonna go great with my Horizon Dinette and my 2 Amfleet cars! Now all I need is another 2 more Amfleet cars, so I will be able to recreate how the San Diegan would have looked like if the route never got renamed and not gotten passenger car replacements.

The other purchase was yesterday, that being a 5 pack of passenger cars for my Reading T1.

If I really like these, I will be adding another 2 - 3 cars to my collection. So it will be a close enough recreation of the "Reading Rambles" excursion train.

I bought a Tonkin Cat MH3049 material handler, two Motorart New Holland dozers and two Menards’ BNSF flat cars for my MOW train.  I thought the material handler would look better with its grapple than a backhoe with a scoop on a gondola with ties.  I had no idea that it was so big!!  I’ll have to mount it on a flat car.

Larry 

 

Bought these 18” NYC passenger cars.  I need help from the NYC experts on what motive power pulled this paint scheme.  

I ordered myself a Father's Day present from Mario's on Sunday. Delivered today at 5:00pm.

MTH Railking Scale GP20.

Charlie

Stopped into our local S.P.C.A. thrift store, and here is what I walked out with for $30.00

rtraincollector posted:

Stopped into our local S.P.C.A. thrift store, and here is what I walked out with for $30.00

Who would have thought to look in such a place for those treasures ?   Good find.  

Dan Padova posted:

rtraincollector posted:

Stopped into our local S.P.C.A. thrift store, and here is what I walked out with for $30.00

Who would have thought to look in such a place for those treasures ?   Good find.  

Our older daughter found two O gauge sets in a big box at the St Vincent DePaul Thrift store back in 2013, so at age 57 I finally got the train set I wanted for Christmas when I was growing up!!  One was a set with a 2026 and the other with a 621.  All in good working order.

These were not a purchase but found among my late uncle's stuff.  I am not versed on old metal toys, so anyone that would like to enlighten me, please do so.  The steam roller and farm tractor are plastic.

 

 

The Greyhound is likely 1930s Marx. Maybe the tractor & roller too. Google incompetence online may forbid more posts by me, watch your mail too Dan.

Dan very nice find

Tractor is Banner toys (I missed that)

rtraincollector posted:

Stopped into our local S.P.C.A. thrift store, and here is what I walked out with for $30.00

BILL! Take me with you the next time you go to a thrift store!

I can't top that haul from the SPCA thrift store, but I was in a local antique shop yesterday, and walked out with a near-mint Marx Meteor NYC observation car (with box, no less).  I aready have the Meteor set with 333 locomotive, but the observation car was missing a bit of paint on its roof, and I'd been looking for a replacement ever since.

This one is new.  Runs just great.  Lionel #6-84468 - USRA Light Mikado "New York Central" #5187.  Actually should have a light freight consist I think, but that pax car set is new to me also.  

TedW posted:

This one is new.  Runs just great.  Lionel #6-84468 - USRA Light Mikado "New York Central" #5187.  Actually should have a light freight consist I think, but that pax car set is new to me also.  

Ted, that is one magnificent locomotive!

My wife asked me if I stepped in dog doo as that is suppose to be good luck. Thursday night about 5 P.M. I went on to evil bay as some of you call it, and saw a train set with only a $13 bid and 5 minutes to go, So I figured I would watch this and throw a stupid bid in at last minute. Well I won the set for $13.50 + 27.08 in shipping. I waited till today to make sure the seller wasn't going to back out, but got fedex confirmation that they had it.  

RT, if that set runs, you got yourself a fantastic bargain.

If it doesn't and I put TMCC in it I'm still ahead.

My MTH Reading Madison passenger cars finally came in today. They are very nice looking and much nicer than I was originally expecting. I'm not super fond of the looks of them just yet, but I think I can grow to like them a lot. The box they came in is huge, it's the biggest train box I have ever seen. The people in the cars is a nice feature to have, and the LEDs are very nice. They aren't entirely flicker free, but that might be from my track not being 100% perfect and clean.

Yes I am aware that these are not entirely correct to what the real "Reading Rambles" excursion trains had. The real cars had 4 wheels trucks, not 6 wheel trucks. This is the closest cars I could find, nobody else makes anything close to the real cars. But these will do just fine.

Dan Padova posted:

These were not a purchase but found among my late uncle's stuff.  I am not versed on old metal toys, so anyone that would like to enlighten me, please do so.  The steam roller and farm tractor are plastic.

 

 

Love the toy soldiers!! Another passion of mine I always try to work into my layouts- there’s always some kind of conflict happening. Very nice...Sorry to hear about your Uncle, my condolences- but, just like my grandfather, I’m sure he’d be happy to that his possessions are well taken care of and in your hands.

Sincerely,

Steve

A lot of pick-ups from eBay or hobby shops over the last week and a half:

From eBay- postwar UP 202- Shell is beat up, lacks a rear coupler, but runs quite well!

My dad had a Santa Fe 215 shell that I was able to put on the above UP- looks nice IMO!

RMT Great Northern Buddy with extra lights and speed control(switch to go to parallel and series on the bottom). On the box, it says that this model should be in “Parallel” when paired with any older models of RMT buddy’s. However, I’ve read elsewhere that that they should be in series- any help/feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Pair of postwar Santa Fe 218 FAs. The powered unit is missing the mAgnetraction/gear box. Thinking i might take the one from the UP 202 and fit it on this guy. Still, runs like a champ!

Picked this ‘dummy’ AEM-7 up at Joe’s Train Station in Doylestown, PA after I went to Nick Smith’s and found out they hadn’t updated their summer hours. After researching the AEM-7 948 non-powered on MTH’s website, I realized someone changed the roof and pantographs(roof from black to gray, pantos from black to prototypical orange) very happy with this get! Just wish it had lights with it.

Picked these up at Nick Smith’s(one of the reasons I went). Corgi 1/50 scale British Paratrooppers. Great height and fit well in my “international zone”

Picked up this Marx B&O F-3 on eBay. Seller said it ‘wasn’t running’ some cleaning, lubrication, and CRC on the e-unit as it going just fine!

Got this set from Pat's Trains. A Great Northern S-2 with four coaches (20-3500-1) by MTH. I think this may be my favorite engine now.

Got sent to the ER last week on account of severe food poisoning (doing great now! ), this was my get-well present from eBay. Well, both of them on one listing. Shoutout to the guy from Cassville, Pennsylvania if he's got an account here. Absolutely love them! They'll see use behind my LC Union Pacific "Sherman Hill Scout" RS-3 and LC+ Burlington Northern NW2 the most.

rtraincollector posted:

Stopped into our local S.P.C.A. thrift store, and here is what I walked out with for $30.00

Wow! What a deal!

TheRWBYRailfan posted:

Got sent to the ER last week on account of severe food poisoning (doing great now! ), this was my get-well present from eBay. Well, both of them on one listing. Shoutout to the guy from Cassville, Pennsylvania if he's got an account here. Absolutely love them! They'll see use behind my LC Union Pacific "Sherman Hill Scout" RS-3 and LC+ Burlington Northern NW2 the most.

I'm glad you have recovered from the food poisoning!!  The cars look great!

Mark Boyce posted:

TheRWBYRailfan posted:

Got sent to the ER last week on account of severe food poisoning (doing great now! ), this was my get-well present from eBay. Well, both of them on one listing. Shoutout to the guy from Cassville, Pennsylvania if he's got an account here. Absolutely love them! They'll see use behind my LC Union Pacific "Sherman Hill Scout" RS-3 and LC+ Burlington Northern NW2 the most.

I'm glad you have recovered from the food poisoning!!  The cars look great!

Thank you!

TheRWBYRailfan posted:

Mark Boyce posted:

TheRWBYRailfan posted:

Got sent to the ER last week on account of severe food poisoning (doing great now! ), this was my get-well present from eBay. Well, both of them on one listing. Shoutout to the guy from Cassville, Pennsylvania if he's got an account here. Absolutely love them! They'll see use behind my LC Union Pacific "Sherman Hill Scout" RS-3 and LC+ Burlington Northern NW2 the most.

I'm glad you have recovered from the food poisoning!!  The cars look great!

Thank you!

You are very welcome!!

TheRWBYRailfan posted:

Got sent to the ER last week on account of severe food poisoning (doing great now! ), this was my get-well present from eBay. Well, both of them on one listing. Shoutout to the guy from Cassville, Pennsylvania if he's got an account here. Absolutely love them! They'll see use behind my LC Union Pacific "Sherman Hill Scout" RS-3 and LC+ Burlington Northern NW2 the most.

   No no no......  You are to NOT supposed to swallow the N gauge when you pop them into your mouth 

  I like just about all of the Canada cars. Great graphics on all of them. My fav. is an old Tyco HO red & white box car ? or long reefer ? 

Speaking of food preservation; What did you eat anyhow? 

Bad poutine curd? 

Adriatic posted:

TheRWBYRailfan posted:

Got sent to the ER last week on account of severe food poisoning (doing great now! ), this was my get-well present from eBay. Well, both of them on one listing. Shoutout to the guy from Cassville, Pennsylvania if he's got an account here. Absolutely love them! They'll see use behind my LC Union Pacific "Sherman Hill Scout" RS-3 and LC+ Burlington Northern NW2 the most.

   No no no......  You are to NOT supposed to swallow the N gauge when you pop them into your mouth 

  I like just about all of the Canada cars. Great graphics on all of them. My fav. is an old Tyco HO red & white box car ? or long reefer ? 

Speaking of food preservation; What did you eat anyhow? 

Bad poutine curd? 

Homemade Spaghetti, probably bad cheese or something. It had me concerned because I had to vomit after a bit, and I started regurgitating blood. Afterwards there was discomfort in my lower abdomen. We didn't take risks because a doctor said it was better to get it checked before it got worse, IF it got worse.

Oddly enough I do have one scattered memory where a  5-ish year old me once wondered what a Bachmann N-scale Santa Fe Stock car tasted like. Needless to say plastic tastes terrible. Never put a train in my mouth again.

Original Lionel Dealer Poster from 1947

Latest custom run from Andy Petersen, an Atlas 50's era 8000 gal Bardahl oil tanker.

As a matter of fact, yes. When these were introduced back in 2016, I had to try and get the Boston & Maine 6 pack. I got lucky to get 3 at my local train store, but it became hard to get the rest. I did manage to pick up one at my first York in October of 2017, but just couldn't find the remaining 2. Believe it or not, the first place I looked after buying the first 3 just happen to be the place I was looking at engines online(usually to see what's out there) and their they were. Placed my order Sunday night and they arrived this afternoon.

Your Boston and Maine acquisitions were wonderful. !!!!   Enjoy  !!!!!

rtraincollector posted:

My wife asked me if I stepped in dog doo as that is suppose to be good luck. Thursday night about 5 P.M. I went on to evil bay as some of you call it, and saw a train set with only a $13 bid and 5 minutes to go, So I figured I would watch this and throw a stupid bid in at last minute. Well I won the set for $13.50 + 27.08 in shipping. I waited till today to make sure the seller wasn't going to back out, but got fedex confirmation that they had it.  

This is one of the first sets that I bought 20-some years ago when I got back into the hobby.  It was always a great runner.  I broke up the set and sold it about 4 years latter for the same amount of money.

Congratulations on your great score!

Jim

I pre-ordered one of the TSM Parade of Progress Futurliners three years ago when they were $150.

Diecast Direct is now blowing them out (in the Sales/Bus area) for $70 each!  So, I bought three more!

Jim