Buy anything cool lately?

@MrMuffin'sTrains trains delivered some new goodies recently.  A newly released Premier MTH NYC E8 (grey engine), and a NYC passenger car. I also purchased a 36' PBR box car.  Always can use a beer train.  Finally, I purchased two Lionel TOFC cars.  Southern Railway and Rio Grande.  Both are VERY VERY nice.

John 

Wow, John!  Mr. Muffin was very good to you!!  

This is my Lionel vision line 3985 Challenger- there are many like it, but this one is mine. Yeah, I remember the JLC Challengers when they came out- I'm kinda glad I waited for this one.

Geno

@Pingman posted:

My air compressor finally gave up the ghost and found this one via Walmart.com for $82.99 plus tax w/ free shipping:

I couldn’t find this particular one on their website, do you happen to have the manufacturer name and/or model number?

 Thanks!

Tom

I got a great deal on a pair of Williams, brass cabooses from a gentleman on the OGR "For Sale or Trade" forum. They just arrived this morning.

@FlyPlanes-PlayTrains posted:

I couldn’t find this particular one on their website, do you happen to have the manufacturer name and/or model number?

 Thanks!

Tom

This is the exact same PointZero compressor package and same price, but on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/PointZe...ps%2C229&sr=8-10

Mine is supposed to reach me on Wednesday.

@Pingman posted:

This is the exact same PointZero compressor package and same price, but on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/PointZe...ps%2C229&sr=8-10

Mine is supposed to reach me on Wednesday.

Thanks Carl...I ordered one as well

Tom

You're welcome, Tom.

Steam on vinyl!!

I finally found this Weaver PRR 40’ Woodside Gondola on EBay for a fair price. This is the nicest Weaver freight car I have.

Well, after waiting for my hobby shop to open up again do to this aggravating coronavirus, I picked up my George Bush Diesel, Lionels Legacy version.  More pictures later. Hope everyone is doing well. Happy Hump Day, and Happy Railroading.

@leapinlarry posted:

Well, after waiting for my hobby shop to open up again do to this aggravating coronavirus, I picked up my George Bush Diesel, Lionels Legacy version.  More pictures later. Hope everyone is doing well. Happy Hump Day, and Happy Railroading.

Nice! Now, could anyone play a sample of "Hail to the Chief" on this engine?

@Peter Araujo posted:

Nice! Now, could anyone play a sample of "Hail to the Chief" on this engine?

Yes, Larry, we want to hear it.  The engine looks great!!!!

Being a lover of toy sets, I added the Blue Comet set. I must say, this is one of the best starter sets Lionel has produced in a long while. The sounds are great, and the extra passenger car that is an announcement car really makes the set— including the conductor with illuminated lantern. Lots o’ fun in this one! Here I’m operating via the hand control. I set up settings in the app— smoke on, high momentum, then switched to hand controller. 

@leapinlarry posted:

Well, after waiting for my hobby shop to open up again do to this aggravating coronavirus, I picked up my George Bush Diesel, Lionels Legacy version.  More pictures later. Hope everyone is doing well. Happy Hump Day, and Happy Railroading.

It looks awesome Larry!  I was able to Pre Order the Lionel Trump SD70ACE last night.  Nice to know exactly what  it will look like and very tempting to try and buy a Bush 4141 non powered to run with it.  Hard part for me will be what the heck will I pull with em as I don't really have a pile of modern rolling stock lol.  I do have some presidential boxcars so that might work although the loco's are scale and the boxcars are traditional sized.

Had a great deal on these. Couldn't resist. Always loved me ABA lash-up.  I have new portholes for the one A unit and B unit.

Oh baby...I've been stalking this one for a long, long time. I guess patience is a virtue. This brand new (NOS) MTH Premier Conrail C40-8 with standard/narrow cab. Threw me a curve at first when I couldn't get it to do anything at all as though it was d.o.a. Turns out this model is equipped for 2 or 3 rail operation and for some reason the 3/2 switch was set to 2-rail from the factory. A flip of the switch and it came to life. I replaced the battery with a BCR-2, greased the gears and added a drop of smoke fluid and we're in business.

@leapinlarry posted:

Well, after waiting for my hobby shop to open up again do to this aggravating coronavirus, I picked up my George Bush Diesel, Lionels Legacy version.  More pictures later. Hope everyone is doing well. Happy Hump Day, and Happy Railroading.

I ordered the UP "Powered by Our People" #1111 SD70AH, but I have been thinking about getting the #4141 SD70ACE non-powered version. Your model is very nice and I hope you enjoy it!

Good dat everyone, finally unpacked my latest new item from Lionel, the Sante Fe full length VistsDome StationSounds 21 in passenger car, and a few more pictures of the George Bush SD70. With my wife on work lay-off, we spent all our time working in the yard, painting the deck, garage doors, and today she’s back at work... Thanks for the nice comments on the diesel. Have a great week, and stay safe, stay healthy, pray continually. Happy Railroading 

Very nice video, Larry!!  I only learned it plays Hail to the Chief last week.  The car looks great!  My wife went back to work also, but it is looking like their business may not survive.  That is because of other factors not due to the coronavirus, though that is helping bring on the inevitable.  So she may just join me in earlier than expected retirement as well.  No arguments there!  We are getting too old for this work stuff! 

Nice video Larry. Sounds great!

Larry, Great looking passenger cars! Also thank for the wonderful video!

Finally acquired a William's NORFOLK & WESTERN class A at a reasonable price.

I now have five Wm's brass articulating engines, "U.P. Big Boy",  "U.P. Challenger",  "S.P. Cab forward ", "NYC class A".

A Lionel Legacy Tacoma Rail SD-70 from Pats Trains.

Bought this "new" Lionel TMCC Pennsylvania RS-11 for a pretty good price

I finally got the RPO car for my Reading passenger train, this pretty much finishes my collection for my MTH Reading Madison passenger cars. I thought about getting the other 2 pack of cars, the baggage and coach car, but I decided there isn't really a point in getting cars that I already have. Especially since I would most likely only use the coach car from that 2 pack.

Hi guys! My name is John, and I am new around these parts. Just getting back into the hobby after a 45 year absence. My three year old son loves this stuff as I did when I was a boy. His first engine is a 1956(?) Lionel GP-7 Milwaukee Road #2338 that my grandfather gave my dad when he was just a boy. My dad passed it along to me and now the 4th generation is getting to experience this very same locomotive. 

My most recent aquisition for the collection is the Lionel JLC Legacy Big Boy #4012, which was acquired new in the box just last week. I still don't have the minimum curve set needed to run it, but they are on the way. I am looking to build an outdoor run for the trains as our home is not suited to allow for a large O-scale layout, unless I scrap my two channel music room, which is NOT about to happen.

Thanks for the great forum, and I look forward to learning more.

@John4884 posted:

Hi guys! My name is John, and I am new around these parts. Just getting back into the hobby after a 45 year absence. My three year old son loves this stuff as I did when I was a boy. His first engine is a 1956(?) Lionel GP-7 Milwaukee Road #2338 that my grandfather gave my dad when he was just a boy. My dad passed it along to me and now the 4th generation is getting to experience this very same locomotive. 

My most recent aquisition for the collection is the Lionel JLC Legacy Big Boy #4012, which was acquired new in the box just last week. I still don't have the minimum curve set needed to run it, but they are on the way. I am looking to build an outdoor run for the trains as our home is not suited to allow for a large O-scale layout, unless I scrap my two channel music room, which is NOT about to happen.

Thanks for the great forum, and I look forward to learning more.

 

Welcome to the forum John.  Sounds like a good start.  We will be here to help you WHEN you start planning the demo of the 2 channel music room😂. Always have fun and enjoy the locomotive you recently acquired.

@A.J. posted:

Bought this "new" Lionel TMCC Pennsylvania RS-11 for a pretty good price

AJ,

    I have two Legacy PRR RS-11s, great runners. I run them in a 4 unit lash up with a Legacy GP9 and a TMCC RS-11 dummy (all PRR). All 4 together are pretty impressive. Good Luck with your engine.

JohnB

leapinlarry, I see a Play button but it doesn't seem to be active.  So, can't hear those potentially annoying sounds :-).  Looks like a fun building for your layout, regardless.

TRRR

I purchased this maintenance of way building MOW, by Lionel a few months ago, just wondering if you all had heard the sounds? There’s lots of great purchases pictured here. Everyone have a great Thursday, and Happy Railroading...Stay safe, stay healthy, pray continually.

Cool yes...Had a split system head installed in train room for heat and AC, goodbye ugly old window unit. Great buy $390 for the head only as I already have the system in the house and was able to attached this one to it. installed it a little lower than the top of the layout in the elevated area so won't be a distraction. Going to be constant temperature year round and very little humidity. That's my "Buy Anything Cool Lately"

Got in a Nanton elevator by Altoona Model Works.  This is not a cheap kit, but l got it for a VERY good price, maybe because instructions are only on the net??  Thanks to posters here, a friend printed me instructions.  This is the last kit elevator l am aware of and did not have built. , and l have several scratch built ones, so real estate is at a premium and l need a fleet of boxcars with grain doors.  (I do like grain elevators) l  also got in another l, l think uncommon kit, a Suncoast coal tipple.  It, too, was a good price, and l think there are only two other coal tipple kits, the one out of W. Va., and MAYBE the one south of York, although some of those kits are S scale only?  SOME of the coal structures are in O. There is also a small tipple kit modeled on a mine in Illinois. My railroad is imagined as owned by a coal mining co. that went after logging, metal mining, and grain business also, as  they were happy to cash anybody's check, and are located along the Front Range with coal mines west of Pueblo, metal mines and trees in  the Rockiesd and a prairie of grain east to Kansas.  Since l am stalled by a shortage of windows and  doors on my caboose project, l don't know when l will get to building these two kits.

TRRR, your correct, it’s a new game for me in placing a video on the forum, however, go to my picture, 2nd one with the blue arrows, push the button on the left and see if that works. Thank You for letting me know. 

@John4884 posted:

Hi guys! My name is John, and I am new around these parts. Just getting back into the hobby after a 45 year absence. My three year old son loves this stuff as I did when I was a boy. His first engine is a 1956(?) Lionel GP-7 Milwaukee Road #2338 that my grandfather gave my dad when he was just a boy. My dad passed it along to me and now the 4th generation is getting to experience this very same locomotive. 

My most recent acquisition for the collection is the Lionel JLC Legacy Big Boy #4012, which was acquired new in the box just last week. I still don't have the minimum curve set needed to run it, but they are on the way. I am looking to build an outdoor run for the trains as our home is not suited to allow for a large O-scale layout, unless I scrap my two channel music room, which is NOT about to happen.

Thanks for the great forum, and I look forward to learning more.

 

John, Welcome to the OGR Forum and back to the hobby.  I'm glad you are sharing the hobby with you son.  The Big Boy looks great!  Ask away on any topic or post any new topic of your own.

Sunday I received an email from Forum sponsor Mr. Muffin's Trains with one of his 'make offer' offers.  For the first time, I saw something I wanted.  I made what I thought was a ridiculously low offer, and shortly received a counter offer for only $100 more.  Well, it arrived yesterday.  It is a Legacy Western Maryland 2-6-6-2.  I know purists would say the Western Maryland Railway never had any of these.  I don't care.  I like it.  It runs good.

Beautiful engine ......enjoy  !!!!!!

@Old Lionel posted:

Beautiful engine ......enjoy  !!!!!!

Thank you!

@Mark Boyce posted:

Sunday I received an email from Forum sponsor Mr. Muffin's Trains with one of his 'make offer' offers.  For the first time, I saw something I wanted.  I made what I thought was a ridiculously low offer, and shortly received a counter offer for only $100 more.  Well, it arrived yesterday.  It is a Legacy Western Maryland 2-6-6-2.  I know purists would say the Western Maryland Railway never had any of these.  I don't care.  I like it.  It runs good.

 

Congratulations Mark, lovely engine and sounds like a terrific deal

Got these today from eBay. Those ashtrays were used in the 40s, though I'm not sure if spitoons were used that late. I'll probably use them on the layout anyway...