Buy anything cool lately?

Yes, this:

 

 

Can I play along even if I'm a 2-railer?  These are 3-rail...for now.  I just got three of them.  I will need to put 2-rail trucks and kadee couplers on them for my purposes.

 

Jim

Why not! 2R or 3RS, no discrimination here. 

my preference is for the UP scheme but I have been unable to justify the money for these hoppers. As nice as they are $95 is just too much

Me too.  I like these, and the red 60' high cubes, and the engines with the new scheme. I could see pursuing it as a road to model.  The only problem is you need a lot of space to do it justice.  Spiral tunnels!!!

 

Jim

Yeah....I keep an eye out for them being resold.  I just got these on auction at about $60 per.  Tried to get all seven!  The wallet was happy to settle for three. Me not so much.

 

Jim

I just sold 7 of these CPR (SOO) hoppers on eBay and they are awesome.

 

The 25,500 gallon tank cars are just as impressive.

 

You can get these new for around $80-$85.

Lol, well then I probably just bought three of these from you. Arrived today in good order.

 

Jim

Recently got my Legacy Y6B, #2171 (thanks, Pat!) as well as the Legacy Polar Express K-4.  Looking forward to many years of service from them on the Polar & Ohio RR!

 

Cool! Glad you like 'em! I know I did. I'm just trying to figure out what I'm going to list next.

I had a bit of a shopping spree.
Picked up a legacy K4s, Legacy GP-7, and some Lionel passenger cars

I really like those Pennsy cars!

They are great but they have those darn green windows. They were advertised to have normal windows

 

This bad boy arrived-American Beauty Resistance Soldering Unit.  Not shown in the picture are the needle nosed tips.  

 

I already don't know how I lived without it!

My wife bought me two reproduction Lionel metal signs.

 

This classic 1929 reproduced in 1992.

 

 

 

Also this 1960 sign reproduced in 1993.

 

 

A circus engine... passenger cars will be here next week

 

 

This big guy showed up last week. Bright and pretty.

 

Steve

 

 

You will love this locomotive.  It's one of my all time favorites and I even prefer it to my VL BB.  Simply one of the best Lionel products made in recent years.

 

Congrats, enjoy your new toy.

picked up 2 of these!! ALU signs off a transformer!

 

 

I would like to set up a closely spaced field full of these and all the other bubbling accessories there are.  As for now, I leave this attached to a transformer right here in the kitchen and stare transfixed at the bubbling action while listening to the radio.

 

 

Bruce

Although this post might also belong to another thread, I'll post it here.  I purchased from my LHS a Plasticville #45606 Frosty Bar to place between my Plasticville Diner and K-lineville Gas Station. I could detail the interior and fab some accesories from whatever I have in the scrap box.

Got my set of 8 Menard's NYC boxcars today & decided to give them a test run behind my new Y6B along the Guest Bedroom branch of the Polar & Ohio RR.  While the green is as dark as I feared, they don't look too bad.  Maybe I can lighten them up a bit with some weathering.  Certainly worth the price of $20 per car, though, which is still about what it came out to after the discount, then w/tax, S&H added back.  Only had 1 bad coupler in the lot, which is conveniently at the end of the train.  Not sure if the squeaky wheels (hard to hear on the video) are a bug or a feature yet.   

 

Now just need them to make N&W 55-ton hoppers....

HEre is an unusual ITem I just purchased on the bay, An Early Weaver White Box 50' Boxcar Kit.

 

What is unusual is the Conrail Brown Boxcar and a BLACK door. Usually one finds a Yellow Door [signifying Paper Loads from paper mills]

Got two pairs of Atlas Trainman PS4750 hoppers. The CNW's were supposed to be Zito yellow. I don't recall Zito yellow being so bright you can see it from the International Space Station (they're a lot brighter in person than in the photos), but overall they're still pretty nice. It's going to take a "bit" of weathering to tone them down.

 

My daughter, her husband, and her in-laws were at a music festival in Urbana, Illinois last week, and while at a flea market, she picked up a nice 244 minus the tender.  It could use a good cleaning and lubrication, but it runs forward and backward great.  Now I have something else to look for when I go to the next train show; a tender.

 

 

 

Please excuse the shakiness of this video.  I took it to text to my daughter, to show her it did run.  She had no way to test it when she bought it.  I reimbursed her.  $25.

 

Matt,

    Picked up a Solid Brass WWII/Viet Nam era Deuce and a half to add to the Pine Creek Christmas village/layout.  I will need to due a little clean up on her, and she will be perfect again.  

PCRR/Dave

Picked this up at a yard sale, to keep the train room floor clean. Is has kind of a classic train look.     $5.00

Gary

• Cheers from The Detroit & Mackinac Railway

So what your saying is you now have retired the broom, or now you have the ability to clean your train room.

Wow!  A early postwar sweeper!!  Put those command engines away and get out your postwar!  Is the E unit working properly?  ;-). Kidding aside, it looks like a great buy, Gary!  It looks very familiar from my childhood.

I bought 10 of these.

Spence, that's really cool car but why 10? Do you plan on running that many? I don't mean to be nosey, I'm just curious.

Did you get all the various attachments for it?

 

My college fraternity had a Kirby with all of the attachments.  It had very strong suction, and you could reverse it to use it as a blower.  Our phrase to describe it was:  It sucks because it blows, and it blows because it sucks.

Hi Model Railroad & Kirby fans.

• No attachments

• I think it is pre-war, 30's - Just a estimate.

• It has been converted to paper bags and the seller gave me a few extra bags.

• I put on a clean bag, ran a test in the garage, and it works.

• This vacuum was once on a New York Central, Pullman Car.

Gary

The RED Kirby is a 1954-1959, numbers #514 thru  #519

I have a 1948 508 black  trim, red belt lifter, & a later(?), but very nice blue bag.

 

Leave it to Adriatic!!  No wonder I remember them

Gary,

that is really cool.  A NYC Kirby 0-2-0 sweeper!!

did you get the box and instructions with it.....

Fresh out the box!
I added some weathering to the rail box....