Buy anything cool lately?

I was surprised when I saw the cover of the album. We have the original art to it. WOW. It goes back to the thirties.

Hey Adriatic--  Regarding my Santa Fe A-B-B-A units containing FOUR motors.....

My friend "Ray" at "House of Trains" in Hoodsport, WA has a long Super Chief on some long custom shelving.   His A-B-B-A set contains EIGHT (8) big motors...

He says he has to turn off some of the passenger car lighting otherwise the current draw is astronomical !!

Cheers.

 

KRK

 Like I really needed to hear that, now I'm jealous of both of you.

I liked the extra motors enough, I admit I try lighting fuses in folk

 The old War Bonnets held many good memories for me, in both running ability, and family affairs.

Top shelf equipment!

  Not exactly ugly, or bland either    

Pleasant surprise today. I found two Weaver wood chip hoppers at the Public Delivery Truck. They were suppose to come Monday. Great service from them. Three days to get here from the west coast. Now just have to get loads for them.  Pics of the new additions............Paul

This is some paperwork from the RRI model, going back to 1903. The stuff with the burn marks is from a fire in the company HQ. These are locomotive reports, all from 1938. Very few are in private hands today.

 

 

And some stuff from Tweetsie RR, the brochure is probably from it's first year of operation:

Also, this:

The upper right sheet is really cool, as it's filled out for locomotive # 207, dated 1960. ET&WNC # 207 is better known to rail fans as Southern RR # 630, currently on the NS steam program. It's also the first locomotive I ever got a cab ride on. My parents saw it and 208 (better known now as SRR 722) on a daily basis in Elizabethton, TN until they moved to Florida...

Every now and then I stumble across something unusual. It's an NMRA 1988 Convention Car (Birmingham, AL). Spotted it one on eBay and no one else bid, so I got it for $15. I have to assemble it and add weights, but that's not a big deal. It will be one of my "rainy day" projects.

 

Another long search has ended. I have both 1600 & 1700 series Ives transition freight cars, but never had a proper transition loco. Just picked up a nice 258 with 1663T at a good price. Needs a little TLC yet, but very happy.

 

Steve

 

 

Bought a beat up shell running  Marx 1666 because it had the steam chest smoker which emits a lot of smoke.

Waiting for a Marx 666 in real nice condition to replace its stack smoker with the stem chest one.

Waiting on a Marx 333 smoker as well.

 

Used to have Marx many years back but sold them now just wanted a few pieces to have fun with.

 

Martin

great looking engine Steve.

Lucky enough to find for sale a Lionel Evolution hybrid 2010 diesel  Beautiful engine. could not believe how heavy it was.  Runs well but smoke unit needs to be replaced.....future project

 

-Pete

Just placed an order for one of these from Charlie Nassau

You will be happy you did!

 

-Pete

       
       


Great find! Hopefully you got it for a reasonable price.

My problem is I do not have room on my layout to add anything.  I have an around the room layout as well.  Not a box storer, but surely enjoy toy trains.

My favorite antique dealer was back from his "vacation" yesterday so I went shopping. Brought home a 3424  Wabash Walking Brakeman boxcar in good shape. The Wabash went through Pittsburgh for awhile so wanted it. The still use the Wabash tunnel through Mt. Washington. In the day the RR built a bridge across the Mon. and had a big multi-story warehouse in downtown Pittsburgh. It burned in the late 40s and I remember us driving past it and you could see the burned and soggy wet contents where he walls had collapsed.  Sat there for a long time it seems until it was torn down. Also picked up a derelict KW transformer very cheap, brought t home, cleaned it good, put a new cord on it and works like new !! A "find". Now I ave two extras.

Thanks to Pat's Trains, I have my first tinplate set on the way. I will post pictures when it is received!!!

I recently picked up an original 395 floodlight tower (rare yellow version) at a very decent price and very nice condition; not 100% pristine but nowhere near a basket case either, mostly needed a little cleaning up and need to get some new bulbs for it.  Will put it next to my industrial yard that's still in progress.

Yes I do. I have been stumbleing over items lately that forum members want to sell.

 

This is kinda sorta one J I wanted.  A very good deal IMO of course.

 

Larry

My new set arrived today! We had a small issue with the tether on the engine side. The plug inside the engine was a little loose and causing the engine to run sporadically. Once we got it seated well it worked flawless. Thanks Pats Trains for helping when I ordered the wrong track!

 

My grandpa has been looking for a good transformer for a year or so now, and I found this great ZW at the Pittsburgh Antique Mall in Castle Shannon for $50! I brought it home and tested all four outputs and the two whistle buttons, and it all works perfectly. It is all original except for the lack of the Lionel nameplate on the top.

 

Congrads

Picked up this WM GP40 dummy unit. My "Circus Paint" stable is growing.

Running with lead unit #3579 a GP35

While I'm at it I thought I'd re-stage this gorgeous photo from Charles LaHickey

Picked up one of the latest Lion Chief Plus offerings -- the NW-2. Got it right before vacation last week so haven't had much time to run it yet.  Looking forward to firing it up today.

 

 

nice find on the ZW. I've done pretty good at antique shops, but there are always the dealer that wants gold for a Scout set.

Went to a "toy train show" about a mile from my home yesterday and picked up three more Dimestore Dreams cars and Lionel Rico station for $20.00 that needs just a bit of work. (But I'll probably "bash" it anyway.)

 

Not much O27 anything there, some American Flyer S from the 50s, and tons of Lionel.  Almost no Marx even worth bringing home.

 

Did get dozens of contacts for everything from track to custom decals, though.

Friday I received a Lionel UP FEF3 to add to my scale steam roster. I also added a few extra passenger cars for my Lionel Albert Hall set. I did not take any photos this past few days due to a lack of A/C in my house.   

 

This came to the house yesterday. I used my eBaybucks to get it

Andre' s (River Leaf Models) Ball Breakers (pool hall) and Scuttlebutts (gentlemen's club) for the "other side of the tracks". Yes, my layout will have a seedy side of town where proper ladies and gentlemen(?) Would not dare to venture, especially at night.
These will reside in the vicinity of Spiders, another of Andre' s creations.
Ray.

Picked up the sequential matching dummy that completed my GP30 setup.  Please excuse my background,  no layout currently.  Have to run my trains on the club's layout for now.

 

 I was thinking about picking up this same set. I don't think it'll happen this time around though.

 

 Nice choice

 

Don't forget to remove the 4 screws on top, and take a peek at the rollers

Nice find.

 

I always wanted to do a custom plate for one vs the logo.

I think a mirror on top so we could see ourselves grinning would be funny.

A nicely printed list of whistle signals.

A picture of you in an engineers cap for Gramps to grin at?

 

 

You'll love that one.  It's one of Lionel's best and sounds incredible.  

 

Though I love the VL Challenger and BB, the FEF is still my all time favorite-Lionel just 'got it right' 

 

An epic locomotive.

Thanks! A couple weeks ago I went to that same Antique shop and they had a display case with a bunch of o-gauge. They had a 90's scout set (No box, no track, no transformer; nothing but the engine with broken drive rods, non-whistling tender without a coupler knuckle, and cars with missing wheels and rust everywhere). They were asking $200 for it!?! But the rest of the prices were reasonable. No steals. Since, someone bought the whole collection and removed the display case.

good find Keith6700,buy the way you can purchase the top data plate threw ebay from different transformer ZW  repair parts sellers if you want the original top plate!

Alan

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lionel...?hash=item54163bfc01

I didn't have time to take it apart at the time, but I did half an hour ago, and it all was fine. It's a really nice transformer; especially for the price.

 

My grandpa recently retired, so I printed out the words "Happy Retirement" and cut the paper to fit the circle where the nameplate used to be nicely. He got a kick out of that!

Super idea Keith!  I'm sure your grandpa was happy!

Thanks!

 

Thanks! Yah, I was looking at some of those on eBay, but it's not a big deal. I decided that it wouldn't really be worth it to buy one of those because a lot of small children will be using it, so it's not gonna make sense to make it look good. I'm a collector and operator, but my grandpa really only runs trains, so he doesn't care anyway. Thanks, though!

 

He really was! We needed another powerful transformer with more than 2 variable outputs for the upcoming expansion to the Christmas layout this year. We basically add a couple square feet each year, but this year, we're also gonna add a lot more track and a couple more loops. We're still in the planning process, but it's almost there!

I always liked Signal Gas and Oil. When I was a kid my parents would sometimes drive by Signal Hill. I thought it was amazing with hundreds of wooden oil wells and endless long lines of black tank cars. Had to buy this Lionel/K-line Signal tanker. New in the box and got it for $9.00 on E-bay. Don

MTH PS-3 Centipede

11 premier pennsy passengers to go with it

2 mth premier gondola with the braced switch track load, very nice. (yellow MOW scheme)