Buy anything cool lately?

For use by young (and old) visitors to our club's permanent layout and traveling layout:

Operates with included handheld and bluetooth app; and the universal remote.

@Chuck242 posted:

Coach Joe, I am from Long Island and I never knew the story of LI Sand being so crucial for construction in the city.  I have the LIRR on my little layout, and now grasp the importance of the sand hoppers, and the memorial is beyond beautiful, it is striking.  Obliviously rather recently created, and be that as it may, to see the Twin Towers preserved is memorable by itself.  Thanks for sharing.

Chuck that was Bob that was good enough to find a post a picture of the monument.  I've never actually seen the monument but I've seen that conveyor tunnel plenty working in the vicinity of the golf course before it even was a golf course.  I read about the monument after it was dedicated.

Picked up a nice little 1956-vintage set on eBay with a 1615 switcher.   Needed a little cleanup and it came out great.  

My friend Sam recently wrote an article about JEP Trains for the METCA WayBill. After reading it and looking at his pictures/videos I thought that a JEP set would be a nice addition to my new Tinplate Room. This just arrived today.
My first foreign train and first clockwork.

@pennsyfan: Bob what a neat set.  The European / UK clockwork toy sets are really neat to see and collect.

Best Wishes

Don

@pennsyfan posted:

My friend Sam recently wrote an article about JEP Trains for the METCA WayBill. After reading it and looking at his pictures/videos I thought that a JEP set would be a nice addition to my new Tinplate Room. This just arrived today.
My first foreign train and first clockwork.

Looks great Bob!

I'm telling you, once you buy these European pieces, there's no going back.

For all those that want to see the video I made that Bob is referencing, take a look at the link below.

https://youtu.be/Dp3mKWaX9vY

Picked up the UP Big Blow turbine recently.  I love some of the experimental stuff that UP was doing.

Bought a Lionel Phantom preproduction model - may have been a test of the red “eyes” as that part is brushed on paint.

John, Is the UP Turbine MTH or Lionel? What product number is it?

@amtrack5899 posted:

John, Is the UP Turbine MTH or Lionel? What product number is it?

It's the MTH model, 20-2124-1 from 1996.

Nathan's Woodsided Reefers

Dealing with a ton of yard work, then I found this little package from Nassau hobbies at my door and all was well! Strangely, my back doesn’t hurt anymore, LOL!  -

The other fish belly with a different road number arrived about six months ago.  They are going to nicely pair with that Trainworld work train engine pre order.  

Great stuff everyone - Brooklyn I do LOVE those "Nathan" hot dogs!!

Best Wishes

Don

Corey, of course you had to have those in your collection.

I got the Three Rivers Passenger set a while back.  I didn’t have an opportunity to run them until today.  I have installed John’s flicker-free lighting today.  Here they are at crawl speed with my GG1 LC+ 2.0 today.

Lookin' good, just need some passengers so you can bring in a little revenue!

Picked these two beauties recently. The car at a local train show and the FMTrainsmaster form my good friend at the RailYard in Roanoke

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At the Kutztown meet yesterday I picked up this PostWar 6464-250 Western Pacific box car with the purple/blue feather and thes North American wildlife animals for the layout. The show was packed, nice and cool in the morning, temps jumped starting around 11:00

we didn’t bring anything from York this year, but stumbled across this RK Challenger and Aux tender after we got home.

@Brooklyn Corey posted:

Nathan's Woodsided Reefers

Sweet, Corey. I also picked up.a set from Train World. Ken and MTH did a great job on the cars. And you really have to have both!!! Really miss Nathan’s hot dogs - and don’t forget the amazing fries!!! Loved it when they opened a place at Shea Stadium (sorry… refuse to call it Citi Field). Good. But not as good as Surf Avenue

I agree Paul, I took the pair as well; I also have the Lionel version that they made for NLOE.

Yes, you can’t beat the dogs and fries from the original Nathan’s, Surf Ave, Brooklyn.

@Strap Hanger posted:

Dealing with a ton of yard work, then I found this little package from Nassau hobbies at my door and all was well! Strangely, my back doesn’t hurt anymore, LOL!  -

The other fish belly with a different road number arrived about six months ago.  They are going to nicely pair with that Trainworld work train engine pre order.  

I love Nassau Hobby 🙂

The Lionel New Hope & Ivy set

Latest acquisitions😁

Pecos River Kansas City Southern double door automobile boxcar

Lionel three car set of USRA Steam Era Western Maryland 2 Bay Coal hoppers

MTH premier six car set of Steam Era Western Maryland 2 bay offset hoppers

Both the USRA and Offset Hoppers came in literally within minutes of each other haha

Yes Mark Boyce I was competing with you for that six car set from Tristan Mundis on the MTH Buy Sell and Trade Page😂

Just arrived from Hiawatha Hobbies in Pewaukee WI for member and visitor use on our club's permanent and traveling layouts.  Great price and low UPS charge of $8.95 delivered in VA.

McDonald's Train

My three Atlas 50' Gunderson Hi Cube Boxcars arrived today from MrMuffin's Trains.

Beautiful cars. GATX - LRS, TTX - Forward Thinking and TTX - On Track for A Cure

All well Nate.

Besides my caboose purchases above, I bought a MTH Madison Ave trolley.

Well, after a long wait, a couple of 86 foot box cars arrived today. I like them. Happy Railroading Everyone

@leapinlarry posted:

Well, after a long wait, a couple of 86 foot box cars arrived today. I like them. Happy Railroading Everyone

Hi Larry, those box cars are lonnnnggggg!!! I'm not sure I've seen O scale boxcars that long before, and they look like they're about as long as a 4-8-4 Northern with tender! They are super impressive and look great on your layout.

Thank you Scott, I have several of these long, 86’ box cars, which are the same length as Lionel’s scale auto carrier cars, and because my layouts a walk around, you never see the entire train so I can run long freights and passenger trains.

@Brooklyn Corey posted:

McDonald's Train

Fun set, but I have to say, hard to beat that classic New York Yankee hat!

From another forum member at a genuinely affordable price - 1st version of Lionel CN cylindrical hopper. Very thankful. Adds a little color to the layout and with a rebuild coming up with wider curves (O-63 and O-72) adding in some longer rolling stock is now an option. Everything up until now has been 2 bay coal hoppers, PS-2 covered hoppers and 40' boxcars.

I saw this book on our 2018 Europe trip, but the store I saw in the window of was closed, finally found an affordable copy this week on Amazon.

The hobby supplies, I bought while hitting all the hobby shops in Portland today.

I bought an MTH Premier BL-2 in EMD demonstrator colors on the Bay recently.

@Mister_Lee posted:

I bought an MTH Premier BL-2 in EMD demonstrator colors on the Bay recently.

Ahh.....another BL-2 fan! Great looking loco IMHO! I have the Railking version.

@leapinlarry- those 86 footers are huge. They look great on your layout.
@Mooner- that CN car should have Crayola on the side.
@p51- glad you found that book. I assume you read French?

Bob

@Mister_Lee posted:

I bought an MTH Premier BL-2 in EMD demonstrator colors on the Bay recently.

welcome to the "club."

I am thankful to fellow forum member Mark Boyce for pointing this out to me when MTH only had 10 left in stock with a special price of $399.  The local dealer get one in for me plus his extra 10% off.  Thank you Mark!

Ron

@RSJB18

@p51- glad you found that book. I assume you read French?

Nope, but I can make out some stuff from the captions from all the great photos...

Well folks here is my story today, a new acquisition about which I am really excited.   I did post a few pictures of this loco on "Front End Friday" but I thought I would post some additional pictures here.  I must admit, I am really enthusiastic about this locomotive.  Its my first Amtrak loco and my first large Williams by Bachmann locomotive.  I had bought 2 Williams GE 44 tonner's before and they were great operators so I thought I would try this larger engine.  Man! I am excited.  This gal runs like a charm, smooooooth and powerful , takes 0-31 curves with no problem had great sounds and a cool horn.  The level of detail is really wonderful.  

Its the Amtrack, F59PH Pacific Surfliner.  Here is the side view of the entire locomotive.

The next two pictures gives you a glimpse of the level of "add on" detail Williams provided to this locomotive.  Windshield wipers, crew, lights, crew ladders , rear view mirrors, etc.

Here she is with her current train.  The loco so over-shadows the PW Lionel passenger cars that its clear to me, I will need some additional and more appropriate Amtrak cars.

Folks, I am used to the pre (sometimes tinplate) and post war level of detail.  The detail on the roof of this locomotive is amazing to me.  You can see fan blades under the fan screen, vents are actually open and the horn array is highly detailed.  This is really cool to me.

Here is a little video of her in action.