Buy anything cool lately?

I finally got one of these...

Yes; too much. but it seemed all my holy grails popped up at once!

thanks!

- Mario

@StevefromPA posted:

@John's Trains awesome to hear that your Pennsy works well at low speeds and that your enjoying it!

regarding the horn- when you activate the horn on your transformer whether by turning the handle or pressing a button, a small amount of DC + is superimposed onto the track and it’s that positive DC voltage that activates the horn(if a loco has a bell and you have a bell button negative DC voltage activates that). It’s like that for postwar locos and modern conventional electronic horns, such as Williams true blast. See the thread below for sone good info

https://ogrforum.com/...-operate-on-dc-power

Regarding the increase in speed, iirc, when I would apply the DC to my postwar 2056(horn in the tender) it would speed up. Again, iirc, my Powered units w/ horn:  RMT buddies, K-line by Lionel box Cab, Williams Amtrak GP7 w/ true blast, etc... also speed up somewhat when the DC voltage is applied to sound the horn.

THANK YOU Steve, Bob, and Joe for the excellent information! Now I know I'm not doing anything wrong.

John

@John's Trains posted:

THANK YOU Steve, Bob, and Joe for the excellent information! Now I know I'm not doing anything wrong.

John

Happy to help.  Here's my dummy horn. You are not missing anything. 😂

Yes the True Blast horn wasn't much of a blast.

Wow, that horn sounds more like an emergency broadcast warning - Weather, Amber alert etc. 

I purchased the Disney boxcar via Ebay.

And after a bit of kit bashing, I am now a proud owner of this.

@John's Trains No problem!

@RSJB18 Henry C was spot on-I can’t recall if my GP9 sounded like a Severe Weathering Warning!! Ha

I think I may have a "buying trains" problem. Have a few of items being shipped in - a couple of old Walther's O scale Milwaukee Road passenger type car kits. Ended up buying two plus a woodsided caboose kit I will convert to Illinois Central (orange) - all to combine shipping of course.  Now I need to replace my not so good paint sprayer with something better.  Then won an auction today for an old Weaver brass M1a Mountain loco - set a max price and it held - wow.

Then on a lark walked in to a local shop converting over to R/C and archery. 5 years ago they had a demo layout for O, HO and N - almost nothing now.  Well, pulled these 2 off the shelves and asked what they wanted for them. $40 and I was out of there with a new haul.  The building needs TLC but I knew it was probably missing pieces and maybe dropped. Once home nothing I cannot fix and no serious damage. The internal WS lighting is in bad shape, but the exterior looks good. MTH premier box car - well cannot have too much ICG anything.

Of course have been watching a few cars on Trainz and trying hard not to pull the trigger on those at least till I get back from the train show up in Wheaton this weekend.

So maybe nothing cool - but they are new treasures for me. 

“Now I need to replace my not so good paint sprayer with something better. “

I hope that includes a spray booth with a brushless exhaust motor! Unless you spray outdoors.

Great buys everyone! This past week I recently picked up a Woodland Scenics Water Tower from a LHS. I’ve wanted this water tower since seeing it on the shelf back in January. Amazing details and the graffiti sure does make it authentic.

At this rate I’m going to have a layout of water towers. Hahaha! Possibly just one more track side water tank for the steam locomotives and roughly 6-7 more buildings from Woodland Scenics. (Anyone with a good source on WS items at a reasonable price?)

So last week, I got from @boomer0622 a Navy Alco 224 with matching B-unit. I had the caboose for a couple years now but never found an engine. Our module group is setting up this weekend for a local railroads in the parks event in NE Ohio metroparks. I waited for an entire week just so I take these couple photos while we are setting up. Now I need to find the Navy cars to go with them.

@das boot posted:

And after a bit of kit bashing, I am now a proud owner of this.

👍🏻👏

@CAPPilot posted:

👍🏻👏

@das boot posted:

I purchased the Disney boxcar via Ebay.

And after a bit of kit bashing, I am now a proud owner of this.

I love it. From Mad Magazine..lol

@das boot posted:

I purchased the Disney boxcar via Ebay.

And after a bit of kit bashing, I am now a proud owner of this.

I concur. Great bash of that car. Spy vs Spy was my favorite feature in Mad Magazine.

Bob

@StevefromPA posted:

@NS1975 very cool Rock Island SW1200! Looks like it’s a really well done model! How does it run? Has me really excited for my PB&NE SW1200, which will be my first diesel yard switcher, to arrive!

It is a very smooth runner and creeps along at very slow pace if you want. Lionel improved their crew talk a while ago, so it is not that new of a feature but the dialogue is better than my other two switchers because it is a little more authentic sounding.

bought one of these for a friend many years ago…last night, I was lucky to finally have my own!

@Leroof posted:

bought one of these for a friend many years ago…last night, I was lucky to finally have my own!

Gonna need a lot of tea for all that sugar.....🤪🤪🤪🤪

Went to the N. Smith tent sale a couple of weeks ago. I got this MTH GP20 PS 3.0 really cheap ($50.00) because it doesn't run - trips the transformer when powered up. It will become a dummy on the layout. I also got this Strasburg trolley. I know they didn't have one, but I like the colors.

Charlie

Bought the pair, Annabel and Annie, for the Lion Chief Thomas at the club for visitors' use:

@Leroof posted:

bought one of these for a friend many years ago…last night, I was lucky to finally have my own!

Great! Now I want one.  Thanks Pierre!

@cpowell posted:

Went to the N. Smith tent sale a couple of weeks ago. I got this MTH GP20 PS 3.0 really cheap ($50.00) because it doesn't run - trips the transformer when powered up. It will become a dummy on the layout. I also got this Strasburg trolley. I know they didn't have one, but I like the colors.

Charlie

For $50 bucks you could probably send it to one of our MTH wizards here on the forum and get it straightened out and have a fully functioning engine for half of list price.

Stopped at a antique shop on the cape today. The wife found some old railroad pictures. The bridge looked familiar, sure enough it’s about 15 minutes away. Old yard in Springfield, Mass.

Nate,

That’s a very interesting photo. The use of the word “case” followed by a numberin the title on the back made me wonder whether it was an insurance, liability, or trial photo.  It looks like the switch is the main focus but a quick web search didn't turn anything up to support that theory.  The photographer was buried in West Springfield, so he at least was local.

Enjoy your find; one of my favorite NE railroads.

Tomlinson Run Railroad

@TomlinsonRunRR posted:

Nate,

That’s a very interesting photo. The use of the word “case” followed by a numberin the title on the back made me wonder whether it was an insurance, liability, or trial photo.  It looks like the switch is the main focus but a quick web search didn't turn anything up to support that theory.  The photographer was buried in West Springfield, so he at least was local.

Enjoy your find; one of my favorite NE railroads.

Tomlinson Run Railroad

I didn’t even notice that, probably cause I was to happy to find it. There was about 10 photos available all by the same person. We are going back in two weeks. If we stop in again I will see if they are labeled case as well.

@cpowell posted:

Went to the N. Smith tent sale a couple of weeks ago. I got this MTH GP20 PS 3.0 really cheap ($50.00) because it doesn't run - trips the transformer when powered up. It will become a dummy on the layout. I also got this Strasburg trolley. I know they didn't have one, but I like the colors.

Charlie

I like that trolley. Interestingly, there kinda sorta is a prototype for a Strasburg trolley of sorts. Wikipedia shows that Conestoga Traction, later Conestoga Transportation Company, had a network of lines radiating out from Lancaster City to different towns including a line terminating in Strasburg. Photos of its trolleys are for sale online.

On Memorial Day, I visited the Hesston Steam Museum in Michigan City IN  (awesome place; just down the road from the "I Love Toy Trains" store), and picked up a wayside signal that had been donated by the CN.   With a little wire-brushing, a lot of WD-40, and spray paint, I've got a nice addition to my future layout room.

Went to the Hamburg Pa. train meet this past Sunday. Wasn't looking for anything in particular, but stumbled across a Lionel pw 736 w/ correct tender at a very good price and also Lionel pw 1948 set, 1656 switcher w/ 2403B slope back tender, 6456 LV hopper, 6465 Sunoco tanker, 6257X SP caboose, and transformer.   

Posted on other threads but it's not officially "cool" until it's here.

I picked up a MTH S2 shell for a project.

Union Pacific fast freight set with coal dumping car , 2 extra cars, track, transformer, in box for 100.00. Good deal I thought.

Norfolk Southern Legacy SD45 Numbers 1145, 1766, and 1795 arrived today. Two are powered along with one super base. The fourth Norfolk Southern Legacy Engine a SD70Mac arrives later today.  These are last of current orders, except for one item, the Rain Deer car (to much fun-for wife).

I just bought some upgrades from "da Gunrunner"

@das boot posted:

I purchased the Disney boxcar via Ebay.

And after a bit of kit bashing, I am now a proud owner of this.

Love it!  I used to get Mad mag and Cracked🤪

Fellows great buys, and @RSJB18 Bob, now you encouraged me to invest in switchers, (I’ve needed them) and here is my latest edition. Happy Railroading Everyone

Arrived via UPS today are these two "friends" of Thomas, Clarabel and Annie.  They'll run on Saturday mornings with kids operating the Lion Chief Thomas controller.  Heck, we may even double-head the LC and conventional Thomas versions.

@leapinlarry posted:

Fellows great buys, and @RSJB18 Bob, now you encouraged me to invest in switchers, (I’ve needed them) and here is my latest edition. Happy Railroading Everyone

Happy to enab..... errr, help out Larry.

Looks great. Now I need a layout like yours so I can stock up on the big guys.

🤣🤣

Bob

No cool layout yet and not nearly as neat as some of the stuff others are picking up but I am still excited about it, a Lionel PRR Legacy SD45.

As I inch closer to finishing the 9 car NP NCL pax train, I realized my excruciatingly slow progress would mean a long time before I'd complete the ABA units for it.

So, as an interim source of power, I purchased a LIONEL F-3 AB set from 1997 in NP NCL livery w/ TMCC, AND a fairly scarce dummy A unit produced in 2002 to create the prototypical ABA power.

Photos and video to follow.

@027 Bob posted:

On Memorial Day, I visited the Hesston Steam Museum in Michigan City IN  (awesome place; just down the road from the "I Love Toy Trains" store), and picked up a wayside signal that had been donated by the CN.   With a little wire-brushing, a lot of WD-40, and spray paint, I've got a nice addition to my future layout room.

Now that is cool!

First new engine in a long time is an SP 70 tonner by WbB. Bought new at Trainworld on super sale and arrived today.