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I just got this in the mail today, a piece of siding off ET&WNC caboose # 505. It was removed as part of the restoration effort at the Avery County museum in Newland, NC and sent to me by the gentleman who restored the caboose:


I swear I was cackling to myself with joy from the mailbox once I realized what was inside the envelope!

And here's my own model of this caboose, made from a Deerfield River Laser kit, sitting atop part of the real thing:

This has always been one of my gotta haves. Now I have a consist to go to the shore. As the song goes, “On the way to Cape May…”

Lee,

Your caboose model and now the section from the real thing to put it on are beyond awesome!

You must be thrilled.

Tomlinson Run Railroad

My latest project...

@TomlinsonRunRR posted:

Lee,

Your caboose model and now the section from the real thing to put it on are beyond awesome!

You must be thrilled.

I am, in a giddy kid like way that feels good down to my soul.

I never thought I'd get something like this.

A METCA Norfolk Southern SD33ECO (lionel sd-40)

@Yellowstone Special posted:

I've been on the lookout for a 2012 Lionel Legacy GP9 to have as a back-up for my 2007 Legacy GP7, since the 7 is early Legacy and no electronic boards are available for it anymore. Anyway, the 9 arrived today and I put it through its paces. It's definitely an improvement over the 7, with removable trucks sides to change out traction tires and the trucks also swivel for quick access to the motors.

The only minus is that the diesel horn is different from the 7s, which was the way I remember hearing it as a kid growing up in the fifties. When the UP replaced its GP7 with GP9s, the horns sounded the same. But not on mine. Anyway, I am glad to have found one very reasonably priced, as these GP9s only come along for sale about once a year or so.

Vern, awesome find! Before you put the GP 9 away, lash it up with your GP 7 and do lap! ;-)

@Donnie Kennedy posted:

Took a chance on a mpc gp9  NYC 8477. It's built like a postwar with magentraction and Pullmor type 1 motor. Got it for a reasonable price. Runs really well and quiet. For an MPC era engine I'm pretty impressed.

MPC made 2 others like that around the same time. The Milwaukee Road GP9 from the Fallen Flags Set, and the JC Penney Exclusive Wabash GP9 with the display case.

This is my first train purchase for 2022: the LCCA Christmas boxcar.

This was at my doorstep yesterday. I now have the commemorative Christmas bocxcars for LRRC and LCCA dating from 2009-2022.

I just picked up the M&M's inspection car set at Menards.

It isn't on their webpage and as far as I know there hasn't been an official announcement about it yet.

I haven't had a chance to open yet but plan to do so soon.

@Mark V. Spadaro posted:

MPC made 2 others like that around the same time. The Milwaukee Road GP9 from the Fallen Flags Set, and the JC Penney Exclusive Wabash GP9 with the display case.

I like the Wabash gp9. It may be a future purchase! I'm thinking about getting an MPC B&O F3 8364 and change the truck to magnatraction. I think when you really look there were a lot of nice quality mpc products out there. The steam engines are also really nice.

It’s Hallmark time.

@WesternPacific2217 posted:

Vern, awesome find! Before you put the GP 9 away, lash it up with your GP 7 and do lap! ;-)

Thank you, Scott. I’ll have to try that. 👍

I recently picked up an original issue 6464-300 Rutland Box Car. After I got it home I realized it was one of the variations where the shell is yellow plastic with green paint. According to Greenburg's price guide it is a pricey variation.  Along with this 6464-300 were 13 other 6464 Box cars.

Thanks;

idea-thinker

@Wood posted:

Unfortunately that's what happens to modern era engines.. They get tired and have no replacement parts. My childhood Praire engine still runs clickety clack..

Hey Wood, I had meant to ask you earlier. Is your childhood "Prairie" Lionel's 2-6-4 #2037? It was also referred to as a Prairie steamer. If so, I also have that one. It pulls my first Lionel train set, the Cleartrack Special, which Santa brought me for Christmas in 1955. I still have it (with the engine refurbished a few years ago) and it runs very well.

Just got his alternative car number 501 for my Super Chief Set.  It’s the LionChief set. I already found the long-discontinued B and A dummy units.  Now with two domes it really will be super!

As a native of Youngstown and a traveler to Akron and Canton a must have along with a few brothers and sisters.  Even thought MTH got the lettering WRONG!

Ron

Nice finds guys!

I’ve got nothing big today; just a few scenery items for my current project Vinnie’s Boats and Bait.

The citrus model railroad club had a train show today and I was able to pick up some punk rock “Homies” for my CBGBs building, some HO sized water towers, which will go nicely on the tops of a few buildings, pre painted metal propane tanks and assorted roof details, and terminal strips for a rewiring project.  Sadly, I had my heart set on a post war Lionel maintenance car that had a broken step and missing brake wheel, but the seller wouldn’t work with me on price, holding firm at a ridiculous $35.  Another guy had a heavily used post war US army 4 wheel switcher, but he wouldn’t move off of his price of $100.  I don’t get these types of sellers at train shows.  I guess they’d rather take the stuff home than move it a a fair price.

1:1 scale, from a Army S2

@RixTrack posted:

Just got his alternative car number 501 for my Super Chief Set.  It’s the LionChief set. I already found the long-discontinued B and A dummy units.  Now with two domes it really will be super!

RixTrack, nice find and great Santa Fe passenger set you have plus the FT ABA set, very nice! Cool display case too! I know you'll enjoy your set!!!

I have a set of those semi scale Sante Fe Chief passenger cars myself, and I found a standalone dome car too, so I have two dome cars in my set. I added a bunch of passengers to the set including in the domes. The passenger figures I bought from eBay, mostly Chinese cheapies from a Chinese seller and shipped from China. I also added some Lionel 21" passengers mixed in. I even have a guy on the crapper (first photo in in the left window). LoL

I pull my set with a Lionel Santa Fe F3 ABA TMCC set from 2004. It's showing its age compared to how my newer Lionel locomotives run.

Here's 3 cars in my set to show the passengers. The cars come alive with passengers.

You may notice in the photo of the observation car that I run the rear truck 180 out so the knuckle is sticking out the back. It looks better, IMO.

Have a great weekend and enjoy those trains!

This purchase is a bit unusual, but this is the second LIONEL General Motors Demonstrator TMCC F-3 running chassis purchased in the past two weeks from an eBay seller.

Both are new.  The first one checked out perfectly this morning on my club's layout.  This one will get tested later next week.

One of these will be stripped and the parts reinstalled on an identical frame already painted for my NP NCL train.

The other will be stripped and reassembled for my Texas Special train project.

I bought some more needed equipment from this seller, but I'll post about those next week after they arrive.

Picked up the following, a Lionel Sarage SD-4r0-2, powered and nonpowered, at Nassau Hobbies in Freeport, LI.  Both have very colorful graphics.  I plan to run both with another engine that was shipped to me, the Lionel Katy SD=40, from METCA.  This is another colorful Tezas Special engine.  in Texas Special graphics. 

@Yellowstone Special posted:

Hey Wood, I had meant to ask you earlier. Is your childhood "Prairie" Lionel's 2-6-4 #2037?  It is referred to as a Prairie steamer. If so, I also have that one. It pulls my first Lionel train set, the Cleartrack Special, which Santa brought me for Christmas in 1955. I still have it (with the engine refurbished a few years ago) and it runs very well.

@Yellowstone Special

Yes, Vern it is the Prairie 2-6-4 with the road number 2026. It shares the Boiler casting with the 2016, 2018, 2029 and 2037.  Same story in that it was a Christmas present around 1955. This train pulled our loads around the Christmas layout for many years.  My brothers and I loved the train wrecks, so we banged it up a little and had lots of fun. It still runs...

Got this from UPS yesterday.  Got it from a Hobby Shop that still had it new in stock.  Lionel 6-85180.

Great buys everyone! Some beautiful engines I’m seeing! Thanks for sharing!

Last week I had another shipment of cars arrive. This order consisted of 9 Menards cars and a Lionel Old Glory series of 3 boxcars.

First up are the nine Menards cars. Here they are: a Erie Lackawanna boxcar, Lehigh Valley boxcar, Lehigh Valley covered hopper, Union Pacific modern tanker, UTLX modern tanker, Quaker State Oil tanker, US Army tanker in camouflage, US Army modern tanker, and an US Army flat with Army Truck and HIMARS.

And here’s the Lionel Old Glory Series set of three boxcars that was included in this order.

An overall photo of this shipment.

There’s still more to come from this seller but we are taking a pause for York so more to follow afterwards!

@Richizzle07- Wow those are neat cars.  You are going to need (or do you have?) one big layout to handle all these cars.  They all look super however I especially like the tank cars.  Menards only offering 3 new at the moment so you scored a great haul!

Don

Over the weekend I went to The Great Northeast Model Train Show hosted by Bernie’s Model Railroad in Dunmore, PA. Great show and it’s the closest show to my house so that’s a big bonus. I grabbed 7 cars total. Would have been more but I’m holding out for York.

Here’s the cars I picked up. A Lionel Wonder Bread Bicentennial hopper, Lionel Planters Peanuts covered hopper, a Lionel PBR reefer (which was my grandfather’s favorite beer), along with 4 more MTH Christmas boxcars.

This was my second time attending this show and it’s always great! Here’s an overall photo of my haul.

@Don McErlean posted:

@Richizzle07- Wow those are neat cars.  You are going to need (or do you have?) one big layout to handle all these cars.  They all look super however I especially like the tank cars.  Menards only offering 3 new at the moment so you scored a great haul!

Don

Thanks Don! The layout is actually currently under a remodel so none have actually been used yet 😂. It’s a fairly small layout but I’ll have (as of now) three levels planned so it’ll add more space for running. My rebuild is in my signature if you’d like to check it out. I really like the Menards tankers though. A few more tankers will be arriving after York.

@Wood posted:

@Yellowstone Special

Yes, Vern it is the Prairie 2-6-4 with the road number 2026. It shares the Boiler casting with the 2016, 2018, 2029 and 2037.  Same story in that it was a Christmas present around 1955. This train pulled our loads around the Christmas layout for many years.  My brothers and I loved the train wrecks, so we banged it up a little and had lots of fun. It still runs...

Well, now that's pretty awesome! My 2037 was a little banged up too, but nothing serious. After coming back from the "refurbisher," it looks and runs like it did back in 1955.

Atlas Trainman D&H RS3 with Railsounds/TMCC. I have been picking up D&H rolling stock here and there with nothing to pull it with, so I'm happy to be adding the Atlas engine. This will be my 4th Atlas TMCC engine and I really like the quality and build. Others I picked up over the last 2 years as I have been swapping out what was all Christmas themed trains for real-world lines are a Rutland RS1, Green Mountain RS1, and Vermont Railway GP60.

@Mooner posted:

Atlas Trainman D&H RS3 with Railsounds/TMCC. I have been picking up D&H rolling stock here and there with nothing to pull it with, so I'm happy to be adding the Atlas engine. This will be my 4th Atlas TMCC engine and I really like the quality and build. Others I picked up over the last 2 years as I have been swapping out what was all Christmas themed trains for real-world lines are a Rutland RS1, Green Mountain RS1, and Vermont Railway GP60.

Atlas makes a nice product, and I bought the Vermont GP60 a few years ago.  The problem now is the Legacy system adds so many nice features, so I stopped buying Atlas engines.  Atlas started using the MTH DCC/DCS system so maybe I'll look at them again.

@Wood posted:

@Yellowstone Special

Yes, Vern it is the Prairie 2-6-4 with the road number 2026. It shares the Boiler casting with the 2016, 2018, 2029 and 2037.  Same story in that it was a Christmas present around 1955. This train pulled our loads around the Christmas layout for many years.  My brothers and I loved the train wrecks, so we banged it up a little and had lots of fun. It still runs...

Guys I am getting confused.  I thought a "Prairie" was a 2-6-2  configuration.

Ron

Picked this up, along with a bunch of other stuff, at a flea market out in the middle of nowhere. 20 bucks, and it runs great! Same can't be said for the Williams brass GS4 Daylight. I guess it's going to be my first learn-as-you-go-rebuild project. Still, only 20 bucks!

@PRRronbh posted:

Guys I am getting confused.  I thought a "Prairie" was a 2-6-2  configuration.

Ron

@PRRronbh

Ron, you are correct about the 2-6-2 Prairie.  Lionel's initial offering in1948-49 was a 2-6-2.  However, beginning in 1951 the offering became a 2-6-4.  In the real world the Prairie Steamer was 2-6-2.  They were made by Baldwin.

@Mooner posted:

Atlas Trainman D&H RS3 with Railsounds/TMCC. I have been picking up D&H rolling stock here and there with nothing to pull it with, so I'm happy to be adding the Atlas engine. This will be my 4th Atlas TMCC engine and I really like the quality and build. Others I picked up over the last 2 years as I have been swapping out what was all Christmas themed trains for real-world lines are a Rutland RS1, Green Mountain RS1, and Vermont Railway GP60.

Great looking loco. Love the road name too!

Mine's a Williams. Interesting differences in the colors.

Picked up this Lionel Disney EP-5 with caboose at a recent local train show.

Don't have a lot of Disney cars to pull behind it.  Here're a few.

They are cute and fun looking. Enjoy.

I bought a never run Lionel 6467 from an auction on Stout by a large collector.  Really mint shape.  It doesn't come with a load, so I bought some new pipes from the bay, and chained them down tight!

New to me K-line big boy.  The usual, replace all traction tires, age had got them.   Fix problem with coupler not staying coupled, oil and run.  Near 0 use from what I saw.. TMCC and everything works.