Buy anything cool lately?

@RSJB18 posted:

Great looking loco. Love the road name too!

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

Rich looking paint sceme on these Bob.

I received two separate orders of Menards cars I won on eBay so these are separate from the Menards collection I’ve been receiving over the past few weeks.

Six Menards cars total. There’s a CSX flat with Pepsi truck, Norfolk Southern boxcar, Reading hopper, Susquehanna boxcar, PRR Merchandise Service boxcar, and a Penn Central boxcar. (The last 3 have some fading to the plastic clamshells.)

Here’s an overall photo of the two orders. This SHOULD be the last purchases prior to York but then again there’s a Renningers Flash Train Meet on Saturday.

@Richizzle07- Wow another load of Menard's cars, looking good.  OBTW I did check out your layout project on the "My Layout Remodel" thread.  Really looks good quite a project for sure.

Best Regards

Don

@Richizzle07 posted:

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.

A really cool haul on these items Rich.

As I went down through each photo , it would have been hard for me to pass up any one of these beauties.

@Richizzle07 posted:

Six Menards cars total. There’s a CSX flat with Pepsi truck, Norfolk Southern boxcar, Reading hopper, Susquehanna boxcar, PRR Merchandise Service boxcar, and a Penn Central boxcar. (The last 3 have some fading to the plastic clamshells.)

Ditto for this group like my last reply Rich.

Thanks @Don McErlean and @Dallas Joseph! I’m sure having fun with the rebuild along with the many new additions to my now growing collection.

Picked up a few of the new Lionel ES44's:

@NVisich

Gorgeous. Enjoy!! Shoot some videos. Love to see and hear it run.

For my granddaughter who loves Hershey Kisses

@randr- "Sweet" gondola !  nice job and a great gift for your granddaughter.

Don

My Lionel tool and kitchen car with sound arrived yesterday.  Each car had a piece broken. Unfortunately I’m not surprised! Once fixed, they ran and sound great.

Gene

Got these mpc f3 Baltimore and Ohio units from a fellow forum member at a great price.

Old Peeling decals,missing number board, and dry rotted trac tires (not a fan)

Installed new nose decals (not perfect),new number boards on the 8363,and changed motor truck to postwar magnatraction. Gave her a little tlc and she's running nice. Just waiting for some B&O cars to arrive.

Some more custom weathering/graffiti. Both are based off prototype photos

Coming soon to my layout from my friends up at the Canadian Toy Train Association.

I got this new CB&Q flatcar with trailers from Berwyn’s Toy Trains

Looks great Dave, would love to see a video if you have time and inclination. Jim

@Genemed- neat tool car with sound.  Looks like you made expert repairs @Donnie Kennedy- Great looking MPC B&O F units!  Your work rescued a great train and put it back in action @Surefire - Now THAT is a graffiti car, what a design, neat! @Tom M - Our Canadian friends now how to deal with snow, that's a great looking plow @Dave Ripp.- Good looking TOFC Dave, the Burlington trailers really show up the car.  

Great trains everyone

Best wishes on this fine Saturday

Don

And the B&O cars of the Mpc era arrived today. Along with an LTI chessie bay window caboose I really like. Mpc caboose is a tough find. 

Pleased to report the second LIONEL GM Demonstrator TMCC F-3 running chassis tested perfectly this morning at the club.

Also, the matching B unit with Railsounds tested fine, as well.

The four F-3A shells are just what I hoped they would be for my paint projects.

Between these unexpected/unplanned purchases and the recent Lionel parts sale, my trip to York will be helping my club members carry their purchases and sharing the driving.

Today I went to the Renningers Flash Train Meet in Kutztown, PA. This is one of my favorite shows because it’s outside and there’s also a farmer’s market that’s separate. There were a few things that caught my eye (both Halloween tables) but I’m thinking of York next week so I was actually able to contain myself LoL.

I only purchased one boxcar and of course it is a Menards military nose art boxcar.

Now for a week of scanning the “For Sale” section with free York Delivery. Already picking up 15 cars as of now LoL! So more to come next week!

October is becoming a very expensive month for releases by all three manufacturers.  This time my Trainland order for two Exclusive Army ES44ACs came in.  I hope to be able to run both at our club, TMB, on Veteran's Day with a whole string of flat cars with military loads.  PS, one engine is number with the year I was born, 1943

One more new Lionel release, and the month is only half over, is the reworked MTH Lionchief Plus 2.0 Genesis #108 (my house number.)  Too bad I cannot double-head this engine with my original MTH RailKing Genesis..;(

Picked up a couple UP offset vista domes in the past week for paint projects for ~$45 delivered each off eBay.  The first arrived today as I was experimenting with seating positions on an earlier, similar purchase.

The interior seating is for my NP NCL vista domes which ran short roof end forward with six rows of seats/2X2 seating.

These particular cars typically sell for ~$100 per car.  Too much to spend for a donor.

A TMCC Lionel B&O EM-1 2-8-8-4.  My first scale Lionel engine.   I normally collect MTH engines but they don't make m(any) large B&O prototypical engines.   I figured out I could add TMCC to my DCS Wifi controlled layout for just over $100 so I could run the EM-1 command control.   Its been cool discovering the different features between Lionel TMCC and MTH PS-2.   Really glad to be able to now pull my long B&O freight consists with appropriate power.  Looking forward to adding other Lionel B&O and C&O steamers to my roster.

Got these at the Barnes and Noble before going to the dinner for the OlyOps model railroad event last night:

I like looking at Brit magazines as they have very different thinking than American hobby magazines.

These just arrived from France. I unpacked them right at the front door. The Indian sign was an inexpensive add on. I’m going to take a picture and reduce it to size for my Motorcycle shop building. Can’t wait to get the trucks in some scenes.

@Surefire posted:

Some more custom weathering/graffiti. Both are based off prototype photos

The graffiti is incredible on these models! You did an incredible job on them!

Started to unbox some Atlas containers. Ordered benchwork and am ready to start putting together my intermodal yard.

@vash44 posted:

Started to unbox some Atlas containers. Ordered benchwork and am ready to start putting together my intermodal yard.

OMG!! Unbelievable collection. Atlas must love you.  I am looking forward to how you display this equipment.

@Darrell posted:

I almost put a bid on that! Glad you got it!

I have one of those sets . I bought it lightly used back in the 90s and never ran it . I’ll be selling it up at the Hamburg train show on December 4th . ( Hamburg PA )  I’m slowly selling off most of my O gauge trains and this is one of the things that has to go . Too bad , it’s a nice looking train .

Wow, looks like there’s no recession here on the OGR Forum, lots of great purchases, either old, like new, or new, or new to us. It’s all great. I’ve had this Horse car on order for awhile. The new VisionLine Horse car, and it actually worked right out of the box, Thank you Lionel. Happy Railroading Everyone

@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.

@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.

Interesting - I knew about the NYC, but didn't know that the MR and Wabash had the same construction/motor. These were for all intents and purposes Postwar engines.

@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.

Glad you found the engine. Those GP7s are pretty cool though, with their dual headlight clusters (one cluster with two headlights and the other cluster with a MARS light and a red emergency flashing light) and yellow roof strobe. It's a real light show. If a light board goes out, though, show's over; they've been unavailable for quite a while now, as you say. Not to mention the old Legacy boards now being gone.

@breezinup posted:

Interesting - I knew about the NYC, but didn't know that the MR and Wabash had the same construction/motor. These were for all intents and purposes Postwar engines.

It is as close to postwar as you can get in my opinion.  The only reminder I have that it's an mpc era is the electric horn that works when it wants too. I prefer the ol postwar battery operated bicycle horn that sound like a lame duck. But it really is a smooth running engine.

I just got a NIB Lionel 17336 PFE Steel Sided Reefer.  I don't have many cars from this era, but the detail work is amazing, to me at least.  The opening and closing roof hatches, the opening side doors with the little handles, the attached ladders.  All good stuff, but it looks pretty delicate, and I'm kinda a non-delicate guy!

Just got 4 more vehicles from Menards. Most of my vehicles are from Menards, excellent quality at a reasonable price.

Gene

I got ANOTHER piece of ET&WNC boxcar 434 today!

A guy who visited the layout last month told me about the pieces that got sold and that he had a piece he wanted to send to me because the layout is that theme. I didn’t really think he’d go through with it and here comes a box today. It’s a cut rectangle almost exactly like the piece of the caboose (ET&WNC 505) fascia I also recently got. Maybe I’ll put both in one large frame. I’m not sure yet exactly how I’ll display them but they’re going on the wall for sure!

Went to the Bandit meet for the first time and found two NASA cars I didn't have at a reasonable price.

Charlie

Nice get Charlie.  I like picking up NASA stuff when I can get it at reasonable prices.  I got this custom searchlight car from eBay a while back.

@coachjoe, yes it is nice to get NASA cars under $50.00ea. They do tend to have a premium to them.

Charlie