Buy anything cool lately?

Well Pingman, everything I buy is cool thats why i buy it

please post pics when you're done, that's great.

yesterday jack the owner of Amer's hobby shop had copies made of the original store that Howard Amer owned where my grandfather bought my 1st train set. and in a non train related item 46 years ago i walked into Nickey Chevrolet in Chicago and bought my 69 427 Camaro which i still own. besides spending the day with my son 2 other things to be thankful for. hoping everyone on the forum has a Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving....

Keith, this recent 700e OGRF thread is discussing some early names in the development of 3 rail scale.

British Hornby:

It's a little beat up, but the Cadbury's vans are usually outrageously expensive, so I thought I was lucky to get this one relatively cheap.    It goes with the Fyffes Banana van I found last year.  These are just classic Hornby wagons, I'm pretty excited.

Oh yeah.

George

Matt, I probably should have said what I bought isn't cool, yet--emphasis on YET! 

WOW!!!  That's a LOT of bridge.  Dimensions?

Thanks for sharing.

Santa Fe tug from Mike Taylor!  

The bridge is 84" (7') long and double tracked.  I pitched the idea (along with dimensions and lots of prototype photos) to East Coast Enterprises and they turned it into reality.  Here's the prototype:

George

Bought a Lionel Vision Line Union Pacific Challenger.

I now have all 4 of the UP Lionel Vision Line Challengers.  

Got this Dorfan 110 boxed clockwork set in the mail today. The engine is typical Dorfan, Zinc rot has destroyed the shell, but as you see in the second photo, I had a good engine just waiting for the correct mix to go with it.

The lot also came with a couple of extra 355 coaches, but I'm pretty sure the set only came with one.

Steve

Got These today

When Sunset-3rd Rail did their first run of brass RDC cars a few years back, I didn't have the funds in the budget for one; Dotty Perry was gracious enough to help me with that problem and I'm now the proud owner of this beauty......

Bought this bad boy last week off the bay, got a good price but the pantographs were broken. Seems the previous owner raised them manually and broke the a cutting levers off. I fixed it by extending the levers with a brass tube. Also seems that one hot bent weird in the process, if it bugs me enough I'll order a new one

Keep the bad one down. A prototypical accident off to the shop later. 

They both work just fine now, ones got a weird looking bend in it when its down

Got this bad boy to match my other one

Flyline 2 channel Tehered red Spitfire   http://youtu.be/GRIX9cxuezE?li...OEA_DuKCrwT-Eby9IVMA

Bought his with passenger cars from a forum member

Just got a Williams Canadian Pacific F3 AA set complete with 4 aluminum passenger cars.  It came in the mail on Monday from a forum member.  That is a great looking set!  When I put it on my test track (a standard fast track loop) that thing took off with the smallest amount of power; what a puller!  This is my first Williams set, definitely won't be my last!

I got three Atlas O NYC Trainman 60' passenger cars.  I must say, I'm pretty impressed with their value for the money.  I'm hoping they'll see fit to add an observation car to the line.

I got this Menards Camaraderie Bar & Grill  # 279-1960 that I bashed a bit, Changed the name to Track Side and added some more weathering and some gals of the night into the scene.

Jerry

Now that's really cool, Jerry, like the man with the action packed expense account (I'm also a fan).

This is only cool for you if you traveled in west TX, and saw this line in action before the demise of the ICC.  If you do research on this line, don't look to Wikipedia because their info is full of errors.

This line existed until the Staggers Act, and then its redundancy caused it to be torn up.

Atlas makes this car in its Steam Era Classics line in, at least, two road numbers...for sentimental reasons, I had to buy both.

Back in the day while traveling east on US 84 between Snyder and Roscoe, TX, you had Panhandle & Santa Fe on your left and RS&P on your right.  On the "best day ever" you could see trains on both lines during that 40+ mile stretch.

Attended the Greenberg's show today in Virginia Beach, VA. Talked with some very nice guys but came home empty handed. Hate when that happens...

Got this a few weeks ago

Well, I got carried away again with my checkbook..  Suzie and I went to visit our friendly Lionel dealer & collector.  Beautiful day for a car ride!  Picked up my repaired and renovated "KW" transformer. Gave him my old "Z" transformer for same treatment. Told him to take his time with it.  He says he hates working on "Z"-transformers.  Hates trying to take them apart.  So we'll see what happens.  I owed him about $ 400.00 for some stuff.  This I planned for, but it didn't stop there!

Suzie wanted the "pumpkin-head" dudes on the handcar..  She wanted a streetcar-Christmas type..  She wanted a Santa Fe caboose.  I bought the new # 262 crossing gate with die-cast base.  It's a beauty and the lights operate like a real one...

Then came the # 300 Hell Gate Bridge-- Suzie wanted me to get it.  Then I spied a Lionel SP Warhorse Coal Set..  It was then I thought we should stop!

Haven't started the new layout as yet in the Living Room she "leased" to me!  Coming soon.  Been buying supplies and making plans and getting great ideas from my buddies on OGR...  I hope to get the furniture out of the house this coming week that we decided to dispose of so I can get started.  Will keep you all posted!

I was going to take photos at my friends house-- both the film and digital cameras had dead batteries.  Ridiculous!!  You should see his overall collection! In its own train room of 24 x 48 feet !  A huge layout in the center using K-Line Shadow track. Boxes and trains and piece-parts everywhere you look.  Everywhere !!!  BIG engines and small!  Complete SETS on display in MTH, Lionel, and Flyer.  Milwaukee Bi-Polars,

GN Y-1 heavy electric loco # 5018, New Haven heavy electrics, SP AC-12, SP AC-9,

UP Big-Boy, UP 844, UP 9000 and "dozens" more.  I about passed out when I first saw this stuff last November..  Today was our second visit.  He really likes us!!  Maybe that's a good thing.  The overall value of the collection is INCREDIBLE..  There is probably EVERYTHING in that room that was "EVER" made in history to run on 3-rail or 2-rail track and I am "NOT" exaggerating one bit, fellows!  You'd go NUTS just trying to take it all in !  Tons of various Accessories as well !

Anyway, here is a pictorial sample of what I blew my coins on...

Photos not posting right now.  Will have to Edit and try later!

Cheers.

KRK

Picked up the City of New Orleans on Facebook a few weeks ago.  ABA and 8 cars, then a few days later picked up another diner car for next to nothing.  Beautiful set.

My recent buys were a Mth Railking NYC 60' Streamlined passenger cars &

Mth Christmas Diesel engine .   All great ! 

the Mth Christmas Snow plow is at the hobby shop waiting for me !

Mth shipped these late !

I am also waiting for the LIONEL CHRISTMAS WATER Tower to show up ! 

Don't feel too bad.  The Lionel Gingerbread Gateman missed two Christmases before he finally showed up!

-Dave

About a month ago now, but I guess that's still "lately"...

Cream and Green #305 HellGate Bridge from 1999.  (The one that can fit 2 O gauge tracks through it)

-Dave

Love this red.

BAR Lobsta Aquarium car from Charles Ro for $40.00.  He has a break up sale going on.  I received an e mail on Friday and picked it up.  I don't see the break ups listed on his site.

Purchased 4 Super Streets "Y" switches from Western Depot, arrived 3 days from when I ordered them! Fast service! Thank you!

A couple of weeks ago I was in an indoor flea market/junk store and bought an almost new K Line freight set at a decent price. Only thing in the store I saw worth buying. I don't think it was hardly ever run. When I got home I saw the boogered up rear coupler but fixed that in a minute. Nice starter set based on Marx diesel engine and cars. Didn't need it, really doesn't fit too well with what I have but had to buy something. It might be donated to someone or the engine might be a power unit for an RDC or something.

Yep - over the past few months I have been selling of some Lionel and MTH P1 stuff that Ididn't run and used the funds to add to my Lionmaster roster. I now have the UP SD90, and one each of all the steam engines including the legacy whistle version of the Big boy and 2 legacy versions of the challenger - UP and Rio Grande.

Over her in the UK large curves are not so easy in our small houses with no basements so I am well pleased. This was all done with the help of some forumites and you know where online.

I wish there was a Lionmaster Allegheny to buy or a Q2 as mentioned on another post!!

MIKE 

Picked one 51 piece lot of  O and O-27 freight cars at the Springfield show for $100.00!!!!  Having a ball fixing/cleaning them up. Will be able to salvage 48 of them. Also got a 2243 Santa Fe A-B-A powered/dummy/powered set in Springfield, for cash and trade.

no, but I'm sure trying!

 LIONEL CP EVOLUTION ES44AC STUCK IN THERE 

Hadn't seen this thread in awhile and yes, these are pretty cool. I was able to obtain the beautiful MTH PS 3.0 Premiere Texas Special F3 set painted in the un-prototypical scheme of the postwar Lionel 2245's. Somehow, I much prefer the red and white to the correct scheme...

Just bought this K-Line scale B unit with smoke. You don't often find smoking B units. I'll either repaint this to go with our GM&O F3s or eventually pick up some matching PRR F units.

My latest American Flyer purchase. Not a bad looker for being made in the mid 1920's!  

I went digital this week.  I got my MTH DCS, 50-1001, system on Wednesday.

I finally got a Lionel 264 forklift platform!  Got a good deal on an original in good working order, just need to pick up a car to go with it.  I'm not picky so i might pick up a repro.  I've wanted one of these since the first time i saw one in action.  It's such a cool little accessory, and it always seems to work cleanly (as opposed to any coal based accessory).  eagerly waiting for it to be delivered!

Now this is cool!

Going to have to add one of these to my list of I Wants One.

Jerry

We just picked up this nice (cool) K-Line PRR F7 B unit with smoke. It has great detail including two sets of air hoses at each end, an extra pair of short-shank couplers and some of the nicest diaphragms I've seen..

I might repaint it to run with these Atlas F3's sometime down the line!

Picked up a pair of Atlas Trainman CNJ/NJDOT coaches from the Model Railroad Shop in Piscataway.  Then deciding not to drive to Allentown scored an Atlas CNJ RSD4/5 from the for sale forum.  And I was going to stop buying stuff.  Oh well, the CNJ is alive and well in my basement.

I nabbed this 2-truck Legacy Shay off eBay for $380, runs and looks great.  It's a smokin' fool, I was surprised how much smoke this sucker produces.  The slow speed is great, have to look twice to see if it's moving.  I think this has beat the Genset as my slow speed champ!

This will look great with a string of my IDR log cars behind it.

That is a super looking Shay, John!  I guess we will have to rewrite the legend of Paul Bunyon.  He started using the iron horse instead of the blue ox!

Guess I need to make an entry here as well.  Last Saturday I picked up a new LC+ Pennsy Mike at the great price of $309 at my local hardware store/hobby shop.  I haven't had the chance to run it a lot, but so far I am very pleased with it.

Mark, the blue ox didn't have the pulling capability.

John, I can understand that!  In fact, I have wondered why the ox was blue.  I finally decided it was because of the cold Northern winters.

Got this 1932 Flyer outfit last week. Unusual type XV, model 35 Flyer Clockwork. Type XV are not real common, but this model with the elongated rear deck for the bell is a toughie.

Steve

Got good deal on MTH's C&NW RS-1 powered and dummy units!

I recently snagged a Lionel #30 water in excellent condition for an amazing price. Just the latest in the quest for acquiring postwar accessories.

Got this in the mail just today. Not bad for 90 something years old....

Puts the finishing touch on my prewar Flyer passenger train...

I got a couple amazing cars from my uncle!!! No pictures yet... I'll post some tomorrow.

One was a 2009 LRRC flatcar with pipes, and a really nice post-war 6520 searchlight car with the maroon generator. I love them!!!

Always on the lookout for a deal with free shipping, I ordered this Williams Christmas Special train set from Amazon.com, used like new - $107.04 shipped.  From their Warehouse returns store, there were 3 left.  Down to 1...

THANKS!!!! I got one too.....mine was $104 for some reason......and Amazon owed me $95 on a credit I had........$9 out of pocket!!!! A deal!!!!!  Watch for the track on the OGR for sale when I get it!!

our 11 year old 217,000 mile csr died yesterday. Signed on the dotted line for a new one, there goes the train budget for the next 60 months.

Did not mean to buy it, so I placed an extremely low ebay offer, long and behold it got accepted...So now I "have" to pay for it. It was 50% off street price...I wanted to share my happiness with you...Cheers!

MTH 20-3273-1 Z-6 NP Challenger

BigBoy4014, congrats on your latest purchase.  I've bought some items (trains, Harley stuff, etc.) and made, face-to-face, with the seller, low ball offers and said, to the seller, I hoped they would decline the offer because I didn't need the item, it was purely an impulse offer, and, the seller would, more often than not, accept the offer.  Believe me, this was no ploy on my part; but that's how I accumulated a lot of stuff I'm now planning to sell--not all of it, but most of it.

I just made an offer on a Lionel Circus Special on ebay yesterday, for 1/3 less than than asking price, the offer was accepted! I have been drawn to the general style engines for some reason as of late don't ask me why..... but I think I am up to 10/11!

Her are my cars:

Lionel 6520 Searchlight car with Maroon Generator and 2009 LRRC Flatcar with pipes.

Attended a show in Cheshire, CT yesterday (thanks DMASSO for the info).  When I heard "train show at a high school" I assumed it would be a couple of guys with layouts; didn't expect it would be a big show complete with dealers.  Wish I had brought more cash, but I guess that kept me from over spending   Lots of S scale and smaller, but some good o-gauge stuff.  saw some very nice layouts as well. 

Anyway, picked up a postwar banjo signal in the original box from a kind older gentleman.  I had been looking for a reasonably priced one for a while.  When I got it home I tested it and it wouldn't move, so after finding the parts diagram, I saw it was missing the rubber gasket that sits between the motor and the cap which I should have remembered from a similar experience with my searchlight car.  Anyway, should be a simple part order and the guy who sold it to me did throw in 2 switch lanterns I needed, so I wasn't upset about it.  Spent the afternoon cleaning up and testing some 022 switches and UCS track I got in a lot off ebay.  Still buying for that non existant layout!

More Reefer(s)!!!!!!

This one came a week or two ago.......nice Weaver/Crown model......but I love the color....I have a thing for Orange.......Big Bad Orange!!!!

My AMC 1973 Javelin sitting on the C&O Greenbrier Div roadbed.....now a trail....but MAY have the track re-installed!!!! (thus my AMCDave ID)

that Javelin is sweet Dave

Great score!  I love Challengers.  This one I'd gladly add to my fleet, and I'm a UP steam only  guy!  Just something about the Z-6!

Well, only related to trains because of some of the things I make with it.

MY new Solidoodle Press 3D printer.

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Now, It's a lot less cash than most 3D printers but don't run screaming to the bank.

This brand new design still has few bugs but I'm working through them.

And No, My only association with Solidoodle is as a consumer.

I have made a pair of Pallets and a Picnic table in O scale.

Several other things will follow.

I have models of several people, some will be resized to match up, some won't.

From Maurer's this past year!!!

Two weeks ago, I purchased an Ameritowne 823 Pat and Jean's Jewelry kit.  The kit went together great.  No issues.  Today, I bought two more Ameritowne kits--the 442 Acme Machine Co. and Homestead Furniture kits from my LHS.  I'm looking forward to building these and putting them on my small rural themed layout, which I haven't started yet.

    In the past, I've purchased other Ameritowne kits in the 300 series-the City Hall and Real Estate office.  I have also built at least one each of the 500 series kits.  All have gone together very well.

Got this American Flyer Loco & tender yesterday at the SW meet. This 3322 loco, 3301 tender combo was uncatalogued around 1934. Needs a bit of TLC and a headlight bezel, but still pretty nice as it sits.

Steve

Not model related, but the model train show in Monroe, WA over last weekend was well worth the trip. I found a 1944-dated D&H lantern that was in incredible shape, where someone had punched a hole in the bottom for an electric light. I wanted to do that with a lantern but wouldn’t drill a hole myself, so I got this one really cheap (just over $40 for the lantern and a red globe from another vendor who had mostly lantern stuff). I only need to find a flame-shaped bulb either as battery powered or wired. Heck, I could easily get a burner and use it normally if I wanted to.

I also found a neat EMD unit truck plate set for next to nothing, some good books (including a WW2 Jeep book for $15 that normally retails for about 50 when you can find it), a book on railfanning Stevens and Stampeded Passes (ironic as the Stevens pass line was right across the highway from the venue) DVDs (one vendor had them for $2 each) and some detail items. I haven’t seen that much good stuff at a show in years, it was a good run. Could have bought a lot more stuff if I didn't fear the wrath of my wife!  For example, a guy had what was a pretty decent price on a complete GN semaphore blade, but it was too much for my wallet and I have no room to hang it anyway.

I also hit all the major hobby shops in Seattle on the way home and found some magazines and random items.

Hey P51-- Sorry I missed you at the Monroe show.  I was in the 4-H building by the main entrance.  Selling DVD's and some old accessories from my grandfather's live steam 2 1/2-inch gauge railroad.  THAT stuff sold-out two hours before the show opened to the Public.

Now then, you guys have to start keeping me away from Shows or wherever model trains hibernate with choice items for sale.  The checkbook was flying again !!

Bought 31 postwar freight cars for an average $ 4.00 each.  Not too bad a condition. Just clean the bodies and wheels- a little lube and should be OK.

Bought a "brand new" # 132 Station (in orig box) for $ 65.00 !  YES, that's what I said..  Bought a new pair of '022' switches (in orig box) for $ 50.00 !!  Bought the 3-car set of silver PFE's by Lionel for $ 100.00 !

My wife Suzie bought $ 80.00 worth of cattle and misc farm animals !  Crazy, huh ?

Bought another new Rail-King # 262 crossing gate!  Bought Lionel # 2332 GG-1 (NEW in Box) for approx $ 300.00 !  She wanted the RED loco but settled on GREEN !!

Well, she'll be surprised:  When I got home--I ordered her a RED GG-1 from Williams.(online)

She doesn't know as yet..  Thank goodness !!!!!  (grin)

Also over the weekend, I got crazy on Ebay...

Bought some Trolley's---  A Santa Fe ALCO A-B-A Set..  An additional powered B-Unit.

Am putting together the Santa Fe "Super Chief" --  minimum of FOUR motors and several cars-- all MTH...  I'll post photos when the time comes.  Should be a beaut!

There were a few other odds & ends..  I scraped the bottom of the financial barrel and "treated myself" to a beautiful Southern Pacific Cab Forward, AC-12, # 4294 from MTH.

Suzie doesn't know about this either--as YET!  If you guys never hear from me again, in the future, you'll know what happened !!  (grin)

In closing,  I do NOT go out and buy model trains like this, which started in October-'14...  I normally don't have that kind of loot!  BUT, in return, I had a team of four men here this past Friday and they added "Central A/C" to our Lennox furnace, which she has always wished for!  That was VERY pricey!  SO--  I took some loot out of my 401K account, and got A/C for her and a few trains for ME !!

However, the shopping extravaganza has now come to an end... !!

Construction of the NEW layout is just about to really begin!   More info on Layout/Design forum as well as the Electrical forum.  Cheers to all!

KRK

At Saturday's Greenberg Show in Edison, I purchased "Potomac Yard: The Gateway Between the North and the South." Authored by James Foley and published by the RF&P Historical Society, the book covers the period from 1880 to 1920. It is a huge volume full of extremely detailed text supplemented by diagrams and illustrations and has received favorable reviews. At almost 800 pages, I questioned whether I really needed 7 pounds of information on just one yard; however, Potomac Yard was such a pivotal facility in its day it does indeed deserve extensive documentation. The dealer told me Volume 2 covering the 20s onward is in the works. I'll need to reinforce the shelf these two books are sitting on for sure!

Bob

I didn't restrict the content of this thread to just trains. 

A Tamiya Spray Work Paint Stand.

Holds small parts, bodies, etc. and it rotates.

Jim,

That looks like a handy little device.

I bought a chocolate orange for my wife............. I ate it!!

just got this from da-bay

Grabbed this off of EBay, for my city of Los Angelos passenger train,

Thanks to an alert by a fellow OGR forum member I bought this off Amazon2 days ago....and it came today1!!!

It's a Williams Christmas set with a 4-6-0, reefer, gondola and caboose. It also has a decnt loop of EZ track and transformer.

My out of pocket??? $9.00!!!!! the flash sale price was $104.00 and Amazon owed me a credit of $95.00.....so needless to say.......Good deal!!!

I had not seen the EZ Track....kinda like it better than Lionel Fastrak but doubt I'll use it other than under the tree.  Locomotive will get reworked and painted as will the reefer. The rest the wife will use under the tree. 

Thanks for the heads up!!!

Amazon listed these as 'damaged boxes' which mine was.....a 3 inch cut in the outer box and the carry handle torn off......box is heading to the trash so I didn't care!

Bought 2 sets of MTH Premier Amtrak Superliners from the OGR For Sale forum today.

Wanted to buy the deluxe foam loco cradle from Collectors Choice.  Called today, and he is out of foam...waiting for a delivery.  And, he does his work in the garage where the temp is now too cold to cut the foam.  So, it looks like it will be a few weeks until he can make any more cradles.

I don't know if you would call this cool, but it was needed. It's not the 665/2065 I had been chasing, but real life raised it's ugly head.

Don't you hate when you have to buy real life necessity items instead of using the money on train stuff?

man do I! I had my price in my sights, one beat up enough for my sites, a nice fixer upper. Even found an extra tender that was damaged for the project I had in mind for the locomotive, and whamo!oh well, gotta be a grown up part of the time I guess!

It was a krazy kinda K-Line day.

An Adolphus business car

The 1:64th O gauge Big Boy with TMCC

And last, a scale EP5 in the iconic dress.  Conventional control but with cruise.

Bruce

You would look funny walking in the snow with the 665

  Trying to ride one to work would be funnier

 If I ever were to become homeless, you'd know me when you saw me. I'd be carrying a 2037(mine before birth), and my (brothers) 665, heading south to warmer layouts. If I don't dodge, and you hit me with the Dodge, just right, I bet you won't damage the trains.

Just picked up this beautiful Lionel Trains shelf a week or so back. For a guy that likes dealer items as much as I do this fit right in. It's my understanding that there were less than 50 of these produced and I can understand why. At almost 8 feet long and 30-40 pounds they would have been a challenge to ship. Thrilled to have this in the train room. 

I picked up this Like New circa 1965/1966 Lionel 773 Hudson complete with the backwards installed water scoop on its undersized 773W New York Central Tender at the Allentown (Spring Thaw Meet?) a few weeks ago.  It runs as good as it looks.  As good as the new stuff looks I still always make room for some classic Lionel history.

Scored an MTH Baldwin M-1 off eBay, which arrived this week.  Got to take it for a test run around the guest bedroom last night.  Sound doesn't work, but the seller probably said the battery likely needs changed.  I don't have a huge interest in the C&O, but it's a bit of an oddity & thought it would be a fun addition.  Might pair it w/the new C&O 21" Lionel passenger cars, in time.  I'd also like to eventually upgrade to DCS, if possible. 

Nothing big or exciting. But the town finally received their first Ambulance. Beforehand, Taxi, or police cars were used.

You would look funny walking in the snow with the 665

  Trying to ride one to work would be funnier

not me, the wife, my '88 Dodge pickup is still ticking 

I've been buying scenic items galore. People figures, trees, crates , hydrants, phone booths, fencing, and textured stone patterns from Scenic Express. Also purchased three dozen 12V LED bulbs (bayo and screw base) , and 20 lamp posts from the Chinese direct on eBay, no middleman. You can buy the LED bulbs for about 40-50 cents each shipping included and the lampposts for about $1 shipped. Also purchased 20 Chinese rectifier boards for $1.00 each direct and we are ready to start the lighting.

I got myself a nice Caddy srx to go to the train shows this summer……. But I won't have any money to buy anything……...

3rd Rail E7

I don't often get exited about freight, but that is a very cool rolling billboard.

The graphics dept. earned their checks there.

got a great buy on a N&W J with a rebuilt drive by JERRY WHITE. he was a custom locomotive builder and rebuilder of drives. he is in the 2 rail O Scale Hall of Fame. 

  Yesterday, I bought another RMT Bang switcher at my LHS.  This Bang is a #92314 Santa Fe.   The price was right, and I had a Lionel/MPC A. T. & S. F. 9071 bobber caboose to go with it.  I bought the caboose a couple of years ago at an anitique mall for 3 bucks.  

   I now have a total of seven Bangs in my fleet.

Today I bought a DEWALT DWS-780 12-in 15-Amp Dual Bevel Sliding Compound Miter Saw at Lowes.  They were offering the heavy duty miter saw stand free with purchase of the saw.  Not directly model train related.  But it will definitely help with building the bench-work for the new layout this Spring/Summer.

I got a Williams NYC Dreyfuss a few weeks back. Now I needed a set of streamline cars for it to pull. My modeling of the NYC is just as a road with trackage rights on my layout....and while I love the Dreyfuss getting 100% correct cars was tough. So for my Dreyfuss.....

I got these today for it to pull.......

I know it didn't have a dome car....and smooth sided would be better.....but these were a deal and what I wanted to spend......and I REALLY like them. Williams 72 ft flutted cars.

Can't wait to run these on the layout........thx

Gentlemen,

   I did pick up some special run Atlas O Steam Era Box Cars for my Logging Train.

The detail on these Master Series Atlas O Box cars is real impressive.

PCRR/Dave

Bought my friends Pennsy RF-16s. He needed the cash to buy a new engine, I ended with something I can use and wanted for awhile.

My first big steam is on it's way in the form of this bad boy!

Last week I bought 3 1:43 scale autos at Rite Aid, a 1955 TBird, a 1953 Chevy Bel Air and a 1953 Caddy. Sunday at a show I bought some WS figures, plus a Lionel Standard O REA reefer, a Lionel NYC operating box car and an Industrial Rail NYC hopper. Pictures are attached.

Does a new fridge count?   

I picked up three used buildings at the monthly DuPage show. 

Art

All those are GREAT!!!! What a find!!!

but that Hudson dealership is my favorite!!!!

My best buddy, 50+ years, is THE Hudson expert.......he and his Dad have 6 of them....

I got these two Atlas beauties last week....

I didn't exactly buy it, but I won an E-Bay auction for some more 1305 bridges that I did not already have. The seller is a good friend and forum member. When the package arrived, there were a couple of freebies thrown in including this airbrushed license plate. This came from the estate of Dick McNary. Very Cool.

Steve

Yes, if it's one of these.

That would be perfect for my "man cave" layout.  Please i.d. the vendor and specs; it can take the place of a bridge in my around the wall layout.

Here you go: http://www.webstaurantstore.co...or/200TDB24481G.html

Last night I won a (I believe Clark) Late 1800's "Hillside climber" locomotive/tender, red with gold and white trim, I thought it would look good in my office! And it only cost $50.00! It is roughly 18"x3 3"/4x4 1/2"  Just a neat old toy!

Here's another book I purchased recently. Titled "Southern Pacific and the KM Hydraulics", it tells the story of the high horsepower diesel hydraulic units which were built by Krauss-Maffei for the SP and Rio Grande in the 60s. The coverage is thorough and and discusses the concept behind the locomotives, their development, construction, testing, delivery, operation and retirement. The remarkable preservation of the sole survivor is included as well. The text is complemented by many diagrams and photographs in a manner which makes this one of the most comprehensive motive power books I've ever come across. The book is already in its second printing as the first run sold out in a matter of weeks. I was lucky enough to get a copy of the second run as it is almost sold out as well.

Bob

You guys should see that big K-M on the Niles Canyon Railway near Fremont, CA.  Howard Wise and his restoration crew are doing an INCREDIBLE job of completely rebuilding the unit.  Right now, the basic MU controls are complete, so that it appears the Unit on the lead is operating, but it is actually controlling the diesel unit hooked behind it!

The main worry was trying to find the very complicated power trucks and hydraulic transmission mechanisms, otherwise, forget it !  By God, they found them in a scrap yard in FRANCE.  Had them shipped over and installed.  This K-M will eventually be a totally new machine.  Amazing !!!

The railfan community will come out in droves when the big day comes !!  I can hardly wait!

Cheers.

KEN SHATTOCK  (KRK)

Member, PLA/ NCRY

Interesting amtrack passenger set I found on ebay. I just took it out to run.

Per the bay "Vintage Elliot Welz O Gauge Amtrak Metroliner set 1 serial number 686 that rates C7 excellent with the boxes. This set includes powered Metro Coach 820 and 3 non powered cars, Snack Bar Coach 859, Metro Coach 829, and Metro Club 881. The powered unit tested good on O32 track and the lighting worked. It would not change direction until it was cycled a few times and then functioned ok. A typical E unit occurrence after prolonged storage. The lighting worked in the other 3 cars. All of the cars are clean and show minimal use. The cars are about 16 inches long. The cars will ship in the original box within our shipping box to keep it all nice.

Picked up a nice Lionel 2055 and a Lionel 167 whistle controller that works,Old bakelite.

I just ordered a Williams RS-3 from Mario's trains for a good price.........Paul

After our Neal S. posted this photo.........

I thought it was so cool I had to replicate it...in a way.....

My layout is set 1950's but I do own more modern equipment. I had never really looked at the Atlas 'Auto Parts' Hy-Cube box cars....Neal's photo changed that.

I had to order me a few. First one came this week....

Very cool box cars.....big, well detailed but it took me less than 30 seconds to slightly bump the brake wheel and pop it off!!! And since my RR is the D&RGW set in WV this one works for me! I also have a B&O (great grandfathers rr) and N&W coming.

So to paraphrase an old commercial....' I wana be like Neal'!!! 

I find Atlas to be well detailed, but very fragile. I've almost never bought Atlas cars without having to glue something back on ��.

I bought a BING water tower.  Now what I'll do with it, I'm not sure

Awhile ago my girlfriend's cousin sold my his Arbor press with the lionel style tools, wheel cups and some American Flyer cups and a couple other AF tools, The lot also came with two post-war Lionel shop books and a modern one (like the Greenburg reprint) some AF and lionel cataloges and a reel of post -war lionel 8 or super 8 film(need to put on dvd) And he built a gun cart(for cowboy action shooting) The whole lot was only $170.00! He used to work for a Northern Calif. shop as a repairman. Missed out on the spare parts tho.

I have bought four Lionel USRA Double-Sheathed boxcars over the past two weeks. They look great behind steam!

Just picked up a like new Lionel Type Z Transformer at the Wilmington DE Greenberg's Trains show this past weekend.

Mr. Brown just brought my new RS-3 and I just had to run it. Here is a couple of pics.....................Paul

Just picked up a whole mess of Homie-sapiens on eBay...

Well, I've been going nuts buying too darn much stuff.  Crazy, huh?  Anyway, just ONE of many recent additions is my new SP Cab Forward 4-8-8-2 from Rail-King.  I couldn't help myself as I come from a large, oldtime Southern Pacific family.  Dang, that thing weighs twelve pounds !!

Cheers

KRK

Anxiously waiting for the arrival of a VL GE Evolution I just bought here on the Forum.

A Joe Finelli Voltamp 2130 arrived today.

Steve

Just bought an RMT USAF Coal Hopper.  Cool because it's lettered for McGuire AFB and my daughter is currently stationed there.

Just picked up another Z4K from one of the OGR forum members, works like a charm.

Coach Joe, way cool stuff with your daughter being stationed there!

Steve,

    As usual you come up with the coolest Tin of all!

PCRR/Dave