Buy anything cool lately?

Thanks about the information about the ins and outs of soldering.  I will be going over to ACE to get a higher output Iron

Came across this MTH uncatalogued, limited production Santa Fe R50B express reefer on eBay, so snatched it up. The car fits in nicely with my Lionel Santa Fe Super Chief.

@Yellowstone Special posted:

Came across this MTH uncatalogued, limited production Santa Fe R50B express reefer on eBay, so snatched it up. The car fits in nicely with my Lionel Santa Fe Super Chief.

That is one sharp car, Vern. Great pick up!!!

@coach joe posted:

Paul I think Ralph did "brive a dus, I dus a brive," on the Madison Avenue line.

The stamps are really cool.  Are they current like I can go to the PO and buy them or did I miss them?

Sorry I’ve been out to lunch of late, Joe… as Scotie said, you may find them at your local P.O. or you can order them online (that’s what I did since I wanted to get a few other items which P.O.’s typically don’t carry). They were issued on March 9th.

@Apples55 posted:

That is one sharp car, Vern. Great pick up!!!

Thank you, Paul. 👍

@Yellowstone Special posted:

Came across this MTH uncatalogued, limited production Santa FRe 50B express reefer on eBay, so snatched it up. The car fits in nicely with my Lionel Santa Fe Super Chief.

Vern, super nice find, and rare! I've only seen them in silver, first time I've seen one in Santa Fe War Bonnet. It will look great with your 15" cars. Congrats!

@WesternPacific2217 posted:

Vern, super nice find, and rare! I've only seen them in silver, first time I've seen one in Santa Fe War Bonnet. It will look great with your 15" cars. Congrats!

Thank you, Scott. Evidently, MTH made only so many of these in 2022. So, I was lucky to grab one off eBay. 😉

I bought a Railking Seaboard Airslide hopper earlier. Was at a lhs and it was a used item. Offered $35 and he accepted.

Just purchased this 681 w/ 2040W50 tender at a reasonable price. ( why???? I don't know cause I already have three "LOL" ) The tender had steps intact, had a chip out of the left front corner.  As usual I took the engine and tender apart for the basic maintenance and find any repair surprises. To my surprise all was in excellent condition. I did take the engine motor apart to grease gears and clean the commutator and brushes, the same w/the tender. Put them on the track, ran and operated like new.

@Trussman ,

My original primo engine was a 671.  I bought a 681 on a Stout auction about a year ago.  These were built before I was born, and I ain't no spring chicken.  I too have the 2046W Pennsylvania tender.  They run and operate like nobody's business and still look pretty darn good.

Congrats on your purchase.

@texgeekboy posted:

@Trussman ,

My original primo engine was a 671.  I bought a 681 on a Stout auction about a year ago.  These were built before I was born, and I ain't no spring chicken.  I too have the 2046W Pennsylvania tender.  They run and operate like nobody's business and still look pretty darn good.

Congrats on your purchase.

Thanks texgeekboy.

The pw Lionels, a little tlc and basic maintenance and they run like they're suppose to.

Found a nice lot 15 min from the house!

Dennis: Not bad for postwar Lionel. 👍

Sometimes I can't just help myself. NICE HOLLERS, pun very much intended.  Meanwhile Somebody else's dreams live on in your saving these pieces of equipment,   Maybe we will never know who, but we will appreciate what he and you have done for posterity.  thank you

My big find at York was a good condition Lionel C&O F-19 pacific #490.  It goes well with the George Washington heavyweights I picked up at York last year.  It’s not the specific George Washington loco that Lionel sold, but close enough.  I like the gold eagle on the front.

Great buys everyone!! Thanks for sharing!!

Here’s my York hauls from Thursday and Friday. I left with a vehicle loaded on Thursday! Couldn’t even see out the rear view mirror! I sure did exceed my budget but some deals simple couldn’t get set back down. I was able to negotiate all my prices down from sticker price, even at METCA using the Chris’s Trains and Things discount. Here’s a photo of my day 1 purchases. (Please note the 4 boxes in back are filled with 75 empty Menards boxes! Thank you so much Jim!)

Day 2 I had much more room in the vehicle heading home. Added some big purple boxes to my collection! It’s definitely a beautiful PRR set! Here’s a photo of my day 2 purchases.

My entire York haul plus the single $1 I came home with. LoL

Here’s a quick video of Willie whistling the Chattanooga Choo Choo. This thing is so neat!

I had a very successful York experience for my third time attending! NO REGRETS! This was some much needed train therapy! 😁😎

A BIG THANK YOU goes out to EDTCA, all the dealers, sellers, buyers, volunteers, and to everyone that helped make this show possible!

**I have a more in-depth review with individual item photos in My Remodel thread listed in my signature. Please check it out!!

@Dennis Holler posted:

Found a nice lot 15 min from the house!

Nice Dennis.        I especially like that Virginian FM.

In the early 70s I was involved with HO and the only O gauge I was familiar with was my old 6220 switcher from my childhood.     When I saw my friend's Lionel  Lackawanna FM I was floored with the size of that thing.      How did you find that great collection ?

Thanks for sharing sir.

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Nice Dennis.        I especially like that Virginian FM.

In the early 70s I was involved with HO and the only O gauge I was familiar with was my old 6220 switcher from my childhood.     When I saw my friend's Lionel  Lackawanna FM I was floored with the size of that thing.      How did you find that great collection ?

Thanks for sharing sir.

Thanks Dallas! I just got lucky and was scrolling through a for sale group and it popped up. I think I noticed the neighboring town and then looked closer. Saw the FM and then noticed the rest. Its all cleaning up good so far lol.

I picked up this switcher horn for $25 at my local scrap yard.  It was a most enjoyable spring afternoon to sit on the hood of a locomotive & unbolt/unhook the horn.  Retirement is great !

Rich is SD - for a little while longer

I picked this oil can up on OGR. It was dropped off at YORK for me, and Stu transported it home. I picked it up today.

Thanks Alex W. and Stu R. !

Because York hauls often find there way here...

This is my haul home from Spring York 2023. Full details and commentary here for the hopper, tanker and Class A. Shown here but not yet pictured in that York thread is the N&W caboose and PS3 upgrade, both of which came from JustTrains in the waning hours of Saturday. I happened to mention the PS1 Class A above and my plans to upgrade it while buying the caboose, and "Oh? We have the PS3 steam kits here", and thus another sale

In the meantime, I ordered some microfiber cloth (like I used for the shiny Big Boy) to stand-in for the missing MTH inner wrap, after which I remembered MTH sells their own locomotive wrap+ribbon packs (60-1001), which I then ordered from T&K Hobby following a brief Google search.

Now, who does pro-quality PS3 installs in the NYC region? I could technically install this myself, but Dremel-ing out the back of the cab for the tether socket is something I don't trust myself to do well enough to look "factory". Plus I'm so low on horizontal space to work on, I haven't even installed the BCR2 I got for the 25th Anniversary MTH Dash 8 I talked about earlier in this topic, so performing such locomotive brain-transplants is out of the question in my living space. Shipping this monster is kind of questionable since the original Styrofoam is kind of loose from years of restraining 16 pounds of loco, and the outer carton is MIA. While true it would need to be packed extra securely regardless, I'd rather be within driving (or commuter train?) distance of an installer than entrust this to the great shipping apparatus.

Edit: I got someone lined up at the NJHR to install the kit. Close enough

---PCJ

Could have sued that oil can, when I was driving construction eqyuipment

Woh, to bad you couldn't take the whole switcher home.

These are on the way to me! I’ve decided I want to do a “head end” express train with some REA, mail etc cars. I’m pretty excited and so is my 4 year old.

@trestleking posted:

I picked up this switcher horn for $25 at my local scrap yard.  It was a most enjoyable spring afternoon to sit on the hood of a locomotive & unbolt/unhook the horn.  Retirement is great !

Rich is SD - for a little while longer

That's a great find and interesting purchase, trestleking. Only how on earth are you going to attach it to your O scale switcher?

@Yellowstone Special posted:

That's a great find and interesting purchase, trestleking. Only how on earth are you going to attach it to your O scale switcher?

Vern, I just bought it to annoy the neighbors, lol.  My wife even thinks it’s cool, nice tone.

@trestleking posted:

Vern, I just bought it to annoy the neighbors, lol.  My wife even thinks it’s cool, nice tone.

Awesome! 😉

@trestleking posted:

Vern, I just bought it to annoy the neighbors, lol.  My wife even thinks it’s cool, nice tone.

Should have bought the whole thing! LOL

My post York pickup, an MTH Premier PS3 T1 Duplex and seven Premier passenger cars.

Ignore the flashing lights, I don't know why the camera does that, they fine in person.

@gunrunnerjohn posted:

My post York pickup, an MTH Premier PS3 T1 Duplex and seven Premier passenger cars.

Ignore the flashing lights, I don't know why the camera does that, they fine in person.

Great looking set!

The shutter speed of the camera make the camera see the light differently than the eye.

@gunrunnerjohn posted:

My post York pickup, an MTH Premier PS3 T1 Duplex and seven Premier passenger cars.

Ignore the flashing lights, I don't know why the camera does that, they fine in person.

Dang John, that thing is smoking like crazy already. Any plans to upgrade anything or is this just fine in your book?

@trestleking posted:

I picked up this switcher horn for $25 at my local scrap yard.  It was a most enjoyable spring afternoon to sit on the hood of a locomotive & unbolt/unhook the horn.  Retirement is great !

Rich is SD - for a little while longer

Bolt it in under the hood of your truck with a small compressor. I bet you'll get the other drivers attention with that puppy!

Not your average find in a scrap yard for sure. Very cool. Do you know any of the history of the engine?

Bob

My York purchases this past week. I went to York with the intention of only buying one type of engine which was a MTH Triplex. I did not get a Triplex but got what is in the photos below.

Thanks;

idea-thinker

@Dave NYC Hudson PRR K4 posted:

Dang John, that thing is smoking like crazy already. Any plans to upgrade anything or is this just fine in your book?

No upgrades, but I think I'll take a look at the smoke unit as it's not shooting the smoke out quite as far as it should.  All in all, I'm very pleased with the set.  Of course, it will get LED lighting in the cars and a few more passengers in each car as well.

@idea-thinker posted:

My York purchases this past week. I went to York with the intention of only buying one type of engine which was a MTH Triplex. I did not get a Triplex but got what is in the photos below.

Thanks;

idea-thinker

Hmm... That's probably why all the shelves were bare!   That's pretty much a carload!

@RSJB18 posted:

Bolt it in under the hood of your truck with a small compressor. I bet you'll get the other drivers attention with that puppy!

Not your average find in a scrap yard for sure. Very cool. Do you know any of the history of the engine?

Bob

   Hi Bob, the other side of the switcher says "South Dakota Wheat Grower's Assoc", other than that it's been hanging out at the Agtegra mill in Huron, SD (3 blocks away) for the past 2 yrs..  The yard said they were gonna cut it up when it gets warmer.  Very nice people to let me in their yard.  The more you look, the more you see, there is also a green baggage car that is/was storage for them and an upside down SOO LINE gon.

  Now my wife wants the horn for her SUV  ! 

It's a little out of my way or I would do it. (about 1500 miles) but could somebody take sme extensive pictures of the South Dakota locomotive before they scrap it.  It could be a model someday or even a production model.

@idea-thinker posted:

My York purchases this past week. I went to York with the intention of only buying one type of engine which was a MTH Triplex. I did not get a Triplex but got what is in the photos below.

Thanks;

idea-thinker

Did you rent a truck to bring it hole, wow, love the shay

Nice haul - York is too far for me to consider (Arizona) but I enjoy what others have seen, purchased or otherwise shared socially.  I have been looking for that MPC N&W 'J' 611 for a while now, and the online prices remain high, however I enjoy the hunt as much as I enjoy bagging the prize.  York is a unique opportunity, thanks for sharing.

I second that emulsion.

The heavyweight baggage got here today, and the RPO will arrive tomorrow

Its a perfect blending car between my MTH New York Central R50b and the 2 tone New York Central baggage car.

I love a good deal!