@Dallas Joseph posted:Premier Pennsylvania tank car ......cool to me from the Bay. ..............
............I have to control this RR building somehow.
Talk to Paul, he knows how to control that RR building urge. 
@Apples55 posted:Nice tankers, Bob. Grzyboski’s did a custom run of Lionel Reading & Northern SD40-2’s recently - sweet engines (they still have some last time I looked).
Update: just ordered one of the tankers… would have ordered both, but the E-ZCatch home page showed another of their special runs - a Jade Green NYC Jade Green hopper. Just had to get one of those too. Looks like I’ll have to pay closer attention to another forum sponsor!!!
Voices from Staten Island? Oh Boy! Must sound like Ben Fiorello.
The only thing I have really found safe was gift cards, However there is a running ad with necklaces, of gold chain with circles and now hearts that you can order with her kids names on them and it is about price of a good passenger car.
I bought some goodies at the Nassau Hobby warehouse sale! Video coming soon.
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@coach joe posted:Talk to Paul, he knows how to control that RR building urge.
I don't know Joe. I'll have to ask around the forum to see what kind of influence Paul has on members being able to be frugal.
Bought this a few days ago and it came today!
Congrats on both birth and new member of your railroad
Dallas, when it comes to being frugal when buying trains and influencing others to follow his path Paul is like one of the Collier Brothers.
Bought a Lionel NYC RS-11 (6-18598) with TMCC from Cabin Fever Auctions last week. Picked it up on Friday so I didn't have to pay shipping. Had a nice day on the drive: stop at the Allentown Farmer's Market on the way down, lunch out with my wife, and stop at Herbein's Greenhouse below Emmaus on the way home. The engine worked fine after the "usual" new-to-me used engine tune-ups: lube and oil, clean the wheels, replace a traction tire.
I'm using it to pull my Frank's Roundhouse Pacemaker boxcars.
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@Dallas Joseph posted:I don't know Joe. I'll have to ask around the forum to see what kind of influence Paul has on members being able to be frugal.
One question, Dallas - what does “frugal” mean???
@coach joe posted:Dallas, when it comes to being frugal when buying trains and influencing others to follow his path Paul is like one of the Collier Brothers.
Dear Joe;
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@Brooklyn Corey posted:Bought this a few days ago and it came today!
BigBoys are the best, Corey (I have the VisionLine 4012 which is nearby in Scranton and an older TMCC version). I’m sure you will have a blast running it, but I have to ask… is it an IRT, BMT, IND, or SIRT engine??? 😁😁😁
@bobfett posted:Bought a Lionel NYC RS-11 (6-18598) with TMCC from Cabin Fever Auctions last week. I'm using it to pull my Frank's Roundhouse Pacemaker boxcars.
Very nice; that’s quite the impressively long string of PCM boxcars!
That consist resonates with me. I used to pull a much more modest 6 car set of Frank’s PCM boxcars with the Lionel 8477 NYC GP9, followed by the Lionel NYC 6910 EV Caboose in PCM scheme.
@Apples55 posted:BigBoys are the best, Corey (I have the VisionLine 4012 which is nearby in Scranton and an older TMCC version). I’m sure you will have a blast running it, but I have to ask… is it an IRT, BMT, IND, or SIRT engine??? 😁😁😁
🤣🤣🤣🤣 that was a good one! I agree, they are awesome!
Paul, you're a great influence, just ask Bob, Donnie, The Voices or the 785 sitting on my shelf.
@coach joe posted:Paul, you're a great influence, just ask Bob, Donnie, The Voices or the 785 sitting on my shelf.
Great influence... Just ask all of my B&O or Chessie trains. They're feeling overtaken and out numbered by the NYC engines Paul keeps telling the Voices to convince me to buy... There may be another Hudson on it's way. 🥹
@Donnie Kennedy posted:Great influence... Just ask all of my B&O or Chessie trains. They're feeling overtaken and out numbered by the NYC engines Paul keeps telling the Voices to convince me to buy... There may be another Hudson on it's way. 🥹
Just to be perfectly clear, I do not speak to the voices - yours OR mine… mine speak to me in dulcet tones at all times of the day or night - your experience may vary!!!
Another Hudson???
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@coach joe posted:Dallas, when it comes to being frugal when buying trains and influencing others to follow his path Paul is like one of the Collier Brothers.
You had me on this one Joe........I had to go to the internet to find out about Paul's being frugal and influencing others...........with the tendencies of the Collier Brothers......
@Apples55 posted:One question, Dallas - what does “frugal” mean???
Dear Joe;
I don't know Paul...........but I really like your MAKEOVER.
@Mark V. Spadaro posted:Very nice; that’s quite the impressively long string of PCM boxcars!
That consist resonates with me. I used to pull a much more modest 6 car set of Frank’s PCM boxcars with the Lionel 8477 NYC GP9, followed by the Lionel NYC 6910 EV Caboose in PCM scheme.
Hi Mark,
I have all 21 of the FRH Pacemaker Boxcars; they obviously resonated with me (even my wife likes the colors). I had been pulling them with my 2344 A-B-A F3s but the TMCC RS-11 called my name and I couldn't resist. I had the 2344s when I was a kid and remember them well from running on our layout at home in the 50s and 60s. I like the 8477 too, but don't have it.
Bob
@Dallas Joseph posted:I don't know Paul...........but I really like your MAKEOVER.
Now, now, Dallas… no need to get catty
Got this last week, first time having a command crane car. This was basically brand new, not even a bit of dirt on the wheels.
I needed to adjust the outriggers, as they popped out too easily out of the box. And one of the bearings for the rotation mechanism was randomly popping out, that was fixed with some Loctite.
I don't have the matching boom car, but I am keeping an eye out for one.
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@Apples55 posted:Just to be perfectly clear, I do not speak to the voices - yours OR mine… mine speak to me in dulcet tones at all times of the day or night - your experience may vary!!!
Another Hudson???
Oh, it's a Williams early gen brass Dreyfuss. I believe the second one. It doesn't have the paper stickers. It's gonna be a project. I don't want to jinx taking pics yet. Lol. It may be a few months to get her ship shape. May the force be with me
@bobfett posted:Hi Mark,
I have all 21 of the FRH Pacemaker Boxcars; they obviously resonated with me (even my wife likes the colors). I had been pulling them with my 2344 A-B-A F3s but the TMCC RS-11 called my name and I couldn't resist. I had the 2344s when I was a kid and remember them well from running on our layout at home in the 50s and 60s. I like the 8477 too, but don't have it.
Bob
Didn’t mention it, but that RS-11 is a great engine. Mine was a victim of Sandy, but I almost recently rebought it from a fellow forumite. Another OGR member beat me to the punch. I do have the TMCC D&H RS-11, and I’m very happy with it.
@Donnie Kennedy posted:Oh, it's a Williams early gen brass Dreyfuss. I believe the second one. It doesn't have the paper stickers. It's gonna be a project. I don't want to jinx taking pics yet. Lol. It may be a few months to get her ship shape. May the force be with me
Should be an interesting project, especially with a brass engine - best of luck. One note… the 3rd pic (the gray engine) is the Dreyfuss Hudson. The 2nd is the Commodore Vanderbilt, and the 1st is the Empire State Express. More good choices
Donnie… I am your father’s brother’s roommate’s hairdresser!!!
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@Mark V. Spadaro posted:Didn’t mention it, but that RS-11 is a great engine. Mine was a victim of Sandy, but I almost recently rebought it from a fellow forumite. Another OGR member beat me to the punch. I do have the TMCC D&H RS-11, and I’m very happy with it.
Ahem.....
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Bob I see you've modified an 027 switch to provide clearance. Is this an automatic or manual? If you could share some details of how you did it that would be appreciated.
Didn’t want to point any fingers Bob, but you decided to own up! Hahaha
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Bob I see you've modified an 027 switch to provide clearance. Is this an automatic or manual? If you could share some details of how you did it that would be appreciated.
Personally I like the way he was able to mount the switch machine in the first place
@Mark V. Spadaro posted:Didn’t mention it, but that RS-11 is a great engine. Mine was a victim of Sandy, but I almost recently rebought it from a fellow forumite. Another OGR member beat me to the punch. I do have the TMCC D&H RS-11, and I’m very happy with it.
Don't know how to chase it down, but would love to see the F3 consist with the Pacemaker box cars on video.
@Apples55 posted:Should be an interesting project, especially with a brass engine - best of luck. One note… the 3rd pic (the gray engine) is the Dreyfuss Hudson. The 2nd is the Commodore Vanderbilt, and the 1st is the Empire State Express. More good choices
Donnie… I am your father’s brother’s roommate’s hairdresser!!!
Opened up the Dreyfuss.Unfortunately when you use packing peanuts and 40 year old egg crate foam to ship a brass engine and tender , chances are it won't make it in one piece. All good as buyer excepted return and shipping.
Back to listening to the voices to guide me into the next Hudson. Already have the cars for it!
Paul, those are beautiful Hudson's. Really like the Dreyfuss.
May the Schwartz be with you!
I stopped at The Train Doctor to say hello.
Look what followed me home.
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@Mark V. Spadaro posted:Didn’t want to point any fingers Bob, but you decided to own up! Hahaha
No shame in calling me out Mark. I can take it.....🤣🤣
@coach joe posted:Bob I see you've modified an 027 switch to provide clearance. Is this an automatic or manual? If you could share some details of how you did it that would be appreciated.
I will when I'm at a computer tomorrow. This is a 5121 that I removed the machine to provide clearance for my RS1's.
@Guttersnipe posted:Personally I like the way he was able to mount the switch machine in the first place
Details to follow.
@Guttersnipe posted:Don't know how to chase it down, but would love to see the F3 consist with the Pacemaker box cars on video.
Hello Guttersnipe,
I don't have a video of the F3s with the Pacemaker box cars but here's one of the F3s with a consist of Frank's Roundhouse NYC passenger cars. I'll try to shoot the F3s with the Pacemakers tomorrow, if I have time. My wife has already put in a request for my time tomorrow.
Bob
looking good, yeah wives are like that yeah they are. and they know exactly when you are planning on doing something you want to do to cut in
@pennsyfan posted:I stopped at The Train Doctor to say hello.
Look what followed me home.
Take care of them and you will have friends for life
@pennsyfan posted:I stopped at The Train Doctor to say hello.
Look what followed me home.
Hello, Bob - are they K-Line with plastic or die cast frames? Thanks, Mark
@Mark V. Spadaro posted:Hello, Bob - are they K-Line with plastic or die cast frames? Thanks, Mark
Hey Mark, They have plastic frames with Diecast sprung trucks.
@pennsyfan posted:Hey Mark, They have plastic frames with Diecast sprung trucks.
Thanks, Bob.
@pennsyfan posted:I stopped at The Train Doctor to say hello.
Look what followed me home.
OK Bob........when they followed you home were they in a little RED WAGON that was attached to your hand.
Nice Pennsy stuff sir .
