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Great finds everyone, I wish I had some new train cars to share with you all, but I am not that lucky. But the wife and I went window shopping in town yeaterday and I picked these up for the layout. Before any of you say but they are just banks, I seen on here where folks have filled the slots in and repainted the top and they look great!

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I was thinking hard about getting this one, but it was a little high for me. But I am still thinking about it! LOL

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Its just I am not a B&O guy, but I do like the truck!

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@mike g. posted:

Great finds everyone, I wish I had some new train cars to share with you all, but I am not that lucky. But the wife and I went window shopping in town yeaterday and I picked these up for the layout. Before any of you say but they are just banks, I seen on here where folks have filled the slots in and repainted the top and they look great!

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I was thinking hard about getting this one, but it was a little high for me. But I am still thinking about it! LOL

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Its just I am not a B&O guy, but I do like the truck!

I like the Winn-Dixie Mike. The slots can be done. It's an easy patch and paint job.

The B&O looks good too. A 3,000 mile trip to go window shopping might be in order......

Bob

Haven’t bought anything yet out of this bunch of stuff that was donated to the club. We are going to take the HO engines to a club to run them and decide which ones would be best for the HO part of our layout. We’ll keep two or three and leave the rest for that club along with some rolling stock, etc. Here’s where it gets interesting there’s a AF steam set in a set box that’s falling apart; it does have the label. I brought it home to check it out. I wondering if I could lay the track on my tinplate layout between the O Ga and the Kusan track. I promised myself that I will not reopen the box till I clear some other projects.

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@mike g. posted:

Great finds everyone, I wish I had some new train cars to share with you all, but I am not that lucky. But the wife and I went window shopping in town yeaterday and I picked these up for the layout. Before any of you say but they are just banks, I seen on here where folks have filled the slots in and repainted the top and they look great!

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I was thinking hard about getting this one, but it was a little high for me. But I am still thinking about it! LOL

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Its just I am not a B&O guy, but I do like the truck!

I have a few trailers like this.  What I decided to do is get/use some heavy electrical friction tape to cover the tops going from side to side and seal them.  So it looks like the tops were repaired with tar paper.  And/od paint the applied tape to look like a canvas to repair.



Ron

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I’ll take some and post later.



@RSJB18

As promised. The box is severely deteriorated.
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There’s a small set transformer, the cord is dried up and it appears to be missing lights.

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This just arrived Saturday - a set of Lionel 13" passenger cars to go with my Lionchief Plus B&O Mikado. It seems that the Mikado wasn't really a passenger engine, but I wanted to have the option. And I never before considered cars with passenger silhouettes until someone posted photos of their cars here and that won me over. These were still in the box, apparently never run.

John

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This just arrived Saturday - a set of Lionel 13" passenger cars to go with my Lionchief Plus B&O Mikado. It seems that the Mikado wasn't really a passenger engine, but I wanted to have the option. And I never before considered cars with passenger silhouettes until someone posted photos of their cars here and that won me over. These were still in the box, apparently never run.

John

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Hi John,  Those are great looking!  I know we got use to detailed interiors but in reality at night if we saw a passenger consist go by for the most part we would not be seeing detail interiors but mostly just silhouettes.

I kind of would like to go back to "silhouettes" that look this good.

Ron

I make a point of strenuously avoiding PS2 5v items. I have had several catastrophic failures. Having said that, it’s a man’s prerogative to change his mind. I was able to get a “whisper away from mint” MTH Railking Erie-Lackawanna RS3, a sentimental favorite, which has not been released in PS3, with 1.1 scale miles, and 27 minutes on the clock. I’m hoping for a long term relationship! Opted for a rechargeable 9v battery instead of BCR.

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I make a point of strenuously avoiding PS2 5v items. I have had several catastrophic failures. Having said that, it’s a man’s prerogative to change his mind. I was able to get a “whisper away from mint” MTH Railking Erie-Lackawanna RS3, a sentimental favorite, which has not been released in PS3, with 1.1 scale miles, and 37 minutes on the clock. I’m hoping for a long term relationship! BCR on the way.

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That's a beautiful engine in a beautiful paint scheme. I hope it gives you years of trouble-free service.

John

Thank you, John. I hope so, too. It’s an oldie. From 2000 Vol. 3. Before MTH issued PS2 with the external charging jack. And really bad FYA.

I think you will be fine Mark.

I bought these used 10 years ago on my way to a pirates game one Saturday when they we’re playing the Mets.

I stopped off in Monroeville on my way to Pittsburgh at the Greenberg show and picked these up for 100.00 each.

They used to belong to Walt Rapp and still had and still have the names that Walt gave them…one is “kennywood” and the other is “pirates”  One unit has 214 hrs and the other is 252 hrs.

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@taycotrains posted:

I think you will be fine Mark.

I bought these used 10 years ago on my way to a pirates game one Saturday when they we’re playing the Mets.

I stopped off in Monroeville on my way to Pittsburgh at the Greenberg show and picked these up for 100.00 each.

They used to belong to Walt Rapp and still had and still have the names that Walt gave them…one is “kennywood” and the other is “pirates”  One unit has 214 hrs and the other is 252 hrs.

keep a good battery in it and it should last a good long time…I hope lol !IMG_2494

Thanks Bob, that’s encouraging to hear. Do both of yours have the goofy Freight Yard announcements where he says “see you on the flip-flop three times” and you have spontaneous horn blasts that appear to happen for no reason? Or is my sound file corrupted?

Thanks Bob, that’s encouraging to hear. Do both of yours have the goofy Freight Yard announcements where he says “see you on the flip-flop three times” and you have spontaneous horn blasts that appear to happen for no reason? Or is my sound file corrupted?

Mark your initial post prompted me to pull my units off the shelf and give them a run to see if they were still “viable” lol.

Both units required batteries because these have not been ran in years.

So after replacing the batteries I gave them both a long run (15 mins) each and tested all the functions and yes both units have the most ridiculous PFAs I have ever heard. I was thinking corruption too but the twin unit did the exact same nonsense.

In short your unit is working as built.



Bob T

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What did you say Joe? I can't here you over this annoying guy who doesn't shut up......

Heading to Trainland tomorrow to pick up a set of the Lionel Fezziwig's cars for Christmas........

slip slidin' away........

Ok Bob so now you’re stirring the pot. I all but gave up looking for a Fezziwiggs ballroom; but now you’ve got the wheels turning again. What’s a man to do?

Oh man, the voices are coming back strong. I felt the k-line Hudson needed some nice freight to haul. A very helpful forum member sold me his scale k-line bay window caboose. And the fine folks at Trainz sold me my first (but not last) Atlas 40' reefers. Wow, the detail and size. I'm hooked! I love building freight consists.

Nice Donnie- careful, billboard reefers are habit forming.

Donnie that's a mighty nice train that went together really quickly.  Just like Atlas hit it out of the park with those 40' reefers K-line was scoring with many of their cabooses, bay window, extended vision and if memory serves me they even made a NYC with the bay window stopping just below the windows, kind of like a half bay.

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