Buy anything cool lately?

Dennis,

The Williams K4 is a great deal.  You will get it fixed up well.  What can you tell us about some of the other pieces.  I see the center cab shell on a flatcar is Marklin, what are some of the others?  Thank you!

Thanks Mark, for some reason I was having trouble adding text after I uploaded the pictures most likely due to operator error

 

The 0-6-0 is a Lionel semiscale 8976 switcher (I think 227 is the catalog number) with the bell ringer tender.  I also snagged it off da bay for a $125 buy it now.  It will also need a little work, but It should be a good couple of evening fall project.

The Marklin shell is 1920's as best I can tell.  It could have come with a wind up or 20 volt electric motor.  It should have had a pantograph on the missing roof.  I'll probably install a Lionel prewar or similar motor and be careful not to damage the Marklin sheet metal, just in case I find a Marklin motor. I think I won this one for $4.99 or something like that.

The Brass diesel shell is a 1950's Kemtron GP-7 that was sold as a kit.. hopefully, I will get around to restoring it and installing an All Nation or other drive in it.

 

The first two refrigerator cars are both 1940's Westbrook wood kits built sometime way back when.  Nice detail for 80 years ago.  These are the printed and embossed carboard side type of car so are somewhat delicate.  All the details would be added by the modeler.

The last two cars are both Scale-craft and date from the late 1930's and both are assembled kits, although you could buy Scale-craft factory assembled and hand lettered.  These are factory scribbed wood sides with decals and again modeler added details. 

 

All these feature a diecast underframe and metal trucks and are somewhat heavy.

 

Opps, forgot the 1662 and Gunmetal 259E.  I picked both up for less than $20 each and had em running in an evening.  I put a set of nickel rimmed drivers off a 229 on the 1662 so I could run it on my O gauge tinplate track.

 

That funny bronze frame is a Red Adams castinng from I think the 1930's.  It is stamped as such and also to be  NYC H-10 2-8-2 .  So far I have not positively identified it's source, other than being Adams.  He suppsedly supplied castings to several prewar locomotive kit suppliers.  One that I think this could be is Scale Models out of Hunington Indiana as I hace a 1941 Megow catalog with info for this engine in it.

 

Have not identified the source for the big brinze Hudson either but golly is it ever heavy.... A true Doorstop indeed.

 

All fun for something different

some great scores Dennis!

MTH truck with ETD.

Enjoy your sparking pantagraphs fellas...I'm keeping it simple ! (and cheaper)

 

Picked up this MTH PS1 GG1 with BCR installed from another forum member last Thursday for $120.00...its paired up here with my Williams GG1 that I bought 2 years ago at York for $135.00.

I've been using a visor magnifier with interchangeable lenses for years while working on train projects. I find it indispensable. But I recently decided to upgrade and ordered a Dazor Illuminated Magnifier. I picked it up the other day and it's incredible. The lens I use in the visor is 5 diopter, so I got the same in the Dazor. Below are two photos of my work area. The other lamp is another Razor (3 tube Full Spectrum bulb). Another incredible product. I went with Full Spectrum on the illuminator so the light looks the same.

I found these MTH cars on a local trader site while I was out and about in Yankton today.

 

The Divided Flat is flippin' flawless other than some dust and a missing (not broke off) brake wheel. HUGE CAR!

 

The Tank car needs a couple of steps repaired and some help on the catwalk.

 

10 Bucks!

 

Neither of these fit anywhere near my layout so they probably will be sold.

 

 

 

While the wife was dinking around in ChinaMart looking for needlepoint stuff, I came across this chain. It is almost identical to the Menards chain on my tarped load car less the color. A little ammonia will rust it right up and viola, I gots me some log chain. $3.24.

 

Ted

Brass N&W 3-bay hopper to add to my small collection of same. N&W did not run all fish-belly 2-bay hoppers..Gonna look swell behind my JLC Y6b.

Blew through two shows today, the Kirtland, Ohio O scale show, where I found three

more pairs of archbar trucks.  I think these and the ones from York with do me for a

few projects for a while.  And one show in Dover, Ohio...map on flyer did not show how to get into Dover off I-77, and fairgrounds main entrance was closed...found an alley

to get around  back, and an open gate.  Large show with a lot of tables in the Tuscarawas  Co. Fairgrounds (spelling?), but mostly HO and N, of course, with a lot of orange boxes, too.  I never look at those because you have to pick them up to read the tiny print of the contents.  Stuff has to be out of the box to quickly tell what it is.  I

picked up a box in the Kirtland show for Atlas, and it was an item made for a hobby

shop.  Three lines on the small label, the last with the roadname, which is most

important to me, in very fine print.

Got both of MTH's Reading T-1 Premium Sets:

Happy Halloween, everyone!    

Thank you Dennis.  They are all really neat!

Just opened this up today. From a forum member.

 

Now I need the matching caboose. I know where the one went (Matt) that was with this engine

 

Larry

Hey Larry, does the smoke unit run all the time with that loco

Matt

 

I don't know yet. All I did was take a inventory picture. It went on the shelf until later.

 

David did have the switch set to on and I turned it to off. I do not run smoke but I will check it out later and let you know by e-mail if you like.

 

Larry

Please, mine whenever I turn on layout power the smoke and can lights turn on. I run legacy so I shouldn't get anything when I turn in layout power it somebody told me that's how it was programmed and I want to make sure it's not broken

Bought a Lionel Jet Snow Blower.

Tweaked it with headlights.

 

Dave

How much snow do you usually get on your layout during winter ??

Soo,

 

That jet blower is hot..!!!

On a whim, I picked up a Lionel 259E prewar tinplate locomotive with tender and three freight cars at a train show a couple of weeks back, all in great condition.  I've been having so much fun with them that they've ignited my interest in prewar once again.

 

I bought a neat car today at the Greenberg show at Monroeville, Pennsylvania.  It is an Atlas O Armco Butler Works coil car.  I know scads of folks who worked there, including my father-in-law and his father.  I normally like steam or transition era, but made an exception this time.

 

Sounds like an exception worth making. Cool car - striking colors and nice design!

Bought 5 CTT magazines from 1998 up to 2012  for $1 and enjoying the old stuff. The 98 issue especially.  A lot of different manufacturers, hobby shops/dealers and a different style than today.

Hi Mark - Nice find.....  Congrats.

 

Cheers from The Detroit and Mackinac Railway - A Toy Train Layout

That's cool. With the high operating temperature, hope it hasn't melted the tracks yet.

Nice find for a whim purchase.. 

I built an OGR Barrettsburgh Tool and Die and made it into a John Deere plant. I am now buying John Deere diecast construction equipment and placing them on flat cars to locate on site. I visited York earlier this year and saw Ralph Digges (Ralph's Trains) flatcar load display and went wow.........

I finally got the money together to buy one of his custom built flatcar loads. It looks like Ralph adds the wood base himself. He weathered the wood and in my case glued the excavator (not sure if this is done for all diecast) then added chains. A friend who did this for a living said it was about as prototypical as one can get. He said the only thing missing were wood chocks routinely placed under the treads. Some companies would also place the bucket in some kind of wood holder.

 

 

Great looking model, nice work.

Last week, I purchased the new Atlas CB&Q CZ baggage car, and 4 of those new Lionel PRR GLa two bay hopper cars. Finished the up-grade to Kadee couplers on the hoppers and baggage car, this morning. Off to the "weathering" man this coming week. 

A pair of Jeeps!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ron

Suzukovich and Trainroomgary,

Thanks for the congratulations!  It made my wife happy!  That is good when one buys a $79 special run car!!  ;-)

Yesterday I bought a Lionel 150 O gauge and a Lionel Standard gauge 320 baggage car in red and a gondola. Tonight I committed to a Lionel  253 O gauge. Not that I need any of this but they were there !!  Also got my 736 loco back from a repair. A busted pin on the E unit cylinder  caused problems.

Its been a while since I posted anything, but I have ben following the thread. Lot of cool things. The Pre War Tin Plate stuff has me thinking now. Cool for me.

 

Not pictured:

 

1st: Got a good deal on a MTH Premiere NH FA2 that the A units shells were smashed( they were tested and are fully operational) to upgrade my Williams GN FA1.

  

2nd: A Weaver C628 minus the shell( Needed the motors and power trucks) last thing I needed for a U28C Ph 1 CB&Q kit bash.

 

3rd: Purchased three Atlas/BEL-Bev 40ft Plug door Box cars. Not exactly prototypical but it works.

 

 

 

4th: 8 Atlas/Bev-Bel undecorated 40ft box cars I just completed the first kit ( SOO LINE )

 

 

 

5th: Dept 56 building and accessories lighting system

 

 

6th New back ground panels

 

 

7th 30 Atlas/Bev-Bel undecorated 40ft Plug Door boxcar kits with the intention of building Western Fruit Express insulated box cars with GN heralds pre 65 and 65-70. May also do some with BN reporting marks.

 

8th: A remote to turn lights on and off for the layout

 

 

 

 

 

Weaver CB&Q VO1000.
I believe this model is as high quality and accurate as any brass or other foreign import.
Any Burlington fan would skip a heart beat over one of these.

I went up to Mercer Junction Train Shoppe today and picked up my Alaska RR USRA 0-6-0 switcher that Just came in this week.  Dave put it on his layout and we checked it out.  He corrected one minor problem and everything works just fine!  Thanks Dave!!

 

Here it is.  

 

 

Ken, Good question!  ;-)

Whenever our last daughter earns more money and can afford to get her own place, I will get her 12x12 room.  Hopefully next year.

Dave, what did you use for the headlights? Please tell how you installed/mounted and wired them. Did you use an on/off switch or are they constant on when track power is applied? Also, close of pics of them turned off and from various viewpoints would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Very nice. I love old Jeep wagons, but my oldest Jeep is just an '81. Can I ask who made these?

I purchased from Diecast Direct made by American Excellence/NEO.  About a year ago I missed out on the pickup when it was offered in red.  Was not going to miss out on the grey one!

 

Ron

Coffee this morning is going into one of these. Lionel 115th Anniversary Mug