Wow Bob, that is an impressive collection. I love the cattle car with the cows heads out between the slats!
Don
@Don McErlean posted:Wow Bob, that is an impressive collection. I love the cattle car with the cows heads out between the slats!
Don
Thanks Don , The cattle car is reportedly one of the rare ones.
@MainLine Steam posted:The first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem. I DO BIG TIME.
Here are 2 pictures of the corner shelf in my Living Room (never would have gotten away with this when I was married). Note the earlier manufactured ESE RPO and the CZ Baggage. And yes the Skytop Lounge was never hauled by SP, but they are my favorite EMD F-unit paint scheme and my favorite Observation Car.
BTW I am also a car guy. If you wondering why I would have a diecast Corvair, my first car was the coupe version, the same color as the convertible.
Hi Jim, I thought I posted a reply to you, but it didn't post! How unfortunate, I'm gonna type it up again. LoL
First, thanks for the great photos of your goodies in this post, and second, I did not know K-Line made a CZ RPO! I did an online search a few months ago with several different search criteria, and got nothin'! So, thanks for letting me know. I converted the Empire State version I purchase from Trainz to CZ. Trainz did not have the skirt part, so they gave me a reasonable discount on the RPO because I wanted to keep it. I ordered another K-Line 15", New York Central diner car, for parts. Besides the skirt, I need two new trucks for a 15" CZ diner car I bought used for $40 and the bearing caps were completely worn out. The axles just flop around in them! I've never seen bearing end caps that worn out before!!!
While I am waiting for the 15" donor car to show up, I upgraded the interior of the RPO car, wood floor, paint, more people figures, baggage, and freight. Also upgraded to LED lighting. I'll post the process in another thread as soon as the donor shows up and I've installed the skirts.
@WesternPacific2217 posted:Hi Jim, I thought I posted a reply to you, but it didn't post! How unfortunate, I'm gonna type it up again. LoL
First, thanks for the great photos of your goodies in this post, and second, I did not know K-Line made a CZ RPO! I did an online search a few months ago with several different search criteria, and got nothin'! So, thanks for letting me know. I converted the Empire State version I purchase from Trainz to CZ. Trainz did not have the skirt part, so they gave me a reasonable discount on the RPO because I wanted to keep it. I ordered another K-Line 15", New York Central diner car, for parts. Besides the skirt, I need two new trucks for a 15" CZ diner car I bought used for $40 and the bearing caps were completely worn out. The axles just flop around in them! I've never seen bearing end caps that worn out before!!!
While I am waiting for the 15" donor car to show up, I upgraded the interior of the RPO car, wood floor, paint, more people figures, baggage, and freight. Also upgraded to LED lighting. I'll post the process in another thread as soon as the donor shows up and I've installed the skirts.
Not sure if you were able to zoom in and see it but the RPO is ESE not CZ. The baggage car is CZ which is pretty hard to find (K4613-10903). I have not come across the CZ diner you have (K4613-10842). The only 15" CZ set I see on a regular basis is the 4 car dome set.
Anyhow I am plan on "cheating" when get my layout done and just intermix the ESE cars with the 4 CZ domes and the baggage. If I decide to do it more correctly, I would buy ESE coaches and parlor cars and change interiors to sleeper configurations and Nameplates to CZ. Think probably that's what you are doing.
@VHubbard posted:Finally got a Dreyfus. Williams Crown Edition. This is my first "brass" model. Looks great, but getting it to run was a little work. See part 2 of checking out a new engine.
Did you happen to get it from "that auction site"? I saw it, but procrastinated too long. LOL It is a beauty!
@MainLine Steam posted:Did you happen to get it from "that auction site"? I saw it, but procrastinated too long. LOL It is a beauty!
I have seen 3-4 Crown editions or Smithsonians on various auction sites the last month or two. This is probably not the one you are thinking of though. This one was a good price and I got it within a few hours of being available. I have been having fun just letting it run today after the fixes it needed.
@VHubbard posted:I have seen 3-4 Crown editions or Smithsonians on various auction sites the last month or two. This is probably not the one you are thinking of though. This one was a good price and I got it within a few hours of being available. I have been having fun just letting it run today after the fixes it needed.
Maybe, maybe not, I am in no hurry to buy and only purchase when the price is right. I have missed out on some good deals by thinking it over too long.
I want to thank you for posting the pre-run check out information, well documented and informative. I have a tendency quickly look it over, then power it up and see what happens. I then tear it apart to make it right. Your approach makes more sense. I am just too darn excited when I get the item to see if it works. LOL
I went to a new (for me) train shop in Pinellas Park, FL today. Twice a year they have a parking lot swap meet that I wanted to check out and was surprised at the number of tables and the good-sized crowd. The beautiful weather helped. Anyway, picked up this Lionel water tower.
How much do you "cheat" or use artistic license when trying to represent a prototype?
Mikki
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Nikki,
Well done!
Tom
MTH Premier GP9
@Mikki posted:I went to a new (for me) train shop in Pinellas Park, FL today. Twice a year they have a parking lot swap meet that I wanted to check out and was surprised at the number of tables and the good-sized crowd. The beautiful weather helped. Anyway, picked up this Lionel water tower.
How much do you "cheat" or use artistic license when trying to represent a prototype?
Mikki
the long saying is, It's your railroad. you do what you want.
The long gone Campbell's Soup Factory in Camden, NJ had tanks that looked like the Lionel on the roof. Just Google images.
Okay, my adventure into Lima O scale isn't quite finished, after I found this three-car set of UK Mark 1 coaches in the Intercity paint scheme on Ebay at a good price:
That's some gap between those coaches, eh? 
I actually had these since 01/15, but yesterday my regular day off finally coincided with a lightly cloudy day in mid-afternoon that provided enough diffuse sunlight to produce good, even lighting in the driveway. All three cars are the same road number and product number (6619), as multiple car numbers weren't a thing back when these were made, hence my handwritten tags intended to tell each car apart from another.
Two of these had their original boxes as shown in the pic and both of those show water damage, that's probably why the seller said in the listing that the third box was too badly damaged and had to be discarded. The corrugated cardboard inserts in the remaining boxes show that they got wet as well, with the cardboard delaminating and the tabs intended to hold the carbodies thoroughly smashed in a way that could only happen while wet. Good thing Lima used almost no metal in these cars (seriously, the only metal is the rivets holding the trucks and couplers). I expect to be able to repair the boxes enough to regain their original function. As for the unboxed cars, well Lima seems to have used one size box for their O scale coaches, and the cardboard insert has multiple notches to set up restraint according to carbody length (they only made two lengths of passenger cars in 'O'), I can probably reproduce the right size of box and insert minus (of course) the printing.
I've been thinking about how to keep the wheelsets on these 2-rail cars from climbing my tubular railheads, and am exploring a potential workaround. Since Lima wheelsets are a one-piece plastic molding the wheels and axles cannot part ways, I thought of cementing a thin plastic disk to the back faces of the wheelsets, acting as flange extensions. To that end, I've acquired some 10-mil (0.25mm) clear stencil sheets to use with a circle cutter and 4mm punch tool. At that thickness, and the diameter needed to extend the flanges by a couple of extra millimeters, the portion that will extend past the stock flanges appears easily capable of supporting the car's weight if need be. Wish me luck
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@RailRide posted:Okay, my adventure into Lima O scale isn't quite finished, after I found this three-car set of UK Mark 1 coaches in the Intercity paint scheme on Ebay at a good price:
That's some gap between those coaches, eh?
I actually had these since the 01/15, but my regular day off and a lightly cloudy day in mid-afternoon provided enough diffuse sunlight to provide nice even lighting in the driveway. All three cars are the same road number and product number (6619), as multiple car numbers weren't a thing back when these were made, hence my handwritten tags intended to tell each car apart from another.
Two of these had their original boxes as shown in the pic and both of those show water damage, that's probably why the seller said in the listing that the third box was too badly damaged and had to be discarded. The corrugated cardboard inserts in the remaining boxes show that they got wet as well, with the cardboard delaminating and the tabs intended to hold the carbodies thoroughly smashed in a way that could only happen while wet. Good thing Lima used almost no metal in these cars (seriously, the only metal is the rivets holding the trucks and couplers)
I've been thinking about how to keep the wheelsets on these 2-rail cars from climbing my tubular railheads, and am exploring a potential workaround. Since Lima wheelsets are a one-piece plastic molding the wheels and axles cannot part ways, I thought of cementing a thin plastic disk to the back faces of the wheelsets, acting as flange extensions. To that end, I've acquired some 10-mil (0.25mm) clear stencil sheets to use with a circle cutter and 4mm punch tool. Wish me luck
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absolutely gorgeous.
@VHubbard posted:Finally got a Dreyfus. Williams Crown Edition. This is my first "brass" model. Looks great, but getting it to run was a little work. See part 2 of checking out a new engine.
I just received a brass Weaver Dreyfus I scored off eBay. I haven't unboxed it yet. Photos to follow.
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@rdg_fan posted:The long gone Campbell's Soup Factory in Camden, NJ had tanks that looked like the Lionel on the roof. Just Google images.
Yup, I am from NJ. My new layout, presently under construction is the PRR along PART of what was the Camden Amboy RR which started from Bordentown City on the Delaware. I am doing South Trenton to Bordentown, not enough real estate for Camden nor even the village of Roebling which I wanted to do (the factory anyway). So, my remark about how far to stray from the prototype was in regard to putting the water tower in Trenton where the Stokely-Van Camp beans factory was.
Mikki
I got this Right of Way C&O saddle tanker from the same seller @coach joe got his Dreyfus. It's a pretty nice little brass engine. My first brass! Now she's back close to home. The old ROW warehouse is about 30 minutes from me. 
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She's a beaut Donnie!
Guys...I have deleted the "car talk" in the recent replies. If you want to talk about real cars, then either private message one another or find a forum that has been created for that kind of content. Discussions here should be about the hobby and related items that go with the O Gauge hobby.
I have been acquiring items to put together a makeshift GodFather / Italian consist. This is the latest addition - a special run from TrainWorld. I love it.
I'm waiting on another item and then I'll post pictures of the consist I have cobbled together so far...
Thank you TrainWorld for another great special run.
Paul
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I just picked this up from METCA. MTH-RK B&O RSD5 with proto3.
https://youtu.be/t4AMblAMods?si=WjYNMcOPZIeYmT0J
@Railrunnin posted:I have been acquiring items to put together a makeshift GodFather / Italian consist. This is the latest addition - a special run from TrainWorld. I love it.
I'm waiting on another item and then I'll post pictures of the consist I have cobbled together so far...
Thank you TrainWorld for another great special run.
Paul
What a great Idea, would love to see the consist, Gotta have a heavy weight open end "business car."
Guttersnipe - will certainly share when the next car comes in - hopefully later this month. Let me think about that business car idea...
Paul
@pennsyfan posted:I just picked this up from METCA. MTH-RK B&O RSD5 with proto3.
https://youtu.be/t4AMblAMods?si=WjYNMcOPZIeYmT0J
Sweet! My favorite B&O paint too...👍👍
@Railrunnin posted:I have been acquiring items to put together a makeshift GodFather / Italian consist. This is the latest addition - a special run from TrainWorld. I love it.
I'm waiting on another item and then I'll post pictures of the consist I have cobbled together so far...
Thank you TrainWorld for another great special run.
Paul
Gotta put a Blue Comet on the point. 😁
Bob
Found the K-line 027 left hand switch I need for my upper level on the big E. I plan to replace the 3 Lionel 51XX with the K-line.
Now to make time to tear things apart....
Bob
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I just managed to grab off the auction cite a Durham 1/43 1940 Nash for the dealer l had modeled, after looking for months. Brooklin had made 1939's and 1935's, for the used car lot, but my date is 1940, so the showroom demanded a 1940. I chose Nash and Graham dealerships for my towns as "different".
@Railrunnin posted:I have been acquiring items to put together a makeshift GodFather / Italian consist. This is the latest addition - a special run from TrainWorld. I love it.
I'm waiting on another item and then I'll post pictures of the consist I have cobbled together so far...
Thank you TrainWorld for another great special run.
Paul
I'm wondering what else you may have in the Godfather theme?? Besides the two above carI have a Genco Olive Oil car.
@FrankRazz posted:I'm wondering what else you may have in the Godfather theme?? Besides the two above carI have a Genco Olive Oil car.
A couple cement hoppers???????
@FrankRazz posted:I'm wondering what else you may have in the Godfather theme?? Besides the two above carI have a Genco Olive Oil car.
Hi Frank. Where are you living these days?
This is the list of cars so far... I'll post pictures when the Clemenzas Bakery Reefer arrives - hopefully later this month.
I'm thinking of having a couple of custom paints done - still "ruminating" as my late Brooklyn friend Pat Fusco (T-Rex) would say.
MTH Clemenza’s Bakery Reefer
MTH Genco Olive Oil Reefer
MTH “Goodfellas” Black Caddy’s Auto Carrier
MTH? Casa Nostra Boxcar
Atlas Macaroni Reefer
@Railrunnin posted:Hi Frank. Where are you living these days?
This is the list of cars so far... I'll post pictures when the Clemenzas Bakery Reefer arrives - hopefully later this month.
I'm thinking of having a couple of custom paints done - still "ruminating" as my late Brooklyn friend Pat Fusco (T-Rex) would say.
MTH Clemenza’s Bakery Reefer
MTH Genco Olive Oil Reefer
MTH “Goodfellas” Black Caddy’s Auto Carrier
MTH? Casa Nostra Boxcar
Atlas Macaroni Reefer
How about a casket Car, a weapons car, a booze car, and a bank car.
@Railrunnin posted:Hi Frank. Where are you living these days?
This is the list of cars so far... I'll post pictures when the Clemenzas Bakery Reefer arrives - hopefully later this month.
I'm thinking of having a couple of custom paints done - still "ruminating" as my late Brooklyn friend Pat Fusco (T-Rex) would say.
MTH Clemenza’s Bakery Reefer
MTH Genco Olive Oil Reefer
MTH “Goodfellas” Black Caddy’s Auto Carrier
MTH? Casa Nostra Boxcar
Atlas Macaroni Reefer
I'm still on Long Island. I miss Pat Fusco, I would see him at York, I would sit and listen to his stories about the machiney he had in his basement, while his wife would just shake her head.
I couldn't find Clemenza's reefer on RoundHouse South web site. I'll have to give them a call.
@pennsyfan posted:I just picked this up from METCA. MTH-RK B&O RSD5 with proto3.
https://youtu.be/t4AMblAMods?si=WjYNMcOPZIeYmT0J
Really liking the sounds on that RSD5 Bob. Great purchase sir. 
@Dallas Joseph posted:Really liking the sounds on that RSD5 Bob. Great purchase sir.
Thanks Dallas, I really like the start up.
@pennsyfan posted:Thanks Dallas, I really like the start up.
Yup...... that IS a terrific start up sequence. 
@pennsyfan posted:I just picked this up from METCA. MTH-RK B&O RSD5 with proto3.
https://youtu.be/t4AMblAMods?si=WjYNMcOPZIeYmT0J
Thanks for posting. I prepaid for one of those, but haven’t received a shipping notice for it yet. Look forward to getting it.
Received two of the recent run of the MTH Premier C&O PS 1 boxcars. I have identified and acquired 6 of them so far.
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@pennsyfan posted:I just picked this up from METCA. MTH-RK B&O RSD5 with proto3.
https://youtu.be/t4AMblAMods?si=WjYNMcOPZIeYmT0J
Bob - I could be wrong, but on your video, it looks like you still have the front foam truck spacer in place. That could cause havoc.
@Mark V. Spadaro posted:Bob - I could be wrong, but on your video, it looks like you still have the front foam truck spacer in place. That could cause havoc.
Good 👀 Mark. Yes I left them in in case there was a problem. If you check SwSat you will see that they are gone.
