This is a Christmas Eve arrival from the good folks at the TCA which seems to have scared away all the snow we’ve had recently (and, yes, I’m following the recent thread on problems with the board - just had a chance for a couple of loops around the layout, but no smoke!!!). As a snow plow, by definition, it’s cool 
A Christmas stocking gift from my GrandDaughter.
And a Fellow Teamster
@Guttersnipe posted:And a Fellow Teamster
My son is the Teamster. He’s an engineer on NJT
Retired heavy Truck driver
@Tranquil Hollow RR posted:My lovely wife surprised me on Christmas with my Holy Grail engine. It’s a Lionel Reading Company T-1. For years I have been checking these out but hesitant to “pull the trigger “ on making the purchase.
Operating in stealth mode my wife had it delivered to a friend’s house; Rick who has been doing the wiring for my layout. It was then wrapped and she hid it under our bed 😮. This is by far my favorite all time gift.Jay
This is some video of my Holy Grail Reading Company T-1 that my wonderful wife bought me for Christmas.
Jay
From October to this month I picked up about 6 engines in total with one being a set.
The first 2 I got the 2 Atlas O Premier SD45s back in October.
I also got this Union Pacific SD24 that i used to have 9 years ago, I got it for a good price for an early MTH Proto sound 2.0 model.
Around Black Friday, I got The Lionel Christmas Candies Dockside Switcher and the MTH UP SD45. The Lionel Dockside set alone was worth the price, For a Small diecast engine with TMCC (lion chief + 2.0) with some cars and a caboose, The price was good.
Then the final engine I got was the Southern Pacific SD50, A model I used to have 9 years ago that i have been looking for for over 2 years now.
Should be here next week!!!
@Sunrise Special posted:Should be here next week!!!
That's so sharp looking it could start a stampede of new ACL collectors.
@coach joe posted:That's so sharp looking it could start a stampede of new ACL collectors.
You're not joking!! I like to focus on the LIRR and RF&P. The ACL is not much of a reach when discussing RF&P. So I've dipped my toe into ACL pool and now it seems I'm doing belly flops in the deep end! LOL!
Sunrise
From our friends at Michael's and LeMAx. Like everything else model train related I didn't need nor have room for more scenery and structures but I could not pass up some beer and brats nd a pre-lit tree is always nice. I just have to dig out my adapters to get them all lit up.
Great finds everyone! I hope the new year brings even more great finds! I wish I could share something with you all, but it just hasn't happened yet for me! But I know it will this year, I will find something I really want! LOL
Here’s my new RI GP7 leading a train at the Milwaukee Lionel Railroad Club.
Your engines are really GREAT!!!
I follow your club on Facebook and am really impressed by your club's scenery. Do you have any or can you take any photos of the whole Hellgate bridge as well as closeups of the towers and iron work? If so, send the photos to me as E-Mail attachments. My E-Mail address is in my OGR Forum profile. I assume that it is scratch built, and the stonework of the towers are made using Scenic Express tunnel portals and walls. am I correct? I have always wanted to model the bridge for my own layout.
Thank you.
@Randy Harrison posted:Your engines are really GREAT!!!
I follow your club on Facebook and am really impressed by your club's scenery. Do you have any or can you take any photos of the whole Hellgate bridge as well as closeups of the towers and iron work? If so, send the photos to me as E-Mail attachments. My E-Mail address is in my OGR Forum profile. I assume that it is scratch built, and the stonework of the towers are made using Scenic Express tunnel portals and walls. am I correct? I have always wanted to model the bridge for my own layout.
Thank you.
Thank you! The bridge was constructed just before I became a member. It’s all scratch-built. I hope these two pictures are OK. There are more out there, but I haven’t taken many.
@pennsyfan posted:My son is the Teamster. He’s an engineer on NJT
@pennsyfan …..Is your son named Keith? I retired from NJT about a year ago.
Here is my latest acquisition…A MTH U-30c…
Tom
Well, we finally opened the gift from my wife for the train room, It’s a Disney ceramic piece that is fun to listen to and see the lights. I’m not sure where its home will be, but it’s very feature rich. @pennsyfan, Wow, that’s a beautiful man cave sign…Great buys everyone.
Even If it is Christmasy, It would make a **** of a good night light the rest of the year
One of the older MTH Galloping Geese railmotors. I always thought these things were a bit odd then came across a guy on youtube by the name of Hyce who works at the Colorado Railroad museum which has 3 of these, one of which is operational, who explained the history of the real ones and at that point I had to add one to the collection.
Of course after I unwrapped this thing on Christmas Day I check the MTH website and see they're doing re-runs next year... No matter! I'll get one with a prototypical paintjob and run it alongside this one, maybe even swap the shells since the tooling will likely be the same. This one is a fictional paintjob but it's certainly more eyecatching than the plain silver the IRL geese were.
I just got Lionel's Prairie #531 PRR recreation of postwar 675 which is my favorite postwar engines. I've restored several.675s Lionel did a good job Very well done paint and LC features. But!! I truly love my "old" 675s I love their massive weight and their ongoing need for futzing around to keep them going.
Thanks very much for the photos. They give me an idea of what I have to do to build one myself.
That is the joy of this hobby. WE can glean ideas from others or even with their free help we learn to see things we would not have seen but not being where they are. Back in my HO days somebody did a picture of the Lowe Mountain railway. with a super sharp curve over nothing but air for hundreds of feet. I had to do it myself for my narrow-gauge branch of my railway. Just because it was there
I waited a long time for this paint scheme! It’s Atlas Premier, bought through Mr. Muffin.
A while back I had posted this MTH Construction Company flat to provide transport for some Nassau Lionel Operating Engineers tractors from several of the TOFCs they had produced.
Having three TOFCs and looking for a fourth I knew I would be needing another flat. As each of the LIRR flat with the trailers was a different color I figured another on of these gray MTH flats would be keep the train from getting to garish but then I found this LIRR flat on eBAy for a very fair price. I like it but I have two issues, the ties are glued on so I'll have to work on taking them off without damaging anything and the car, intended for MOW service is a bit shorter than the MTH car. I'll have to see if two tractors can fit on the shorter car. Either way it'll find it's way into service somehow.
Just got my Lionel Halloween F19 and Lionel AEC set yesterday. No more buying until the new Lionel catalog comes out.
Sunrise
@coach joe posted:A while back I had posted this MTH Construction Company flat to provide transport for some Nassau Lionel Operating Engineers tractors from several of the TOFCs they had produced.
Having three TOFCs and looking for a fourth I knew I would be needing another flat. As each of the LIRR flat with the trailers was a different color I figured another on of these gray MTH flats would be keep the train from getting to garish but then I found this LIRR flat on eBAy for a very fair price. I like it but I have two issues, the ties are glued on so I'll have to work on taking them off without damaging anything and the car, intended for MOW service is a bit shorter than the MTH car. I'll have to see if two tractors can fit on the shorter car. Either way it'll find it's way into service somehow.
When Transporting tractors, they frequently put the head end of the second on the fifth wheel base of the first
@Sunrise Special posted:Just got my Lionel Halloween F19 and Lionel AEC set yesterday. No more buying until the new Lionel catalog comes out.
Sunrise
Sure! we all Believe you when you say no more buying until . . .
@RIRocket posted:I waited a long time for this paint scheme! It’s Atlas Premier, bought through Mr. Muffin.
Those are beautiful!
hopefully we will cross paths at the club sometime, my 5 year old son and I just joined back in November. Hopefully I’ll be able to make it down tomorrow to run some trains.
I picked up this PRR battleship gondola from eBay last week. Nice model. However it’s set up to run on 2Rail. I plan to change out the wheel sets with 3Rail wheel sets. Then maybe change out the couplers.
@brewcrew posted:Those are beautiful!
hopefully we will cross paths at the club sometime, my 5 year old son and I just joined back in November. Hopefully I’ll be able to make it down tomorrow to run some trains.
Yes, I’ll be running a passenger train tomorrow, possibly up top, as one set of locos is DCS.
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