Cool Train Shop Catalog • From Japan
My son travels to Japan several times a year on business trips. He is an automotive engineer and this is a Catalog from a Train Shop in Japan. Some of his co workers in Japan are model railroaders. This model train shop has a cafe / restaurant in the train shop. They serve the meals on a Bullet Train dish.
Click here to learn more about this Train Shop in Japan.
scott.smith posted:Scott Smith
Looking good.
Roman posted:Hmm, I guess I'm not too cool. I touted just above about the little "gem" I'm waiting on. Well what do I find buried at the bottom of a bin under my layout tonight????
Can't have too many cabeese/cabooses, right?
Yep......... been there done that.
Saw a member's pic showing his kitbash project (there is a youtube video how-to) to make a O-scale Mickey and Minnie handcar from a Hallmark ornament and Lionel handcar. Bought the ornament, looking for the handcar.
Gary Graves posted:suzukovich posted:Picked up a few things, Burlington Reefers : Atlas( from a forum member ) Lionel, MTH .Lionel NP Reefer and an Atlas NP Way Car. I also added to my CB&Q roster MTH GP9. Ok cool for me.
suzukovich, you are pretty snappy with videos. It looks like you cropped the videos to show only the cars you are commenting on. What software do you use?
Actually it was two separate 20 sec videos. Un like Alan and some others, I am still working in the stone age. Just using Picasa Movie maker. But thank you anyway.
Rich very sharp B&O hopper!
Didn't buy anything but did some eyeshopping at the LHS. Have a ton of new Woodlands scenics items plus the usual MTH and Lionel high end engines and cars. The prices are staggering I think. I was looking at some Lionechief sets and, for te modern price, they seem like a good way to go for a train for kids. Actually seems reasonable and people seem to like the simple control system so everything isn't doom and gloom. Had a BigBoy, two Alleghenies, a y6b plus a wide assortment of steamers and diesels with scads of cars in boxes. Looked for a good RR book but not much there. Good to get out of the house-now back to my faithful old stuff.
Richard E posted:I found this B & O wagon top covered hopper on e-bay.
3rd Rail, new in the box
nice!
Lionel lamp posts
Carey,
I just got back from visiting my elderly aunt at her assisted living facility in a town about 20 miles away. They have been doing some new construction the last couple of years, and I noticed today street lights that rally resemble your Lionel street lights. They look vey sharp.
Setting up the back yard for an Easter Egg Hunt. This book will be in my grandson's Easter Basket. I hope he is ready...........
trainroomgary posted:
Aren't you a little old for that book? 
By the way, how was the fishing?
Love the book Gary. I bet your grandson will love it too. After all it came from Grandpa. 
I scored this little gem in the OGR For-Sale forum. It's the Lionel 6-11154 Vision Line PRR CC2S 0-8-8-0. This one is packed with all the neat Vision Line features, whistle steam, blowdown steam, swinging bell, etc.
Nice score John. 
I saw that on the forum and it was at a really good price. Enjoy it.
John, I'm still kicking myself for passing on that loco, I saw the price and went "holy **** that's a great deal". Enjoy it, it's a great loco
I thought the same thing, it was definitely an impulse buy, just seemed too good to be true. 
Yup, I was a bit weary of a deal that good
John, very nice indeed! How does it track through switches, esp. back to back switches? All my 0-4-0, 0-6-0 & 0-8-0 Shifters work great on switches. I contemplated converting a decopod to an 0-10-0 b4 trading it off.
Good luck.
Guns,
Great pick up for the money, I was leery of the sale also, I figured you would make an offer on it.
PCRR/Dave
Thanks guys happy with my purchase.
decoynh posted:John, very nice indeed! How does it track through switches, esp. back to back switches? All my 0-4-0, 0-6-0 & 0-8-0 Shifters work great on switches. I contemplated converting a decopod to an 0-10-0 b4 trading it off.
I had no issues with switches, I backed through a few on Atlas and Fastrack, neither gave it any trouble. All the switches I tried were O72 or larger, don't know how well it would handle it's minimum of O54.
Nice purchase! I tried to buy another legacy engine that the same gentleman listed for sale just after this one ... but never heard back from him.
Notch 6 posted:Picked up two of these yesterday along with a full few size bells and a Nathan Airchime K3HA horn all from retired Union Pacific B40-8 locos. I'll clean it all up and then start working to find new homes for everything.
you should take that control stand and wire it to your layout and control your trains with it
Roman posted:Waiting for this little gem to arrive. Putting together set 1503W. With this I now have all the cars, just need the important loco & tender.
Roman posted:Hmm, I guess I'm not too cool. I touted just above about the little "gem" I'm waiting on. Well what do I find buried at the bottom of a bin under my layout tonight????
Can't have too many cabeese/cabooses, right?
I'm not savvy enough on PW to know the specific differences of a 6257 vs. 6357 without trying to look it up, but since they have different numbers, I think it's OK!
-Dave
The Doyle book I have shows mfg dates of 48-52 for the 6257. If it is dark tile red with a dark tile red chimney, this book shows a price of $200-650 for VC-LN but only $2-8 for the red, tile red, or red-orange.
The 6357 shows production on and off from 60-69 with prices from $40-175 depending on version and condition.
Greenberg's book shows different info and reverses the high value between 257 and 357. So as far as value, it's a toss up i guess.
Picked up 4 older(1999-02) CTT magazines. Lots of good reading.
Just picked-up five of these beauties...
I just purchased a Lionel Legacy 6-11280 #4507 Steam Baltimore & Ohio. I couldn't be happier l'm new to the hobby and thought I wouldn't be able to get one of these great engins.
Jon, you've got a 5 stall roundhouse for one loco.
Matt Makens posted:Jon, you've got a 5 stall roundhouse for one loco.
I see them as an enablers for more locos
Past Sunday went to train show in Springfield Ohio. Nice show. I found another Marx light tower and a farm tractor to finish our my load for the flat car. Pic...................Paul
I got my 86' hi-door boxcars last week and still have not had time to open them yet.
I also got this Weaver City of Altoona Fire Department Tank Car off the ebay over the weekend. Since, I'm a firefighter I had to have it and got it for a pretty good price. The mean reason I purchased it was I thought it would go good with my SD60E first responder diesel that should arrive this summer.
Chris
made an offer on this and won it.
Today I picked up this Chein litho cathedral from the 1920s-1930s on the EvilBay. In very good condition. Will be using it for my wedding cake table Std. Gauge diorama. When you crank the handle over and over it sounds like a hymn being played on an pipe organ. Cool.
Steamer posted:made an offer on this and won it.
I went to a train show Sunday and picked up a book on ghost towns. This one has color photos of current ones with surviving structures. I am hoping I will get a scratch build structure out of it, not to mention trip ideas on maybe discovering something not in the book.
I just received these two GG1s I bought on line.
The black one may not be prototypical (I think the prototype was brunswick green, which looked black in some light, with gold stripes.) but I think it is striking and I love it. 4829 was the only GG1 to get that type of stripping. I bought the green 5 stripe because I don't have a green 5 stripe and the price was right. Here is a picture of my 4 scale MTH GG1s (I also have a scale Williams GG1)
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