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I picked up these junky EMU makings of a "Poor Man's Acela" at a NYC toy importer for under $20 for the pair. They remind me a bit of the units used in the Escondido Sprinter service.they seem to be patterned on the German ICE3 or the Chinese near copy the CRH3. I like futuristic trains so painting and powering these should be a fun project. To give an idea of scale I set them on track and next to a Williams boxcar. Each unit is 17 inches long a pretty good size.

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Yep.

 

A Martin OMCPA4 Rosewood guitar. Picked it up at the Martin factory in Nazareth PA. Was given a personal tour of the museum and factory. Even got a gift pack with an autographed hat by CEO Chris Martin IV. I'm also going to meet him to have him autograph my guitar in the fall.

 

Nicest people in the world and a great company.

Originally Posted by Passenger Train Collector:

I'd say these are really cool engines, nothing "junky" about them.

 

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Well the junky part is what was added to make these floor toys. There are truck wheels and axels spaced down the length of the car and a spinning powered wheel set in the front. It bounces off walls and lights LEDs and plays tinney music. The deco is all sticker based except the blue paint around the windows. These are junky but a fun start on a project Model of something no one else will make any time soon.

Originally Posted by Silver Lake:

       
Originally Posted by Passenger Train Collector:

I'd say these are really cool engines, nothing "junky" about them.

 

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Well the junky part is what was added to make these floor toys. There are truck wheels and axels spaced down the length of the car and a spinning powered wheel set in the front. It bounces off walls and lights LEDs and plays tinney music. The deco is all sticker based except the blue paint around the windows. These are junky but a fun start on a project Model of something no one else will make any time soon.


       


I could see this becoming a short, fictional Shinkansen.  Looks closest to JR Kyushu's 800 Series.  Lots of potential for that model!

Aaron
Originally Posted by joker34:

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love that SCL. That's what I saw a lot of around the Tampa Bay area when I was a kid. We lived in Pinellas County and my Dad's parents were in SE Hillsborough across the bay. Whenever we went to see them we would inevitably get stopped by a long Seaboard train with hundreds of hoppers carrying phosphate from the central Florida mines to the Gardinier Fertilizer Plant (now owned by Cargill) on the east side of the bay. There remains a huge mountain of radioactive industrial waste (gypsum) that they have to deal with. But the long trains also remain with me forever. Seeing that Seaboard loco brings back it all back. I have a few SCL cars and hope to get a locomotive similar to this some day...

Originally posted by AMC dave:

Why is the nose taller on the K-Line RS-3 loco??? A PRR thing or just a different version??? Nice any way!

 

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Yes it was a unique model to have Both the steam generator AND the Dynamic Brake in the short hood... necessitating the high short hood. This unit became a LV unit then onto Conrail.

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I had passed on some Williams Western Pacific passenger cars at my LHS due to one care missing a part and rub marks on the top of a few of the cars. They also didn't have any boxes.  I got home and thought about it "darn" I should have bought them anyway but poof at 90.00 for the set they were gone. I searched the bay for weeks trying to find these, well last Friday a set came up boxed like new. I ended up winning them for a wopping 104.00, that's what I'm talking about!  I know these may not be prototypical or may never even existed but the match my F-3's.  Now if I can just get that CZ 15" K-Line observation car that will be the bomb.  Originally Posted by Matt Makens:

I found this on that one site the day before my birfday. Ive been looking for this for a year and a half. The frame is a Micheal's off the shelf. Looks nice

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Atlas O PFE Union Pacific/Southern Pacific Rebuilt Aluminum Reefer.  My LHS just put it in his display case and it caught my eye. He said he just pulled some "older stuff" out of storage. I joked he was holding out on me.  It is part of a 2 pack from 2010. I didn't buy the partnered Illinois Central Reefer but I might go back for it if it sits there too long.



It's a beautiful car.  I don't have actual pictures yet but here's the Atlas O shot.

Plenty of info online about the PFE prototypes. In 1946 two reefers were rebuilt in Aluminum with a seal coat paint in the hopes that the 10,000 lbs. weight savings would offset the cost of manufacture. I guess not. They were the only two built. One was in a wreck. The other one was scrapped in 1964.

 

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I pulled it out of the box for pictures.....

 

 

 

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picked up a 350 transfer table with extention needs cleaned up a little have a place all picked out for it on the layout.

ordered elevated system from tw trainworx

bought another sd90 #8048 UP

bought some scenery supplies from scenic express along with a tippi.

I have to get off of here now time to go to train therapy for my buying habit.

  

Went to the SAMRA show yesterday in San Antonio and picked up my first MTH loco. It's an older Premier SD60M as UP 6316, and I don't think it had ever been run. Also found an interesting old Lionel Southern diesel engine (that's turned out to be quite the growler, which is really cool) and a neat little Perrier box car (that the spousal unit buys for me by the case... the drink, that is)

 

It's the simpler things in life, you know... at any rate, I still haven't found me a Southern caboose yet!

 

 

 

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