Buy anything cool lately?

My next loco will be the MTH DAP CSX DASH 8 with the flag on it that led the Bush Whislte Stop Campaign.

The Proto 3 MTH Reading T1 in American Freedom Train colors and an 8 car set of NYC 20th century cars in 1938 paint found their way home this week.  Ordered the loco about 1 year ago, and it was worth the wait!  The cars look great behind my Williams Master Series Dreyfus Hudson.

Rolland

Yep, MTH AS-616

   Bill T.

Just received a Weaver Consolidation. Off to the Backshop, this will soon be filling it's role as a N&W Class W2. And yes, I know the sand dome isn't "correct". It will just have to "do" until someone offers a better model.

This one is now part of the "short list" for potential PS2 upgrades by J.D.S Ltd.

Recently picked up three MTH Madison style passenger cars from a nearby Forum member. New in the box. They look good behind my NYC F3 units.

My first engine purchase about 2 weeks ago.  

Admittedly I don't think many people liked this (yellow) NH release, but I love it.  Just need to buy a small setup to run it as I have nothing in regards to track/power/etc..

Second engine purchase showed up yesterday

I'll remove it once I'm able to run it.  Hopefully soon.

Hardware,

Congratulations on your new purchases!  The New Haven electric Looks like it is,painted in Pittsburgh professional sports teams colors.  Though I don't follow the team, I see lots of Steelers cars and engines around here.  I follow baseball and hockey too a bit instead!  

While we don't see NH engines in those colors, your liking it is all that matters!

Wow on the Veranda Turbine!   I see it runs on 072 curves.   I don't have the room for that myself.  I am sure it will look super once you get it on the track!

Unless you have a lot of cash, don't get too carried away.  Although I did smaller scale modeling for over 40 years before switching to O gauge 3 years ago, I made a few lesser purchases that I realized later I shouldn't have.  It was no loss, I learned from them, had some fun with them, and so far have been able to seek some of them for not much less than I paid.  I am still learning nuances specific to O gauge that are different from HO and N scales.

have fun with trains!!

$12 Father's Day gift for myself from the bay.

Thanks very much Mark!  

From what I understand on the New Haven EP-5 there were 2 color schemes (do people prefer to call them livery?) provided to NH back in the mid 50's by General Electric.  The one I bought (Canary Yellow) is the one that lost the battle against the normal red-orange scheme we are used to seeing.  I simply bought this one over the standard to have something different and maybe it would be a conversation starter.  Guess that worked. : )  I love the standard one as well and will have one someday.

My goal is to have each UP Turbine.  I don't think I'm going to setup a normal layout with 0-72, but I might do a shelf train with bigger curves just for the bigger engines.  That's the current idea anyway.  Maybe setup on carpet temporarily.

I definitely don't have money to blow.  The price tag on the Veranda seems high because it's from a Canadian dealer.  I paid a good bit less than the MSRP of $799.

Thanks again for the input and reply.

Today, I just received, from Amazon,my copy of Firing The Steam Locomotive, originally published by the Reading Company in 1947.  This is a reprint of the original by Periscope Press.  I have a few other books on steam locomotive maintenance and operation, so this will go great with those.

Yes, the shelf with larger curves makes sense.  I have one 3/4 done myself.  Sounds like you got a good price On the Veranda!

Hardware,

    The NH in Black & Gold is way cool stuff.  Glad you like it.  My latest addition to our layout is a Pittsburgh P2 Street Car, from the 60's era.  

PCRR/Dave

Very nice Pittsburgh car, Dave.  I remember them well from when I was attending Penn Tech in the mid '70s.

Weirton Steel diesel & caboose from MTH.

      Bill T

Don Beckon's Great Western Railway artist's book - for $1! 

Bill T,

    The original Green Weirton Steel Switcher and Caboose is fantastic, now that MTH has made them, maybe they will also make the original Green Union Railroad Switcher and Caboose also!  Is your  Engine P2/P3 or conventional?

PCRR/Dave

Thank you Dave!

I agree with Mark, that is a nice car and I don't recall ever seeing one of those.  Good addition!

Spotted what turned out to be this pair of 3rdRail Milwaukee Road E7's on Petersen's Supply Co website 6 months ago, right before the holidays.
I thought there was one but when I inquired, it turned out that there were actually two in stock.
Well, after 6 months of mulling it over, and in that time realizing no one else had picked them up, I came to the only logical conclusion: I am clearly the one who was meant to have them.
So last week, after selling some items online and finding myself with few extra pennies to spare, I decided to make them both mine.
After seeing all the images of the dual lash-up of the HO version, it was an easy decision opt for both.
Quite remarkable that for 6 months two 3rdRail E7s went untouched.

As you can see I already changed out the pilot to get the 3-rail coupler out of the way on what will be the lead unit.

Now trying to decide if and how to add Kadees between the two to tighten up the gap.

Those Milwaukee E7's are beautiful engines. When did they come out? Had I known I would have grabbed one at the time.

Lionel Vision Line reefers on the S&Y RR

    Bill T.

From Menard's.

Beautiful E7s !!  Wed. was a big day for me. Brought home some lay-away- 3 Lionel tuscan passenger cars, the #60 trolly, a Lionel  O gauge motor that will fit the 55/65 engines plus a like-new LW transformer. Didn't really need it but too nice not o get. Then I was rooting through a box of train stuff that had just come in o the antique store and picked out a nice pothole caboose and a horse car. The horse car had been on my "buy" list. The roof was dirty and the doors were jammed shut. The rest of the car looked new so I bought it for $10. Got it home, opened it up and there were 8 original horses inside, like new. Fixed the jam, a piece of metal had come loose somehow, and it works like a charm so I was a happy camper. Now to find a nice corral.  Fun to dumpster dive. The dealer had bought a ton of toys including an AF road race set, complete and a nice heavy metal floor train with an engine the kid rides on and 5 cars. All original. Any one interested E mail me and i will give you the phone number. An antique dealer.

Spence that looks great! I might have to find room for one of those.

A nice 1985 Dodge Diplomat.  Unusual to see die cast normal non sports caR 1980's cars. As you can see it is so new I haven't even fully taken it out of the package.

Finally got both of them after some years of looking! Perfect additional to my Central Division layout (Minnesota and Iowa)

I just love the looks of a lot of the Flyer transformers. Got this near new 12B from my friend John Parker the other day.

Steve

Those are gorgeous!  Enjoy them.

  In keeping with the transformer theme, this lightly used LW was acquired this morning.  It appears to have spent 99.9% of its life in the original carton.  I might set this one aside for display in a cabinet.

Bruce

Attic fresh 1960 Lionel C&O set with some extra cars, very little run time and in good shape. Bought off ebay and it was a local pickup so no shipping charges. Missing some of the flatcar loads but the can be expected being 55 years old. 

franktrain

brwebster-I picked up my new LW that looks like yours. Bought it because it was so pretty but running my Standard gauge track with it. My repairan likes LWs for shows where he runs a couple of loops with trains on them.

I got a pair of these for the layout

Got this Lionel Congressional set, three cars were pretty well unrun and the observation car was mint save a ding in one side. Came with boxes for $260. They go along with this E. Welz restored 2340 I got for $360 a month ago. Full 1955 Congressional set for a pretty good price, in my mind. They'll be getting run regularly.

I got my new Lionel Y6 B last week,great sound and hooter whistle.

New (to me) VL Challenger. Too sweet.

Scored these off ePay, all there (including the booklet, the extra joker/ad for salads card and the rules card) and in great shape, all for less than $10!

I didn't preorder the Daylight Legacy Cab Forward.  All the videos I have seen of it have increased my regret level in not ordering it.

I knew that it was very popular and thought that I might have to wait until used ones showed up on the market.  Well.......today I ordered the last one that Pat's Trains had.  

I've noticed a local modular club utilizing multiple LW's also, Jim.  Maybe it's the compact size and light weight yet still putting out decent wattage.  The variable intensity indicator light along with the side lit, clear plastic dial is a nice touch. 

Bruce

Yes, this:

Can I play along even if I'm a 2-railer?  These are 3-rail...for now.  I just got three of them.  I will need to put 2-rail trucks and kadee couplers on them for my purposes.

Jim

Why not! 2R or 3RS, no discrimination here. 

my preference is for the UP scheme but I have been unable to justify the money for these hoppers. As nice as they are $95 is just too much

Me too.  I like these, and the red 60' high cubes, and the engines with the new scheme. I could see pursuing it as a road to model.  The only problem is you need a lot of space to do it justice.  Spiral tunnels!!!

Jim

Yeah....I keep an eye out for them being resold.  I just got these on auction at about $60 per.  Tried to get all seven!  The wallet was happy to settle for three. Me not so much.

Jim

I just sold 7 of these CPR (SOO) hoppers on eBay and they are awesome.

The 25,500 gallon tank cars are just as impressive.

You can get these new for around $80-$85.

Lol, well then I probably just bought three of these from you. Arrived today in good order.

Jim

Recently got my Legacy Y6B, #2171 (thanks, Pat!) as well as the Legacy Polar Express K-4.  Looking forward to many years of service from them on the Polar & Ohio RR!

Cool! Glad you like 'em! I know I did. I'm just trying to figure out what I'm going to list next.

I really like those Pennsy cars!

This bad boy arrived-American Beauty Resistance Soldering Unit.  Not shown in the picture are the needle nosed tips.  

I already don't know how I lived without it!

My wife bought me two reproduction Lionel metal signs.

This classic 1929 reproduced in 1992.

Also this 1960 sign reproduced in 1993.

A circus engine... passenger cars will be here next week

This big guy showed up last week. Bright and pretty.

Steve

You will love this locomotive.  It's one of my all time favorites and I even prefer it to my VL BB.  Simply one of the best Lionel products made in recent years.

Congrats, enjoy your new toy.

picked up 2 of these!! ALU signs off a transformer!

I would like to set up a closely spaced field full of these and all the other bubbling accessories there are.  As for now, I leave this attached to a transformer right here in the kitchen and stare transfixed at the bubbling action while listening to the radio.

Bruce

Although this post might also belong to another thread, I'll post it here.  I purchased from my LHS a Plasticville #45606 Frosty Bar to place between my Plasticville Diner and K-lineville Gas Station. I could detail the interior and fab some accesories from whatever I have in the scrap box.

Got my set of 8 Menard's NYC boxcars today & decided to give them a test run behind my new Y6B along the Guest Bedroom branch of the Polar & Ohio RR.  While the green is as dark as I feared, they don't look too bad.  Maybe I can lighten them up a bit with some weathering.  Certainly worth the price of $20 per car, though, which is still about what it came out to after the discount, then w/tax, S&H added back.  Only had 1 bad coupler in the lot, which is conveniently at the end of the train.  Not sure if the squeaky wheels (hard to hear on the video) are a bug or a feature yet.   

Now just need them to make N&W 55-ton hoppers....

HEre is an unusual ITem I just purchased on the bay, An Early Weaver White Box 50' Boxcar Kit.

What is unusual is the Conrail Brown Boxcar and a BLACK door. Usually one finds a Yellow Door [signifying Paper Loads from paper mills]

Got two pairs of Atlas Trainman PS4750 hoppers. The CNW's were supposed to be Zito yellow. I don't recall Zito yellow being so bright you can see it from the International Space Station (they're a lot brighter in person than in the photos), but overall they're still pretty nice. It's going to take a "bit" of weathering to tone them down.

My daughter, her husband, and her in-laws were at a music festival in Urbana, Illinois last week, and while at a flea market, she picked up a nice 244 minus the tender.  It could use a good cleaning and lubrication, but it runs forward and backward great.  Now I have something else to look for when I go to the next train show; a tender.

Please excuse the shakiness of this video.  I took it to text to my daughter, to show her it did run.  She had no way to test it when she bought it.  I reimbursed her.  $25.

Matt,

    Picked up a Solid Brass WWII/Viet Nam era Deuce and a half to add to the Pine Creek Christmas village/layout.  I will need to due a little clean up on her, and she will be perfect again.  

PCRR/Dave

Picked this up at a yard sale, to keep the train room floor clean. Is has kind of a classic train look.     $5.00

Gary

• Cheers from The Detroit & Mackinac Railway

So what your saying is you now have retired the broom, or now you have the ability to clean your train room.

Wow!  A early postwar sweeper!!  Put those command engines away and get out your postwar!  Is the E unit working properly?  ;-). Kidding aside, it looks like a great buy, Gary!  It looks very familiar from my childhood.

I bought 10 of these.

Spence, that's really cool car but why 10? Do you plan on running that many? I don't mean to be nosey, I'm just curious.

Did you get all the various attachments for it?

My college fraternity had a Kirby with all of the attachments.  It had very strong suction, and you could reverse it to use it as a blower.  Our phrase to describe it was:  It sucks because it blows, and it blows because it sucks.

Hi Model Railroad & Kirby fans.

• No attachments

• I think it is pre-war, 30's - Just a estimate.

• It has been converted to paper bags and the seller gave me a few extra bags.

• I put on a clean bag, ran a test in the garage, and it works.

• This vacuum was once on a New York Central, Pullman Car.

Gary

The RED Kirby is a 1954-1959, numbers #514 thru  #519

I have a 1948 508 black  trim, red belt lifter, & a later(?), but very nice blue bag.

Leave it to Adriatic!!  No wonder I remember them

Gary,

that is really cool.  A NYC Kirby 0-2-0 sweeper!!

did you get the box and instructions with it.....

Matt,

   I remember saw them with freshly repainted with Zito yellow. Here the example of C&NW caboose with freshly repainted with Zito yellow:

Well I haven't bought anything cool yet but I will.

The Lionel 6-18064 #3005 NYC 4-8-2 Mohawk from the late 1990's and TMCC equipped.

I just hope it doesn't have any motherboard or TMCC Chip problems or anything like that. 

Dear guy who bought the Lionel UP Geroge Bush SD70ace from Nicholas Smith and returned it all broken with no sound and a messed up radiator cover that you modified to the point where it wouldn't stay on, you also broke the coupler pin lift bar off and forgot to put the Legacy module back in the box. That was a crappy thing to do and is pretty dishonest. 

Just got a Lionel Pub Table and a matching stool for the Train Room. Don't know if these qualify as cool purchases, but the table holds beer glasses while running trains.  

Crappy would be the word I would have used. I can't believe someone actually did that and returned it for a refund? 

I hope this guy didn't get his money refunded.

That is pretty bright. I'll check them out in natural sunlight Saturday, but they almost glowed florescent at the club. Doesn't matter in the final analysis since they're going to get "dusted" in a couple of weeks. Thanks for the photo. Did you order a pair?

Yes, I did. Pair of C&NW and 4 of Rock Island (2 will get patch with C&NW).

Here is other picture of freshly repaint Zito yellow locomotives at Gladbrook, Iowa on old Chicago Great Western track.

The zito is pretty bright and that "zito" looks much better than some ive seen

Matt,

   With Weaver closing it's doors for ever, I decided to made a deal on another NIB Weaver Masonic Train.  It will be sipped up from Florida in the next week or so.  I will now be able to run a Double Header Masonic Train with twice as much rolling stock, a way cool addition to the Christmas layout.

Bill thanks much for arranging this for me.

PCRR/Dave

I like that idea.   I think I'm going to steal it and get another pair of Rock Islands to patch. So I take it the yellow is more-or-less right, then?

 

Originally Posted by CGWforever:

...

Yes, I did. Pair of C&NW and 4 of Rock Island (2 will get patch with C&NW).

I will check my pictures and post of 1:1 Rock Island hopper with C&NW patched and post this.

  "Zito" actually came from man's last name. His name is James A. Zito, he was Senior Vice President of Operations of Chicago and North Western Transportation Company. He died last March 28, 2015.

    His idea was to improve "safety" by brighter yellow paint on locomotives, freight cars, cabooses and MoW trucks. Zito yellow look good when freshly painted but it didn't stay long and it quickly become faded under sun, C&NW switched back to stagecoach yellow.

I wondered about the name Zito, if it was a person's name.  We know some Zitos in the Butler area.

These came in today.

ran up to the local antique shop to pick up the Wife's layaway, and found these. I already have two Vs, but this one has red lettering, my other two have black. (Is there a reason for the black or red lettering?)got the box in nice shape, and three different sets of instructions for $28. And another Baby Ruth missing it's trucks.

Bought me a Lionel Dockside switcher.  Have been looking for one with a Santa Fe roadname and one popped up on EBay at a nice price.  Anxiously awaiting its arrival in the mail.

Got this Dorfan outfit last week. It was already repainted and has the nice repro Carlton McKinney decals. The orange is way off, but it's done too well to repaint. It was a non runner, only had wheels. I have done my Williams motor mod to it and it now runs and lights very nicely.

Steve

This is what I picked up in the last month.

1st are two Premier GP30s. CB&Q was from a forum member and the GN BSB scheme from the bay.

2nd. pick up two more Lionel PS4 TOFCs C&O and on the third try finally CNW.

3rd: 2 CB&Q reefers. first one a Red Caboose CB&Q Woodside reefer. Definitely like this one better verses the K Line version. The second one is another Lionel CB&Q Steelside. I will need to change the road number eventually.  

4th: Picked up 2 CTA Corgi PCCs one for my display case and one that I will power when I can find a kit.

 5th: NP rolling stock reference book

 6th: another CB&Q book. great reference

7th: The Best for last. Steam to Diesels. The author worked for NP and photos were taken by him through out his time at NP. Great read and reference. the other on The Revolutionary Diesel. The EMC FT. This is a must in my opinion as a reference on the FT as it covers the entire production and disposition , Roads that owned them and the mods that where done. Unless some one can turn Hot Water into a reference book, this is the next best thing. Funny thing as NP version has giving me an idea for a kit bash project since no one has done a correct version.

Suz,

   I like the Street Cars a bunch!  Real nice pair.

PCRR/Dave

Thanks. Funny thing is my other addiction which started when I was stationed in Germany, is collecting 1/43 scale European although mainly German trucks, Fire trucks and busses. Just picked up but still waiting for them to arrive a 1952 Krupp Dasher Spedition and a MAN Aral Tanker. The same seller also had a Corgi CTA  GMC new look from the early sixties that I also purchased and is very hard to find.

Went to the Greenburg show in Monroeville Pa. today with a couple of friends. First time for me but I enjoyed the show. I was able to find two Weaver Canadian Pacific flat cars with trailers for a real good price...........Paul

This one came in this week. Pure fantasy, but any winery called Red Caboose gets some points in my book.

I guess Go Texas huh? 

MTH 1ST SCL CABOOSE............

I got these 3 Atlas Big O/Master Rolling Stock items last week as I'm attempting to put together a Seaboard Coast Line/Family Lines System consist behind my 2 MTH SCL SD45s that I preordered.

The 11,000 gallon Gulf Oil tank car may be a little too retro for an SCL train in the '70s and '80s but I had to get it. This is probably my favorite piece of rolling stock that I own. Stunning details and colors as one would expect from any Atlas O product.

The 55 ton fishbelly hopper from Atlas feels like it weighs about 55 tons with its solid, die cast construction. That will be part of my Chessie unit coal train which already has 15 Trainman 70 ton 3-bay hoppers.

The WM pulpwood flat car will be part of another Chessie train consisting of mixed freight (box cars, covered hoppers, gondolas and tank cars).

Lastly, I picked up this MTH Proto-Sound 3 Chessie SD50 recently from a local hobby shop in Zelienople, PA. Together with another Proto-Sound 3 Chessie SD50 (C&O #8570) they look and sound amazing.

Just finished the Link book, now to find time for the W&LE one. 

 Now you need these....

SIRT one question. Is there a reason you don't use kadees?

1. I don't look or notice them when trains are in operation.

2. To much trouble, cost and time to convert 500 + cars and engines.

Took me several years to convert all my HO, now they just sit on shelves collecting dust.

Knowing what I know now, should have went 2 rail from the beginning.

Too late to turn back now this late in life.

S.

SIRT,

Awesome craftsmanship, as usual! Just amazing! There are a few others here who perform some outstanding weathering and detailing to their trains and layouts. After seeing some really crummy efforts at weathering by many in this hobby I appreciate the work of people like you who can turn it into an art form. 

A few more pictures of rolling stock that I acquired over the last couple of months to build my SCL consist...I have multiple road #s for some of these railroad cars with more due to arrive this week (11,000 gallon tank cars) and in the Fall when Atlas delivers their ACF 70 ton covered hoppers (ACL), 3-bay cylindrical hoppers (SBD) and PS-2 3-bay hoppers (L&N)...

I forgot that I also have 2 MTH 50' waffle-sided SCL box cars preordered that should be arriving late Summer. So far, I have just one (SBD).

I'd like to get one more SCL pulpwood flat car. Lots of paper mills in the SE!

I think the only thing missing is an SAL box car. Lookin' for Atlas Item #8881...

I bought this

To go n the shelf behind this

Wanted to use my Skytop Obs car but the shelf isnt long enough

Looks much more complete

Looks nice, who's BB? and is that an S2 4-8-4? can't see it well.

Milwaukee Road S3 261, my hometown steamer. That's the vision line big boy

Just curious, Matt, but why  post this here? What are the odds that guy is a forum member or will visit this forum and read this?  A small percentage of all O scale 3-rail owners visit this forum and odds are that a much smaller percentage of those are forum members. Or, do you know his identity and don't want to mention it in this post? If so, you could email him your comments.

Very nice signs!

My great-grandfather gave me this- he worked at Westinghouse. He said he thinks it came off a transformer, but he wasn't sure. I'm not sure why the quality of the photo significantly dropped when I put it in this post, but I don't know what to do about that.

Just picked this up from my LHS. It's a Lionel Pennsylvania Power & Light 3 bay hopper. All die-cast. I'm planning on a adding couple more.

An ICD, to help keep me alive !

The Postwar Celebration Missile Launch Set from some years back. New in the box and they dropped the price so low, I couldn't resist any longer and now I can defend my layout from attack and launch a counter attack!! Couple on the postwar Minuteman Missile Launch Car and Missile Firing Trail Car and we're talking real credible deterrence here!! Just let those 'commie' bxxxards try something now.

i think they're pretty neat items.  I put my second one up for trade in the for sale forum.

I got some post war trains and track from a Forum member today.  They need cleaned up a bit, but he checked out everything to make sure it worked before sending to me.

First is a nice 2035.

I'm having trouble loading the rest of the photos, so I will try later.

Near and dear to my heart, Mark.  That's the Lionel "O" engine that started all this craziness for me in the mid eighties.  Probably the noisiest running of all but I'll be ****ed if I'd ever sell her.

Bruce

O gauge guy, I posted here for a few reasons

1) This is my thread and I didnt feel like starting a new one

2) I posted this loco in here previously cuz I bought something cool

3) This is as good a place as any

Do I expect to the bum who did this to see it, no thats a long shot but it would be cool if he did because he screwed up my happiness by breaking the loco and returning it. If he does see it we'd never know but my main reason is that I wanted to vent publicly, mission acomplished

They really are cool. He also has a wooden Westinghouse sign. The next time I see it, I'll take a picture and post it.

I didn't get a chance to try it yet Bruce.  I'm glad it brings good memories!!

Joker, Ive got a couple of them on order. Just gotta pay for em