Buy anything cool lately?

Brooklyn Corey, I love your cat.

@Mark V. Spadaro posted:

Bob - whatever one of the “few” sets is easiest for you to take some pix of. Thanks.

OK, Mark. The Jersey Central set was handy.

Bob

@Yellowstone Special posted:

Good eye, Guttersnipe. This diesel has special meaning to me too, as explained recently in another thread. Now I can't even remember which thread. Anyway, my young son and I used to watch these come in from Oceanside when we lived in Escondido (California) and do some switching there in the 1980s.

The main differences besides the different color hand rails and stanchions, are that the large Santa Fe letters are broader on the Lionel and the multi-chime horns are on the correct right-hand side of the roof above the cab on the Lionel. On the MTH one, they're mounted in the center of the roof above the cab. MTH's Santa Fe yellow is also slightly brighter than Lionel's yellow. I did install the "Barstow" (where they were serviced, about 150 miles north of Escondido) decal on the front, as I had on the Lionel.

Again, I got as close of a match as I could with what was available on eBay, as I was just looking for an unpowered dummy. So, by disconnecting the motors and Proto 1 wiring, it does the job.   I miss the real-life Santa Fe freight diesels. 😔

The area's you mentioned are somewhat familiar to me, and brought a tear to my eye.  I had a ranch in Daggett, and could watch them heading east into the Desert. However at that time I was missing the bloody nose SP's units.  I think this is one of the very reasons we love our trains

@bobfett posted:

OK, Mark. The Jersey Central set was handy.

Bob

Thanks very nice looking set! Am I correct that Frank’s were repaints of Williams, and not original product?

@VinceL posted:

Brooklyn Corey, I love your cat.

Thanks he’s the foreman and steals the show! 🐈

It's not all painted black yet, but I finally jerry-rigged some rear platform details for my roadrailers. The coolest thing I bought this year is this ETD from MacRail. The red part is reflector paint and the white parts are UV-charged paint squares. They glow red in the dark. No wiring!

@Pingman posted:

Bought this LIONEL 15"Texas Special Stationsounds car for a TS set I plan to paint.

The item arrived and on opening the shipping box it was obvious that the OB and paperwork had gotten very wet at some point before shipping. The car itself was cosmetically spectacular; and, looked brand new; the protective plastic film covering the plaques hadn't been removed and no wear evident on rollers or wheels.

The car would not respond to TMCC commands or to whistle commands in conventional mode. Bummer. It was returned for a full refund, so I'm still looking.

8/4/2023 EDIT:  Full refund received today. Could have used Trainz $25 MERRY25 coupon and bought one there but missed out. Saved search on eBay and WTB on the forum; patience.

@Pingman posted:

The item arrived and on opening it was obvious that the box and paperwork had gotten very wet at some point. The car itself was cosmetically spectacular; and, looked brand new; the protective plastic film covering the plaques hadn't been removed and no wear evident on rollers or wheels.

The car would not respond to TMCC commands or to whistle commands in conventional mode. Bummer. It was returned for a full refund, so I'm still looking.

Sorry to hear about the problem, the car looked great.(coming for from a SF fan) and a consist would be Spectacular,  hope you have better luck soon

@Brooklyn Corey posted:

Thanks he’s the foreman and steals the show! 🐈

WE've noticed

That's a shame Carl. Glad you were able to get a full refund.

@Pingman, Carl, all I can say is that’s a beautiful Texas Special sounds car, it’s sad reading your story, hopefully you’ll find another one. When they were first introduced by Lionel as Post War collection, the whole set, 7 passenger cars, ABBA, I had them all. If they had the more modern Legacy electronics, and the cars had been the 18 inch aluminum series, I would have kept them. Now, I ran into a like new RJ Corman SD40t-2 and a matching caboose from a friend, Lionel Legacy version 2018… Also, I found some Lionel main-line Dwarf signals, so, I’ve got work to do. Happy Railroading Everyone..

@Brooklyn Corey posted:

Thanks he’s the foreman and steals the show! 🐈

Gotta start adding captions to your videos for him. He's very interested in the trains. Nice collection of new stuff too.

Bob

@Mark V. Spadaro posted:

Thanks very nice looking set! Am I correct that Frank’s were repaints of Williams, and not original product?

Yes, but it depends which sets you are thinking of. The 15" cars are repaints; the 18" cars are original.

My long awaited PRSL Engine has arrived!

Here it on the point of the PRSL passenger cars that started me down the PRSL rabbit hole. 🤣

@bobfett posted:

OK, Mark. The Jersey Central set was handy.

Bob

Bob, I really like these Jersey Central cars and the other Reading cars that I think you posted earlier. Both sets are beautiful and they look good with the silhouettes. Until now I didn't think I liked heavyweight cars or silhouettes very much but these have changed my mind.

John

I received from Trainz a Williams 20910 Santa Fe FA-1 A-A set. I have other Williams engines that I love but this is the the nicest. It has a number of separately applied grab irons and etched grills. The previous owner (maybe one of you) took good care of it. Not a scratch, it looks like it's hardly been run, and it was really inexpensive. No box but that's ok. I'm running it with the cars from the LionChief Super Chief set. They're too short, but they and this A-A set take up half of the tiny oval, so it's good.

Nice looking engine John. I love it.

@John's Trains posted:

I received from Trainz a Williams 20910 Santa Fe FA-1 A-A set. I have other Williams engines that I love but this is the the nicest. It has a number of separately applied grab irons and etched grills. The previous owner (maybe one of you) took good care of it. Not a scratch, it looks like it's hardly been run, and it was really inexpensive. No box but that's ok. I'm running it with the cars from the LionChief Super Chief set. They're too short, but they and this A-A set take up half of the tiny oval, so it's good.

Nice engines, John. I had an ABA set of these and ran them for years pulling a Williams 5-car Santa Fe aluminum set. So, it was an all-Williams train and performed flawlessly. I even installed a painted engineer and fireman figures in the powered A cab.

Then I went to all command control and traded up. And even though the Santa Fe never had any ALCO Fs (only Ps), at times, I wish I’d kept this train for old time’s sake. You’ll love them. 😉

@Yellowstone Special posted:

Nice engines, John. I had an ABA set of these and ran them for years pulling a Williams 5-car Santa Fe aluminum set. So, it was an all-Williams train and performed flawlessly. I even installed a painted engineer and fireman figures in the powered A cab.

Then I went to all command control and traded up. And even though the Santa Fe never had any ALCO Fs (only Ps), at times, I wish I’d kept this train for old time’s sake. You’ll love them. 😉

Nice train Vern. I kinda thought the Santa Fe never had these, but then I didn't check it out because they're so beautiful. It's funny because I thought, already having the LionChief FT warbonnet, I wouldn't get any more, until I saw these. My wife likes the red and silver of the Lionel, so I used that to try to "make the sale."  :-)

John

@John's Trains posted:

Nice train Vern. I kinda thought the Santa Fe never had these, but then I didn't check it out because they're so beautiful. It's funny because I thought, already having the LionChief FT warbonnet, I wouldn't get any more, until I saw these. My wife likes the red and silver of the Lionel, so I used that to try to "make the sale."  :-)

John

Makes sense to me, John. Glad it worked and you did good.

Former Member posted:

Yup, got some more of these Hi-Levels. They are the coolest passenger cars.

Those superliners are just plain cool!  Absolutely LOVE your passenger depot.  Huge fan of passenger consists; is that the Spirit of the Century I see way in the back?  One of my favorites!!

AS Guy Fietti would say that isn't  good it's Great

Finally got a Weaver streamlined K4.

A set of Weaver NYC Alco FAs, a Williams Train Master, and some freight cars at a 40% "store closing" discount.

A MTH Premier B&A caboose, a custom run by Jr Junction in Syracuse, arrived today, what a beauty, love the color, interior details, marker lights etc.

I finally have a caboose to go with my B&A 4-6-6T…

Thanks to Phil at Jr Junction

@Craignor posted:

A MTH Premier B&A caboose, a custom run by Jr Junction in Syracuse, arrived today, what a beauty, love the color, interior details, marker lights etc.

I finally have a caboose to go with my B&A 4-6-6T…

Thanks to Phil at Jr Junction

Wow, love them both.

Took a vacation with the grandkids to Cape May, NJ. On an off day headed over to Holly Beach Train Depot in Wildwood. Unfortunately, there were no custom runs available, but I did find a couple of things:

A K-Line Big Boy #4009, I believe it's from 2002. Great price and look at that smoke!

Also found this Atlas 33,000G scale tanker.

@TimMacPA posted:

Also found this Atlas 33,000G scale tanker.

Nice! I work for suburban propane!

@RSJB18 posted:

Gotta start adding captions to your videos for him. He's very interested in the trains. Nice collection of new stuff too.

Bob

Thanks! Great idea, I’ll do that.

Ever since I saw this Weaver Pacific, I made it my no.1 priority to get. I watched ebay religiously every day and also other used train dealers. This is a Weaver I-4 Pacific and I am ecstatic to have been able to find one.

@Bill Park posted:

Ever since I saw this Weaver Pacific, I made it my no.1 priority to get. I watched ebay religiously every day and also other used train dealers. This is a Weaver I-4 Pacific and I am ecstatic to have been able to find one.

That is a beautiful locomotive. Congratulations on finding it!

John

@John's Trains posted:

That is a beautiful locomotive. Congratulations on finding it!

John

Very nice, Reminds me of Southern's PS 4, If anyone has a chance they can see a real PS 4 at the Smithsonian National History Museum.  her majesty is something to should not be missed if at all possible

@Craignor posted:

A MTH Premier B&A caboose, a custom run by Jr Junction in Syracuse, arrived today, what a beauty, love the color, interior details, marker lights etc.
I finally have a caboose to go with my B&A 4-6-6T…

Thanks to Phil at Jr Junction

I like the sound of that engine chuffing by! And a nice caboose to go with it.

Picked up three Lionel SF passenger cars (observation, baggage and coach) to go with the Menards' Bluebonnet beta engine and caboose I bought a few weeks ago. I painted on the blue and yellow "Bluebonnet" stripes and added figures to the interiors.

I might pick up another coach car to make a longer consist and hope Menards releases a dummy Bluebonnet engine to go with the powered version. Mine had a few minor issues, but has run well up to this point and, at the initial price point, is well worth it.

P.S. - I noticed the caboose was very wobbly in the video and have since added some weights to the interior and it now runs much, much smoother.

@Richie C. posted:

Picked up three Lionel SF passenger cars (observation, baggage and coach) to go with the Menards' Bluebonnet beta engine and caboose I bought a few weeks ago. I painted on the blue and yellow "Bluebonnet" stripes and added figures to the interiors.

I like what you did with the stripes. Who makes those passenger figures?  I'm thinking about putting figures in my LionChief Super Chief cars and the ones you found look perfect. What did you use to glue them in?

On an unrelated note, I also like that crane in the background.

John

@Richie C. posted:

I painted on the blue and yellow "Bluebonnet" stripes and added figures to the interiors.

Those blue and yellow stripes look really great Rich.

What was your paint and what was the method you used to apply it. ?        Nicely done sir.

Thanks, guys - I completely masked off the entirety of each of the cars with painter's tape (blue and green) leaving only the striping area and shot three coats with Krylon satin ink blue which was the closest color to the Menards engine blue that I could get with a rattle can. I covered that with gloss Clear so the next masking tape job wouldn't stick to or pull off the blue paint. I then applied tape from the bottom over the blue stripe for about four "ribs" high and from the top about two "ribs" down over the blue, leaving a thin width to apply the yellow paint over the blue and then shot it with Krylon yellow for about 4 coats. Removed the new top and bottom tape, leaving the original stripe width and shot that with Matte Clear to replicate the flat color of the Menards blue and yellow on the engine.

I've contemplated getting an airbrush system for many years. I'm sure it would give me finer control and not so much excess overspray, but just never pulled the trigger (sorry !). Spraying indoors, I use a 3M respirator as well.

Most of the people are the 0-scale EveModel people from China. I got a box of 100 painted, sitting figures for about $19.00 on the Big A. There are 4 each of 25 different figures and most of the duplicates are painted in different colors. I think I counted 20 actual duplicates, so you're getting at least 80 individual figures. There's two problems, though - one, they don't have eyes. I used a black ultra-fine Sharpie and solved that problem. Most are also too big to fit into the Lionel seats, so they had to be trimmed - shoes, feet and hips mostly and nothing that would be visible by looking through the windows.

However, for the upper observation car level, I knew that wouldn't work, so I bought a set of MTH passenger people which are much more detailed and smaller; fitting into the seats perfectly. However, at almost $2.00 per figure it would cost way too much to populate the rest of the cars, so that's where the EveModel people come in.

I used a fast set CA glue and toothpick to mount the figures - I don't see any reason why I'd be moving them in the future and want them to stay in place permanently, especially the figures in the upper level of the observation car.

John - the crane is the Lionel Legacy crane. It uses a separate track extension made by Gargraves that connects to my Fastrack siding. It's a terrific accessory and the kids love seeing it in action - see pics and video and apologize for the vertical aspect.

@Richie C. posted:

Thanks for the painting procedure on the passenger cars.   

Making thin lines on the ribbed models is a tricky job.   I would have a hard time trying to get as good a job using the two color method you used.   The rattle cans seemed to have worked well for you.   Nicely done Rich.

A nice Williams BL-2 and a Peterson Supply (Atlas) caboose in the Chesapeake Ohio Livery showed up at my door step. 🤔.  The Williams was from a forum member. I serviced , changed the speaker, tinted the cab windows, and added a cab bulb. Running nice and smooth!

Got a couple of Atlas Gunderson Auto Racks -- one 2-rail in BNSF and one 3-rail in UP.

Both sit at the same height on the end sills, which I've noticed with other Atlas cars. Both have appropriate sized wheels (28"), but the 3-rail car has larger flanges which appear to be smaller than those on the standard sized wheels. I will probably install Kadees on the 3-rail car. I did notice that the 2-rail car has additional air line detailing which is a nice touch. Atlas continues to amaze.

Though some of my associates have gone crazy buying these cars en masse, I won't be getting more. They're here to fill out the collection a bit.

This arrived today from the Rail Road Museum of PA

In response to a WTB forum listing, three packages of P&D Hobby scale porthole windows were purchased from a forum member as P&D is out of stock and uncertain of resupply.

These were needed as the ABA shells they're going in are almost paint-ready.

The LCRU2s ($60 ea.) are from TRAINZ. One will be used to swap out the PW horizontal motor chassis with TMCC components for the GM&O passenger set painted 30+ years ago. The other will be a reserve.

And wiring harnesses for both have been assembled by a skilled forum member and are en route.

But all is not well with purchasing. The package of individually wired LEDs shipped from Cali 10 days ago continues its haphazard journey between USPS locations; disappearing from scanning for a couple of days only to pop up at some  bizarre USPS facility.

8/15/2023EDIT: The wiring harnesses were shipped from Michigan and arrived the next day in Maryland, but instead of heading to Virginia where I live, USPS sent the package to Amarillo, TX! They are now "moving through the system on their way to their destination" according to USPS' latest email.

Been there and done that with USPS, but didn't know about the port hole windows. gonna have to check on those. scratch building a ship for my lay out that they might be the  item, to look out of (pun intended)

Picked this up at Greenberg

I have 3 new (to me) additions.  The first two are post-war Lionel 3562 operating barrel cars I acquired from a Stout auction sometime ago, just getting around to adding them to my collection.  The orange one was in great shape, but the gray one not so much.  It was missing a sliding shoe, which had been completely removed and the wire from it to the vibrator motor was simply clipped.  Plus the little guy was missing.  I bought a new truck with a sliding shoe along with a new guy.  I had to resolder all the shoes anyway since the insulation had started flaking.  After some cleaning and lube, they look and work great.  I had some time on my hands so I painted the barrel staves.  The noise from the vibrator motors is quite acceptable.

The last is a MTH scale test car I bought NIB on eBay.  There's been some threads here about that car, and I liked it.  Apparently the lady was selling her late husbands collection and happily accepted a counter offer.  This acquisition is note worthy since this is the only non-Lionel car I have in my fleet of 130 or so cars.

Sitting at a rail crossing here in NJ listening to the cacophony of sound I had yo have at least one freightsounds box car.  Scored on at Greenberg.   May need another one to enhance the experience.

@Brooklyn Corey posted:

Love your trains and your cat. Looks like the cat was eating something near your transformer. Hope it wasn't one of your wires!

Ha! Mine just goes for the trees! Or as TC likes to think of them, "realistic plastic chew sticks".

Just picked up this Spirt Of  Union Pacific (SOUP) tank car from METCA. A perfect companion to the SOUP boxcar and a fitting addition to my patriotic collection.

Picked up this tour trolley on the bay. It seems a bit large but the ERTL box lists it as 1/43. I’ll be removing the Budweiser name and replacing it with something local.

Just received my tank car.

Nice addition to my Spirit of UP collection.

@Train Nut posted:

Love your trains and your cat. Looks like the cat was eating something near your transformer. Hope it wasn't one of your wires!

Thanks, no it wasn’t wires.

Here's a new addirion to my space fleet, a United States Space Force ES44AC.  This is the second of three USSF Legacy Station eculsive Lionel offering, the first being a SD70.  I love the graphics on this engine and it will go great with my Lionel Rocket Booster set.   

I jumped into to bluetooth control with my first LC 2.0 engine. The 0-6-0t Reading Locomotive Shops model.

I also have it programmed into my Cab 1L and it works fine.

Bob

@RSJB18 posted:

I jumped into to bluetooth control with my first LC 2.0 engine. The 0-6-0t Reading Locomotive Shops model.

I also have it programmed into my Cab 1L and it works fine.

Bob

I don’t know Bob, your roster is taking on an Eastern Pennsylvania look.

@Brooklyn Corey posted:

OUTSTANDING Corey - The Foreman Rules!

@Tranquil Hollow RR posted:

I don’t know Bob, your roster is taking on an Eastern Pennsylvania look.

I can see a string of log buggies in her future

@Tranquil Hollow RR posted:

I don’t know Bob, your roster is taking on an Eastern Pennsylvania look.

Fits right in to my overall Northeast theme. I run anything from Maine down to Maryland and all connections in between....

@RBPTrains UP Katy Heritage arrived Saturday. It is a beautiful collector's piece, it runs great, sounds great, and pulls a ton. Another great addition.

Very effective operation. You could be the Eastern Seaboard scotch wholesaler/distributor.

@TimMacPA posted:

@RBPTrains UP Katy Heritage arrived Saturday. It is a beautiful collector's piece, it runs great, sounds great, and pulls a ton. Another great addition.

Wow, Trainland and Chris from RBP Trains did a terrific job designing this engine.  I hope to pick my engine up from Trainland in Lynbrook sometime this week.

This area is planned for Maybrook, New York on my layout. Maybrook was the western terminus of the New Haven Railroad after crossing the Poughkeepsie Bridge over the Hudson River, Many buildings exist there already on the layout. The models below were sent to Stu Gralnik (Model Building Services) for assembly and completion. I had not intended on using them here but after seeing the finished product, these two great looking buildings will certainly  be included in the final plan. I asked Stu to add Maybrook to each building. The freight house was Korber kit. I have several of them under my belt but they don't look like this one from Stu. He added lights and signs that gave the building more accent. The yellow building was a kit I had purchased 20 years ago. It is a railroad yard office. Again Stu has added just enough detail , lights an weathering to make a great building for the Maybrook area. With the blackened tone around the siding, it looks like a railroad building. This will be my new fall project. The inside track radius here is 92". Some better planning of the area will be required.

These guys

@Railrunnin posted:

OUTSTANDING Corey - The Foreman Rules!

Thanks! Yes he does 🐈🤣

Got some pieces from Train Loft:

Above: ATSF 27606. I sat this one atop a sheet of white paper so the road numbers are visible These shots were taken outdoors, but my surroundings still imparted a dark reflection across the middle of the car.

Above: ATSF 27608. The finish on these cars is just like the stainless finish MTH was applying to its Premier passenger cars (as well as four of their Premier modern + two 8k tankers). These cars came with an extra strip of foam wrap around the middle of the car for additional protection. Putting it back on is a tad tricky since it's a tight fit and the material itself is rather fragile.

The above two cars are exclusive to Train Loft, and the boxes carry a sticker attesting to this. The paint scheme is reminiscent of the Santa Fe "Super Hopper", an articulated covered hopper that, well...wasn't so warmly received by the grain shippers it was intended for. Three five-unit cars were built, one survives in the Oklahoma Railway Museum.

K-Line did a similar set of aluminum ACF hoppers decorated in a similar interlocking stripe/herald scheme (minus the Super Hopper logo). Two and three-car sets were produced, with the intent that they be combined as an approximation of the five-unit prototype. I managed to get ahold of both sets back when they were first released, and those reside buried deeply in my archive . stacks of rolling-stock boxes

Above UP 21328. Curiously enough, both of the UP car numbers are under the same MTH product number 20-97996, as opposed to the ATSF cars above which have their own 20-xxxxx numbers.

And, UP 21381 to round out the quartet. There is at least one other stainless-finish cylindrical hopper like this, a New York Central version (with a Statue of Liberty image) that was exclusive to Train World. I didn't know about those, and missed the pre-order window. _{(but found one of them at their York booth this fall)}

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---PCJ

@RailRide posted:

Got some pieces from Train Loft:

Above: ATSF 27606. I sat this one atop a sheet of white paper so the road numbers are visible These shots were taken outdoors, but my surroundings still imparted a dark reflection across the middle of the car.

Above: ATSF 27608. The finish on these cars is just like the stainless finish MTH was applying to its Premier passenger cars (and two of its 8000-gallon tankers). These cars came with an extra strip of foam wrap around the middle of the car for additional protection. Putting it back on is a tad tricky since it's a tight fit and the material itself is rather fragile.

The above two cars are exclusive to Train Loft, and the boxes carry a sticker attesting to this. The paint scheme is reminiscent of the Santa Fe "Super Hopper", an articulated covered hopper that, well...wasn't so warmly received by the grain shippers it was intended for. Three five-unit cars were built, one survives in the Oklahoma Railway Museum.

K-Line did a similar set of aluminum ACF hoppers decorated in a similar interlocking stripe/herald scheme (minus the Super Hopper logo). Two and three-car sets were produced, with the intent that they be combined as an approximation of the five-unit prototype. I managed to get ahold of both sets back when they were first released, and those reside buried deeply in my archive . stacks of rolling-stock boxes

Above UP 21328. Curiously enough, both of the UP car numbers are under the same MTH product number 20-97996, as opposed to the ATSF cars above which have their own 20-xxxxx numbers.

And, UP 21381 to round out the quartet. There were other cylindrical cars like this, a New York Central version (with a Statue of Liberty image) that was exclusive to Train World. I didn't know about that one, and missed out on the pre-order window.

---PCJ

Gives new meaning to Silver streak

Interesting day yesterday.  This is a small part of what followed me home.  Overall included about 35 engines and motorized units (about 80% postwar steam) and about 290 pieces of rolling stock, mixed between post war and MPC.

MTH R32 Subway set

This set of Santa Fe blue stripe cars arrived today.

@Brooklyn Corey posted:

MTH R32 Subway set

Another great set, Corey, and another line I spent a lot of time riding when I lived in Midwood (in those days, there was a 4-track line… the D was the Express, and the M was the local). I used to get the local at the Ave. M stop - sight of the old TrainWorld!!! Unfortunately, I never remember delay announcements EVER being that clear on one point, I must respectfully disagree with you… taking the subway to college in the early/mid-70’s and work beginning in ‘78, I saw way too much graffiti to ever buy a train that has it

@Apples55 posted:

Another great set, Corey, and another line I spent a lot of time riding when I lived in Midwood (in those days, there was a 4-track line… the D was the Express, and the M was the local). I used to get the local at the Ave. M stop - sight of the old TrainWorld!!! Unfortunately, I never remember delay announcements EVER being that clear on one point, I must respectfully disagree with you… taking the subway to college in the early/mid-70’s and work beginning in ‘78, I saw way too much graffiti to ever buy a train that has it

In ‘62-‘63 I rode the “Bankers Special” on the Brighton Line. It was a set of 3 BMT Standards that ran express to PP. At Dekalb it switched to the IND tunnel and ran the Nassau loop. Broad Nassau and Fulton st then returned to Brooklyn over the Manhattan Br. In the Eve it ran the reverse. 35 minutes from Kings Highway to Broad St. I put up a trestle and have a set running between the upper and lower of my layout. My son worked at Trainworld during HS. I just bought this Angela Thomas painting for him as a gift. I’m copying it and creating a false front building.

Grabbed another MTH SD70ACe with scale wheels. It will be going to the paint shop for conversion to an Isle of Denial paint scheme. Stay tuned.

Sale ended at midnight PDT. Price is now $37.97

$14.99 plus tax with FREE DELIVERY at Home Depot:

BLACK+DECKER Workmate 125 30 in. Folding Portable Workbench and Vise WM125 - The Home Depot

But hurry!!! Sale price ends at midnight PDT (I think).

@AGHRMatt posted:

Grabbed another MTH SD70ACe with scale wheels. It will be going to the paint shop for conversion to an Isle of Denial paint scheme. Stay tuned.

Waiting Impatiently with bated breath to see that.  Love the Road name

Already had these photos from the weekend during the same session as the shiny hoppers, just waited a few days to add these:

Atlas O Premier Genesis, midnight blue edition:

...and the Phase VI (?) version .

I probably should've installed the snowplows for the 3/4 shots. Put that on the to-do list.

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@Brooklyn Corey posted:

MTH R32 Subway set

Nice Mr. Subway CEO.    Are you going to add passengers to the set Corey ?

Received a Rutland wood-sided caboose from Beth at Public Delivery Track. It was a pre-order custom run from MTH. I'll post some pix when I have a chance to open it up.

I usually wait to post here until I have pix (cause otherwise it didn't really happen). But I may have finally reached a milestone with the CEO. Normally I ship train stuff to my office to avoid the inevitable dirty looks and "what's that, another train?" comments. The caboose was shipped to my house accidentally and when she handed me the box, there was no commentary to go along with it........

I'm goin' to Trainland now.......BYE!

Bob

@RSJB18,

I thought I was the only one getting the look and subsequent lecture!  I now have courage to fight the good fight!

This might work .......

Paul, like you I spent a lot of time on the the D train, just at the other end in the Bronx.  In answer to Dallas' question maybe Corey can find some figures that look like us to go in his model.

Patrick, nice outdoor pictures.  Is tat your backyard?

Bob, a trip to Trainland after your wife handed you a train box.  You're a very brave man.

@RSJB18 posted:

Received a Rutland wood-sided caboose from Beth at Public Delivery Track. It was a pre-order custom run from MTH. I'll post some pix when I have a chance to open it up.

I usually wait to post here until I have pix (cause otherwise it didn't really happen). But I may have finally reached a milestone with the CEO. Normally I ship train stuff to my office to avoid the inevitable dirty looks and "what's that, another train?" comments. The caboose was shipped to my house accidentally and when she handed me the box, there was no commentary to go along with it........

I'm goin' to Trainland now.......BYE!

Bob

I think that a book could be written about the antics involving bringing trains into the home and hiding them from significant others.

AMEN Bob 8-)

Jeff

@coach joe posted:

Patrick, nice outdoor pictures.  Is that your backyard?

Actually, those were taken in front of the house adjoining our driveway. Being on the north-facing side of an east-west street, the low afternoon sun lights up the area pretty well. Our backyard doesn't have much in the way of raised hard surfaces the like front-yard planter I shot these on.

Next photos I set up there will be of my new B&A caboose with my 2004 K-Line B&A Berk, which I finally extracted from its "burial" spot ...and maybe my newly-upgraded Class A with the auxiliary water tender I found at this past Greenburg show.

---PCJ

@coach joe posted:

Paul, like you I spent a lot of time on the the D train, just at the other end in the Bronx.  In answer to Dallas' question maybe Corey can find some figures that look like us to go in his model.

Patrick, nice outdoor pictures.  Is tat your backyard?

Bob, a trip to Trainland after your wife handed you a train box.  You're a very brave man.

I kid, but she's actually a great gal who puts up with my digressions despite the comments......

@pennsyfan posted:

I think that a book could be written about the antics involving bringing trains into the home and hiding them from significant others.

After moving a stack of empty boxes to the attic a while back, about a month later she was in the basement looking for something and commented....."didn't you just put empty train boxes in the attic?"

Lionel and MTH gotta stop using bright colors on their boxes......

@Postwarman posted:

AMEN Bob 8-)

Jeff

Or one of these might help......

I went off the deep end last week looking for one thing ended up with two. I searched the bay for blue stripe 2400 cars which I found and bid on. I showed them the other day. Of course the gremlins at the bay conspired and showed me a set of 2430  Blue PW tin cars. Since I only had brown my finger started twitching and I bid yet again.

Received a delivery from Menards today...

As with several of the M&M's boxcars I have bought from Menards, 3 of the USSF boxcars have the trucks crimped too tightly around the axles and the wheels will not turn at all.   The M&M's gondola is fine.

I now have a bowling alley for the layout.

I got this for a very good price.  

Very nice

An update to my post about the Menards stuff I received today....

Upon closer inspection of USSF boxcars, I discovered that 3 of them had at least one axle that was not properly in the depression in the truck.  Once I got the axles properly aligned in the truck, all the wheels now spin easily.

When I picked up the shipping carton with the 4 boxcars it felt rather heavy.  These boxcars have metal trucks.

@VinceL posted:

An update to my post about the Menards stuff I received today....

Upon closer inspection of USSF boxcars, I discovered that 3 of them had at least one axle that was not properly in the depression in the truck.  Once I got the axles properly aligned in the truck, all the wheels now spin easily.

When I picked up the shipping carton with the 4 boxcars it felt rather heavy.  These boxcars have metal trucks.

Not unusual. I've had to do the same with several Menards cars.

@RSJB18 posted:

I usually wait to post here until I have pix (cause otherwise it didn't really happen). But I may have finally reached a milestone with the CEO. Normally I ship train stuff to my office to avoid the inevitable dirty looks and "what's that, another train?" comments. The caboose was shipped to my house accidentally and when she handed me the box, there was no commentary to go along with it........

Bob

Trouble in Paradise Bob ?

There does seem to be certain times when some outside circumstances do result in an unexpected change in CEO responses.     Judy has been excited about my two recent purchases..................... ...........however.......before that I had the " no commentary "   issue with my CEO for quite some time.

Fifty years has taught me to be patient with CEO responses .   Don't understand yet.....maybe never.

Bye..........have a ball at Trainworld Bob.

AS an ex-UPS man, you don't know how many instances this covers, and trust me it isn't just train stuff

@RSJB18 posted:

Received a Rutland wood-sided caboose from Beth at Public Delivery Track. It was a pre-order custom run from MTH. I'll post some pix when I have a chance to open it up.

I usually wait to post here until I have pix (cause otherwise it didn't really happen). But I may have finally reached a milestone with the CEO. Normally I ship train stuff to my office to avoid the inevitable dirty looks and "what's that, another train?" comments. The caboose was shipped to my house accidentally and when she handed me the box, there was no commentary to go along with it........

I'm goin' to Trainland now.......BYE!

Bob

Bob, I think she was just in awe of your purchase. Plus your wonderful Mrs. realizes that your taste in trains is only exceeded by your choice in a wife.

Jay

Yesterday, I made a trip to TrainLand in Lynbrook to pick up two Trainland exculsive engines, the Chris Raines Katy and a Lionel ES44ACFlying Tiger.  The Flyig Tigar comes in two color schemes, one with yellowish coloring and he other with a grey coloring.  I preferred the yellowed version, see pictures below;

Below is a picture of the Katy;  This will go nicely with the Heritage Katy;

Trainland plans to issue a new Texas Special exculsive Lionel engine to go along with the above engine.  I saw the art work at Trainland and on their latest EM.  see below;

Wonder how your #50 would look with the future METCA P51?

Sure did, GP20! I was playing "chicken" with somebody on the Bay, I lose!

Did Great Northern have trainphone antenna cabooses, or is this just Lionel fantasy?

@pennsyfan posted:

I think that a book could be written about the antics involving bringing trains into the home and hiding them from significant others.

Bob - don’t know if I ever told you this in person, but I have a doozy of a “hide my trains from wifey” story.
Many years ago, I lived across the street from a woman who sold wigs. One day I came back from a trip to the supermarket to find a police car in front of my house, the wig seller talking to the cops, and my UPS driver sitting on the back of his truck. As I pull up, and get out of my wife’s car, the wig seller starts screaming “There he is! There he is! Arrest him!” to the cops. I had given my UPS driver a key to my car and he would open my trunk with his key and drop any UPS deliveries in the trunk. He had made a delivery that day, and my trunk was still open. The wig seller had called the cops, thinking that the UPS driver was stealing her wigs and putting them in my trunk.  And she wanted me and the UPS guy arrested. The cops straightened out the story. And, of course, the wig seller did not apologize, but I sure had some explaining to do to my wife.
I want someone to top that story!

Wow! I think that story will be hard to beat! But you never know!  8-)

Jeff

I bow to the master!

@Mark V. Spadaro posted:

Bob - don’t know if I ever told you this in person, but I have a doozy of a “hide my trains from wifey” story.
Many years ago, I lived across the street from a woman who sold wigs. One day I came back from a trip to the supermarket to find a police car in front of my house, the wig seller talking to the cops, and my UPS driver sitting on the back of his truck. As I pull up, and get out of my wife’s car, the wigmaker starts screaming “There he is! There he is! Arrest him!” to the cops. I had given my UPS driver a key to my car and he would open my trunk with his key and drop any UPS deliveries in the trunk. He had made a delivery that day, and my trunk was open. The wig seller called the cops, thinking that he was stealing her wigs and putting them in my trunk.  And she wanted me and the UPS guy arrested. The cops straightened out the story. And, of course, the wig seller did not apologize, but I sure had some explaining to do to my wife.
I want someone to top that story!

As a retired UPS driver, I can believe this story.   Several people made arraignments with me to have their packages delivered in places other then their front door.   

@Mark V Spadaro, Mark, now that’s a hum dinger of a story indicating our purchases in this hobby sometimes need discretion on exactly how they get to our layouts, man caves. Our wives or better half’s sometimes get excited when we say, Lionel is coming out with a new VisionLine Big Boy, it’s only $2500, may I place my BTO order now???
WOW, here’s my little story, after being out of the hobby for 6 years,  (ended 1989), a friend contacted me in 1996 telling me about the new TMCC Command Control, I was amazed and wanted it very much… My wife, is the controller of our finances and would have never said yes to a $1,000 train set… So, I ordered the new 1996 Sante Fe F3 ABBA and the 7 passenger cars over $1K…. Now, I paid for the set with bonus monies set aside and given to my dealer, Phillips Toy Mart of Nashville, Tennessee. It arrived, it was paid for, but how do I set this up on my layout without World War 3, this was scary… I had a brain storm, “what if I Won the set”, so here’s how we pulled this one off. I called my friend Lou DellaPenna, I explained my situation, I said I let’s pretend that Phillips had a Christmas prize drawing and my name was pulled out of the box?? He agreed, then he called my wife, trying to get ahold of me and she said I was at work. He told her that I had Won a nice toy train set from Phillips and they were trying to call me. She immediately called me with the great news, she was so happy for me, and that worked for me. I’ve won several trains, all in fun….. Ok, here’s my new purchase, The Frisco HoBo Box car, sounds car… It works… Happy Railroading Everyone

SIRTOA Train

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Nice Mr. Subway CEO.    Are you going to add passengers to the set Corey ?

Thanks! Yes, I definitely plan on adding figures.

@Apples55 posted:

Another great set, Corey, and another line I spent a lot of time riding when I lived in Midwood (in those days, there was a 4-track line… the D was the Express, and the M was the local). I used to get the local at the Ave. M stop - sight of the old TrainWorld!!! Unfortunately, I never remember delay announcements EVER being that clear on one point, I must respectfully disagree with you… taking the subway to college in the early/mid-70’s and work beginning in ‘78, I saw way too much graffiti to ever buy a train that has it

Thanks! Yes, I've seen a lot of graffiti also, that's probably why I like it. The announcements definitely were not clear when I was growing up!

I see the foreman was closely supervising you when opening the boxes.  I think he is mad at you for taking away his piece of styrofoam.

That is a nice set.  I grew up about 15 miles outside of NY in NJ but didn't even know there was a SIRTOA.

The purchase isn't anything special, a Lionel flatcar.  The plan if all goes well is to turn it into a ca. 1930s pulpwood car.  Next step is to hit the store for some strip wood.

Well, one of my locomotives received a "present" today (a day before my b'day no less). This K-Line Boston & Albany Berkshire has been in my collection since 2004, according to the receipt still in the box. I think I may have had it out one time since taking it home. It finally gets to see daylight after I excavated it from the bottom of one of those Home Depot storage shelf units, surrounded on all sides by stacks of train boxes"...

So, what was the present? Almost 20 years after the above locomotive was released, we have JR Junction's custom-run B&A caboose:

Bringing the two together, we see the 1407 with it's new partner:

Out of curiosity, and since B&A 1179 is the new kid on the block, I thought to compare it with it's Rugged Rails predecessor from 2001, the 33-7802:

Wow, look at the difference in end-platform detail, eh? Not to mention the truck placement.

Well, to be fair, the Rugged Rails car only cost me $25 or so at a Greenberg show, after 22 years of depreciation. MTH's website doesn't even show a retail price for this piece

The 33-7802 by itself, so you can flip back and forth.

I shot quite a few more photos today...but there are enough in this post already. Make note of the sunlight levels between here and the third post I make here today

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You let that jewel hide for nineteen years,  you need help

But Wait, There's Moooooore!  ('course there always is)

So, back in April York I bought a Protosound-1 Class A, and found a PS3 steam upgrade later on the last day of the show, thanks to JustTrains. Although it's not visible in this shot, the two have been joined, and now this Class A is a PS-3 model:

At this past Greenburg show in Edison, I found this N&W auxiliary tender. Okay, so it's striped to match a J-class. Still a N&W. Good price too. Only wish I had noticed the dealer had grabbed the wrong box when I said "Sold". He had a Virginian aux tender next to this, and it's that box he grabbed. So it took a little digging about to identify this one. I think it's a 20-3126 from around the turn of the century, so naturally it's equipped with a Proto-1 electrocoupler. I don't think I would have hooked it up anyway

And so here's the Class A, with some extra H2O for excursion service

When I bought the Class A, I also got a caboose to go with it. Hitched behind the water tender is a 30-77368 extended vision caboose. These two will accompany the Class A on whatever adventure I concoct for it...when I finally make time to catch up to the stuff I haven't run yet.

And now for a few views of the whole assemblage:

I must say, it wasn't fun jockeying this beast back into its styrofoam pocket perched upon this narrow platform. Had to wheel out the luggage cart to bring it back inside via the front steps, as I wasn't about to hand-carry that 16-pound bulk inside it's box-less styrofoam clamshell back up the basement stairs, (I carried it down them) owing to how steep as they are

One more set coming up, my recent Cabin Fever wins at yet another MTH warehouse auction.

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@Bill N posted:

The purchase isn't anything special, a Lionel flatcar.  The plan if all goes well is to turn it into a ca. 1930s pulpwood car.  Next step is to hit the store for some strip wood.

Again waiting with bated breath (has sardines for lunch) to see the for and after pictures

You might want to unbate your breath.  Part of the process will involve stripping, repainting and decaling the car. 

Ah tiz the stress of time.  on the same token I have build new doors to the train room as the new cat "mischief" has depleted then population ofone of the neighborhoods.  finding little people all over the house

ET&WNC trucking company stationery (off eBay)

BN stationery and a UP regional profile book, showing all the routes in the Western Area, bought from a small hobby shop in Centralia, WA. I walked down there on Saturday while I had my WW2 Jeep at a car show a couple of blocks away.

Not much for excess train paraphernalia, but that is a treasure.  Saturday I also had my 67 Wildcat convertible at a show. and my wife grew up in Centralia

@Brooklyn Corey posted:

SIRTOA Train

Love the SIRTOA train!  Recently bought on the 'bay the MTH SIRTOA caboose and have the Lionel SIRTOA S-2 on pre order. When I grew up on Staten Island, the S-2s were still wearing B&O colors and lettered "Staten Island". Wish I could find a set of Staten Island decals to relabel my Lionel B&O S-2.

Well, now comes the biggie:

My purchases from Cabin Fever on 8/14 arrived 8/23 after one day in transit PA-NYC, and boy it's a big box. I posed one of my NKP Berkshires atop it for size comparison -- it's 24" by 16" by 12" and weighs in at 24 pounds. Careful carry to a spot big enough to sit it down

Within is 16 freight cars from the MTH auction, the most I've ever scored, and as of this writing, I have photographed all of them for this thread (and my collection inventory). Took two days to do it too. Some cars got more than one photo owing to one oddity or the other stemming from these being sell-offs from MTH's former warehouse. That being said, in order to avoid flooding the thread (and gobbling up all my spare time), I'll post these one lot at a time and give others a chance to post their stuff before adding additional entries.

Leading off is this two-piece case of 20-95234 Premier 60' TTX flatcars with ScaleTrax crossovers, released in June 2017

Above: TTX 93600, Below: TTX 93639

And the two of them together...

The coupler cut levers are user-installed accessories, since installing them significantly affects the minimum radius curve these cars can handle.

Ever wonder what these cars looked like from the backside? Well wonder no more. Also, the track section is held on with a twist tie.

Can you tell what is off about these boxes? I didn't notice this till I was packing the cars up after the photo session. If anyone else has cars like this, are your boxes the same? (I have some 60-footers carrying ScaleTrax switches, theirs don't exhibit this discrepancy).

14 more cars to go

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@Henryjint posted:

Love the SIRTOA train!  Recently bought on the 'bay the MTH SIRTOA caboose and have the Lionel SIRTOA S-2 on pre order. When I grew up on Staten Island, the S-2s were still wearing B&O colors and lettered "Staten Island". Wish I could find a set of Staten Island decals to relabel my Lionel B&O S-2.

Thanks and congrats on the caboose. Did you try island model works for the decals?

@VinceL posted:

I see the foreman was closely supervising you when opening the boxes.  I think he is mad at you for taking away his piece of styrofoam.

That is a nice set.  I grew up about 15 miles outside of NY in NJ but didn't even know there was a SIRTOA.

Yes he was definitely not happy about the styrofoam!

An inexpensive detail part from an MTH Premier Pioneer Zephyr made this observation car complete.

For a CB&Q fan like me, the cool factor of this is off-the-chart.

Don't know how expensive, but darn nice anyway

Well, it happened again. The voices convinced me to buy yet another Hudson. This Williams 5205 scale Hudson and NYC passenger cars came from the fine folks at Trainz. Engine was brand new and still sealed. The passenger cars were at a phenomenal price. I've been tinkering with both and fine tuning her. Got the windows tinted and led lighting is ordered for passenger cars. Serviced the engine as the gears were dry as bone. Added a little weight to the tender and modified the trucks so it doesn't look like a wibble wobble anymore.It tamed the engine from wanting to run a million miles an hour. Will be adding a fan smoke unit soon!

@Donnie Kennedy posted:

Well, it happened again. The voices convinced me to buy yet another Hudson. This Williams 5205 scale Hudson and NYC passenger cars came from the fine folks at Trainz. Engine was brand new and still sealed. The passenger cars were at a phenomenal price. I've been tinkering with both and fine tuning her. Got the windows tinted and led lighting is ordered for passenger cars. Serviced the engine as the gears were dry as bone. Added a little weight to the tender and modified the trucks so it doesn't look like a wibble wobble anymore.It tamed the engine from wanting to run a million miles an hour. Will be adding a fan smoke unit soon!

Something about a passenger consists that always gets me. It doesn't matter whether it's modern Steam, or vintage. Diesel or ...wait, no todays "passenger" trains just don't have the romance as even vintage Diesels 

"The Warehouse Haul", Part 2

The next lot is a pair of MTH 20-95366 Burlington Northern bulkhead flat cars with Scaletrax straight sections, released in June 2019. Here's the first car of the pair, BN 621077 (descriptive text references the photo above):

In this photo I've installed the hold-down chains. Note that you cannot return the car to its box with the track panels strapped to the car. I tried -- it won't fit. Not only is the styrofoam and the overlying lid designed to hold the track sections strapped together above the deck of the flatcar (so you will be re-using the twist-tie that held the ScaleTrax together), but the overlying clear plastic lid requires that the track sections be centered and the ties lined up, as there are ridges that fit between them, so no cheating -- your re-boxing game has to be on-point. Not so much with the second car, and you'll see why as you continue to scroll...

Notice something missing? I suspect this might be a dealer's return to MTH and why it languished in the warehouse.

Note that the tape holding down the plastic tray cover is undisturbed. No telltale wrinkles or creasing in the tape, no gouges or dents in the styrofoam from someone attempting to get a tool or fingernail under the tape to peel it up. Plus there is that haphazardly-shaped block of styrofoam accompanying the car where the track sections should be, that isn't present in the example with the Scaletrax. I suspect this car left the factory like this, was shipped to a dealer, who then returned it after discovering the missing track.

Anyway, here's the empty BN 621094.

At least the tie-down chains are present (left packet) in case I buy some ScaleTrax to stick in there. The odd bit is the sealed packet of...two short twist ties?

And here are the two flats together. I'll probably scout around for some Scaletrax to put in there. Given the $70 MSRP and my winning bid +buyer's premium adding up to 63.25 for the pair, I'd still be ahead if I populated the empty flat with track sections. I figure I already have four 60' flats with ScaleTrax switches, the previously-posted TTX flats with diamond crossings, and a 60' flatcar with 10" ScaleTrax sections much like the above, so there's enough for an entire MOW train of track panels.

12 more cars to go...

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@Donnie Kennedy posted:

Well, it happened again. The voices convinced me to buy yet another Hudson. This Williams 5205 scale Hudson and NYC passenger cars came from the fine folks at Trainz. Engine was brand new and still sealed. The passenger cars were at a phenomenal price. I've been tinkering with both and fine tuning her. Got the windows tinted and led lighting is ordered for passenger cars. Serviced the engine as the gears were dry as bone. Added a little weight to the tender and modified the trucks so it doesn't look like a wibble wobble anymore.It tamed the engine from wanting to run a million miles an hour. Will be adding a fan smoke unit soon!

You can NEVER have enough scale hudsons, especially Williams, and you canNOT beat the price(s).  Scale proportions, nice detail and you put them on the track and they go!!  I think I'm up to 5; UP, PRR, N&W, NYC and ATSF - some with sound but they're just plain cool and reliable runners so GOOD FOR YOU!!

@RailRide posted:

"The Warehouse Haul", Part 2

The next lot is a pair of MTH 20-95366 Burlington Northern bulkhead flat cars with Scaletrax straight sections, released in June 2019. Here's the first car of the pair, BN 621077 (descriptive text references the photo above):

In this photo I've installed the hold-down chains. Note that you cannot return the car to its box with the track panels strapped to the car. I tried -- it won't fit. Not only is the styrofoam and the overlying lid designed to hold the track sections strapped together above the deck of the flatcar (so you will be re-using the twist-tie that held the ScaleTrax together), but the overlying clear plastic lid requires that the track sections be centered and the ties lined up, as there are ridges that fit between them, so no cheating -- your re-boxing game has to be on-point. Not so much with the second car, and you'll see why as you continue to scroll...

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Notice something missing? I suspect this might be a dealer's return to MTH and why it languished in the warehouse.

Note that the tape holding down the plastic tray cover is undisturbed. No telltale wrinkles or creasing in the tape, no gouges or dents in the styrofoam from someone attempting to get a tool or fingernail under the tape to peel it up. Plus there is that haphazardly-shaped block of styrofoam accompanying the car where the track sections should be, that isn't present in the example with the Scaletrax. I suspect this car left the factory like this, was shipped to a dealer, who then returned it after discovering the missing track.

Anyway, here's the empty BN 621094.

At least the tie-down chains are present (left packet) in case I buy some ScaleTrax to stick in there. The odd bit is the sealed packet of...two short twist ties?

And here are the two flats together. I'll probably scout around for some Scaletrax to put in there. Given the $70 MSRP and my winning bid +buyer's premium adding up to 63.25 for the pair, I'd still be ahead if I populated the empty flat with track sections. I figure I already have 5-6 flats with ScaleTrax switches, the previously-posted TTX flats with diamond crossings, and a 60' flatcar with 10" ScaleTrax sections much like the above.

12 more cars to go...

---PCJ   

Great looking and I even like the color.

@RailRide posted:

Well, now comes the biggie:

My purchases from Cabin Fever on 8/14 arrived 8/23 after one day in transit PA-NYC, and boy it's a big box. I posed one of my NKP Berkshires atop it for size comparison -- it's 24" by 16" by 12" and weighs in at 24 pounds. Careful carry to a spot big enough to sit it down

Within is 16 freight cars from the MTH auction, the most I've ever scored, and as of this writing, I have photographed all of them for this thread (and my collection inventory). Took two days to do it too. Some cars got more than one photo owing to one oddity or the other stemming from these being sell-offs from MTH's former warehouse. That being said, in order to avoid flooding the thread (and gobbling up all my spare time), I'll post these one lot at a time and give others a chance to post their stuff before adding additional entries.

Leading off is this two-piece case of 20-95234 Premier 60' TTX flatcars with ScaleTrax crossovers, released in June 2017.

Can you tell what is off about these boxes? I didn't notice this till I was packing the cars up after the photo session. If anyone else has cars like this, are your boxes the same? (I have some 60-footers carrying ScaleTrax switches, theirs don't exhibit this discrepancy).

14 more cars to go

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boxes are lettered huskystack

@Brooklyn Corey posted:

Thanks and congrats on the caboose. Did you try island model works for the decals?

Hi Corey, Looked up Island Model Works and ordered their O Scale Staten Island decals. Thanks for the tip!

@Henryjint posted:

Hi Corey, Looked up Island Model Works and ordered their O Scale Staten Island decals. Thanks for the tip!

No problem, glad it worked out.

Got this one a few weeks ago, but finally got around to changing out the wheels/couplers. One more for my OGR commemorative car collection.