Buy anything cool lately?

Atlas O 6887-1

3R C&NW RS-1

A bit off the tail end of my era. #1067 wasn't purchased by C&NW until 1953. But I've always wanted an RS-1. The UP didn't really have them and the C&NW is a local I grew up with so....

Picked up cheap. Needs a little work , but I have the parts already on the way from Atlas O to 3RS-ify it, fix the pilots and Kadee couplers. More pics to come on completion.

I like it Witz, CNW RULES!!!

Nice, WITZ41.  RS-1s are my all-time favorite diesel and the CNW scheme that you picked up is really nice!  Very handsome looking.

I've got the drab Atlas PRR version and love it.  It looks great with any consist you can attach (I overlap eras a bit when I run it as an excursion train :-).  Enjoy your engine.

TRRR

Just won a ET&WNC 1943 timetable on eBay.
Not cheap, but there can't be many of them still around.

Latest acquisition from the inter-web... All 3 for $60.00.

p51 posted:

Just won a ET&WNC 1943 timetable on eBay.
Not cheap, but there can't be many of them still around.

Great find. I like the time reference, "Eastern War Time"

This is a beautiful small engine from Sunset

A gal I know does jewelry and castings, and recommended one of these.  I got mine off Amazon. 

More than adequate for the stuff I do...

Mark in Oregon

Bought a three ft. section of trestle track from Gargraves Track for a new trestle I'm building. Don

Bought a three ft. section of trestle track from Gargraves Track for a new trestle I'm building. Ties are wide enough so I can drill holes for my overhead wire poles on one side and plank walkway on the other.   Don

Received my Seaboard Streamlined Full-Length Vista Dome Car I purchased from a Forum member today.. Not sure if Seaboard ever had one in the real world, but then again I doubt Seaboard and Norfolk & Western shared track rights in the real world either.. They do on my railroad.... lol

Just found this on the bay.  I have been trying to buy the Weaver Pennsy BP20 for some years now, but I usually get way outbid.  This one was buy it now and I bought it!  Can't wait for it to get home to head my Fleet of Modernism cars I bought last year!

Roland

Six shipping boxes (@45 lbs each) of Mianne benchwork arrived yesterday  for an around-the-room new layout.

This benchwork is good -- and, to me, worth the extra investment.  This is my fourth serious layout over the past xx years...and, so far, the easiest BY FAR.

My layout will be much larger than this and will have two decks.  Welcome to Mianne....

RT,

Congratulations on the new layout!

The usual:  spend $20.00 in tools to install $1.50 in parts to make a repair--what a hobby--but, it feels so good!

Installed an MTH opposite corner store that arrived today. 

Mark Boyce posted:

RT,

Congratulations on the new layout!

Thanks, Mark!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

rthomps posted:

Six shipping boxes (@45 lbs each) of Mianne benchwork arrived yesterday  for an around-the-room new layout.

This benchwork is good -- and, to me, worth the extra investment.  This is my fourth serious layout over the past xx years...and, so far, the easiest BY FAR.

My layout will be much larger than this and will have two decks.  Welcome to Mianne....

I believe mine was only four boxes (with an addition in one box about a year later). Truly a wonderful product, and as you say, easy to assemble. Looking forward to see what you do with it.

Woodson posted:

Received my Seaboard Streamlined Full-Length Vista Dome Car I purchased from a Forum member today.. Not sure if Seaboard ever had one in the real world, but then again I doubt Seaboard and Norfolk & Western shared track rights in the real world either.. They do on my railroad.... lol

They did in durham n.c

Picked up this 1/46 Ford F150 today for $5 at a grocery store while visiting family in Utah. I love the mud paint job on it. Especially on the windshield. Fantastic!

I also got a fastrack grade crossing so my son and I can drive this truck over the tracks.

I stopped by The Train Shoppe in Salt Lake City and picked up this caboose.

I know it looks like a run of the mill MPC caboose. But this is going to be the starting point for my 3d printed White Pass caboose I'm working on.

Estate sale find, a Marx 1666 plastic loco with smoke set in very nice condition. I would think early 1960's. The all elevated trestle and three red cars seem unusual. Can anyone identify this set?

Thanks,

Franktrain

seaboardm2 posted:

Woodson posted:

Received my Seaboard Streamlined Full-Length Vista Dome Car I purchased from a Forum member today.. Not sure if Seaboard ever had one in the real world, but then again I doubt Seaboard and Norfolk & Western shared track rights in the real world either.. They do on my railroad.... lol

They did in durham n.c

Thanks for the  information!! I did not know that...

My son lives in the  Raleigh/ Wake Forest, NC area  and is looking for some Standard gauge track. Know any place in that area that sells it ??   Thanks

Strummer posted:

A gal I know does jewelry and castings, and recommended one of these.  I got mine off Amazon. 

More than adequate for the stuff I do...

Mark in Oregon

I bought one off ebay about 6 months ago for making small parts for the early Harley Davidson speedometers. Great little drill press.

Got this junky trunk with these trains in it packed and shipped just like you see here

Jim,

Have him contact Nick's Trains in Raleigh.  

Call us: 919.881.1010

Email: nickstrains@mindspring.com

Picked up this Lionel wall clock. Will look great in the train room. Features catalog covers and other art work.

Went to the TCA show in Parma Ohio today and got these two things. Always look for a number of things that I never find but this made for a good day for me. Pics of my buys..............Paul

Dennis Holler posted:

Got this junky trunk with these trains in it packed and shipped just like you see here

nice...........

I Just got this at Tacoma Trains. Just found out they're going out of business soon, darn it! 

Got this coming...2 rail for my proto 48 experiment....

Pretty stoked. Gonna turn it into this unit...

p51 posted:

I Just got this at Tacoma Trains. Just found out they're going out of business soon, darn it! 

Nice pick up Lee.

K-line double searchlight car that is also an auto carrier.  pretty cool!

I didn't buy anything really cool, but I did get a good deal.   Amazon Warehouse Deals was selling 4 packs of O36 Fastrack 4 packs for $9.34 + Prime Shipping.   I got all 6 4 packs they were selling.  They relisted this morning at $11.81.   I have done their service before, and the packaging comes bent, ripped, and all around horrible.   However, Amazon checks the track, and I have never had a problem with the product.   So I am super happy.  Now to figure out what I am going to do with the curves.   I wanted a full circle, but now I got 2 extra. 

Yesterday, I drove to the Harrisburg area to pickup the backdrops that George (G3750) had professionally painted for his PRR Panhandle Division layout.  I had been following George's layout build, since the Panhandle Division is in the same area I live, crossing the Ohio River at Weirton, West Virginia about an hour and a half drive from here.  I had noted that George announced he was going to move to a new home and posted a new plan for that home.  Then George posted that he was going to sell his backdrop sections instead of trying to get movers to move them.  I think they will work well in providing a backdrop for areas on the layout where I want a view into the distance.  I am also thinking I will have some areas where the sceniced mountain will go up to the sky in other areas.

So here they are in my train room, in no particular order from right to left.  

Bought a set of Kato N scale Alco PA's in D&RG Aspen leaf scheme for my N scale CZ Train. Pretty good deal too the whole set $120

Matt Makens posted:

Bought a set of Kato N scale Alco PA's in D&RG Aspen leaf scheme for my N scale CZ Train. Pretty good deal too the whole set $120

PHOTOS!!!!

I love the DRGW and I still have my 1968 Revell N scale set......so show us!!! plez!!

I just finished this repaint and re-power WbB units

Today I purchased this MTH 30-77256 Norfolk and Western caboose from T&K Hobby Shop. 

Mark Boyce posted:

Yesterday, I drove to the Harrisburg area to pickup the backdrops that George (G3750) had professionally painted for his PRR Panhandle Division layout.  I had been following George's layout build, since the Panhandle Division is in the same area I live, crossing the Ohio River at Weirton, West Virginia about an hour and a half drive from here.  I had noted that George announced he was going to move to a new home and posted a new plan for that home.  Then George posted that he was going to sell his backdrop sections instead of trying to get movers to move them.  I think they will work well in providing a backdrop for areas on the layout where I want a view into the distance.  I am also thinking I will have some areas where the sceniced mountain will go up to the sky in other areas.

So here they are in my train room, in no particular order from right to left.  

Mark- looks like you are well on your way.

I can't wait to see what Mark's layout will look like in the end. It won't be big but even small layouts can look fantastic.