Buy anything cool lately?

@Kelunaboy posted:

I back shelved my second level plans and decided to go BIG with the Atlas turntable.

It dominates the whole right side of my layout, but I think there is great operating and urban scenery options.

Have to see the rest of the layout, but one suggest  would be  take your lead track off the curve, move the table  back down the loop and you engine tracks toward the  other side of the loop and then go back and double track the main. put  you station where  your power pack is

Last week while I was visiting family in Western Pennsylvania I stopped into a train store in my home town of Jeannette. Niedzalkoski’s is a small shop specializing mainly in HO but with reasonable amount of O gauge on the shelves. I picked up this refer at a great price after the 10% discount they were offering on roiling stock.

@ncdave posted:

Last week while I was visiting family in Western Pennsylvania I stopped into a train store in my home town of Jeannette. Niedzalkoski’s is a small shop specializing mainly in HO but with reasonable amount of O gauge on the shelves. I picked up this refer at a great price after the 10% discount they were offering on roiling stock.

The pale stale ale with the foam at the bottom!  Ah, memories!   

Mitch

Hi ncdave, I lived in Greensburg from 1953 to 1963. I still call it home. Dave

@ncdave posted:

Last week while I was visiting family in Western Pennsylvania I …

I always learn something new on this forum. My late mother (originally from Pittsburgh) used to jokingly refer to her boss as Frothingslosh. (The surname was actually quite close.)  Now I know where it came from.

This reefer is fantastic; the graphic is terrific. The details even include the (clever) instructions for returning when empty.

However, it looks like whomever lettered the left side was sampling the product.  It says FLothingslosh, with an “L”, not an “R”.  I wonder whether they all are like this?

NCdave, who was the manufacturer of this great item? Thanks.

TRRR

@ncdave posted:

Last week while I was visiting family in Western Pennsylvania I stopped into a train store in my home town of Jeannette. Niedzalkoski’s is a small shop specializing mainly in HO but with reasonable amount of O gauge on the shelves. I picked up this refer at a great price after the 10% discount they were offering on roiling stock.

say that name 3 times fast after having a few.......

Great looking car, love the graphics.

Bob

It is said that Beer can be addictive, the problem is while, I'm not big on beer, (Jack Danials is more my thing) I'm having withdrawls on building beer cars.  Back In my HO days, my wife had to stage am intervention when I had finished repainting my two hundredth HO scale House cars into Private Label beer cars.  Yours might start the problem all over again

Some of my recent purchases.

The U.S. SPACE MISSLES is an Atlantis kit from Hobby Lobby.  I eyed it many times but at a scale of 1:128 I just didn't figure it would fit.  When they put the $33 kit on clearance for $8.25 it had to come home.  It'll make a nic Rocket Garden for the Visitor's Center when I display my Cape Notcanaveral.  I remember someone putting one of these Nike Hercules Missile launchers on a flat car.  I believe it was ScaleRail and he had some Speedy Gonzales decals on it.  I thought that was cool so when I came across the kit at Ollie's I grabbed two.

The Bud Dry tank car is a K-Line.  I always liked K-Line's single dome with the platform and handrail and with my early penchant for Budweiser and AB's strong marketing combined with a very attractive price on eBay this Bud Dry  tanker has taking a spot on my AB roster.

@ncdave posted:

Last week while I was visiting family in Western Pennsylvania I stopped into a train store in my home town of Jeannette. Niedzalkoski’s is a small shop specializing mainly in HO but with reasonable amount of O gauge on the shelves. I picked up this refer at a great price after the 10% discount they were offering on roiling stock.

I remember the TV ads in home town Youngstown Ohio!

Ron

Great way to mix interest.  and I thought my end of train only outhouse car was something

I snagged a Lionel dummy A.T.&S.F. E8 off 'da bay' recently and am enjoying it for the level of detail it has. Surprised that it is older than I thought (time flies as you age!) and I've set it with a Lionel E6 and MTH E6 B unit for a nice display.

TRRR, This car is a MTH Railking refer. I don’t know if they all were made with a misspelling of the name. I’m going to have to look a both sides of the car now to see if they are spelled the same. Maybe the Chinese workers had a little too much pale  stale ale during manufacturing.

Thanks for the reply about MTH, Dave.  I did a quick web search after posting. The “L” appears in the web photo hits as well.

@Steaming Jon posted:

Picked up a “like new” old MTH 2-6-0 starter set from FB marketplace for my nephew… (switched out the boxcar with one from my collection since the one that came with the set didn’t have opening doors). He’s gonna love it, I can’t wait to give it to him!!

Thought you all might like to know that this set has been delivered to my nephew and he loves it!

I just picked up the MTH Railking Erie Lackawana SD-45 30-21118-1 from Just Trains yesterday.Very sharp locomotive.

MTH  Ps2  Premier 0-4-0

New to me this week from the terific people zat Trainz.

Not completely train related, but I have moved to the next stage of my life, and bought a new house.  Now I have to determine what exactly I want to do.  This will be my second layout move, and either I can start completely over, or utilize parts of my existing layout and build from there.  The existing layout is 20 years old, so I am thinking of mostly starting over.  The big advantage of mostly starting over would be to use a wider radius curve.  Current layout has 0-54 which while great to run pretty much everything, but doesn't let me run some of the really big steam engines that I find so attractive.

Decisions, decisions decisions.  Stay tuned.

John

Some new additions.  The Lionel 6812 Track Maintenance car is from the original train my brothers and I had as kids.  The men, top platform and crank are all replacement parts so I'm not worried about value.  I thought about making it a fire fighting car.  I've got the seat and monitor to replace the worker on the upper level, still need the seated fireman, and the spray arms to wet down the right of way once I fabricate brackets.  Such a mighty fire fighting tool would need a water supply;

so  here it is.  I figure some Walther's flanges, valves and piping on the pump and some of Pat's spring hoses to connect to the track maintenance car.

I have several of these Lionel spine car sets, NYC, Southern, SP.  When they first came out they catalogs said they were usually used as 5 car articulated units.  I thought I needed one more to give two 5 car units when I spied  this SeaLand set on eBay for a good price so I pulled the trigger.  Well it wasn't my 5th set it was my 4th so I guess I'll run them as one 5 car unit and one 3 car unit.  When running hotshot intermodal the different trailers will suffice but I believe I have enough NYC containers that I can run the 5 unit on the Water Level Route to Albany.

Not just neat, really neat

Recently added two new locomotives that in the word of Star Wars character "General Grievous", would be "fine additions to my collection!"
A Lionel Warhorse J #600 with tmcc, sound, and smoke and the recently released Atlas F7 in a Southern Pacific "Bloody Nose" paintjob. Both have been pretty cool additions but the Warhorse J with it's TMCC is my favorite of the two since I now finally have an N&W J class with some form of command control!

@coach joe posted:

Some new additions.  The Lionel 6812 Track Maintenance car is from the original train my brothers and I had as kids.  The men, top platform and crank are all replacement parts so I'm not worried about value.  I thought about making it a fire fighting car.  I've got the seat and monitor to replace the worker on the upper level, still need the seated fireman, and the spray arms to wet down the right of way once I fabricate brackets.  Such a mighty fire fighting tool would need a water supply;

so  here it is.  I figure some Walther's flanges, valves and piping on the pump and some of Pat's spring hoses to connect to the track maintenance car.

I have several of these Lionel spine car sets, NYC, Southern, SP.  When they first came out they catalogs said they were usually used as 5 car articulated units.  I thought I needed one more to give two 5 car units when I spied  this SeaLand set on eBay for a good price so I pulled the trigger.  Well it wasn't my 5th set it was my 4th so I guess I'll run them as one 5 car unit and one 3 car unit.  When running hotshot intermodal the different trailers will suffice but I believe I have enough NYC containers that I can run the 5 unit on the Water Level Route to Albany.

  Coach Joe, could you elaborate on
“Pat's spring hoses”?

@coach joe posted:

so  here it is.  I figure some Walther's flanges, valves and piping on the pump and some of Pat's spring hoses to connect to the track maintenance car.

Here's what I did with my track cleaner Joe. Parts are from Plastistruct.

https://ogrforum.com/...3#175850073710090703

I don't know if I did that correctly.  That's actually the link to one of my replies in that thread, just scroll to the top to see Pat's incredible handiwork.  Pat, @harmonyards, wrote that thread about using springs as water hoses between locomotives and tenders.  Here's one I added between an auxiliary tender and tender for a Y6b.  I wish I had a better pic but Pat has some good ones in his post.

@coach joe posted:

https://ogrforum.com/...3#175850073710090703

I don't know if I did that correctly.  That's actually the link to one of my replies in that thread, just scroll to the top to see Pat's incredible handiwork. Pat, @harmonyards, wrote that thread about using springs as water hoses between locomotives and tenders.  Here's one I added between an auxiliary tender and tender for a Y6b.  I wish I had a better pic but Pat has some good ones in his post.

@Coach Joe

Got it thanks.

This arrived today, wanted one for years and can’t wait to go through it and get it running. Not sure if it fits here or should be over in the land of tinplate. Thomas Industries Shawnee Express.

StudeDude,

What a beauty and great looking consist! Thanks for posting and have fun running it!

TRRR

I'm expanding my interest beyond RF&P and Long Island....picked up these MTH Premier ACL F3s and Railking 60' passenger cars a few weeks ago.  I really like the 60' cars...they seem to go well with the scale MTH locos.

Sunrise

@StudeDude posted:

This arrived today, wanted one for years and can’t wait to go through it and get it running. Not sure if it fits here or should be over in the land of tinplate. Thomas Industries Shawnee Express.

Keep us posted with your progress!

It fits where ever you want it.   and as many places as you can put it.  Nice catch

@Sunrise Special posted:

I'm expanding my interest beyond RF&P and Long Island....picked up these MTH Premier ACL F3s and Railking 60' passenger cars a few weeks ago.  I really like the 60' cars...they seem to go well with the scale MTH locos.

Sunrise

Always loved that Color combination

@StudeDude- Wow man, its been YEARS! since I saw one of those although I remember their advertising back in the day!  What a cool train, please keep us posted as you get it running.  Super find!

@Sunrise Special- beautiful cars and locomotives, what a great color scheme.  beautiful consist!

Don

These Nashville, Chattanooga and. St Louis Railway boxcars just arrived today. I was attracted to them because my Grandson Nick is in the music business in Nashville. He graduated as a sound engineer and is working as a sound engineer in Nashville; where he is following his dream of making music. https://youtube.com/playlist?l...;si=z5LknepLR87Rusp4
I bought both cars and I had picked up the flatcar with Martin guitars earlier; on the way to building a train for him. The boxcars are custom runs for Berwyns Toys and Trains

The Sun Records label on the box cars should really strike a note with him.

@pennsyfan posted:

These Nashville, Chattanooga and. St Louis Railway boxcars just arrived today. I was attracted to them because my Grandson Nick is in the music business in Nashville. He graduated as a sound engineer and is working as a sound engineer in Nashville; where he is following his dream of making music. https://youtube.com/playlist?l...;si=z5LknepLR87Rusp4
I bought both cars and I had picked up the flatcar with Martin guitars earlier; on the way to building a train for him. The boxcars are custom runs for Berwyns Toys and Trains

Great looking cars!

Just got this set.  Always wanted it

I just got this NIB Lionel 9510 Pennsylvania Combo Passenger/Baggage Car from the bay for a very nice price. It’ll be headed to the workshop soon for some upgrades as mentioned by @RSJB18 in this thread.

@texgeekboy posted:

I just got this NIB Lionel 9510 Pennsylvania Combo Passenger/Baggage Car from the bay for a very nice price. It’ll be headed to the workshop soon for some upgrades

Looks good. Can't wait to see your improvements.

Bob

@RSJB18 posted:

Looks good. Can't wait to see your improvements.

Bob

I'll second that emulsion

Jersey Central SD70 with a semi-gloss paint job. Fresh out of the orange box. Looks great.

Well, whadaya know? I was missing my now hard-to-find Williams Santa Fe ALCO ABA Fs (although the Santa Fe never operated Alco Fs, only  Ps), only to run onto them for sale on eBay, and all NIB, never run! The Williams Santa Fe ALCO FB units are extremely scarce now. But I was able to spot one, along with a couple of FAs from a different seller. Both were Buy it Now, so I counter-offered at an even lower price and won both for a song!

Oh, the simplicity of Williams diesels! 4 screws pop off the shell, then 1 motor mount screw releases each motor. Amazingly enough, there was still fresh, wet grease in the worm gear. But I added a little more and greased the external gears, along with oiling the axles and pickup rollers. Then added engineer and fireman figures to the cab of the lead unit and good to go. I had to switch back to conventional. But what a treat to see it run again, only this time pulling more modern Lionel cars.

This was my old set pulling Williams aluminum SF cars taken in 2018. Then I sold this train after I switched to all command control and ended up missing it when it sold. It was an all Williams train back then.

Here's the new engine set pulling a longer string of Lionel aluminum Santa Fe cars (except for the MTH Santa Fe express reefer). A Lionel TMCC Santa Fe F7 ABA set, with the lead A and B behind it both powered, since it's a longer train are what usually pulls my Super Chief. But the 2-motored conventional FA pulled the whole train without a whimper, just like in the old days. In fact, I had to slow it down so it wouldn't come off at the curves! I love the efficiency of Williams's bullet proof, stump-puller diesels!

So, it's nice to have the good old Williams ALCO Fs back. 😀

@Yellowstone Special….

I gotta tell ya. I’m a sucker for the Santa Fe Red and Silver/Chrome color combination. It just sparkles and looks SO elegant and top notch.

And FA’s in Santa Fe garb? How cool is that! You’re right…..I’ve seen quite a few PA1s but not FAs.

Thanks for sharing!

Thank you, Junior. I too, am a sucker for the Santa Fe warbonnets. Here's what usually pulls my Super Chief. But the Williams ALCOs are a fun change.

@Yellowstone Special posted:

Here's the new engine set pulling a longer string of Lionel aluminum Santa Fe cars (except for the MTH Santa Fe express reefer). A Lionel TMCC Santa Fe F7 ABA set, with the lead A and B behind it both powered, since it's a longer train are what usually pulls my Super Chief. But the 2-motored conventional FA pulled the whole train without a whimper, just like in the old days. In fact, I had to slow it down so it wouldn't come off at the curves! I love the efficiency of Williams's bullet proof, stump-puller diesels!

So, it's nice to have the good old Williams ALCO Fs back. 😀

Nice looking set Vern. I have several Williams and WbB engines and they are great runners. Re-wire the motors in series and you can eliminate the jack-rabbit starts.

Bob

Yes, they certainly did a nice job on these - just look at the detail: grab irons, hoses on the pilot, etc

Thank you, Bob and Sam. It’s good to have this set back after missing it for several years. 😉

Picked up these units recently from a train show and then the B unit (not pictured) from eBay. Now trying to find passenger cars. Would LOVE the K-Line midnight chiefs but cant afford eBay or Trainz prices for them.

Edit: I have no idea what cars are supposed to go with these Williams engines. If anyone knows, I would be very grateful for the information. I cant seem to find anything online.

Got these original unused Lionel wrappers rolled up in a tube with a couple of postwar steam engines at an antique swap last weekend, the instruction books came with it too. The guy said they had a bunch of tools and parts too which they forgot to bring so I think the person whose estate they bought may have been a dealer/service station at one time.

Newest arrival from the NYC office:

A near perfect match for these prewar passenger varnish cars! 

Once I repair/replace the 85+ year old wiring in the rolling stock, I'll actually be able to operate 'em under power! 

Mitch

I just received my MTH Triplex engine. Have been looking for one for a while now.

idea-tihnker

@idea-thinker posted:

I just received my MTH Triplex engine. Have been looking for one for a while now.

Nice! Scale or Railking? Either way you can go wrong!

@Junior posted:

Congratulations

@M. Mitchell Marmel posted:

Newest arrival from the NYC office:

A near perfect match for these prewar passenger varnish cars! 

Once I repair/replace the 85+ year old wiring in the rolling stock, I'll actually be able to operate 'em under power! 

Mitch

You just gotta love what that New York office does for the Razorback Traction Co.!

@coach joe posted:

You just gotta love what that New York office does for the Razorback Traction Co.!

You better believe it!   

Mitch

GOT MAIL ........

.......MTH Premier Pennsy bobber to run with the little 0-4-0

.........Lionel Heritage Southern to run with the 0-8-0.

Not that switchers need cabooses but.........

Did some painting on them and got rid of the shiny plastic look on the Southern with Krylon FLAT spray.

Nice job Dallas but I really like the bobber ; that’s going to look cool behind a switcher. Do the lanterns light?

Jay

Bought this 6-18056 back in December.  Original packaging never opened.  But as expected the gear box was totally locked up with dried lube.  Been cleaning it over the past couple weeks and this morning lubed, reassembled and to my surprise, no leftover fasteners.   She ran smooth after a couple minutes.

@Tranquil Hollow RR posted:

Nice job Dallas but I really like the bobber ; that’s going to look cool behind a switcher. Do the lanterns light?

Jay

Yes Jay. 

OEM was lit by two very  bright screw in incandescent bulbs but they were just near the center of the cab and the laterns only had residual light from them.  The interior was too bright for me and the laterns were too dull.    SO.............

..............The area by the laterns was pretty tight but I was able to point a couple prewired LEDs in their area.    I also put one LED in the area that the OEM bulb was located near the front of  the cab and painted the bulb with green Tamiya clear.

Have a great finish to this Saturday  Jay. 

@Dallas Joseph…..those lanterns look awesomely . Mind sharing where you got those? I have several cabooses that need sprucing up. They would look awesome on them!

@Junior posted:

@Dallas Joseph…..those lanterns look awesomely . Mind sharing where you got those? I have several cabooses that need sprucing up. They would look awesome on them!

I can't take any credit Junior.....the lanterns came with the little bobber.

   I don't know if they would end up on the MTH parts and sales site.   Maybe one of the auction sites might have them or possibly Trainz would have some on their parts pages.

Junior.......I put in "  O scale caboose marker lamps " and found some at different sites.  GOOD LUCK.   

@Dallas Joseph

Good job on the bobber, lighting looks great.

Not going to York doesn’t mean not picking up some goodies!!!

First up, a Lionel custom run GP30 from Grzyboski’s which I ordered last year. Looks sharp, runs well, sounds great!!!

Next, two custom run Lionel boxcars from the TCA. Not sure if these are fantasy or prototypical paint schemes, but they really stand out.

And, finally, since I was going to Gryzboski’s anyway, I browsed their website (shocking admission, isn’t it ) and found this NOS Lionel 18” Pennsy Commuter Coach from 2005. This will be the “last” piece of my mail train. When I first started investigating putting together a mail train, I was confused that some of the pics I found had a passenger coach at the tail end. I thought that it was for the post office employees, but thanks to a recent post from @GG1 4877, I learned that they were sometimes used as the original no frills fare (thanks Jonathan).

One more K-Line "I Love . . ." boxcar to add to my collection (K-515713):

Only three more to add from this series to make it complete.

I already have all seven from the series (K-641-7480n).

@coach joe posted:

@Dallas Joseph

Good job on the bobber, lighting looks great.

Thanks Joe.  Not as intense as some of the great work I see but it kept me busy for a day.

Paid my invoice for a MTH L&NE RS3 from Beth at PDT. Just need Mr.Brown to step on it now......😎

Ordered this engine in March '23...

@Apples55 I'm with you...one does not need York to add to the collection. 👍👍

Bob

I'll do you one better Bob, I finally got my MTH SD45 that I ordered in October 2022! Only my second diesel so while I was doing a quick functionality test, I thought I'd compared it to my Premier NYC heritage unit.

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Junior.......I put in "  O scale caboose marker lamps " and found some at different sites.  GOOD LUCK.   

Thanks @Dallas Joseph! You're a gentleman and a scholar!

@naresar posted:

I'll do you one better Bob, I finally got my MTH SD45 that I ordered in October 2022! Only my second diesel so while I was doing a quick functionality test, I thought I'd compared it to my Premier NYC heritage unit.

Is the new MTH / SD45 also a Premier sir ?

If so, what have you concluded in your comparison ? 

@Dallas Joseph, No this is the Railking version.  Now it is Railking Scale, which I understand is downgraded Premier tooling, but in any case, it has the correct proportions for scale engine just not as many fine details.  In the picture I posted, one of the more noticeable things is that you can see through the grills/radiators of the heritage unit but not the Conrail engine and the molded in ladders vs the Premier has those as separate bits.  However from a couple feet back (or when running I imagine), because the scale is correct it looks pretty good. And the price was about 2/3 that of a Premier locomotive, so overall I'm happy with it. I attached a couple more photos of the side by side and you can see that the SD45 is deffinitely more simplified detail.

My preferance is the Downgrade

@naresar posted:

@Dallas Joseph, No this is the Railking version.   

However from a couple feet back (or when running I imagine), because the scale is correct it looks pretty good. And the price was about 2/3 that of a Premier locomotive, so overall I'm happy with it. I attached a couple more photos of the side by side and you can see that the SD45 is deffinitely more simplified detail.

Thank you narsar.     Even though the compared diesels are not the same type nor the same livery I get a pretty good idea of the differences.   The RK version being " Scale " in size is an attractive choice.

Thank you for sharing.

My latest acquisition: Atlas custom run from Mr. Muffin.

This paint scheme was common on the EL Pocono Main when I was a kid. They were often used in pusher service out of Scranton. We used to think that the returning light engines were the RR cops because of the colors and the words RADIO EQUIPTED appeared on their flanks.   

@RSJB18 posted:

Paid my invoice for a MTH L&NE RS3 from Beth at PDT. Just need Mr.Brown to step on it now......😎

Ordered this engine in March '23...

@Apples55 I'm with you...one does not need York to add to the collection. 👍👍

Bob

No, you don’t need Mr. Brown to STEP on it, nor mistreat it in any other way!

@Mark V. Spadaro posted:

No, you don’t need Mr. Brown to STEP on it, nor mistreat it in any other way!

Hadn't thought of it that way Mark. Well said.

@Mark V. Spadaro posted:

No, you don’t need Mr. Brown to STEP on it, nor mistreat it in any other way!

I think he is saying to SPEED it up!

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Thank you narsar.     Even though the compared diesels are not the same type nor the same livery I get a pretty good idea of the differences.   The RK version being " Scale " in size is an attractive choice.

Thank you for sharing.

I got tired of bolt counter's decades ago.  I Took my HO GP to the Nevada Rail Museum, it must have been twenty years ago. and put it on a table.  lined it up with 844 several yards  away from the original  and then moved my camera to a point where they were the same size,  You had a hard time telling which was which

It all started with a search for a donor bay window caboose for a project. Didn’t have to be new. I won it for $12.50. Then I clicked on sellers other items. I found the BAR , and then the KMT MR, followed by 3 AMT cars. Average price for the 6 cars <$11.00. The caboose and BAR are mint.

@pennsyfan posted:

It all started with a search for a donor bay window caboose for a project. Didn’t have to be new. I won it for $12.50. Then I clicked on sellers other items. I found the BAR , and then the KMT MR, followed by 3 AMT cars. Average price for the 6 cars <$11.00. The caboose and BAR are mint.

It do work dat way, nice layout also

@Guttersnipe posted:

It do work dat way, nice layout also

Thank You!

Came in the mail today.    Not a lot but it will probably provide me with hours of fun doing light replacement , etc.,etc.

MTH Premier CNW baywindow caboose for my 0-8-0 switcher when she airs it out on the main line.

I discovered the mislabeling of my previous posting's photo. These, of course are F7s.

ET

@Apples55 so glad I could help out in providing some minimal information on PRR M&E trains!  The coach looks great.  Overall, I find these less common trains more fun to build than the name trains that we see so many versions of.  These were the workaday trains that made the railroads money while facing losses on traditional passenger service due to cars and planes and I think they are great to model.  Have fun with your new find!

My pre order from Legacy Station is here and my wife bought me the Trainworld Flying Tigers engine for my birthday.

Picked up these Mint/Boxed K Line reefers on the bay with an average price of $15.50. They have additional scale couplers, inserts to make product boxes and ice. Curiously the butter and egg one had an envelope full of pork carcass’. I always thought Maury made the best reefers.

You have to love the swinging pork.  A little difficult to get on those little hooks in the roof but definitely a nice load.

When I purchased that Williams Santa Fe ALCO F ABA set shown in a previous post, I couldn't pass up another NIB Williams ALCO Union Pacific AB set which I ended up getting for practically a steal on eBay.  The Union Pacific operated many of these for freight service back in the late 1940s and early 1950s. I have yet to install the cab crew, which arrives Friday, but was anxious to try it out and it performs beautifully. A welcome addition to my small Union Pacific engine fleet.

As @pennsyfan so aptly said after he purchased one car:

"Then I clicked on seller's other items."

Same thing happened a week ago. Bought a Lionel TCA aluminum car at a good price and then checked "seller's other items." Bought SIX more which arrived yesterday:

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NOTE: Car pictured is one I had on hand and is included to show the LIONEL TCA livery used for the seven-car set and give a sense of the size of the shipping box from Illinois Railway Museum store.

@pennsyfan posted:

Picked up these Mint/Boxed K Line reefers on the bay with an average price of $15.50. They have additional scale couplers, inserts to make product boxes and ice. Curiously the butter and egg one had an envelope full of pork carcass’. I always thought Maury made the best reefers.

SORRY Bob......I guess my eyesight isn't what it used to be..........I can't see the pork carcasses ! 

@Pingman posted:

As @pennsyfan so aptly said after he purchased one car:

"Then I clicked on seller's other items."

Same thing happened a week ago. Bought a Lionel TCA aluminum car at a good price and then checked "seller's other items." Bought SIX more which arrived yesterday:

NOTE: Car pictured is one I had on hand and is included to show the LIONEL TCA livery used for the seven-car set and give a sense of the size of the shipping box from Illinois Railway Museum store.

Seems like you’re trying to corner the market on those old TCA cars, Carl All kidding aside, I love the quality of the Lionel 15” and 18” aluminum cars… wish they’d go back to making them with led lighting and detailed interiors - they look so much better on smaller layouts.

@Apples55 posted:

Seems like you’re trying to corner the market on those old TCA cars, Carl All kidding aside, I love the quality of the Lionel 15” and 18” aluminum cars…wish they’d go back to making them with led lighting and detailed interiors - they look so much better on smaller layouts.

Agree with you 100%, Paul. 21" passenger cars look out of place on all but the largest of layouts.

As for cornering the market, that would take serious $$$ since the TCA aluminum cars are so prevalent on ebay. My stash includes roughly 3 complete sets minus the center mounted vista dome car. They make fantastic donors for paint projects. And even in original livery, they make for a very striking passenger train.

These 3 arrived from Trainz yesterday. They're my first Marx steam locos. A 999, and two 666s. The 999 moved a little but then it just buzzes so maybe it's the reverse unit. I'll try a little contact cleaner. The motor and wheels spin freely.

This 666 with double-reduction gearing ran as soon as I put it on the track and even started smoking - the good kind of smoke. I heard that Marx engines are good smokers and this is, with a nice chuffing to it. It's good and slow and it has a nice bright headlight.

This beautiful 666 with double reduction gearing only buzzed. I sprayed some contact cleaner up into the reverse unit and oiled it and it started running well and smoking but soon the front drive rods came loose because the sliding plate that connects to the drive rods to activate the chuffing smoke fell off. I have the 666 that does work so I'll have to compare them and figure out how to reposition that sliding piece and the drive rods.

These 3 engines together were only $59 as-is at Trainz. With my rewards points the three went down to less than $55 total so I think I got a great deal.
John

Here's the new crew installed in my recently purchased Williams Union Pacific ALCO FA-1 shown previously.

These purchases ARE NOT my fault… I blame @MELGAR for posting pictures of one of these cars on several occasions of late. With my known proclivity for things NYC, it didn’t take long for the voices to take over (and I know that they are MY voices since they speak fluent Brooklynese):

Me: that is an interesting and different NYC boxcar.

Voice #1: you really need one a deeze K-Line cars…

Voice #2: Yo!!! Lookee here - you really need one a dem MTH cars…

Voice #3: ya know… a pair a doze would look really great wit dat set of jade green E8’s…

Voice #4 (after browsing the OGR Forum): wow… Lionel made one too!!!

Me: I think it’s time for a couple of adult beverages

@Apples55 posted:

These purchases ARE NOT my fault… I blame @MELGAR for posting pictures of one of these cars on several occasions of late. With my known proclivity for things NYC, it didn’t take long for the voices to take over (and I know that they are MY voices since they speak fluent Brooklynese):

Me: that is an interesting and different NYC boxcar.

Voice #1: you really need one a deeze K-Line cars…

Voice #2: Yo!!! Lookee here - you really need one a dem MTH cars…

Voice #3: ya know… a pair a doze would look really great wit dat set of jade green E8’s…

Voice #4 (after browsing the OGR Forum): wow… Lionel made one too!!!

Me: I think it’s time for a couple of adult beverages

Do doze cars come in Lawn-guiland???

🥃🥃🥃😁

Found these at the TCA York show. I was looking for the Vista Dome and the Reading & Northern was one I stumbled upon. Had to have it.

@poconotrain posted:

Found these at the TCA York show. I was looking for the Vista Dome and the Reading & Northern was one I stumbled upon. Had to have it.

Nice catch,  looks like a start of a name train

Snagged this handsome Mikado on 'the bay' last week. First PS3 MTH steamer.  Impressive.

@Apples55 posted:

These purchases ARE NOT my fault… I blame @MELGAR for posting pictures of one of these cars on several occasions of late. With my known proclivity for things NYC, it didn’t take long for the voices to take over (and I know that they are MY voices since they speak fluent Brooklynese):

Me: that is an interesting and different NYC boxcar.

Voice #1: you really need one a deeze K-Line cars…

Voice #2: Yo!!! Lookee here - you really need one a dem MTH cars…

Voice #3: ya know… a pair a doze would look really great wit dat set of jade green E8’s…

Voice #4 (after browsing the OGR Forum): wow… Lionel made one too!!!

Me: I think it’s time for a couple of adult beverages

Ah, the beauty of "hobby logic" Brooklyn-style.

@c.sam posted:

Snagged this handsome Mikado on 'the bay' last week. First PS3 MTH steamer.  Impressive.

Beautiful engine and trestle, too.

Sam,  That is a sharp Mikado.

I was trolling around on Trainz last week and my wife saw me admiring a Prince Albert reefer.  This past Monday it arrived.  It was very dirty, I mean filthy.  I disassembled the car and my bride cleaned it up.  So here is my first billboard reefer.  I'm going to let her see me looking at more reefers.

Bill

Your bride did an excellent job cleaning your purchase  Bill.

That is one sharp billboard reefer sir.

@Odenville Bill posted:

Sam,  That is a sharp Mikado.

I was trolling around on Trainz last week and my wife saw me admiring a Prince Albert reefer.  This past Monday it arrived.  It was very dirty, I mean filthy.  I disassembled the car and my bride cleaned it up.  So here is my first billboard reefer.  I'm going to let her see me looking at more reefers.

Bill

Sir, I dare say a double congratulations are in order

York purchases - cars.

Locomotives purchased at York.  The 0-6-0 is a rare Revell HO engine.

The parts were bought and the car was assembled.  Marx never made a Rock Island auto loader.  But the auto loader frame fits any flat car that's the same length. . .so Rock Island work caboose - work caboose body + auto loader = Rock Island auto loader.

That i one of the very best parts of being a model railroader, making things work that didn't before, congratulations

@Apples55 posted:

These purchases ARE NOT my fault… I blame @MELGAR for posting pictures of one of these cars on several occasions of late. With my known proclivity for things NYC, it didn’t take long for the voices to take over (and I know that they are MY voices since they speak fluent Brooklynese):

Me: that is an interesting and different NYC boxcar.

Voice #1: you really need one a deeze K-Line cars…

Voice #2: Yo!!! Lookee here - you really need one a dem MTH cars…

Voice #3: ya know… a pair a doze would look really great wit dat set of jade green E8’s…

Voice #4 (after browsing the OGR Forum): wow… Lionel made one too!!!

Me: I think it’s time for a couple of adult beverages

Does are definitely your voices.  I think you may have already had an adult beverage or two.

@c.sam posted:

Snagged this handsome Mikado on 'the bay' last week. First PS3 MTH steamer.  Impressive.

That green and gold is always impressive.

Found the demonstration sample of the Raleigh, NC Boylan tower for sale at a recent show.

I have the kit, but this saved a lot of work, and I'm sure is a better job than I could have done.  If you look real close in the second window, you can see the interlocking levers.

Well folks, I could not find a specific place to post these since "gondolas" seem to be somewhat forgotten.  I like them mostly for their varied livery which given their straight length, is usually well displayed.  So I acquired these 2 recently.

The first is an "oldie", Tuscan brown with type G trucks, the Marx Canadian Pacific drop end gondola is from 1957.  Saved from a box under the table at a train show for $10 it was too good a buy to pass up.  IMHO in great shape for 67 years old.

At the opposite end of the age scale, this Lionel (MPC), Lionel Lines, gondola is from 1984 (but was uncatalogued).  I purchased it really just because I liked the livery with the orange / dark blue design and the prominent Lionel logo.  I also liked that it came with blue canisters, which I had not seen before, and I thought they looked cool.

Well those are my most recent "finds"...Best Wishes

Don

@coach joe posted:

Does are definitely your voices.  I think you may have already had an adult beverage or two.

I resemble that remark, Joe. Sláinte!!!

Very nice Don,  The CP is in great shape.  I like that Lionel livery.  Every now and then I start searching a variety of cars in the orange and blue but never pull the trigger because I've got no room for them.

"Proste!" Paul.

@Don McErlean posted:

Well folks, I could not find a specific place to post these since "gondolas" seem to be somewhat forgotten.  I like them mostly for their varied livery which given their straight length, is usually well displayed.  So I acquired these 2 recently.

The first is an "oldie", Tuscan brown with type G trucks, the Marx Canadian Pacific drop end gondola is from 1957.  Saved from a box under the table at a train show for $10 it was too good a buy to pass up.  IMHO in great shape for 67 years old.

At the opposite end of the age scale, this Lionel (MPC), Lionel Lines, gondola is from 1984 (but was uncatalogued).  I purchased it really just because I liked the livery with the orange / dark blue design and the prominent Lionel logo.  I also liked that it came with blue canisters, which I had not seen before, and I thought they looked cool.

Well those are my most recent "finds"...Best Wishes

Don

Ahh the humble gondola.....

Nice cars Don.

Power company took the grid down for my neighborhood for some maintenece today, so I decided to drop by my local train store to just browse... I ended up walking out of there with 2 Atlas O freight cars that will go perfectly with my steam engines, one of which I was on the hunt for a number of years.. A... I cannot say the name of it or I might get banned 11,000 gallon tank car. The other car was this nice Union Pacific steel box car.

particularly like the Tank car

@coach joe & @RSJB18 -  Thank you both for the compliments.

Best Wishes

Don

I bought this great looking Lionel scale B&O Hudson from Vince's Trains at the recent York show.  

Earlier during York week on Tuesday my MTH B&O Fairbanks - Morse H-10-44 arrived from Mr. Muffin's Trains.   I love the sound of this locomotive.

@MichaelB posted:

Power company took the grid down for my neighborhood for some maintenece today, so I decided to drop by my local train store to just browse... I ended up walking out of there with 2 Atlas O freight cars that will go perfectly with my steam engines, one of which I was on the hunt for a number of years.. A... I cannot say the name of it or I might get banned 11,000 gallon tank car. The other car was this nice Union Pacific steel box car.

Nice tank car, I haven’t seen those graphics before. I bought a tank car with that name on line. The seller lived a town over from my son. He said he would drop it off. The next day I got this text from him. “ I just dropped the Hooker off at your Son’s house”. 😱

Fantastic engines, Patrick W/Trumptrain -- especially that Hudson.  And, as always they look great on your amazingly detailed layout. Thanks for posting.

Tomlinson Run Railroad

@pennsyfan posted:

Nice tank car, I haven’t seen those graphics before. I bought a tank car with that name on line. The seller lived a town over from my son. He said he would drop it off. The next day I got this text from him. “ I just dropped the Hooker off at your Son’s house”. 😱

Speaking of Hooker...chemicals. I picked up these K-line diecast hoppers with real Coal Loads! I added an etd to the end one. I have what I consider one of the unicorn engines I'd been hunting for. An Atlas high hood Wheeling and Lake Erie gp35. It's nice to have something local that I see time to time hauling freight.

@trumpettrain posted:

I bought this great looking Lionel scale B&O Hudson from Vince's Trains at the recent York show.

Earlier during York week on Tuesday my MTH B&O Fairbanks - Morse H-10-44 arrived from Mr. Muffin's Trains.   I love the sound of this locomotive.

Patrick- love the Hudson, she's a beauty!

The paint on the H10 looks funky....not sure if it's just oil from when you lubed it but you may want to take a look.

Bob

I picked up this promotional set. Town House Appliances; 79-1658-212. 8902 plastic steam engine with an Atlantic Coast Line Slope Back Tender; 7931 TownHouse Appliances boxcar, and Atlantic Coast Line Caboose. The set is  C-9, the box is P-2.

@Apples55 posted:

At least your son got it, I live in a gated community, and I think every one of My neighbors have come to my door with some mis-delivered piece of equipment, I think I've got everything but God only knows

@trumpettrain posted:

I bought this great looking Lionel scale B&O Hudson from Vince's Trains at the recent York show.  

Earlier during York week on Tuesday my MTH B&O Fairbanks - Morse H-10-44 arrived from Mr. Muffin's Trains.   I love the sound of this locomotive.

Love the steamer, but glad in real life I wasn't part of the cleanup crew.

Just picked up the Atlas O Premier Penn Central E-8 from Just Trains.Very sharp locomotive.

@Guttersnipe posted:

Love the steamer, but glad in real life I wasn't part of the cleanup crew.

I'd keep the cleanup crew away from that area G. ..........that's part of the CHARM of Patrick's scenery 

Funny, I have been seeing several Detroit and Mackinac freight cars. This RS3 recently delivered through  forum sponsor Public Delivery Track just got on my tracks but has not been operated as yet. Figured as I was now living in Michigan I needed to pick up a "local" road name.   

@Dallas Joseph posted:

I'd keep the cleanup crew away from that area G. ..........that's part of the CHARM of Patrick's scenery 

Good man you run your railroad Like i run mine, just the way I like it, prototypical or not

Thanks to ebay's "saved search" function, this K-line Rear Door for 15" aluminum NP NCL observation car appeared in my inbox:

With luck and a bit of modification it may fit my LIONEL observation car -- worst case the drumhead will be removed and attached to a stock Lionel door with mods to accommodate it -- bought 3 of the doors just in case.

If it does fit, it will be a major improvement over the Tomar Industries drumhead assembly that has had my attention lately. The sign is at the test fit stage with lighting and it's not very satisfactory: poor fit and hot spot illumination (which was expected).  Contacting Tomar about the size of the film -- it's a bit too large for the supplied housing. (See thumbnails below.)

4/29 UPDATE: Used their website message feature and received an immediate reply to phone them. The nice lady at the other end mentioned that some S gauge sized castings for the drumhead had been sent out which turned out to be my problem. Sending a brand-new kit with the larger O scale casting immediately. Fabulous customer service. Props to Tomar Industries.

@RSJB18 posted:

Patrick- love the Hudson, she's a beauty!

The paint on the H10 looks funky....not sure if it's just oil from when you lubed it but you may want to take a look.

Bob

I’m guessing it’s a smoke fluid bleed over; not quite a BLEVE.

I bought this at the Northeast large scale train show Saturday. It’s my first piece of rolling stock by K Line. It looks like it was catalogued in 2003 and was never removed from the box. It has an excellent build quality like a MTH Premier. I couldn’t pass up the deal I got.

Gene

@Genemed posted:

I bought this at the Northeast large scale train show Saturday. It’s my first piece of rolling stock by K Line. It looks like it was catalogued in 2003 and was never removed from the box. It has an excellent build quality like a MTH Premier. I couldn’t pass up the deal I got.

Gene

And it won't be you last.........

They made great stuff.

@RSJB18 posted:

And it won't be you last.........

They made great stuff.

It opened up a new door for me when I’m on the Trainz site browsing. Now when I see a K Line I like, I’ll at least know the build quality is excellent.

Gene