The local toy train dealer here received 80-boxes of "stuff" Mon. or Tue. It was not until Thursday to they got to my PRR Cabin car Lionel 6-82629.
This is a quick snap taken with old pocket camera. After looking at the pic posted on the "weekend" thread saw something which will start a separate post on later.
Ron
Just received my MTH New Haven C-liner.
Coffee this morning is going into one of these. Lionel 115th Anniversary Mug
That's cool, I'll have to find one of those!
Dropped by my LHS on Saturday and he was having a blow out sale on Atlas O Trainman RSD4/5 decorated for St Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt) in Black Widow. At $149.95 I could not resist and bought one. It has the same horn and bell as a basic Williams Diesel. No prime mover sounds. It has the same excellent level of detail as other Atlas engines and runs great!!!!
Rolland
Picked up these gems at Trainfest this weekend. Wish I had more time to visit all of the other sellers as well. There were a lot of nice items to be had!!
1. OGR's DVD
2. Police and thug from Scenic Express
3. City beggar from Model Tech Studios
4. Gas meters, fire alarms, water hoses and electric panel from Model Tech Studios
Picked up these gems at Trainfest this weekend. Wish I had more time to visit all of the other sellers as well. There were a lot of nice items to be had!!
1. OGR's DVD
2. Police and thug from Scenic Express
3. City beggar from Model Tech Studios
4. Gas meters, fire alarms, water hoses and electric panel from Model Tech Studios
...
BigTruckPete, Apparently, you sure know how to make a vibrant scene. The figures might be static, but the whole ensemble you have crafted is full of life. It takes just a bit of imagination sprinkled onto the whole experience by a viewer to make it seem realistic and in motion. Cool stuff, that. IMHO.
FrankM.
The train show on Sunday yielded a number of 2 rail O antiques. Because I wasn't able to resist, I'm now up to my brass in winter projects. Both are kits from unknown manufacturers. The Atlantic is sheet brass whereas the Mikado has a cast brass boiler. Both have identical short tenders of sheet brass and branded Canadian Northern.
I'll save the other brass purchase for SWSAT.
Bruce
Look good. Got my Lionel 253 today from a forum member. A little cleaning and some lube and runs nice behind a mix of pre and post war metal passenger cars.
Bruce the two engines look great!!
Jim,
Sounds like another great purchase from a forum member!
86, whos are those?
This thing right here!
Thanks, I drooled over yours for a long time prior to finding these! Can't tell you how many time I watched your youtube video of it.
86, whos are those?
OMI. 1991 Run. Never out of box until I bought them. I just couldn't help myself! 
Those are nice
I don't have it in hand yet but I just ordered the Sauerkraut factory from Menards So hopefully later today I will run down there to get it....................Paul
A 1940's Gilbert American Flyer HO Hudson with smoke and Choo Choo, still looking for a rear coupler for it. Any help would be appreciated.
I can help with cars to go with it, or rear coupler. I have some AF HO that I need to ditch.
Got my package from Scenic Express so now I can keep adding more shrubs. Plus a few other things...................Paul
Forum member Lancer replied to my WTB post for GG Phantom flex track. A couple of emails, Paypal, and USPS Priority mail and voila, 10 new sections of track arrived today for this year's Christmas layout. Thanks, Lancer.
This thing right here!
Another addition to the pile of projects is this Central Locomotive Works GP35. I get to rework the last owners attempt at soldering. He removed some of the excess solder with a small grinder, taking any underlying brass detail along with it. There's already about 3 hours work put into filing away slop and defects. A bind in a gearbox on one truck also needs attention. It'll probably go back in the box for now.
Bruce
...He removed some of the excess solder with a small grinder, taking any underlying brass detail along with it.
Bruce
I love it when people do that!
Just received these this week, two of set of eight. They would make interesting flat car loads. At least temporarily until maybe I can find one or two extra ones.
Ron
Thanks, I drooled over yours for a long time prior to finding these! Can't tell you how many time I watched your youtube video of it.
86, whos are those?
OMI. 1991 Run. Never out of box until I bought them. I just couldn't help myself!
Some few years ago there were two of the Pennsy trailers parked on an old Bessemer & Lake Erie branch line. I got photos but don't know what happened to them.
Eric
Not bad for diecast engines.
I guess the brass versions are really nice
Some few years ago there were two of the Pennsy trailers parked on an old Bessemer & Lake Erie branch line. I got photos but don't know what happened to them.
I'd like to have seen those.
I can help with cars to go with it, or rear coupler. I have some AF HO that I need to ditch.
How do I contact you about the HO cars?
Score! The Pirates win the World Series!
I bought this the other day just because I like the paint scheme.
Score! The Pirates win the World Series!
Excellent, Dan!! At that time I was so young, the only Pirates player's name I knew was MAZ!!!
I think, myself and another guy were the only two county workers working that day. We had gone out to inspect dairy farms and came back to Pittsburgh almost at the end of the game. There wasn't another car or any persons moving around. It was strange then Maz hit his home run.
Off the chart man, off the chart....
Hi Erik
Sorry to misspell your name.
I was just kidding about the engines. They are magnificent.
Wish I had the money to pick up those beauties!
I bought this the other day just because I like the paint scheme.
My Menards sauerkraut plant (converted to a pickle plant) needs support, so in
addition to building a cannery, I found today a Lionel pickle car, and have tracked
down an Atlas ART reefer. (ART reefers were used in quantity to move vegetables
produced along the San Luis Southern, one remote, hardscrabble railroad!, in south central Colorado, where I envision my pickle plant and cannery will get their cucumbers)
Picked up a clean Lionel 2343 Santa Fe F3 pair at the Danville, IN show today, then some very clean Lionel tubular track and a Plasticville union station that was complete and nicely assembled from Train Central in Indianapolis. Been also slowly aquiring some 2 rail equipment for a future project I may build, for good ol circle L is firmly entrenched at my house. Mike
there's no cure for the infection....nice set!
Maybe not a cure Dave... but fleapay can sure placate the urges...
Ted
Nice. I really enjoy running my oldies.
I picked up post war set 1485WS ( still waiting for it to come in) original set box, all pieces have original boxes, including the transformer, original papers everything. and it looked other than a 6264 gondola lightly used the gondola some how got some rust on one set of trucks but I have at least 4 of those so no problem there. 2025 with 6466W, 6264 as stated, 6465, 6257 plus track and transformer.
Lionel 115th Anniversary Neon Pub Clock.
Just received this from MTH's stock but cataloged in 2000.
It will be the basis for a project. A project that I tried to interest one of the VP's at MTH in going back to email of 2008. In fact when Mike Wolf was here for the NS Heritage Event I started discussing it, he seemed to like it so much he kept finishing my sentences. But over 3-years later still no catalog joy. So I will make my own! The artwork will be the pain.
Ron
went to a local show with my Dad today. Picked up a Plasticville radio station, and a Log Cabin, to be The Log Cabin Train Shop (anyone remember Bill Trushell?), both $5 each, because they were....glued (gasp!)
and a NYC red gondola for $10, and the dealer tossed in the street light (Kramer IIRC) for free, to go with the other one I found last year.
then when we got back to the car, and Dad opened the trunk, he said this was mine.
I had spotted a bunch of 6" Marx I meant to look over before I left and pick up some...but I forgot about it..
Added another car to my McCoy TPC Circus string.
Steve
now that's a cowinkiedink! I was just watching Trains & Locomotives, and it was on the C&NW 1385 and the Circus Trains.
I received a gift of something that every train room needs. A copper and brass spitoon. The flowers were a nice touch with the gift.
I got a electric uncoupler and a 90 degree crossover for .99 cents on Fleabay.
Plus $4.00 shipping.
I consider it in league with the Louisiana Purchase or the buying of Manhatten Island.
Sigh....they didn't pay shipping.
Oh, forgot: 027 ga.
Yesterday my scenic express came and today my Atlas Ice station arrived from Charles Ro...........Paul
Picked up a Lionel prewar gunmetal 225e at a local charity thrift store for $11.00.
Runs great after cleaning the motor and e-unit. Missing rear truck and tender but looking for the parts is the fun part for me.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone
franktrain
Gentlemen,
I finally picked up the 2 Weaver, made in the USA WAG Box Cars I have been trying to add to my WAG Logging Train, I am real happy with the colors and the detailing of these early WAG Weaver Box Cars. I also picked up another MTH Christmas Box Car to add to my Christmas Box Car Train. I really like these particular Christmas Cars with the Christ Child pictured on them. Also picked up an Atlas Premier Steam era PRR Insulated Box Car, that I also really like, details and colors are very nice.
PCRR/Dave
I live in Bullhead City, AZ. We have as many hobby shops here as polar bears.
So I'm going to travel 1 1/2 hours to Las Vegas, NV, Saturday, Dec. 5th to order my National TrainDay boxcar from Lionel.
The Train Engineer is one of the closest dealers there. That's where I'm headed.
Anyone else going to order one? They're really nice looking cars.
Pittsrailfan,
You got to love those Billy Maz MTH Commerative Box Cars, now that sir is a real nice pick up. Billy Maz the Greatest 2nd Baseman in Major League Baseball history,
nobody even close to his almost zero error record producing numerous golden gloves and the twin killing, double play records. The 1st time with my Swissvale buddy Dick Groat at Shortstop, and the all time double play record with Gene Alley at Shortstop, which will never ever be broken again in major league history. I wish MTH would make a Dick Groat Box Car also. It would be sitting right next to Maz's.
PCRR/Dave
Picked up a Lionel prewar gunmetal 225e at a local charity thrift store for $11.00.
Runs great after cleaning the motor and e-unit. Missing rear truck and tender but looking for the parts is the fun part for me.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone
franktrain
that's a great find! I rebuilt mine from a bare shell, and made my own tender.the parts hunt is fun.
I have a bare shell 2026 type, painted the shell to look like a Southern engine Still building it up, need mech, pilot, tender, trucks and the like.
Steamer,
Your 225E with the tender you made is an impressive piece of O Gauge PW Train work.
You might want to break down how you did the tender, especially the matching Gun Metal Paint job for franktrain, got to admit this is one piece of serious PW 225E engine & Tender, infact if it were mine, I would have Guns put a ERR unit in her, for slow speed remote control running.
PCRR/Dave
be sure to share pics of that one Classico.
well thanks guys. just a bunch of junk box parts. The frame is a Prewar tank car frame, a hunk of PVC pipe, and the front half of a 2046 tender shell.found a pair of six axle trucks on da bay. the paint is Rust Oleum another forum member recommended.
and none of that newfangled electronics for this 225E.... she runs great as is.
I've got another 225E shell (gunmetal too) I've thought about rebuilding, but it is missing a chunk in the window area.
I went to the TCA meet up in Cleveland today. It is the third time I have gone. Usually I just walk through and nothing catches my eye. Today was different. Found a Weaver tank car (kit form ) already put together. What made it unique for me was being from western New York Stauffer Chemicals. I use to drive by this plant everyday to work. So I had to have it. A couple of pics..............Paul
Gentlemen,
Just made another deal on a NIB Weaver Masonic Train to add to my Train Collection, thanks to the OGR, ya got to love this fantastic OGR forum. A new OGR member contacted me recently, after reading my old Masonic Train Thread, we came to an agreement and now I will have a 2nd Complete Masonic Train, so I can run a Double Header Masonic Train with 3 fantastic Shriner Cabooses this Christmas season. Thanks to Mark Liss who lives here in Pa, for supplying the NIB Weaver Masonic Train. Eventually I will have Guns (GunrunnerJohn) upgrade the new unused Masonic Train, with ERR to run with my Legacy controls. What a fantastic Christmas this will be for us, a Lionel/Hallmark Santa Train and now an additional NIB Weaver Masonic Train, yep I am a very happy OGR member.
PCRR/Dave
Bought a nice looking K-Line switcher today. Paid $65.00 at The Train Engineer in Las Vegas.
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It's a nice place to shop. Janet and Martin own it,been there 22 years.
They actually care. And that's a rare thing nowadays/
Bought a nice looking K-Line switcher today. Paid $65.00 at The Train Engineer in Las Vegas.
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It's a nice place to shop. Janet and Martin own it,been there 22 years.
They actually care. And that's a rare thing nowadays/
Bought a nice looking K-Line switcher today. Paid $65.00 at The Train Engineer in Las Vegas.
http://extraimago.com/images/2015/12/05/DSCF0614.jpg
It's a nice place to shop. Janet and Martin own it,been there 22 years.
They actually care. And that's a rare thing nowadays/
Bought a MTH Proto 2.0 19th century ten Wheeler and 8 19th century cars for $320.00. Just a steal and a hell of a deal. Now I have 3 ten Wheelers in total
Picked up another scale-wheeled Proto-2 CNW C40-8 Narrow Nose Diesel at a really good price. I've been looking for one for some time since I like to run my scale-wheeled units in pairs with longer trains.
Not model RR related but I've been looking for one of these for a very long time:
It's a British-made, American-used civilian war correspondent patch from WW2. I collect stuff of that nature and this is an insanely-tough patch to find: http://www.freewebs.com/willysmb44/warco.htm
Hi I recently bought the Lionel 6-38050 Nickel Plate Road Berkshire 2-8-4 Steam Engine in like perfect new condition. After seeing Alex repair of one that had stopping and starting issues and once he repaired it and I saw how beautifully it looked and sounded I found this one and it is a gorgeous scale engine, can't wait to run it but will check it out first before powering it up.
What a beautiful engine, with terrific sound qualities !
Alan
Found this on the front step yesterday
My Menards burned-down engine house arrived. Now to build a scenery module for the modular layout.... pics later.
Gilly@N&W posted:My Menards burned-down engine house arrived. Now to build a scenery module for the modular layout.... pics later.
Eager to see, but take your time and have fun, of course.
FrankM.
Matt Makens posted:Found this on the front step yesterday
I got mine as well and see you posted pictures. It is a great looking engine, the lights are fantastic and the smoke pours out. Glad that I got it. Also liked your dog being apart of it, makes it more fun.
That little dog is so much fun to have. More fun than trains. I have to say, I like it a lot more than I though I would, it really is a nice train. The lights really make it pop. I actually bought 2, now Im going to get a few of the O-Line Repro Cancer Cure cars to pull with them
Matt, your rotten little dog is the way.
Yesterday I assembled a READING passenger train to operate on my OUTER mainline loop. It was a "long" READING Trainmaster and five coaches. Wife Suzie also wanted a freight train, so I assembled one with about nine cars including a nice GN caboose. This train is pulled by a Northern Pacifific SD9 type. Runs on the INNER mainline loop.
On the passing siding, which branches off the INNER loop and ties back in at the other end of the layout, I installed another 022 switch and ran the track by the Greyhound Depot and tied it to a stub of an 022 switch at the other end of the layout that I had never completed. This is known as the "Nicole Loop", named after the 19-year old neighbor across the street who took her shoes off and climbed up on to the layout and carefully walked, mostly kneeled, and completed the track work for this loop. I could not reach this area! This girl is great. She knows how to lay Lionel track. Maybe I could "hire" her out to you guys. (grin) She's cute too and going to Nursing School.
Anyway, I put track bumpers across both ends of this loop, at least temporarily, and when I run the freight and passenger trains in opposite directions, a "Merry Christmas" trolley from MTH, strides back and forth around this loop.
I haven't worked diligently on this layout as I was doing before. There is a lot to be doing including wiring. More signal work, including proposed automatic control. A second level too, but we must finish the first level before anything else. This includes ties, ballast, and ground cover. Suzie has a huge collection of old Plasticville structures but it will take time to piece them together.
I know--you guys want pictures.. Hang in there !!
KRK
My 3rd Rail F7's came in a few days ago. I do need to do some work on them, as I'm not thrilled about a couple of things.
SANTIAGOP23 posted:My 3rd Rail F7's came in a few days ago. I do need to do some work on them, as I'm not thrilled about a couple of things.
First off, by these pictures they look great! Secondly, I am sure when you are finished with them they will look even better. I'm looking forward to the video.
Marc
Bought some sweet telephone wire to wire my switches.
GG1 2340 posted:Bought some sweet telephone wire to wire my switches.
I need to kick myself. I never thought of that. I have spools of line lying around. Thanks for sharing.
I just bought a 1000' spool of 22 ga security wire of the bay for $45 to wire my switches. Took everything off track power last month. Plus I got a hug box of 6 pole terminal blocks to wire up switches with. Once I connect the MTH AIU's and the Lionel SC-2 Ill need multiple terminals on each switch
Lately, I've been building up a space/military consist. I have my childhood helicopter car and missile launching car, but rarely had them on the layout. So, I decided to add to it......submarine car, minuteman launcher car, Mercury Atlas rocket/parachute car and a searchlight car. But I needed an appropriate engine to pull it. So, I looked for and found, a 44 missile launching engine. Pictures and a short video below. I thought it would take my usual two days or so to get it in good cosmetic and mechanical running shape. Ran into problems and it took a week, but I'm very pleased with it now. I had to get the launching mechanism working (it's foam pad was dust). Problems with the front truck. Found a perfect match for the paint for the touchups (they are invisible). But mainly, it was a traction problem. The motor is pretty powerful, but there's not enough weight over the power truck to keep it from slipping it's wheels at startup. So, with strategically placed lead ingots and crushed pieces of 1/4 inch lead wire glued to the frame and shell, the problem was solved (there's about a 1/2 lb of weight in there now....see pics) . I also drilled out the fake headlights and installed 2 5mm LEDs. Works terrific.
Roger
I just bought this 1999 Lionel Postwar Celebration Series Texas Special F3 A-B set. Aka this is the one with that lovely, awesome horn.
Towercom: Texas Special 2245 Take the Green! 
Got home from the Pgh TCA show with some 'treasures" and money left over-which was good. There was a decent crowd but as noon approached it thinned out. saw a lot of neat stuff, some ridicuously high prices and some decent ones, too. Only bought one engine, a Standard gauge #8e, that was restored. I now have two so one will sacrifice its motor soon. Got a nice signal bridge plus a couple of target signals. It was a fun time.
In my quest to look for certain Weaver cars I was able to get these three flats with trailers from north of the border, 1 three rail and 2 two rail. I'll have to work on the two rail I found out they don't track well through my Ross switches and unfortunately the scale couplers won't couple to the three rail couplers. A few pics...............Paul
Picked this up at the last York; just now getting around to photographing it. It was the last one at the LCCA booth.
As some of you know, I've been looking for this Lionel LCCA convention car for a couple of years (at a reasonable price). Was still a bit expensive, but worth it.
Cap, I got a couple of them last year n I love em. One of my favorite cars
CAPPilot posted:Picked this up at the last York; just now getting around to photographing it. It was the last one at the LCCA booth....As some of you know, I've been looking for this Lionel LCCA convention car for a couple of years ...
It's interesting to me that your camouflaged car seems, even 
here, to blend into the background. Cool.
I just purchased my first kit from River Leaf Models, the F.W. Woolworth Co 5 & 10 building. Looks like it will be fun kit to build and will look good in downtown New Beau City. I'll post some pics when it arrives and when completed. Bo
Another Weaver car mark off my list of wants. At a Tuesday night get together for train running I was able to get from a guy who was a distributor for Weaver another wood chip hopper with load. A pic of my buy..................Paul
Legacy #990 is will be delivered tomorrow.
Not lately, since Sunday at the TCA show but I am on the hunt !!
Steamboy
Have to agree with you --- horn is awesome
Everyone in the house hears it 
The other day, I found this book at a second hand book store for the price of a magazine. Been wanting a copy for years...
The irony was I actually was within 20 feet of Link for the better part of an hour once, in a railroad yard several years ago, and I didn't know that had been him until the following day after he'd long gone. It still kills me to know I was that close and didn't know I was standing next to arguably the greatest railroad photographer who ever lived.
Bought my first prewar Lionel trains a few days ago on the forum, they'll probably be here tomorrow.
A Lionel Postwar A-A 205 ALCO set yesterday. Hope they are as nice in the flesh as they looked in the pictures.
Also got a milk car and 3 of my favorite cars, the 2 bay hoppers Lionel made in the 1950's. Thanks to all the friendly peeps on the forum lol.
Have two items on the way from forum members-an SP baggage car and a 2055 engine, both Lionel. The forum has become my favorite buying site this year.
I bought a LionChief Hallmark Santa Train Set for my wife. I just finished wrapping it for Christmas. 
She fell in live with it when she saw it at the Hallmark store, then I showed her the videos Hallmark has online. She thinks we are passing it by. She will love it running on one track and the Polar Express on the other! I was seriously considering breaking down and buying the Premier PS3 Western Maryland H9, my favorite railroad. I was looking at it at Mercer Junction a month ago, and I checked earlier this week to learn Dave still has some. I was feeling guilty about the cost. It's twice what I ever paid for an engine. After I decided to by the Santa set, I felt better! 
I'll buy a used H9 when they come out with PS4 and one of you fellows puts a PS3 H9 up for sale.
My wife is going to kill me. Not only did I just pick up Legacy. I just reserved Lionel's new ESE Hudson. Boy am I going to the dog house. Oh yeah, MTH WIU is on the way
I bought an MTH non-powered NS Heritage Virginian SD-70ACe to add to my NS Heritage collection from Aaron's City Trains going out of business sale a couple of weeks or so ago. Brings the count up 13. I also bought a couple of Atlas coil cars via eBay. Nucor and CSI were two I acquired.
Merry Christmas
Larry
I picked up a good ZW which I am using on my Standard gauge loop of track on the floor. Really does a good job, better than the smaller transformer. Sent $$ for a box of vintage Lionel engines today so I am done doing my Xmas shopping. Merry Xmas to everyone !!
I saw that box of steamers...nice score Jim!
The big brown truck just dropped this off this morning. Excuse the mess, under destruction.
Steve
I know you saw it and were interested in a few. Which ones ?? E-mail me at: panzerjames@gmail.com. It will be a little while until I get them and look them over.
Today I went to Charles Ro and came home with the new Lionel ESE and a FEC ES44AC. My Christmas present to myself.
Yep. I have to send a thank-you E-mail to Midge and Andy at MTH for taking my suggestion to heart. My scale-wheeled Big Boy arrived Monday and I ran some track inspection tests at the club tonight. It found several bad spots, but it did negotiate 36" radius (O-72) curves, including a Ross turnout. It ran very smoothly with very good sounds. Can't wait until the prototype is operational and MTH makes a sound file from it. I'm going to put a Kadee on the rear and bring it back down Saturday, but the uneven spots in our track really drive this one nuts, so it will (for now) only make brief appearances at the club, but I know a couple of layouts where it should run nicely.
Very Good looking engine.
I added the 2 rail LC&G 44 tonner by Malcolm to my roster a week or so ago. Sweet!!!
Mark C beat me to it. Just picked up my MTH WIFI yesterday. I'll hook it up soon...
Andy
Here is the new Lionel LEGACY N&W Pocahontas passenger set:
An SP Full-Length Vista Dome Car to complete the Daylight consist:
Here are some Polar Railroad freight cars:
Another car for the Super Chief:
We have a Big Mo trailer to put on train shows!
My amazing wife got me this Jim Jordan print for Christmas, one of the few prints made for the RR I model!
It's about 2X3 feet (you can see the lantern to the right, and to the left is a White Pass & Yukon RR rail slice, to hold it down from the rolled condtion) , so now I need to find someone to frame the thing for me.
p51 posted:My amazing wife got me this Jim Jordan print for Christmas, one of the few prints made for the RR I model!
It's about 2X3 feet (you can see the lantern to the right, and to the left is a White Pass & Yukon RR rail slice, to hold it down from the rolled condtion) , so now I need to find someone to frame the thing for me.
Purely by chance, I found this store a town away from our home. They sell picture framing "kits" with everything you need, and custom make the frame to fit the size you need. Easy to do, and much less than a framing shop... google Poster Frame Depot in Derby Ct.... yes, they ship all sizes! I have no affiliation with them!
Ed
I've been concentrating lately on adding some variety to the freight car mix. Other RRs, types and colors.
Picked up the MTH PRR gondola & LCL Cement loads separately. Rock Island hopper from Lionel.
Always liked this graphic. Gotta love "the Rock"!
The Railking/Scaleking UP centrerbeam is scale sized and looks sharp. The D&H pulpwood car is from Atlas.
Big Jim posted:A 1/48 scale U.S. Navy Elco 80' PT Boat by Merit.
Will it become PT 109?
I just bought a cheesy boxcar. Atlas O Wisconsin & Southern Sargento Cheese boxcar to be exact.
hi all Aghrmatt I like your big boy 4014 I ordered the same one 20-3575-1,cant wait until it arrives my favorite engine has always been the Big Boy!
Alan
Nothing fancy but I did buy(cheaply) two Marx dome passenger cars-234 and the Observation car 236. All are in rough shape but salvageable, I think.
I got this brand new Williams ( 1990 ) never run, Camelback in Lacawanna markings.
Runs great!! Looks great!! Smokes great ( for a Williams that is )!!
jim pastorius posted:Nothing fancy but I did buy(cheaply) two Marx dome passenger cars-234 and the Observation car 236. All are in rough shape but salvageable, I think.
nuthin better than bringing old trains back to life.
This covers late November - December 2 x Lionel CB&Q GP30s, Weaver CB&Q U25B, 2 X MTH CB&Q GP9s, ATLAS RI, P&LE Box cars and 2 x CB&Q cover hoppers that had ben on my must have list. OK cool for me.
CB&Q 945
CB&Q 945( Arrived at Christmas and will need to be renumbered)
Weaver CB&Q U25B 100. I also own 103
MTH CB&Q GP9s # 273 ( Arrived at Christmas) and # 283
Atlas rolling stock
Big Jim posted:A 1/48 scale U.S. Navy Elco 80' PT Boat by Merit.
Nice. I assume you're modeling a deep water port or large river on your layout? Is this going to be used in a WW2 context?
p51 posted:My amazing wife got me this Jim Jordan print for Christmas, one of the few prints made for the RR I model!
It's about 2X3 feet (you can see the lantern to the right, and to the left is a White Pass & Yukon RR rail slice, to hold it down from the rolled condtion) , so now I need to find someone to frame the thing for me.
Sir
That's pretty cool. Any idea as to the location?
suzukovich posted:p51 posted:My amazing wife got me this Jim Jordan print for Christmas, one of the few prints made for the RR I model!
It's about 2X3 feet (you can see the lantern to the right, and to the left is a White Pass & Yukon RR rail slice, to hold it down from the rolled condtion) , so now I need to find someone to frame the thing for me.
That's pretty cool. Any idea as to the location?
It's supposed to be just past tunnel # 2 going into the Doe River Gorge, right outside of Hampton, TN. The track still exists here (having been re-laid in the early 60s for a ill-fated tourist attraction and now rebuilt by the Christian camp that owns the entire property and former ET&WNC right of way) and I've ridden it in a motor car on two occasions: http://www.doerivergorge.com/
The problem is you wouldn't see any houses from this portion of the line, so it's artistic license.
I since realized I had a frame for another print I wasn't going to put back on the wall, which was a great color for this print and exactly fit it!
Just received a couple of police cars listed as uncatalogued items on the MTH web site.
30-50095 is a 1950 Ford 2-door coupe - Chicago Police Dept
30-50094 is a 1950 Ford 4-door sedan - San Francisco Police Dept
I picked these up from Trainworld December 23rd. At that point I could only find them on Trainworld and MTH direct, but they are now appearing at other dealers too.
The front end of the Chicago car is sitting a little lower than it should be. There are two screws on the bottom. I will open it up tonight and have a look.
What caught my eye was the pre-light bar and pre-beacon ray lights on these cars and the radio antenna
.
Just got another box of scenery material from Scenic Express so I can keep going on the scenery.........Paul
Bill Robb posted:
The front end of the Chicago car is sitting a little lower than it should be. There are two screws on the bottom. I will open it up tonight and have a look.
What caught my eye was the pre-light bar and pre-beacon ray lights on these cars and the radio antenna
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It was a simple repair to correct that issue.
This plate is off a N&W SD-35... Scored it off eBay to trade to a local guy for a newer EMD plate which he has, That plate happens to have the exact same month and year I was born.
p51 posted:
This plate is off a N&W SD-35... Scored it off eBay to trade to a local guy for a newer EMD plate which he has, That plate happens to have the exact same month and year I was born.
Boy, is THAT in rough shape!!!! Hope you did have to pay/trade much for it. By the way, it is "SD35", i.e. no "-" in the model name. Is the plate stainless steel, or one of the later aluminum ones?
got these the other day,,,,way cool,,,grew up by the b&le main line 
terry hudon posted:
got these the other day,,,,way cool,,,grew up by the b&le main line
Very nice! I remember them on the B&LE too. What manufacturer are they?
Black & orange Bessemers F units are always cool. nice engines.
mark,they are mth,,,,,premier,they made a set in like 96,but I have never seen any for sale,,,,wish they had done the cat wiskers tho,,,,also in the last catalogue,,,they have railking f3,,,but I like the silver mesh on the f7,abit more money but only going to buy it once,,,,,would love to have a tunnel motor,i saw a lot of them out home,,,,but,,,,,need to stick with my plan,,,,,,
Yes I do remember seeing the F3 in the new MTH catalog. I like the older paint scheme better too. Thank you.
OH HAPPY DAY!!! I just got a call from Shani at 3rd Rail/GGD and my El Capitan set is on the way. Im so excited, and I just can hide it.
Dominic Mazoch posted:Big Jim posted:A 1/48 scale U.S. Navy Elco 80' PT Boat by Merit.
Will it become PT 109?
Heavens to Betsy NO! The 109 is too puny.
If it makes it to a layout at all, it will be more of a museum piece and try to fit in with an Aquarium theme area...maybe.
The weekend before Christmas I received the last edition to Corrugated Container Corporation's N&W passenger train. This is the Observation car. Since this was the last in the series (611 loco & Tender, Passenger Coach, Observation Car), they used photos of actual employees as passengers in the car. Fittingly, Jerry Higginbotham, Vice President of Manufacturing, is the Conductor looking out the vestibule window. Very sadly a few days after receiving this car, Jerry passed away from cancer. It was a sad time for our family as Jerry was my daughter's Father-in-law.
Lately I've been hooked on Diecast vehicles. I was happy to learn that there was a second run of the very popular Chicago Police Ford Explorer from First Response. I was able to pick up another one (can't have enough police on my layout, lots of thugs around here! ��).
I had to travel to the PO today to pick up a heavy box filled with Lionel iron. Got 3 locomotives that run, two shells and two ratty tenders. Have the biggest loco(2065) cleaned up, roof corners straightened, new head light but needs lubed. Will work on the others tomorrow. One is a nice 224E with boxpok drivers. One newspaper wrapping one loco was dated in 2005 so it has been awhile. There is a motor, too with 6 drivers but no e-unit so it won't run but will play with it later. More fun.
I'll take the motor from you if you want to be rid of it.
Need it to finish a build I'm working on.
You need the motor for a build you are working on ? A steam engine ? This fits a 2025 & 675. E-mail me at : panzerjames@gmail.com
Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:The big brown truck just dropped this off this morning. Excuse the mess, under destruction.
Steve
Just added the baggage and an extra Pullman, so now a 4 car consists.
Steve
Mark Boyce posted:
Mark,
That curious device caught my eye on my last visit to the LHS. It was almost my Christmas present to myself, then it dawned on me, I don't even own a smart phone.
Here are 2 new acqisitions:
AtlasO 6584-2 PRR Re-built USRA Box Car (X26c) #105200
AtlasO #6478-2 Muncie & Western RR Box Car #1269
George
Picked up these prewar American Flyer coaches recently. They're a bit crusty, but I plan on repainting them to go with my customized Marx CV.
brwebster posted:Mark Boyce posted:
Mark,
That curious device caught my eye on my last visit to the LHS. It was almost my Christmas present to myself, then it dawned on me, I don't even own a smart phone.
Bruce,
You make me feel so much better knowing others are as slow as me at times! ;-) I hope to get it hooked up tomorrow. And yes, I do have a smart phone; in fact it is even smarter than me.
You know that you can buy a tablet from Walmart that you can download the MTH ap on at Walmart for $39.99. I plan on using this for the wifi dcs
mike
My U.S. Mail lady brought this sign today on Sat. January 9th, 2016. I have a first class Mail Lady, this 14 inch dia. metal sign would not fit in my road side mailbox, so she brought it to the door to the train room. "Cool". Now I have to find a place to hang this sign. To be continued at, "What I did on my layout today".
Cool items:
1. None train: a botle of Coke.
2. Train items: NONE!
trainroomgary posted:My U.S. Mail lady brought this sign today on Sat. January 9th, 2016. I have a first class Mail Lady, this 14 inch dia. metal sign would not fit in my road side mailbox, so she brought it to the door to the train room. "Cool". Now I have to find a place to hang this sign. To be continued at, "What I did on my layout today".
Very cool, Gary!!
Mark Boyce posted:brwebster posted:Mark Boyce posted:
Mark,
That curious device caught my eye on my last visit to the LHS. It was almost my Christmas present to myself, then it dawned on me, I don't even own a smart phone.
Bruce,
You make me feel so much better knowing others are as slow as me at times! ;-) I hope to get it hooked up tomorrow. And yes, I do have a smart phone; in fact it is even smarter than me.
So much to still learn about analog here, Mark, let alone digital. Even my DCS system remains unused. All in good time...in good time.
Bruce
I bought one of the "rare" KMT/FRH UPS box cars at the Richmond, CA show today. That brings my fleet of the supposedly rare cars up to 54 units.
Dominic Mazoch posted:Big Jim posted:A 1/48 scale U.S. Navy Elco 80' PT Boat by Merit.
Will it become PT 109?
Perhaps PT 73?
A new ride to haul layouts and trains to meets. This should replace 2 vehicles.
Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:A new ride to haul layouts and trains to meets. This should replace 2 vehicles.
That dealer can't be far from where my folks winter. Their home is around Chapman and Hewes. Certainly can't go wrong with a Toyota.
Bruce
I was at the Train Show in Richmond, Ca. Saturday and I got a deal on the four binder set of Lionel Post-War repair manuals. Also, I met up with a parts dealer I thought was no longer in the trade. They Are! And My GF got a dvd about haunted places in the South. (who knew they sold things like that at a train show) I have to add some pages from the two binders due to some missing pages. But at $160+tax for all four, not a bad deal.
Yesterday my 5th Heritage Legacy SD70ACe Diesel.
Larry
Dr.Fu-Manchu posted:I was at the Train Show in Richmond, Ca. Saturday Also, I met up with a parts dealer I thought was no longer in the trade. They Are!
Are you talking about Electric Norman? I was surprised to see him as well. Did you get the story of how his trailer was stolen?
No ROYBOY, I got the story about the fellow running the web site messing it up. I bought some items from them a few years ago at a show and I thought the were out of the biz after the website went down. I might have seen you but did not know you are a forum member, I was the fellow in the Black cowboy hat and tan ranch coat. Sorry we did not meet up, where do you call home??? I am in Alameda, Ca.
p51 posted:
This plate is off a N&W SD-35... Scored it off eBay to trade to a local guy for a newer EMD plate which he has, That plate happens to have the exact same month and year I was born.
Well, I got the plate I traded the above plate for. That plate is from November, 1969, the same month I was born (it's one of the rectangle plates with the blue square at the right end). It's in much better shape than the above plate but does show some wear (the guy I traded with just wanted an EMD plate and didn't care about condition, he liked the earlier style). I'm just fine with that, though.
The problem is that the locomotive still exists in freight service. I have no idea when the plate was yanked off but looking through photos I found online of the locomotive, it apparently hasn't had plates for a very long time. Two owners before the current one ran that loco with no plates.
I really wish I could post a photos of it but I have a feeling someone would look up the number, realize it's still running out there and then I'm dealing with a whole different situation as well all know there are a lot of people online who exist to make like difficult for others...
vid of my new UP Desert Victory SD40's in action.
westhouse
NICE
that is very nice love the sounds I also like Carpet Central that's the way to play trains in our house if you don't mind me saying so 
We love to Play trains - note at the 40 second mark my son was peeking under the couch. He was in control ( to a degree ) while I was filming.
I ordered the new tank car and hopper car from Menards. As soon as they arrive I'll show yall how they look.
Managed to finally snag one of these Sunset 2-rail PRR S-2 turbines (early version) after searching many different venues for more years than I care to think about. Will not be painting this guy as I prefer the natural brass finish for display only. And the detailing on this brass model is really sensational - far surpassing that of Lionel or MTH examples.
Needless to say I'm now a happy camper!
WestinghouseEMDdemoguy posted:vid of my new UP Desert Victory SD40's in action.
WestinghouseEMDdemoguy,
Very nice engine and all the others too! You sure live up to your name! Here in Northwest Pennsylvania, we kind of like the GEVO! How many demo units do you have?
nyccollector1 posted:Managed to finally snag one of these Sunset 2-rail PRR S-2 turbines (early version) after searching many different venues for more years than I care to think about. Will not be painting this guy as I prefer the natural brass finish for display only. And the detailing on this brass model is really sensational - far surpassing that of Lionel or MTH examples.
Needless to say I'm now a happy camper!
Very nice indeed! I understand your reluctance to paint it, especially if it's only a shelf queen. Still, a nice glossy coat of Brunswick green sure would show off the detail. That beast must be close to 30" long!
Beats the RailKing S2 I got yesterday, but I must compliment MTH on their rendition. It has the bulk of a scale S2 yet compressed nicely to negotiate most layouts. WAY bigger than the traditional postwar size.
Bruce
Got these 2 from Joey at Nicholas Smith
.....along with the RailKing S2 came a set of Pennsylvania 15 inchers from the MPC era. Seen here being pulled by an early TMCC GG1, the ensemble barely has an hours use since new. I will soon need to switch out car lighting before all the bulbs blow.
Bruce
Mark Boyce posted:WestinghouseEMDdemoguy posted:vid of my new UP Desert Victory SD40's in action.
WestinghouseEMDdemoguy,
Very nice engine and all the others too! You sure live up to your name!
I believe I'm up to 7 EMD Demonstrators but I'm still hunting for the atlas o unit#6.
I found the UPS guy trying t sneak these onto my front step.
Matt, how nice is that for the UPS guy to leave that on your doorstep. Are you sure you have room for them?
No and I am feeling depressed-I need a "buy" to square me away.
Matt,
Very nice delivery by Mr. Ups! He braved almost blizzard conditions yesterday to deliver a PWC Texas Special F-3 A-A set I bought from a, you guessed it, a forum member. He pointed out the only flaw was a small paint chip on the roof of one of the units, and he was right. I can not find another flaw. I haven't had a chance to see how they run, and probably won't for a few days because my wife is getting a knee replaced Friday, but at least I got these two shots.
After buying a used Williams by Williams set of Texas Special passenger cars from you guessed it again, another forum member; I thought my postwar Texas Special 211 PA A-A looked more seedy and are much better suited to their postwar freight train.
I bought another Menards flatcar, and have the trucks off already to replace with Weaver Bettendorfs, and I am moving the brake wheel. This will be the platform for my twin vinegar tanks that I have built, but need to finish with support frames, etc.
Mark the f3 set looks fantastic. I have the same set I inherited it from my grandfather. It runs great and strong. As you will no doubt agree, they don't make them like that anymore.
Thanks Mark, Scott does such a great job with his products. K-Lines just don't compare
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