Buy anything cool lately?

Matt,

   I just made a deal on a Tin Plate Hellgate Bridge which I am very excited about receiving,  I hope UPS handles it gently  & maybe another Z4K, post some pictures when I return home.

PCRR/Dave

Love my Hellgate Bridge

My wife gave me a Lionel Legacy Command Control system for my 70th birthday yesterday.

Nice pooch !!

Thanks Jim, I sneak her in form time to time

Matt Makens posted:

Thanks Jim, I sneak her in form time to time

Well, why not? After all, she is trained....

An of course we all like trains

Mr Union Pacific posted:

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, Mr UP!

And thanks to all who 'Liked' my posts!

I found this on my door step yesterday, Always wanted a big Hudson. Picked the N&W up a month or so ago, It was a shelf Queen, though I found out why, after working over the e-unit and some motor work it runs great. Well I guess Ill just keep adding to my collection. I really like MPC engines , I now have quite a few and they work well for me.  Have a nice day.

Good to see another setter on the forum Matt !

WOW Mike, your Irish is beautiful. Those Setters really are a special breed. Is that a modular layout setup on your patio?

  Yes Matt, that is our modular layout set up on my back patio last October. We just completed another 8 ft expansion. If you would like to see it with scenery on it at the Boulder Model Railroad Clubs show last month,just do a search for High Plains 3 Railers on this forum.

Today FedEx dropped off my first bobber caboose. One of three I found for my roads I run. Here is a pic of my new addition................Paul

I collect US WW2 stuff, and my layout takes place in 1943. So, I thought it'd be neat to get some passes from that year from some of my favorite railroads. Scored these off ePay for less than $6 for both of them...

Just picked up An MTH GE "Evolution" ES44 diesel with the charging lights. Also found the caboose and blinking boxcar with same scheme. Today ordered non-blinking boxcar and laboratory car. MTH also putting out flatcar with bulkheads this month. All same scheme. MTH doesn't need my help to sell these but WOW! are they awesome. I have been debating back and forth as to get or not, because they don't fit the theme of my railroad which is steam and early diesel; Pennsylvania RR and Chesapeake and Ohio. The opportunity came up and I caved in.

I just picked up this MTH Great Northern S2 4-8-4. The sounds aren't on par with Lionel, but the attention to detail is very impressive.

bn614 posted:

Just picked up An MTH GE "Evolution" ES44 diesel with the charging lights. Also found the caboose and blinking boxcar with same scheme. Today ordered non-blinking boxcar and laboratory car. MTH also putting out flatcar with bulkheads this month. All same scheme. MTH doesn't need my help to sell these but WOW! are they awesome. I have been debating back and forth as to get or not, because they don't fit the theme of my railroad which is steam and early diesel; Pennsylvania RR and Chesapeake and Ohio. The opportunity came up and I caved in.

Nice grab Bob. Do you have a picture of the "blinking boxcar"? I wonder if the chasing lights could be put on the bulkhead flats as well - that would make for a nice show behind that engine.

The kids ( who am I kidding ) would love em.

Paul

From the Muffins...............Finally a black realistic MTH tank car! My1st 8k.

NEW - Sony DSC TX30  http://www.sony.com/electronic...act-cameras/dsc-tx30

This morning I went to the TCA show in Parma Ohio. I was able to get six more tractors to make up some flat car loads. I almost picked up a Lionel Heinz vat car for my Menards Sauerkraut Factory but decided instead to possibly make up a couple out of Weaver flat cars I have. A pic of my buy today..............Paul 

I picked up these two Williams Amtrak items today. I think both come from the late pre-Bachmann Williams era. The E-60 is interesting because unlike most of the older versions it has both the 3 axel trucks and it has a different number than the long running  number 960. This one is numbered 964. I already have a modified and partly repainted #960 so I was happy to pick this one up as a new project. It will get a partial repaint to a black top like my 960 and some window screen rock guards.

I also got a Williams Metroliner. I've wanted one for awhile. Of course now that I have this one it pretty much guarantees that Lionel will make thier slightly smaller than  scale cab control car from the HHP-8 set into a Metroliner because that is my luck.

Here are is my old 960 with it's Lionel F3 trucks on my old, now defunct shelf layout. A flavor of the future of the 964.

Love these Electrics. Wish they were made today in scale.

Got a few more vintage scale kit built cars.  The caboose is prewar Walthers/Crestline and the other two are Westbrook kit cars.  Got all three for less than $20 .

those look great Dennis.

Love these Electrics. Wish they were made today in scale.

Nice find on those railroad passes, and slightly cheaper than the silver filigree ones Otto Mears used to hand out for his SW Colorado narrow gauge lines.  Today, in a train show, I found a book on Canadian grain elevators, published in 1998, and lamenting their passing and demolition.  Years ago I attended the Calgary Stampede rodeo, and drove out into the prairie to photograph a few of these...that was about 1980.  As a big fan of grain elevators and mining ghost towns, I was a little startled to learn that these were then being torn down at a rapid pace, and that their towns, with the track pulled up, and the elevators gone, were turning into ghost towns on the prairie.  Made me wish I had gone back or at least phtographed more of them.  The book is "Wheat Kings", by Greg McDonnell.  An interesting thing about Canadian prairie elevators, is that there were often rows of wooden ones beside the track, often painted  barn red.  While in Kansas, etc., you might find two or three in a town, but not lined up like tin soldiers.

I enjoy the fantasy gas globes...this one has just about everything a guy could love... Wish I could have showed a photo of them in a globe lit up but too cold around here to paint at the moment!

Bobber number two came in today. A C&O Bobber. Pic of the buy. The third one, a CN Bobber, should come in this week........Paul

My last forum "buy" was a box of 3 complete lionel 50s engines. they were dry and dirty but not greasy and abused. Was running the biggest one last night and admiring it-a 2065. It is one of the smoothest, strong pulling, good smoking engine in my fleet. Love it and that is what makes these old Lionels fun.

good thing you hang onto that 2065 Jim....

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

A new ride to haul layouts and trains to meets. This should replace 2 vehicles.

Good looking ride.  You're looking well, too.

Happy new year.

Completed my set of New York Central Hudsons,  with the Commodore Vanderbilt.

Lionel 2046 comes in for a none streamlined J class,  and then Railking  Commodore Vanderbilt,

then a 1938 Dreyfuss,  and a 1941 Empire State Express.

Forty Rod posted:

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

A new ride to haul layouts and trains to meets. This should replace 2 vehicles.

Good looking ride.  You're looking well, too.

 

Happy new year.

Thanks Tom. Send me a couple of those engines you want reworked anytime. I have the parts waiting.

Steve

Although not a train it is something I needed. Last night while working on scenery I ran out of white glue. So this morning it was to the Depot. Came back with enough to last me a bit...........Paul

Well yes, I purchased two 072 Fastrack switches, and an 072 Fastrack wye.  I am installing a siding(s) to park locomotives on the outside loop of my layout.  I am tired of having to pick up a locomotive and remove it from the layout so I can run a different locomotive.  Pics will follow when I finish.  I also purchased some 2 x 2 x 3/16 square tubing and some 2" pipe.  I am fabricating my own "Top side Creeper."  Ill have pics of it was well. 

went to TCA event in Utica Station, Utica new York on sunday. purchased a pre war Lionel 262 locomotive.

a prewar Lionel 267 caboose and online from a forum member,(thanks Ryan), a prewar

Lionel 655 box car. Will make great additions to the tinplate set Im putting together.

way to much stuff !! I need to bring everything in the back door so the wife doesn't see it LOL no she knows she can hear the credit card crying. LOL
started off with 2 more k-line Santa Fe aluminum hoppers, then found a MTH chessie steam special ps 2.0 , then ordered a bunch of stuff from lionel to fix upgrade some engines , then bought a err cruise commander and cruise commander lite and 2 sound commanders, then 2 036 remote switches then 2 072 remote switches then  5 more signals from china and there control boards then saw 2 cantilever signals from them too so got that I think I am done for awhile since that doesn't include the 6 korber building I bought too. or the pink foam for scenery. so I should have enough to keep me busy for the rest of the year LOL this doesn't include the shingles I bought to finish off the station too. or led lights LOL man the credit card is crying  you don't realize it until you write it down.

Logic Delay Switches Circuit Board,Signal Controller,Lights on automatically x 5
2 x O scale 1:48 Cantilever Signal Bridge prewired LEDs 3 aspects single Track

5 pcs O Scale 3 aspects Railway LEDs made Signals Green/Yellow/Red

Lionel 6-12048 FasTrack 072 Left Hand Remote Switch

Just received the scale smokejack from Lionel for the PRR N5b cabin car purchased awhile back.

Also while at Post Office picked up non-train relate Beautifully machined Spin-On oil filter adapter for my old 392++++++++++++ ci Hemi .

Ron

392....and just what might that be in? hope an old mopar! (pics?) 383 in my road runner.

Steamer posted:

392....and just what might that be in? hope an old mopar! (pics?) 383 in my road runner.

Yes the 392 ci (originally) is out of my first auto.  A 1958 Chrysler New Yorker convertible.  Once on the Ohio Turnpike driving to Cleveland for a science fair race a new 409 Chevy.  My speedometer hashed up to 130 mph, with the peg about another 10 mph.  My speedometer was pegged and the 409 was not pulling away.

Ron

I take it the car is gone? Dad had a black '56 Imperial two door. wish he had kept that one.

Steamer posted:

I take it the car is gone? Dad had a black '56 Imperial two door. wish he had kept that one.

Yes, gone!  Sure do wish I still had that "130 mph+ tank" now.

Ron

Hot rods and trains nothing nicer. well maybe there is but can't discuss that on the forums if you ask the wife I have too many of both hot rods and trains.

hot rods are

2013 Mustang gt premium              420hp
2001 Mustang Roush stage 2                    300hp
1991 Camaro z-28                    215hp
1986 Iroc z28 with a 1970 ls6 454           550hp
then a 1988 Sunsation Rocket Boat with a .30 over 454.     450hp
then comes all the trains my hopes are I come home and there all still here one day she just might sell them on me . she keeps asking if there's any trains to go on ebay. 

my driveway

PRRronbh posted:

Steamer posted:

I take it the car is gone? Dad had a black '56 Imperial two door. wish he had kept that one.

Yes, gone!  Sure do wish I still had that "130 mph+ tank" now.

Ron

Can you imagine if a car like that hit one of our contemporary cars? I'm picturing total smithereens, but the Chrysler just dented, a bit. 

mtj54 posted:

I enjoy the fantasy gas globes...this one has just about everything a guy could love... Wish I could have showed a photo of them in a globe lit up but too cold around here to paint at the moment!

I want to see the representation of what happened 5 seconds later, where the car pulls into the path of the train and gets squashed, then the plane files over the pilots laughs at everyone...

USPS today brought my newest addition. A AC&Y box car that I have search for quite a long time. A pic of the car...............Paul

This was waiting for me in the mail today when I got home from work. I love it and it was worth the wait in my opinion. I am glad I was able to find one, since I did not pre-order it. 

Chris 

mtj54 posted:

I enjoy the fantasy gas globes...this one has just about everything a guy could love... Wish I could have showed a photo of them in a globe lit up but too cold around here to paint at the moment!

That's a cool gas globe.  The car depicted in that is a 1906 Locomobile race car that is housed in the Henry Ford Museum.  Up until a few years ago it was still operated during their annual car show.

Jake,

Thanks so much for that link, have the globe sitting right in front of me and I didn't know about the car, what a great story! I visited Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum probably 45 years ago now when I was about 9 years old, I'm going to take my son back there one of these days. Thanks so much for the link though and reminding me of the Henry Ford Museum...

Matt, 

    My 305 Tin Plate Hellgate Bridge finally arrived this morning, and she is in perfect shape although UPS was a might rough on packing the original box, no big deal.  It took me some time to find the exact Hellgate Bridge I wanted at a reasonable price.  I found out the original 305 Sand/Green Colored bridges with the Brass railings were going for some serious money.  Lou made me a real good deal on his and we settled on a more than fair price.  I will need to due some re-engineering to transition from my FasTrack to the Tubular Lou put down inside the 305.  I got to admit I like the spacing of the Tubular inside the original HG 305, it does look good.  Lou advised me that this particular HG Bridge was massive and I agree with him 100%.  It will be a great addition to my Christmas layout next year.  Some pictures follow below.   The Library Table you see in the last couple pictures is 5.6" long & 3' wide, it give you some perspective of the actual size of this particular old Hellgate Bridge.

PCRR/Dave

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that bridge looks great Dave.

Dave, congratulations on your recent acquisition. I purchased that same bridge last November for Christmas layout, they are outstanding. I too live in a relatively small house, and it's then one can truly appreciate how big these things are. The box itself is almost the size of a sofa. The next problem is where to stuff that epic shipping crate. Speaking of storage, where does Christmas go when it goes? That's a lot of Christmas!

Steamer posted:

that bridge looks great Dave.

I agree. Nice bridge.

A pal of mine used one of those once many years ago, heavily-weathered, on a 2-rail layout. The body of water it crossed was called, "Heck Gate Creek".

I always think of that whenever I see one of these or references to the real bridge...

The RR I model had both a 3-foot-gauge RR and a trucking company by the end of WW2, so this could be for either. But I couldn't resist adding to my growing collection of stuff from that company:

Today a little kit for a 1923 Hart-Parr saw mill tractor floated in, for my sawmills in my logging operation.  I hope all the parts are there.  It is part styrene and part cast metal, all sealed in little bags.  From following my grandfather around the tractor exhibits at the State Fair, as a kid, and then attending some collectors' tractor events, I have seen steam and old gas tractors, and, like vintage cars, I prefer the little known makes.   This is a gas tractor, but my grandfather had worked around steam traction engines. The instructions say Hart-Parr last made tractors in 1928.  I would have thought I had seen some newer than that in shows, but I guess not.

Scooped up this American Flyer Silver Streak set on the bay for $105...

Lot of cool stuff.   here's my latest. Ok cool for me.

Atlas Alco RSD 7/15 Bought for a my CBQ U28C Ph 1 project off the DASH site.. To my surprise it had TMCC and actually worked once I manage to unfreeze the gears and removed the harden grease.

Weaver trucks. (7pr)

Atlas GN reefer that be on my want list for the last couple of years.

Three Albert Hall passenger cars

Added to my 1/43 European truck collection.

1950 MERCEDES TYP TLF-15 FIRE ENGINE

1970 MAN BUSSING UNTERFLUR TIPO 19 - 320 FLS

1998 Mercedes Benz Atego Truck "Stiebel Eltron"

Finally, Finally, Finally!  I snagged a prototypically correct N&W scale late steam era cabin car.  In this case a CH.  Unfortunately it is brass Brass, which I will have to figure how/what paint to paint it.  But fortunately I recently did get a couple of set of correct decals.

Once this is painted and lettered will get to run pulling up the end of a Jawn Henry consist with MTH 2-bay hopers that are relatively close to H9s.

Just a little concerned how well it will track through switches and backing up?!

Ron

My third Bobber caboose came today. This one was  the hardest to find. A CN Bobber. Her is a pic. These are neat little cabooses...............Paul

Here's my MTH New York Central Dreyfuss Hudson set.  The first addition of my 2016 roster.  I got it just in time before the snowstorm hit.

Peter,

That is wonderful!

She's not exactly a new purchase, but I finally got her up and running for the first time in five years.... With a Lionel pickup roller, a new handmade brushplate, a scratch built marker light, new wheels, and a hand wound stationary field, as the original had been cut by a vengeful individual years ago. She used to be my grandad's, one of my favorites.

the ol Marx looks great Classico

Funny, I posted this last night twice and it never got into the thread for some reason. So, here's take three!

I found these book at a very good railroad collectible show in Portland on Saturday. It took a lot of discipline to not buy a great deal of stuff as there was a lot of good stuff there.

The MILW book has shots of the Lines West and the GA book has a lot of photos from the area where I grew up, all taken a year before I was born.

Yesterday the mailman dropped off my latest buys. A few hard to find items. A couple of pics of them................Paul

All these trains look fantastic... just wish I had em on the shelf lol. 

The Atlas Golden Spike Club car came the other day.

Somewhere in my early teens, I built a Hudson Miniatures model of Old 16, pictured above, and a lot of their other vintage car kits...Mercer Raceabout, Stutz Bearcat, and Regal Underslung with a stage-coach like body.  (I've seen the real Mercers and Stutzes, but not that Regal, not even in the old Harrah collection) Kits were wood, paper, and plastic parts, and good training for model railroading.  Today in an Indy show I bought a Marx 3/16 worktrain set, and one of those Lionel civil war RPO shells.  I think I will conjure up some kind of caboose for my "pickle" train out of this shell.

Today I just bought the RMT Savings Bond GG-1 and caboose to go with it at Nicholas Smith Trains. I am thinking I would like to upgrade that GG-1 to the MTH Protosounds 3.0 or the Lionel Railsounds 5.0. Chris Gans was telling me the GG-1 and caboose were former K-Line eqipment that RMT bought when K-Line went out of business.

I meant to say it is the O-Line version GG-1 that I bought.

Bob Dixey,

  Hay how about some pictures!  Love to see the old (RMT) K-Line GG1 & Caboose.

PCRR/Dave

This weekend we went to the Great Train Show in Costa Mesa... and I finally found a set of SF Yellow Bonnets.  Love 'em!

-Dustin

Matt,

   Picked up this great Tin Plate Lionel, I remember Isaly's Box Car, from Ryan one of our OGR members.  I tried to add this Lionel Isaly's Box Car to my 263E Work Train when it first came out, but was to late to acquire it.  Ryan was nice enough to sell it to me for a real decent price.  Colors on this Lionel Tin Plate are just fantastic, pictures do not do it justice.

PCRR/Dave

Took this puppy out on her maiden voyage using the new MTH WiFi units on the layout. Needs SUPER TIU mode but still a nice system

Picked up a nice Karl Bub (KBN) station. It was so cheap I couldn't pass it up.

Well, it might have been if I could have gotten it sooner...but I had already stolen one from another kit, since this tender tank spout kit was not available when I wanted to finish the water tank.

Matt,

   Fantastic Santa Fe!

PCRR/Dave

This past weekend I bought a 7-11151 B&O Capital Freight set, available only at Target Stores. It was available in 2009 or approximately that time range. I've been wanting this set since I first saw it. Very clean set. Engine needed some work to get running smoothly. Classic owner comment, "it ran fine when I ran it last." It couldn't have as there was a preformed piece of plastic, the piece of plastic some manufacturers place over the two prong electrical plug for safety, wedged in the engine internals. Runs and smokes great now.

Paul2,

   Very nice rolling stock sir, just so you know the TOC, WAG Single Sheathed Box Car has a counter part, WAG 5240 BoxCar, Crown actually did a pair of these Box Cars for Weaver with Buffalo Creek Graphics, definitely some very nice work, all done here in the USA.

PCRR/Dave

I picked up another different CanFor box car to add to the other two I have.

Yep. Pretty cool....

..but it's 2 Rail and old...., please pardon the crossover.  Maybe one of the manufacturers can realease a 3rail one soon.

Today was the Medina show. I was only going to look for another  farm tractor to round out the loads for three flat cars. No luck on that but I managed to find a very nice Marx light tower, almost like brand new. There was another one for sale but when I got done buying this one and went back to grab that one someone else grab it. A lot more shows to go to maybe I will find some more. Pics....................Paul

WITZ 41 posted:

Yep. Pretty cool....

..but it's 2 Rail and old...., please pardon the crossover.  Maybe one of the manufacturers can realease a 3rail one soon.

What is it? I don't think I have ever seen an engine with a pilot like that!

El Classico posted:

What is it? I don't think I have ever seen an engine with a pilot like that!

Union Pacific 2-10-2 (TTT).  Older 2 rail model imported by US Hobbies.  This one heavily modified by a modeler on the West coast.

There are more pics on the Ogaugerr Photo album forum.."O Gauge Union Pacific".

A mainline freight workhorse for the UP Twenties into the Fifties.  Many have commented that they would like to see a newer released TTT in 3 rail but the UP had a lot of unique locomotives that don't lend themselves to releasing in other road names like so many of the USRA engines.

This is the contents of an old Plastruct truss bridge project pack.  There are enough H columns, I beams, channels, tees and flat material to build 5 (five) 30" O gauge bridges.   I might make 1 or 2 truss bridges and the rest will go towards other projects.   I bet buying each piece individually ( close to 200 ) would break the bank, whereas $72 for the kit seemed like a deal.

Bruce

I got in a brass Precision Scale water tank tender filler spout, which I ordered for my pepper water tank.   Tank was finished some days ago, so the spout is late to the party and will go into the Lionel water tank kit I stole the pepper spout from.  (I have no shortage of various round, octangular, and double, kitbashed water tanks from those Lionel kits, so, unless I need to make something odd like the pepper tank, I won't build this last kit)

Last night was the Tuesday night train get together. It was at the hobby shop of one guys in the group. While there I browsed through the shelves of items and came across this little gem. An Atlas covered hopper car for Kimberly-Clark. Did not know Atlas did this but I had to have it because I worked for Kimberly-Clark back in the late sixties in Niagara Falls, NY and knew I had to have it for the memories. A couple of pics.............Paul

A new old Legacy SD 70 ACe  Norfolk Southern with 3 matching cars. I think it's my 6th SD-70ACe.

I like those odd ball fantasy colors for my fantasy railroad.

Heck I like all trains.

Larry

Happy Happy Happy

Picked up this reproduction Orient Express lamp at an antique mall. It was tarnished pretty bad. Took a couple of hours to clean up. Looks good now, but, don't buy one thinking it will help light a room! 

Brennan's Better Ballast

1. Nice Larry, I've got 6 or 7 myself. What did you figure out about thrvgeorge bush loco. Does your smoke unit always run?

Sorry Matt I haven't run any smoke in any of them yet.  I don't run smoke in any engine actually but I was going to try it in that one for you. I will try and get to it and e-mail you the results.

I did find out that you just can't fix stupid sometimes.  It was me with the problem on the Bush 4141. The engine is running like it is suppose to with no problems.

I failed to understand why you do NOT try to test a Legacy engine in conventional mode with the cab 2 base on.

Trust me.....instant problem.

I definitely understand why not  now.

Live and learn.

Larry

Matt,

    I picked up a 1960's era Red & White Coke Train that the original Owner purchased at the Coke HQ long ago, K-Line made these Trains especially for Coca Cola long ago. Put a little Red & Tacky on the old girls give gears and the old Red & White K-Line Dual Motor 2224 Switcher Engine pulls all the different Coke rolling stock, without any problem what so ever.  The old girl is in perfect shape, and the colors are still just fantastic, took a couple pictures for the OGR.  I guess this is some kind of collector Coke Train, I am not a collector so I have no idea about such things.  It does run great however!  I will be looking for the Coke Santa Decals to run her as part of my Christmas layout, if some lucky Children of a GI family do not end up with her, as part of the PCRR Christmas GI Support Program, we wills see how this plays out farther on down the line.

Larry,

   Your new Legacy NS 70ACe with the 3 matching cars is way cool!

Jim,

    Your OE Reproduction Light is fantastic, where did you get it?

PCRR/Dave

Dave, if you need some trains to give to GI families you be sure n let me know. I've got some stuff that needs good homes, prolly 25 plus train sets in there

Found this Weaver Mack trucks boxcar at the New Eagle train show 2 weeks ago and the Hot Wheels funny car & hauler back in the fall at the Castle Shannon train show.  Had to do a little cutting and filing and shorten the rear axle to get the car to fit on the hauler as the slicks originally  stuck out way to far to sit in the hauler ramps.

Nick

     $100.00 FOR THE MACK BOXCAR NICK   Choo Choo Kenny  THINKABOUT IT!

Choo Choo kenny posted:

     $100.00 FOR THE MACK BOXCAR NICK   Choo Choo Kenny  THINKABOUT IT!

Kenny

Check your private email.

Nick

In anticipation of future MOW projects I've gone completely nuts.

By mixing in some acrylic white and black paint, brown turns to ballast.

A quick test on a small section of track resulted in this.

Bruce

Very creative; what's a MOW project?

Matt,

   What a great offer, thanks much!  I try to do this almost every Christmas for an active duty or Veterans family.   Some of these kids have rough lives because their parents have to move around so much, from duty station to duty station, some of the Veterans families are now in bad shape because of the rotten politics surrounding our Wounded Vets.  A lot of the GI Benefits have been down graded by our wonderful politicians and lots of the Vets family money now goes to medial treatments.  I try to make sure the kids in these families have the same kind of Christmas I remember, the O Gauge Trains make this happen for a lot of these kids.  Many times the O Gauge Trains make the greatest memories of these kids lives, I am proud to help in some small way, the people's families that continue to provide our freedom and way of life.  Some times now because of the military computers, I am lucky and get thanked with some wonderful pictures during the Christmas season.  The latest pictures I will treasure for ever!  These boys are the family of a US Navy active Duty Sailor on deployment.  To say the family liked Santa's Christmas present, would be the understatement of the Christmas Season.  If you have ever been on active duty, you know Dad might not be home for Christmas, these young service wives are the heart beat of our nation, and few people even know of their contribution to our way of life, Family God and Country are these girls way of life.   I try to help around the edges, these girls are proud ladies, having them accept something form Santa, usually leaves them in tears.  Having been drafted, my young wife lived thru this way of life, I will never forget her accomplishments, and they way she raised our family when I was deployed, I try to make it a little easier for some of these Military families at Christmas time.

Matt, I will definitely let you know if I need help around Christmas time!

Thanks much I will always remember your kindness,

PCRR/Dave

I just got this newly broken coupler knuckle.

It's busted !!  Won't work. Several years ago I was up at Sand Patch at the east portal and there a few of those laying around. Good door stop.

That is cool, Keith!!  Jim is right, it makes a good door stop, but a good conversation piece as well.  Even better than old spikes or tie plates.

Are you going to the Greenberg show in a couple weeks?  I plan to go Saturday.  Maybe I will see you again!

daylight posted:

Very creative; what's a MOW project?

Bruce,

I agree with Daylight!  I never heard of using that for ballast, but it looks mighty good!!  What are crushed walnut shells normally used for?  Do you find them in an agriculture or farm supply store?

Pine Creek Railroad posted:

Matt,

   What a great offer, thanks much!  I try to do this almost every Christmas for an active duty or Veterans family.   Some of these kids have rough lives because their parents have to move around so much, from duty station to duty station, some of the Veterans families are now in bad shape because of the rotten politics surrounding our Wounded Vets.  A lot of the GI Benefits have been down graded by our wonderful politicians and lots of the Vets family money now goes to medial treatments.  I try to make sure the kids in these families have the same kind of Christmas I remember, the O Gauge Trains make this happen for a lot of these kids.  Many times the O Gauge Trains make the greatest memories of these kids lives, I am proud to help in some small way, the people's families that continue to provide our freedom and way of life.  Some times now because of the military computers, I am lucky and get thanked with some wonderful pictures during the Christmas season.  The latest pictures I will treasure for ever!  These boys are the family of a US Navy active Duty Sailor on deployment.  To say the family liked Santa's Christmas present, would be the understatement of the Christmas Season.  If you have ever been on active duty, you know Dad might not be home for Christmas, these young service wives are the heart beat of our nation, and few people even know of their contribution to our way of life, Family God and Country are these girls way of life.   I try to help around the edges, these girls are proud ladies, having them accept something form Santa, usually leaves them in tears.  Having been drafted, my young wife lived thru this way of life, I will never forget her accomplishments, and they way she raised our family when I was deployed, I try to make it a little easier for some of these Military families at Christmas time.

Matt, I will definitely let you know if I need help around Christmas time!

Thanks much I will always remember your kindness,

PCRR/Dave

Dave,

That is great helping kids with trains!!  I donated some to an organization in Oklahoma City this past year.  I learned of it from a friend on a Facebook Train group.  While I am happy to help kids in the Midwest, I would rather help kids closer to home.  That is our first calling as Christians, I think.  I wouldn't have much, but I would like to participate this coming year.  Thank you for posting.

Matt,

Yes, thank you for your generosity! 

Mark Boyce posted:

That is cool, Keith!!  Jim is right, it makes a good door stop, but a good conversation piece as well.  Even better than old spikes or tie plates.

Are you going to the Greenberg show in a couple weeks?  I plan to go Saturday.  Maybe I will see you again!

Thanks! I'll probably put it in my train room. Not sure what I'll do with it yet. I don't know what railroad it was from, but I'll try to find out.

Yah, I'll be going to the Greenberg show, probably on Saturday, but not sure...

At the recent Amherst Railway Society show in West Springfield, MA, I found a book for which I had been searching a long time. Titled "Where Rails Meet the Sea", the book is a coast to coast look at railroading's marine operations through the decades. The best part was I actually spotted it sitting in a box under the vendor's table. I'm not normally one who digs through the under the table bargain boxes but for some reason I just happened to look and there it was.  

Bob

Big Jim posted:

Picked up this reproduction Orient Express lamp at an antique mall. It was tarnished pretty bad. Took a couple of hours to clean up. Looks good now, but, don't buy one thinking it will help light a room! 

My wife bought me one like that about 30 years ago.  It's on my desk as I type this.  

A friend wanted one like it so we started a hunt and found one in an antique store for $30.00.  It didn't have a chimney and after a search we found True Value has them or can get one for you.

I almost wish I had another one because I have another place that needs a small lamp.

Keith6700 posted:

Mark Boyce posted:

That is cool, Keith!!  Jim is right, it makes a good door stop, but a good conversation piece as well.  Even better than old spikes or tie plates.

Are you going to the Greenberg show in a couple weeks?  I plan to go Saturday.  Maybe I will see you again!

Thanks! I'll probably put it in my train room. Not sure what I'll do with it yet. I don't know what railroad it was from, but I'll try to find out.

Yah, I'll be going to the Greenberg show, probably on Saturday, but not sure...

So it was from NS in Pittsburgh, and I'll definately be going Saturday...

daylight posted:

Very creative; what's a MOW project?

Daylight,  MOW stands for Maintenance Of Way.  In general, the upkeep of anything along the railroad.

Bruce

Picked up 3 more sets of Kurt Adler Old Victorian Street Lights for my layout. OK cool for me

Mark Boyce posted;

Bruce,

I agree with Daylight!  I never heard of using that for ballast, but it looks mighty good!!  What are crushed walnut shells normally used for?  Do you find them in an agriculture or farm supply store?

Mark,

 I learned it here on OGR.  Somewhere it was mentioned that Woodland Scenics ballast was nothing more than crushed and colored walnut shell.  That particular bag contains a sifted grade that's identical in size to WS medium grade, which I find just about perfect scale for O.  You'll find Walnut shell anywhere you might purchase sandblasting equipment.  It's a medium used to strip paint without building up heat that might warp steel panels.  A bag cost me about $30 CDN...roughly the cost of 2 bottles of the WS stuff up here.  A rough guestimate says one bag should be enough to cover the complete layout.

Bruce

BTW, I notice at the supply store that they offer a crushed copper slag that is finer in texture, somewhat like scale cinders.  When I'm back there I'll test the stuff to see if it's magnetic.   A 20lb. bag was around $10.

I know it didn't happen without pics, but I picked up a Premier AC4400 and a Dash-8 and frankly, they're making me contemplate selling off my RailKing diesels 

In Florida. My County is installing new Sewer and  Water Mains

They using  crushed Seashells for back fill.   

So I tried out on My Train Photo Below. 

Good luck, John.

paul 2 posted:

Today was the Medina show. I was only going to look for another  farm tractor to round out the loads for three flat cars. No luck on that but I managed to find a very nice Marx light tower, almost like brand new. There was another one for sale but when I got done buying this one and went back to grab that one someone else grab it. A lot more shows to go to maybe I will find some more. Pics....................Paul

paul, I was there with a box full of ertel 1/43 scale cars and tractors...$7 apiece, had the table by the n scale layout..... are those trains really that small?..jim

SIRT posted:

That looks amazing! I love the nice R/T stripe. I like the taillights so much more on the '15 and '16 than previous --modern-- models.

What's the horsepower rating?

SIRT's Mustang brought back memories.  I bought something cool, but it was in 1978!  A brand new '78 Mustang II.  I paid $3900 for it, brand new, loaded!  This is the color mine was, but I pulled the photo off the Internet.  Oh yes; I paid it off in less than a year.

2015 Dodge, not a Ford.

Cop magnet Big Time !!  Also a big chick magnet.  The gals love red sports cars. Have fun.

SIRT posted:

2015 Dodge, not a Ford.

LOL  I just followed the someone's comment and didn't pay that much attention.  I lost the urge to pay attention to new cars decades ago.  Now I drive a '04 Hyundai!  It gets me around.

Mark Boyce posted:

SIRT's Mustang brought back memories.  I bought something cool, but it was in 1978!  A brand new '78 Mustang II.  I paid $3900 for it, brand new, loaded!  This is the color mine was, but I pulled the photo off the Internet.  Oh yes; I paid it off in less than a year.

Wish I had one of those older Stangs... At least my junker runs (for now)

brwebster posted:

Mark Boyce posted;

Bruce,

I agree with Daylight!  I never heard of using that for ballast, but it looks mighty good!!  What are crushed walnut shells normally used for?  Do you find them in an agriculture or farm supply store?

Mark,

 I learned it here on OGR.  Somewhere it was mentioned that Woodland Scenics ballast was nothing more than crushed and colored walnut shell.  That particular bag contains a sifted grade that's identical in size to WS medium grade, which I find just about perfect scale for O.  You'll find Walnut shell anywhere you might purchase sandblasting equipment.  It's a medium used to strip paint without building up heat that might warp steel panels.  A bag cost me about $30 CDN...roughly the cost of 2 bottles of the WS stuff up here.  A rough guestimate says one bag should be enough to cover the complete layout.

Bruce

BTW, I notice at the supply store that they offer a crushed copper slag that is finer in texture, somewhat like scale cinders.  When I'm back there I'll test the stuff to see if it's magnetic.   A 20lb. bag was around $10.

Thank you.  Now I remember hearing they use Crushed walnut shells for sandblasting.  If one keeps his eyes open and mind thinking 1:48, there are lots of things that can be used on a layout.

I picked up this Santa Fe special set for $50. Only run once, mint condition.

Then this Williams by Bachman 4-6-0 came from Mario' Trains. 

It was packed to ship by dogsled, but only had to travel by plane. Great business. I'll be ordering from him again.

I want to turn the 4-6-0 into this.

As well as do some electronic upgrades. (e.g. err board and super chuffer.)

I just made my very first Sunset Model purchase and I'm loving it.  It's a NYC T-3a.  I had nothing like it in my collection and I'm very impressed with the quality.

Wasn't a buy, but a gift from a club member -- three Weaver livestock cars. I replaced the existing hi-rails and couplers and donated those to the club parts bin, substituting Intermountain scale wheels and Kadee 740 couplers. Ran them Wednesday and quickly discovered that they were underweight so I added some weight to them (and three other Weaver stock cars I had) this evening after I got home from the club today. I'll do another operational test next Wednesday.

Just picked up a Silvercup Bread Billboard by Bar Mills on eBay. I have been looking for this sign for years!

I now just need 1:48 figures of MacLeod and The Kurgan to complete the scene from the movie Highlander

 Nick

I went to the Greenberg train show in Wilmington, DE and bought a Lionel Frisco 2-8-2 Mikado #4100 for $300.  I also stopped at Nicholas Smith and got the caboose to go with it for $50.

Juat got this beauty in the mail today. One more piece to the collection 

I have seen so many cool items that fellow forum members have posted, I had to get into the act.  I just got a great deal from another Forum member on a Western Maryland PS3 FA-2 set.  While I like steam far better than diesels, some may have noticed I do have a soft spot for first generation diesels too.  And the ALCo diesels sound so clunky cool, I couldn't pass up these in my favorite road name.

Yes, I know I still have the Christmas layout still up.  I have been working on the Ceiling Central that I have posted on the What did you do on your layout today topic.  There will be a big announcement on that one soon. 

I picked all this up yesterday at a pawn shop for $80 . I think it was a good deal? 

I'd say you did fine. even at $5 each you got your money's worth.

In my continued effort to have all 6 of these Fantasy Legacy SD70 ACe engines and the matching cars.

I was lucky to get 3 more cars this week. I'm getting VERY close to being done

Only 1 engine and a few  more cars.  And that 1 engine is already a done deal.

Larry

Still having fun

Well, it's been a good week. Late yesterday I received the last 4 hard to find new old stock cars from  Joe at Grzyboski's .

All that's left is 1 engine. And a forum member is picking it up for me at York from another forum member. How cool is that.

I am done with diesels for a while.

Larry

Still having fun

nice set there Larry I was going to say I like the NS one but they all are NS so I like the Blue one on the lower right shelf now lets see them run on your layout. I demand a video

I hear ya J. If I can ever get the hang of the go pro I'll do it.

Larry

I got one for xmas and I can honestly say I hate that darn thing. my phone is so much easier LOL it does take good video's tho just wish I could keep it charged every time I go to use it, it is dead I think I keep leaving the wifi on.

Jhainer posted:

...my phone is so much easier LOL it does take good video's tho just wish I could keep it charged every time I go to use it, it is dead I think I keep leaving the wifi on.

If your car has one of those mini-cables in the console for charging-up phones, it is very helpful to do so on the way to destinations, even close ones. I use mine on long trips so the iPhone is ready along the way and when I arrive; plus, I just now charged the phone a bit on the way to the grocery store, which took me from the low 60's to the upper 70's.

frankm.

Atlas O 8683-3 8000 Gallon Tank Car:

I just liked the look of it.....

Got got this bad guy today!!!

I like the SW1500, the B&P mainline goes through my township.  I could go for one of those.