Buy anything cool lately?

Avast, Matie!  Thar goes thee toy train budget, 

Bruce

Mill City posted:

Nice, Matt. I just received a few things like those in Armor Yellow...

John, I think there's two of these with your name on em!

David 66 posted:

Happy Father's Day. 

Been busy on the bay... . Bought a few things, 

David, you bought a sailboat on your phone!?!?!? Bold move, I bought a house on my phone

jim pastorius posted:

I bought an eye exam and fancy new glasses which was expensive !!  But now I can see.

Me too! But I've trained myself to acknowledge that having eye exams is a very good thing. I got convinced of that when, during a routine eye exam in 2013, the doctor discovered I had glaucoma and scheduled me for urgent surgery, right away, saying that if I had not come in for the examination (which I had done by happenstance, on a whim!!!!!) and had the problem corrected, which was totally unsuspected by me = no signs of it to me - I would have awakened one morning, sooner than later, to find myself in the dark permanently.

Yes, eye exams are good to have. Often. Yesterday's assured me all was well , but I needed an up-tick in my glasses prescription, which I had suspected when viewing the computer screen and doing minute modeling recently.

FrankM

P.S. To my fellow hobbyists out there in hobbyland, forewarned is farsighted.

Moonson posted:

jim pastorius posted:

I bought an eye exam and fancy new glasses which was expensive !!  But now I can see.

Me too! But I've trained myself to acknowledge that having eye exams is a very good thing. I got convinced of that when, during a routine eye exam in 2013, the doctor discovered I had glaucoma and scheduled me for urgent surgery, right away, saying that if I had not come in for the examination (which I had done by happenstance, on a whim!!!!!) and had the problem corrected, which was totally unsuspected by me = no signs of it to me - I would have awakened one morning, sooner than later, to find myself in the dark permanently.

Yes, eye exams are good to have. Often. Yesterday's assured me all was well , but I needed an up-tick in my glasses prescription, which I had suspected when viewing the computer screen and doing minute modeling recently.

FrankM

P.S. To my fellow hobbyists out there in hobbyland, forewarned is farsighted.

Very wise advice that we all should heed!!!

Matt Makens posted:

I got these

 

Nice!!!!

Found these. Like New, at a great price.

Went down to Menards to pick up my Pepsi plant.  Pic.......Paul

jim pastorius posted:

I bought an eye exam and fancy new glasses which was expensive !!  But now I can see.

I was going to get hearing aids until the doc said "With these you will be able to hear every word your wife says".

Guess you know  how that ended.

Love the stuff Menard's is making.   the Pepsi Plant, salt mine and power plant.    really nice items.

The Burlington engines look terrific!      have fun with them.

Misc Evilbay items!

Matt Makens posted:

Mill City posted:

Nice, Matt. I just received a few things like those in Armor Yellow...

John, I think there's two of these with your name on em!

Indeed, I do...

David 66 posted:

Happy Father's Day. 

Been busy on the bay... . Bought a few things, 

You do know what the two happiest days of a man's life are. A clue; You've experienced one of them...

Nice scores! Love the engines. The NP is a beautiful set C.Sam. The B&O looks fantastic. The Burlington is real nice. I picked up my 6-pack of PRR Express Boxcars this week. Looking forward to bringing them down to the club and running them. 

harmonyards posted:

Joe Congemi posted:

Dave NYC Hudson PRR K4 posted:

I managed to get a JLC Y6B today. Bought it on Ebay and the seller hand delivered it to me since we live fairly close to each other(about 25-30 minutes away). Was my first Ebay purchase, great price, and Tom is a great guy. Ironically, I had bought from him earlier at one of the Greenberg show's the PT Tender to the Century Club Empire State Express. It wasn't until we were talking(about 20 minutes) what railroads we liked and NYC came up and I commented about the PT Tender. He said, "That was you? Small world". Funny how that works.

Solid engine. I'm a huge N&W fan and this is one of my favorite O Scale Y6b's made.

that y6 will be a long way from home on the water level route!.....HA HA HA! beautiful locomotive man enjoy it!

Yeah, a little far from home is right. I'm still in planning stages for what will be the big layout(16x20) if space allows when done settling my mom's estate. I plan on having a few main lines(which I need to get back into my design program). Was tinkering in my head mostly of where the PRR & NYC would have some crossover territory and that would be where the N&W(and some other lines) would have their rails running. Of course time is something I need to find. Someone throw a clock at me.

Just added a few tuff to find things for the layout.  A black painted 193, yellow painted 395, Marx 1460 Illuminated Gantry Crane, Marx 5590 Searchlight Crane and a Marx 1324 Trestle Bridge with Beacon.

joker34 posted:

MTH Premier PS3 Western Maryland BL-2

Sure do wish one of the roads I like used the BL-2"s.

Its not train related but I couldn't resist posting it here...

I've been looking for one of these for a long time.

A space potty ??

jim pastorius posted:

A space potty ??

Nope, its a pressurized container, lined with a lot of foam.

p51 posted:

jim pastorius posted:

A space potty ??

Nope, its a pressurized container, lined with a lot of foam.

A self contained portable human waste disposal system. Get the terminology correct. Space potty is too simple for government contracts.

That would fit the label of critical space item

Guys, its not a pooper...

It's a box of space junk

Knowing Lee for acquiring items of historical significance.  It probably came from the moon. Get it?

suzukovich posted:

Knowing Lee for acquiring items of historical significance.  It probably came from the moon. Get it?

Man, you guys and your poop humor...

As for real Moon stuff, I have a couple of items that were carried onto the surface of the moon (outside the LM lander, too), but I never mention them online. That stuff is in a lockbox at the bank... Long ago I decided not to be a deducated collector of flown space stuff due to crushing costs, but I have lucked up on a few items anyway.

I know a guy who bought one of the metal cases that moon rocks were carried in to the laboratory at Houston. He found it at a garage sale! That would be my Holy Grail of space collecting....

Lee just having fun. So what are you planning on using it for?

suzukovich posted:

Lee just having fun. So what are you planning on using it for?

No idea.

I do public speaking for the US Space and Rocket center, so it would make a good container for the stuff I'd take?

A long time ago, in the earlier days of the Space Age, my brother-in-law was a Dr. at Cape Kennedy, as it was called. He told me adult diapers originated with the space program because that was the only alternative to an obvious problem. True ??

jim pastorius posted:

A long time ago, in the earlier days of the Space Age, my brother-in-law was a Dr. at Cape Kennedy, as it was called. He told me adult diapers originated with the space program because that was the only alternative to an obvious problem. True ??

No idea. That's a chicken/egg thing that I've never looked into.

They do use adult diapers under the pressure suits, though. The problem sitting on the pad is that the crew is sitting horizontally and that's really tough to pee sitting down with your back level with the ground, I've been told by a few astronauts.

Just got this in the mail today. Another wood chip hopper. Periodically I search the for sale ads on the forum and this time I was lucky to find one for sale by a forum member. They are a needle in a haystack to find. Pic......Paul

Good deal finding that needle, Paul!!

So folks either love them or they hate them!  I love them.  Here are two MTH BL-2s I bought from Mike Caruso.  The number 83 is ProtoSound and is a really smooth running engine.  I happen to have a PS3 upgrade kit that will go in it.  The 7181 with the newer paint scheme is a non powered unit.  Thanks to Mike!!!

Mark Boyce posted:

So folks either love them or they hate them!  I love them.  Here are two MTH BL-2s I bought from Mike Caruso.  The number 83 is ProtoSound and is a really smooth running engine.  I happen to have a PS3 upgrade kit that will go in it.  The 7181 with the newer paint scheme is a non powered unit.  Thanks to Mike!!!

Aw man, I was about to pull the trigger on those.  I guess I'll settle for the Western Maryland crane and boom car that came yesterday.

Paul Moore posted:

Mark Boyce posted:

So folks either love them or they hate them!  I love them.  Here are two MTH BL-2s I bought from Mike Caruso.  The number 83 is ProtoSound and is a really smooth running engine.  I happen to have a PS3 upgrade kit that will go in it.  The 7181 with the newer paint scheme is a non powered unit.  Thanks to Mike!!!

Aw man, I was about to pull the trigger on those.  I guess I'll settle for the Western Maryland crane and boom car that came yesterday.

Paul, The crane and boom car look great!  Actually, I was on the fence on Mike's BL-2s a month ago, then last week decided to put the other project on the back shelf and use the PS3 kit for this.  I was surprised they were still available.

Wow, my budget is limited, but I purchased this car from a OGR Forum ad...

Just got this for Fathers Day!  Looks great with the MTH Golden Spike Centennial cars!

Rolland

These just arrived from Menard's, got a few of the Army flats to add to my military trains and I had to have some of the new half tracks since that is what my dad used in WWII.