Buy anything cool lately?

Tom M,

Great deal!  Looks like you have a happy camper!!

A few days ago USPS showed up at our front door with MTH Premier O 20-67215 70' ABS Full Length Vista Dome Ribbed Passenger Car, Amtrak #9383 circa 2013 from Model Train Stuff.  These MTH passenger cars are among my favorites with great detail, opening doors and 10 painted passengers per car. 18 1/2" long and operates on 042 rails.  Looks best on 072 and above, but at least it will navigate 042 curves.

Disregard the caboose photo, but the two metal signs on the top edge of the wall I recently got from a vendor in Tennessee. The ET&WNC one was really small. The other is a reproduction of an ALCO ad from about 1943 or 44. It's screams of the WW2 time period, so I had to have it. Along the top edge of the room (above the crew chalk board and clock) seemed to be a pretty good place for them.

 More pics here.....

https://ogrforum.com/...90#74354735621712690

Just got this off eBay. A 1942-dated manual on how to load any kind of open car you could ever imagine. It shows exactly how they would have praised and loaded flat cars, gondolas and hoppers. I've actually been looking for a book like this for a while, and the fact that this was printed during World War II is all the better for me.

These came today from PTF Designs a Petroleum refinery. They are mounted on foam and have a light wired in too. Pic..........Paul

They look really neat, Paul!

Arrived today.

Weaver G1092s CNW Yellow Jacket 4-6-2 #1620

A few tweaks to correct the travel bends and she's ready to go!  Finally have something to head my K-Line "400" train.  Both are 2-rail.

Very, very cool !!

That is really sharp Witz 41!!

Big Jim posted:

McQueen was legit.  I'm sure you'd rather have the 1:1 model.

WITZ 41 posted:

Big Jim posted:

McQueen was legit.  I'm sure you'd rather have the 1:1 model.

A few years ago in Watkins Glen, NY I bought a raffle ticket to win a clone of this car. I didn't win , but, someone about thirty five miles away from me did. I guess that is as close as I'll ever get to owning one! 

Newest member of the roster.....

Woohoochoochoo...

I bit bullet today, and after much hemming and hawing,  I just bought 5 cars of the repro 200 series for almost all of a freight consist. 214 reefer, 220 searchlight car, 215 tank car, 212 gondola with containers, and a 217 caboose.

Along with that the repro 4400N double signal bridge with 4400C Control panel, and the repro 1867 Ives Signal Tower. 

And a little pre-war green water tower.

Does a "layaway" count??  If so, I committed to buy a Lionel GG1 #2360. Not that I needed it or wanted it but the price was right-I think after looking on deBay and my outdated Lionel price guide. There is a newer GG1 that I don't want that will go up for sale here soon.

WITZ 41 posted:

Arrived today.

Weaver G1092s CNW Yellow Jacket 4-6-2 #1620

A few tweaks to correct the travel bends and she's ready to go!  Finally have something to head my K-Line "400" train.  Both are 2-rail.

 

Beauty!

John-

Jim, Layaway counts in my book.  I know, do any of us NEED one more engine?  Sure do!  ;-)

Big Jim posted:

WITZ 41 posted:

Big Jim posted:

McQueen was legit.  I'm sure you'd rather have the 1:1 model.

A few years ago in Watkins Glen, NY I bought a raffle ticket to win a clone of this car. I didn't win , but, someone about thirty five miles away from me did. I guess that is as close as I'll ever get to owning one! 

Back when I was a kid. After a bunch of us saw Bullitt, That was it, we all wanted a Mustang or a Shelby Cobra. What made it worse was divided loyalties between Sox and Martin, Richard Petty , Don Garlits. and the Wood Brothers who ran both the Ford Torino and the Mercury Cyclone.   

p51 posted:

Just got this off eBay. A 1942-dated manual on how to load any kind of open car you could ever imagine. It shows exactly how they would have praised and loaded flat cars, gondolas and hoppers. I've actually been looking for a book like this for a while, and the fact that this was printed during World War II is all the better for me.

Lee you keep coming up with some cool stuff. This to me is a nice find. 

I'd been wanting a PRR 01 electric and was thinking of making one from scratch and still may.  By chance I saw this home made wood one on that site and couldn't resist a bid.  It's not great, but it is neat anyway.

Thought this purchase would be the realization of a fascination from the late mid-50's.  The fascination was in Lionel's catalog image of a New Haven EP-5.

Personally I find the K-Line scale version the nicest.  Found on on eBay NIB with both pilots intact based on pictures.  

But this is how it arrived August 2.

One of the "fra-gil-e" (Christmas Story) pilots was snapped off.  And somehow one of the electro-coupler's wires ripped away.

As Ralphy says in the movie "in our height of revelry ... ."  The wind was sucked out of my sails.

For a couple of weeks pondered the best way to try and fix this.  Conjured up this fixture to work with the broke pilot on.

Decided best fix was to literally fix the pilot to the frame of the "front" forward end.  With my almost thirty-years in Nuclear-QA had to have a checklist of actions.

After two-days of very careful delicate work the results.

Rear end with pilot mounted as built on truck.  This allows free movement for coupling to consist.

Now I feel really good and very happy with the results.  The fixed pilot on forward end looks great.

Dennis Holler posted:

I'd been wanting a PRR 01 electric and was thinking of making one from scratch and still may.  By chance I saw this home made wood one on that site and couldn't resist a bid.  It's not great, but it is neat anyway.

Dennis,

This is just the coolest thing! I am envious. In my long list of plans is a Standard Gauge P5A box cab electric using some AF steam loco drivers (about the right diameter). I take it that this is O gauge? I have just gone through a lot of research (and purchase) on gearing and delrin drives. Let me know if you would like info on what I found. Might be hard to match the worm on that motor, but I have also learned how to measure and match.

Jim Waterman

Thanks Jim, I just couldn't resist this thing.  Will let you know more about it once it shows up.  The other option I thought about was to use a motor out of a 1662 switcher  since I am all tubular right now.  I keep planning on adding a gargraves loop so I can run stuff like this but haven't done so yet. I really get a kick out of other peoples creative projects.

Found this this McCoy orange caboose on my front steps.
This is a eBay buy.
Have the red caboose but wanted one that would match my orange  4-4-4 McCoy engine.
My McCoy collection is growing, once you start it is hard to stop.

My estate sale hunting scored a nice set of prewar freight cars! But no 226E   just a nice 1666e in gun metal grey. Also small windup engine that I'm not sure of what it is, the spring is broken.

That's quite a haul, Frank!  Though I agree a 226E would have made it better.  Should keep you busy for a while!

franktrain posted:

My estate sale hunting scored a nice set of prewar freight cars! But no 226E   just a nice 1666e in gun metal grey. Also small windup engine that I'm not sure of what it is, the spring is broken.

 

Nice haul!

Great find, hope that the masking tape comes off easily?

No problem with the rolling stock but the tape on the boxes was not cooperative.

MTH Milwaukee Road 44-ton switcher finally arrived last week. Ran it at the club for the second time tonight, and it also runs nicely on my O-27 layout at home.

Just got this off eBay. Its a 1945 ashtray, from an Army Railway Shop Battalion in Kassel, Germany in 1945.

Love the representation of the Army locomotive!

Mr. FedEx brought me a new (to me) Weaver streamlined K4s.  It is a beautiful engine and runs great.  Here she is taking a drink at a line side water tower.  My Grandson agrees that this is one great looking engine!

Rolland

Sure did, Browning Maxus

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Another junk project on the way, this time an AF prewar Hiawatha set with out the engine...  Now I just need to find an engine lol

Dennis Holler posted:

Another junk project on the way, this time an AF prewar Hiawatha set with out the engine...  Now I just need to find an engine lol

great project piece!

Ok, here is a follow up on the PRR O1 I won a few days ago.  It arrived this afternoon.  It is of wood construction and not to bad actually.  It won't pass any scale muster, but it definitely does meet this sort of scale for way back when requirements lol. I haven't decided if I'll put a tinplate motor in it for now or not.  That is what is under it for the mocked up pictures.  The guy must have spent considerable time scratch building this thing at some point.  I just couldn't resist at $25 .

I almost bought that boxcab myself but forgot. I guess I can erase that bookmark.

  Figured the pantographs alone were worth it if I didnt like it once in front of me.

  I'm going to be following you for a while in hopes you post more on it.

Dennis - that O-1 looks great. Just need some handrails on the front and back, a Brunswick Green repaint and some Microscale O decals to make it look complete. If you get tired of it, send me a note. I am getting a large 3D printer (12 by 12 by 15" print area) and plan to print a P5 in standard gauge, maybe I'll have to do an O-1 in O scale as well.

Jim