Great buys everyone! Awesome shirt Marty!!
I recently received 10 Menards cars from an extremely nice gentleman I met through a Facebook train group.
First up are a few of the M&Ms cars. These have been on my list for sometime now. Great additions to my never ending candy collection.
Next up is a Tide boxcar, a few CSX, PRR, Reading, and a Reading & Northern. 
That’s all for now. Many more in the process of being delivered.
@Don McErlean posted:Well I posted this on the "Marx Trains" thread but thought It might also be of interest here. I found this Marx mechanical set at a local train show last weekend. It dates from 1952 and it appeared in the 1952 Sears Christmas Wishbook for the amazing price of $4.98. What I found so fascinating was the condition of the set. The cardboard sleeves separating the pieces were still present, the track is shiny, and the trains look as thought they have never been out of the box, at least not very often.
Here is the box cover, colorful and a little worn but not too bad for 70 years old!
The contents of the box inside, including the original cardboard sleeves to keep the items from scratching each other.
The locomotive and tender. A clockwork, WHISTLING Mercury locomotive and a "grey band" NYC tender
Side view of the locomotive and tender
The rolling stock from the set. The wheels on these don't even show any significant usage.
Oh and almost best of all...the ORIGINAL KEY was still in the box.
Well its not the most rare set but I thought the condition at its age warranted me posting it for everyone to have a look.
Best Wishes
Don
That's a beautiful set!
@Richizzle07 posted:Great buys everyone! Awesome shirt Marty!!
I recently received 10 Menards cars from an extremely nice gentleman I met through a Facebook train group.
First up are a few of the M&Ms cars. These have been on my list for sometime now. Great additions to my never ending candy collection.
Next up is a Tide boxcar, a few CSX, PRR, Reading, and a Reading & Northern.
That’s all for now. Many more in the process of being delivered.
Love the M&M and the Tide cars.
@Richizzle07 posted:Great additions to my never ending candy collection.
How could they not make a plastic M&Ms load for this????
Ed "ICE" Berg - thank you for your compliment on my Marx set. Richizzle07 - that is some collection of Menards cars. They are colorful and seem to track great (I have several). The "Tide" car is very recent so the seller must have just recently decided to part with them. VjandP-nice car for sure, the #6560 is MPC from its earliest days (1971) and carries a significant collector value.
Best wishes
Don
@p51 posted:How could they not make a plastic M&Ms load for this????
That right there is a great new product idea, IMHO. Candy hopper cars with candy. Not sure if any company has done such a thing. But it would make a great addition to a Halloween or Easter layout.
Mike
@IRON HORSE posted:That right there is a great new product idea, IMHO. Candy hopper cars with candy. Not sure if any company has done such a thing. But it would make a great addition to a Halloween or Easter layout.
Mike
Nope Nope Nope - would you really want to attract insects and rodents? Real candy, in a toy train? That would be a very big Halloween or Christmas surprise, to open one and have critters inside.
@Mark V. Spadaro posted:Nope Nope Nope - would you really want to attract insects and rodents? Real candy, in a toy train? That would be a very big Halloween or Christmas surprise, to open one and have critters inside.
Not real candy. A simulated candy load. I'm thinking Harry Heike custom made load of colored M&Ms. Or you could make simulated little boxes of M&Ms in a load.
Problem with a simulated candy load is will look too real and some one will get a surprise when they eat it. Can empty small bags and stuff them with something though. That might look good.
@Mark V. Spadaro posted:Nope Nope Nope - would you really want to attract insects and rodents? Real candy, in a toy train? That would be a very big Halloween or Christmas surprise, to open one and have critters inside.
You guys kill me. Nothing wrong with a bulk load of real M & Ms in a hopper or gondola. I've had this on my layout for years, with a regular turnover of the M & Ms, thanks to grandkids and neighborhood kids (and adults) visiting the layout. A load of the real thing has been running around on my layout for years, with never a critter, thanks to a clean basement. 
HEY! Yellowstone - send that one my way...LOVE M&M's.
Best Wishes
Don
@Don McErlean posted:HEY! Yellowstone - send that one my way...LOVE M&M's.
Best Wishes
Don
Right on, Don! Best wishes to you.
@Yellowstone Special posted:You guys kill me. Nothing wrong with a bulk load of real M & Ms in a hopper or gondola. I've had this on my layout for years, with a regular turnover of the M & Ms, thanks to grandkids and neighborhood kids (and adults) visiting the layout. A load of the real thing has been running around on my layout for years, with never a critter, thanks to a clean basement.
Nice!
This reminds me of when the Ace Hardware man suggested I use Gorilla tape on my lawn mower to cover a rust hole. When I said I was concerned that the tape wouldn't hold, he said, "just put another piece of tape over the hole if that happens." I had that taped mower for several years after that and only had to replace the piece of tape once or twice.
I your case, if the candy gets bad, or eaten, just put some more candy in it 
@IRON HORSE posted:That right there is a great new product idea, IMHO. Candy hopper cars with candy. Not sure if any company has done such a thing. But it would make a great addition to a Halloween or Easter layout.
Mike
I’d like to make fake M&Ms loads similar to the Reese’s Pieces ones I got a few weeks back. 
Just picked up a refurbished legacy CSX ES44 #3010 from Lionel for a very good price. The hose on the front and one of the handrails came broken off. All is there and can be repaired easily. As far as i can tell this loco has never been run. Theres no lubrication or even a mark on a pickup roller or wheels. Very clean loco for the price. Functions perfectly. I also picked up a few menards flat cars with sea hawks. Lots of fun!
Got a new SD70ACE, works great on my O48 / O36 curves (soon to be all O48), but it doesn't clear the side of my tunnel after a curve. Looks like the project to rebuild my tunnel and upper loop is now a high priority. Guess I'll be doing that over the next few weeks 😬
@Dave Ripp. posted:
Thanks! Yup thats plankton
NOPE!
Over this past weekend I attended a Trains, Die Cast Toys, & Railroad Memorabilia Show held at the Taylor Fire Department in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. This was my first time ever at the show and it was much larger than I was expecting. I picked up 7 boxcars and saw several other very interesting items but I was thinking about York coming up and decided to hold off.
My first six boxcars are MTH Christmas and Holiday cars from numerous years. Guess I’ll need to finish this collection now too! 😂
The last boxcar I picked up from the show is a Lionel Norfolk Southern boxcar.
It was a great show that I’ll be sure to attend in the future! Here’s the entire haul!
@Richizzle07 posted:I’d like to make fake M&Ms loads similar to the Reese’s Pieces ones I got a few weeks back.
So they have been done. Very nice. K-line.
@Richizzle07 posted:Over this past weekend I attended a Trains, Die Cast Toys, & Railroad Memorabilia Show held at the Taylor Fire Department in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. This was my first time ever at the show and it was much larger than I was expecting. I picked up 7 boxcars and saw several other very interesting items but I was thinking about York coming up and decided to hold off.
My first six boxcars are MTH Christmas and Holiday cars from numerous years. Guess I’ll need to finish this collection now too! 😂
The last boxcar I picked up from the show is a Lionel Norfolk Southern boxcar.
It was a great show that I’ll be sure to attend in the future! Here’s the entire haul!
Richizzle,
Looks interesting. Do you know the dates (or the website) of future shows?
Thanks.
Bob
Pick these up a few weeks back at Hamburg train meet.
These 027 , 2- 2422 & 24023 passenger cars, went over and rewired them, and gonna give them to my grandson.
Couldn't resist the 6-18201 Chessie System unit train, I have the add on 18204 SD40 dummy and the 17105 add on cover hopper. This is the 2nd complete 6-18201 complete set I have.
In a previous post, I made an addendum indicating that I had placed orders for three more MTH chrome tankers (that I had discovered late in my "gotta catch 'em all" moment). Well, all three are "on the property". Captions reference the photo above:
I thought taking these out of the box and photographing them on their styrofoam inserts would make it easier to view the cars rather than leaving them in the box behind a layer of cellophane and plastic bag like the previous batch of seven. After transferring the photo to my computer, I saw that...chrome tanks are hard to photograph so the lettering/logos are visible...So, out-of-box closeups:
30-73221 Pennsylvania. Funny story...from Trainz, Fedex showed it being picked up the same day as the order (I did it around 10am), then it sat in the Fedex pickup location in Ellenwood, GA for six days before jumping to Edison NJ SmartPost, then finally to my local FedEx hub in Yonkers...with a notation that it was going to be delivered Fedex Ground rather than USPS. While Ebay stated the delivery window was between 9/21 and 9/24, it was odd that the carrier essentially sat on it till it would arrive on the last day of a four-day delivery window.
30-73222 Alaska
30-73239 Killian's Irish Red.
So, after consulting my collection records, it would seem that I have about 36 chrome-plated tankers so far. That would include the 18 I have in my electronic records, a Lionel (6-26132), the two Williams prototypes from York, three starter-set cars I got from a MTH warehouse auction, two more I found on Ebay around the same time, seven I got from a dealer, and the three pictured here, also from Ebay.
That's gonna make some train when I put them all together. I think I'll use the two chrome-plated boxcars I have (K-Line TTOS 25th anniversary and MTH 25th anniversary) to divide the consist into railroad, petroleum and beverage roadnames
(Edit 09/26) Oh, and photographing chrome tankers is still difficult. I presume you'd need to shoot into a fully-lit enclosed white box (or outside on a sunny day) to eliminate dark reflections obscuring the markings.
---PCJ
I have quite a few 6415 and 6425 dome cars. I bought 3 new dome cars, all with a nod to my father. The first (and with only a slight connection) is a Timken car. His company must have dealt with Timken because he kept bringing home Timken bearings (you can use only so many paperweights). Another reason for buying the Timken car was because it was made in the USA. The second car is a MobilGas. He worked for a division of Mobil Chemical that produced paints and industrial coatings throughout my childhood. The third car is Valspar. They bought the plant from Mobil a few years after I left.
@Yellowstone Special posted:You guys kill me. Nothing wrong with a bulk load of real M & Ms in a hopper or gondola. I've had this on my layout for years, with a regular turnover of the M & Ms, thanks to grandkids and neighborhood kids (and adults) visiting the layout. A load of the real thing has been running around on my layout for years, with never a critter, thanks to a clean basement.
YES! Loads of real candy is best. A false bottom can be installed so you don't have to have THAT much candy in a gon or hopper. Then when the running session is over put any leftovers in a bowl to eat later. OR just toss in some of the small Fun Size bags
Lionel #2232020 LionChief Plus 2.0 UP 2-8-4 Hudson. This wasn't really a "lately" purchase. This was a pre-order at Trainworld and came in maybe about six weeks ago, but then it just sat there while I did some work on the layout.
Personally as far as treats on the layout go; I always liked the LGB tank car that could dispense an adult beverage. My friend had one on his LGB layout. Having one in O gauge would be a treat.
Purchased these cars a few months ago from a forum member. I lean more towards the 3 rail scale side of the hobby but I do have a bit of tinplate. Having said that these cars are a bit of a blend of both and truly stunning in action, in my humble opinion. The K-Line Hudson matches up well handily pulling the set along.
Just wanted to share..
My next shipment of Menards cars have arrived. There’s 8 total Menards and 1 Lionel PRR boxcar.
I grabbed a second M&Ms brown hopper and my first M&Ms yellow hopper along with the Life Savers tanker.
Following the candy rush, is a Tide tanker, my second CSX hopper, Norfolk Southern flat with Pepsi Bottle truck, US Navy gondola, and a PRR gondola.
And here’s the Lionel PRR boxcar along with a photo of this entire package.
More packages are still on the way! Stay Tuned!
Ok this made my day - unexpectedly won this at auction after not winning. Weaver Brass Hiawatha 4-6-4 steamer. Will pair well with the Weaver beaver tail Passenger set I bought from a forum member. Seller says he is the second owner - first owner had her on a shelf - he had her on a shelf and then boxed for the last 20 years or so. She has never been run! He does not have a layout. Surprised this has an old PS1 board in her.
What do you think of the chances the white battery is still good after all this time? I have an extra PS3 upgrade kit which will go into this beauty.
And yes I am moving and this is shipping to Michigan while I am still here in Illinois. I so so want to run this on TPRR but not to be.
Nice...
@Richizzle07 posted:Hello Bob! Definitely worth checking out. Here’s their flyer with their next 3 shows.
Thank you, Rich. I don't think I can make the Oct. 29 show but will try for the December show.
Bob
@ScoutingDad posted:Ok this made my day - unexpectedly won this at auction after not winning. Weaver Brass Hiawatha 4-6-4 steamer. Will pair well with the Weaver beaver tail Passenger set I bought from a forum member. Seller says he is the second owner - first owner had her on a shelf - he had her on a shelf and then boxed for the last 20 years or so. She has never been run! He does not have a layout. Surprised this has an old PS1 board in her.
What do you think of the chances the white battery is still good after all this time? I have an extra PS3 upgrade kit which will go into this beauty.
And yes I am moving and this is shipping to Michigan while I am still here in Illinois. I so so want to run this on TPRR but not to be.
Very nice. I like both that engine and the beaver tail set especially. And your ability to add a PS3 board will make it a really cool complete set.
I was fortunate to buy a used Premier PS3 MTH Hiawatha engine like this earlier this year with a matching passenger set and then completed the passenger set separately with 7 cars total. So I appreciate what you have here. Enjoy because these are beautiful.
@ScoutingDad posted:Ok this made my day - unexpectedly won this at auction after not winning. Weaver Brass Hiawatha 4-6-4 steamer. Will pair well with the Weaver beaver tail Passenger set I bought from a forum member. Seller says he is the second owner - first owner had her on a shelf - he had her on a shelf and then boxed for the last 20 years or so. She has never been run! He does not have a layout. Surprised this has an old PS1 board in her.
What do you think of the chances the white battery is still good after all this time? I have an extra PS3 upgrade kit which will go into this beauty.
And yes I am moving and this is shipping to Michigan while I am still here in Illinois. I so so want to run this on TPRR but not to be.
If it is Weaver, why does it have an MTH board in it?
@ScoutingDad posted:Ok this made my day - unexpectedly won this at auction after not winning. Weaver Brass Hiawatha 4-6-4 steamer. Will pair well with the Weaver beaver tail Passenger set I bought from a forum member. Seller says he is the second owner - first owner had her on a shelf - he had her on a shelf and then boxed for the last 20 years or so. She has never been run! He does not have a layout. Surprised this has an old PS1 board in her.
What do you think of the chances the white battery is still good after all this time? I have an extra PS3 upgrade kit which will go into this beauty.
And yes I am moving and this is shipping to Michigan while I am still here in Illinois. I so so want to run this on TPRR but not to be.
@ScoutingDad posted:Ok this made my day - unexpectedly won this at auction after not winning. Weaver Brass Hiawatha 4-6-4 steamer. Will pair well with the Weaver beaver tail Passenger set I bought from a forum member. Seller says he is the second owner - first owner had her on a shelf - he had her on a shelf and then boxed for the last 20 years or so. She has never been run! He does not have a layout. Surprised this has an old PS1 board in her.
What do you think of the chances the white battery is still good after all this time? I have an extra PS3 upgrade kit which will go into this beauty.
And yes I am moving and this is shipping to Michigan while I am still here in Illinois. I so so want to run this on TPRR but not to be.
Never take a chance with a white battery. The possible outcome is not worth it. I would purchase a BCR but that's just my preference.
Can't resist responding to the posts. Thanks for the interest in a really great looking engine.
The question regarding the dreaded white battery was meant tongue in cheek - batteries are the first thing to go (get removed and replaced with a BCR) on an "new" used engine.
Turns out the seller has tables at York in the Silver Hall. I've never been there so I have no reference point. From his message I think he knows what he is talking about and I hope I am not sharing anything I shouldn't. Following is an excerpt from a message to me:
I've only seen TMCC in Weaver's so this was a total surprise there was a PS1 in here. Of course I was not in the hobby at the time and all the really great innovative stuff going on then I was oblivious to. I feel fortunate to be able to pick up these Brass Weavers and K-Line stock on the used market - many in like new condition. BTW I have dealt with some really pleasant sellers on the bay - this was one.
Just got in from Berwyn's an Atlas Rock Island heavyweight RPO. Wonder if they did MP and Burlington RPO's to keep the mail moving on the High Plains?
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