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
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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
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mtj54 posted:
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...
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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"
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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
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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!
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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
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All these trains look fantastic... just wish I had em on the shelf lol.
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
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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
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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
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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
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I picked up another different CanFor box car to add to the other two I have.
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