i swear honey, i will quit ebay after this

Funny!  Showed this to my wife and she just said "I can believe it"!! 

no .. really .. it will make the perfect backyard shed !!  hahaha

Where is the other half?

 

What you need here is another just like it and put them side by side to make a garage out of it.

New train room?

 

Ebay can be quite interesting when your prettier half looks over your shoulder at what your browsing. I was looking at K5LA and K3LA horns and looked at me and asked, "What do you need those for?" "Well honey, to get you out of bed in the morning." She just walked away and said nothing else about it. 

"Buy it Now" and FREE SHIPPING! Why not!!!

I think many of us have been there at one time or another.

Once, I was looking for M-35 series military trucks for a co-worker of mine who is ignorant of the ways of eBay and was looking to buy such a truck locally. My wife, who was painfully aware of the trials and tribulations of owning a WW2 Jeep, came into the room, took one look and yelled, "OH, [bleep] NO!" I don't think she ever believed that I really was looking for someone else (I wouldn't mind having one as my last Army unit had them in their motor pool and it'd be cool to have one painted up like one of those but I don't have the time to work on the Jeep when needed, really).

Now I'm willing to move to the trailer park.

 

 

I knew a guy years ago who bought a caboose from the CSX directly in their yards. He seriously miss-planned for the adventure of owning a rail car. He just thought when he paid, it'd magically show up (he wasn't very bright, obviously) at his place. He didn't take having to pay CSX to move it closer to him, storage on a siding, or any of that into account. He didn't even bother to check if a lowboy and cranes could even get to his property (they couldn't, the road was way too rough for that and the trees way too low). So, several grand in the hole, CSX eventually tried to sell it on a lien for the storage costs and he was left with nothing. It was eventually donated to a local RR museum who knew how to move it and had property it could be moved to.

Another thing nobody ever takes into account is, what do you do if you have to move? Another pal of mine once bought a heavyweight Pullman car, made one side of his house look like a RR station and went all out making it something a museum would envy. Six months later, his employer closed his office and told him he needed to move. He wasn't able to sell the house because nobody wanted to pay for 'an old railroad car' for what he had in it. He eventually sold the car, but at a great loss, as well as the house (at the height of the housing bubble, no less) because the new owner said they'd have to completely re-model one end of the home. He actually had to pay to have the car scrapped and the back of the house destroyed for the remodel to be able to sell it. When I last saw him, he was utterly broken man. I'd never take on a project like that personally, from his experience.

That is funny!

 

Art

I rather get a full passenger car that I can fit it in my backyard and build a very nice Railroad.

It looks like part of a SEPTA  MU
car.
Mike

Except for the NJT disco stripes...  Both RRs used similar designs on their silverliners (4 in septa speak)

Could this car be ex Reading or PennCentral?
Mike

And I felt guilty about buying a ticket punch today!

I snapped the pic right by the short hills mall on rt24 west. was fun juggling a blackberry in one hand and the wheel in the other.

that thing would make a hell of a train room...

Interesting ebay find......

Gary

• Cheers from The Detroit and Mackinac Railway

I like it. 

They made a lot of cottages out of street cars and coaches.

As is presently, a good in law suite?