So whats on your Shopping List for York?

I will be looking for the following

 

1. Lionel scale Husky Stacks
2. Bowser or Weaver Roadrailers
3. some add on cars (either head end or a coach or two to make the following trains a bit longer
4. 1. Weaver N&W streamlined 5 car set
   2. GGD LIRR coaches (have 5)
5. and finally a Vision Hudson (Black). Looking for one that is reasonably priced, run but in exc condition.

Weaver Brass K-4 Torpedo......anything W&LE......maybe one or two Crescent Locomotive buildings......any MTH switchers that are used, but not abused for repaints.....Grif Teller WA & G calendar. He really did one....1966 (I think! ) Even one of these items will be great. And.....a mess of scrapple (ponhaus). Tom

American Flyer passenger car # 497

Marx Oak Park Station

Assorted parts

K-line steam engine with TMCC. Anyone I currently don't have will do  must be a North East road name. 

Pick up my T3 electric for one thing. I have a list of about 6-7 pre-war O Gauge. Also some parts. I will be there all week. I have plenty of time to find stuff.

I will be picking up 3 weaver Sinclair tank cars made for the TCAMG, some weaver flat cars with trailers. That's about it beings I am moving in December. 

-Over 18v bulbs or led bulbs (before I melt something on my switch controllers)

-Megasteam

-A BCR

-Parts

-An Ives 1708 (though that is always on my list)

-And probably other things which are escaping me at this moment, or will catch me while I am there....

 

Of course, I only have Saturday to find all this, so it will be a bit of a task to get all this and try to get in all the halls.

 

 

the only specifics are Smoke Fluid and a good time. I will look for a couple of engines and hopefully one of which is a Williams Brass Steamer

Eighteen roller-bearing trucks

 

(WECX 801, for the curious)

 

---PCJ

Anything that catches my eye and my brain says I can't live w/o it.

Kosher hot dogs, and maybe a 1:43 car or two. I'm happy just walking and looking.

I need one of those as well.

Hoping to get my Lionel Dealer Display layout started in a few weeks and I’ll be looking for some of the PW operating accessories, signals, and other items for the layout.

 

Will also stop by Sidetrack to look at their tinplate, and I always end up buying a DVD or two from TM Books & Video.  

I'm hoping to find 1 or 2 of the Lionmasters that I don't have. 

 

Also, I'm probably on the look out for things I don't even know I need yet!

 

Joe

I like the hotdog idea!!!!!!!!

This is the first York show for my 11 year old and I, so we don't have a set list of items we need.  Hoping to take it all in and enjoy and not get carried away.

 

A few items I could use would be:

 

> Fastrack (straights, 060 curves, and accessory track)

>2 truck Shay

>diecast cars and trucks

>Santa Fe Diesels

>steam/smoke fluid

>1:87 people to populate my passenger cars, maybe some O scale folks for the layout too

 

Items I hope I don't see because I will probably overpay and buy...

>Pennsy Torpedo train

>John Wilkes Lehigh Valley loco

>2 truck shay (LOL)

>anything Legacy

 

And hoping to see and meet some of the OGR sponsors (any of you going to be there?)

and members. 

Then perhaps we will see you at the cook-out around 11 AM on Thursday?

There are a number of dealers selling diecast cars and trucks, mainly in the Orange Hall, including a DiecastDirect booth selling American Excellence cars among other brands.

Thanks for the tip Joe.  I look forward to seeing Diecast Direct.

RH #042 Manual Turnout/Switch, track pins, accessory buttons, whatever else I see that's cheap and interesting, and a good time for three days.

Nothing really big, unless I can snag either a 1776 set or a Lionel Southern Crescent 685 and a set of passenger cars or a Lionel 8801 Blue Comet and passenger cars for a good price. Other than that just a lot of small stuff, still on the hunt for a 1950ish ambulance, a garbage truck, a couple of Scenic Express bigfoots/bigfeet?, some Mega Steam and any Skyline buildings that might be floating around. I am thinking about tracking down at least 9 Lionel cattle cars and building a drovers caboose to make a livestock unit train. Parts for projects currently stalled and anything unusual that strikes my fancy, keeping my eyes open for lead figures.

 

Jerry

The only things on my list are a bottle of Mega-Steam, maybe a Miller Engineering sign, an engine that I have already paid for, and a lot of fun.

 

Every time I take a big want list, I always seem to come home with a whole different set of items.

 

Now I just take a list of what I have so that I don't duplicate.

 

Andy

I have started a list of what I have already as well. I have passed on a lot of rolling stock in the past because I thought I already had that road number and it turned out that i didn't.

 

That is what always seems to happen when I don't have my list with me, and why I do have my list with me at York.  Now that cell phones are no longer forbidden, I can put the list on my phone and save some paper.

 

Andy

 Even before the rule was lifted I always used my phone to keep a list on and look items up online. You were only banned from talking on the phone, not from using other features.

I ALWAYS take my list, because I will definitely duplicate something without it.

 

What am I looking for this time around? 

 

Hmmmm.

 

1) If my order doesn't come through, Weaver telephone/utility poles.

2) A Z-Stuff DZ-1020 Crossing Signal pair

3) Any interesting detail parts or figures that I don't already have and catch my eye.

4) Any interesting 1:50 tractor trailors from the 1950s that I don't already have

5) Micro-Mark Yellow O-scale Brick Paper (it's been discontinued, so I will need a miracle here).

6) A decent hot dog sounds good!

 

George

Parts.

I used my phone for this purpose for a while, but members in the member halls would occasionally chastise me for using my cell phone in the hall even though I wasn't using it to make calls.

 

The last time I used it for this purpose, I was looking up an sku item number of an item I intended to buy if it wasn't a duplicate when the table holder told me to put away the phone or take it outside.  I shut the phone off, put it in my pocket and then told him I was just using it to verify the item on his table was one that I needed, and that I would now have to pass on it.  He then said that maybe an exception could be made in this instance, and I replied that I didn't want to be chastised any more and I walked away.  It was nothing rare, so I didn't feel bad about walking away.

 

Andy

I did the same thing and when somebody told me I could not do that I just ignored them and went on my way. I always had my list on my phone and it was the only way I used my phone when inside the buildings. 

 

There are some people in the TCA who need to mind their own business. 

Couldn't help myself. Let's see we have 2 truck shays with Legacy, Santa Fe diesels, Pennsy Torpedo steamer, oh and the John Wilkes pacific.  Come see me in the orange hall.  Last count 60 steam engines and 50 or so diesels to go along with plenty of other goodies. Chuck we will miss you this year but hope you are back in April! 

Vince

Wait. What? No visits to the humble li'l Layout Refinements' booth right next to the big roll-up door in the eastside of the Orange Hall? I've heard nice talk about him and that he's having a BigSale this show, a first for him.

 

And you don't even have to bring cash-money; just a smile and a handshake hello will make him happy. Plus, he takes creditcards and checks, these days, too!

 

Feelin' pretty good these days, I'm sure I'll be there, hangin' around for quite a bit, right up to the last minute, in fact, on Saturday fo' sure, too.

 

An impartial observer.

Ditto, pal!  Ditto!

I guess more than anything we're just looking forward to getting away from here (MI) and its obligations/shadows for a few days, seeing some colors in the high country, giving Millie and Daisy (Goldens) a change of scenery/chance to meet new friends, ....and being surprised by something that maybe I had never considered for the layout!

 

Tally-ho!

 

KD

Vince you always have the best selection at your booth! Any chance that one of those 60 steam engines is a MTH LIRR H-10 Consolidation?

Here's my list:

10-5055 MTHRRC Purple comet cars
#440 control panel
#152 crossing gate
#79 flashing signal
Any standard gauge villa
#89 Ives water tower
Any Railking 19th century rolling stock below a certain price point

All of these items have been on my previous couple of York lists.

Here's my list:

10-5055 MTHRRC Purple comet cars
#440 control panel
#152 crossing gate
#79 flashing signal
Any standard gauge villa
#89 Ives water tower
Any Railking 19th century rolling stock below a certain price point

All of these items have been on my previous couple of York lists.

Frank, are you talking about pre- 1942 or post 1970????

Eddie

Either, as long as in decent shape.

 

Sounds like a bidding war is about to erupt

 

 

My list isn't much this year. I am looking for a boiler front for a Marx 333, anything New Marx, and a silver stamped 2046 steam engine (a tender would be nice, but not a deal breaker)

 

I think I am out of affordable 6464 boxcars to buy, but I still hope to see some that aren't in my collection. It's always fun looking at Plasticville and Marxville, but not really expecting to find anything I have to have.

 

I'll be keeping an eye out for a Christmas present for my Father in law, but he'll be with me, so that may be a wasted effort this year.

 

J White