Well I finally have a chance to post the treasures I purchased at the York Meet. The preparations for my Mother-In-Law’s burial, the funeral service itself are finished and the many family members who attended and hung out with us have all headed home to various parts of the country. And in the middle of all that my youngest daughter delivered a baby boy, her first child and our ninth grandchild after some complications. It’s been a busy couple of weeks after returning from the York Meet!
So, on to the good stuff! Here are the boxes as packed and delivered by UPS. They were handled very well. (I guess, anyway!)
Here they are unpacked. But not before Manny inspects the…ahem….., ‘kitty’
Here’s a better shot.
My buying was a little different this trip. I bought something each day of the Meet when I usually use Thursday to just look around. My purchases were unintentionally evenly divided each day.
In the order that I opened them, here is the first item, a Lionel Vision Line 3 car set of Santa Fe Stock cars. I was actually looking for another Vision Line freight set that I saw on a previous day’s hunt. But during my search to locate them on Saturday I stumbled upon the Santa Fe set that I really wanted!
Atlas O Master Line Milwaukee Road 50’ PS-1 box cars. These were from early 2001 production and brand new in the box. I just really liked the paint scheme.
K-Line New Haven 21” aluminum Baggage/Lounge “Middlesex County” passenger car. Some years ago when I was gobbling up K-Line 21” passenger cars I had acquired an incomplete four car set of these. I had given up looking for the lost cars long ago. But as I was scouring the shelves at the Trainz booth I stumbled across this missing car from my set.
(Just today I took delivery of another missing New Haven 21” car. I was just wasting some time looking around at hobby shop websites when I found a sixth car for this set. I thought it was only a five car set. I bought the sixth car instantly, and with the duplicate coach car I bought purposely years ago to expand the set, I now have a seven car New Haven passenger set to go with my K-Line NH EP-5!)
Atlas O Premier Line 40’ Box Car “Nashville, Chattanooga & St.Louis”. I bought this recently released box car for no other reason than to represent our trip to Chattanooga back in October for a wedding that caused me to miss October’s York Meet! A bit of childish revenge to acquire a representative freight car from the area. But in reality I had a great time in Chattanooga. Road the Tennessee Valley train and saw the 4501 sitting idle and visited the Chattanooga Choo Choo Hotel. And I drank more sour mash that I’ve had in my lifetime!
MTH Premier 40’ “Curve Beer” Steel Refrigerator Car. I like the graphics on this recent version more than the wooden reefer from some years ago. I’ve been wanting one of these since I’ve spent a lot of time at The Horseshoe Curve in Altoona, Pa. and had a few sips of Curve Beer while visiting.
MTH Premier Milwaukee Road & Santa Fe Covered Gondolas. My Penn American Railroad roster is low on gondola cars. These are really nice and hefty. I liked them so much I ordered a PRR and a pair of Milwaukee Road custom gondolas to add to the freight fleet.
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While at the Meet I had my Lionel Legacy Command System upgraded to current versions by Marty E. Thanks again, Marty!
MTH Premier Milwaukee Road Fairbanks-Morse Train Master. A custom run from Mr. Muffin’s Trains. I love these brutish locomotives, they look like they mean business!
MTH Premier Milwaukee Road 2-8-2 USRA Light Mikado. Another custom run from Mr. Muffin’s Trains. Adding to my Milwaukee steam fleet, this scale beauty has a real coal load and steaming quillable whistle.
MTH Premier Baltimore & Ohio 4-6-2 USRA Heavy Pacific. This is one of the only items I was looking for at York. I didn’t preorder it because I had other irons in the fire. Even I can’t get everything! This also has a real coal load and steaming quillable whistle and I love the blue B&O paint scheme. This will look perfect pulling my Golden Gate Depot B&O heavyweight passenger cars.
In addition, during our trip to York we also visited Nicholas Smith Trains. I can never leave there without buying something. So since it was a York trip these purchases count toward my treasure cache.
Atlas O Master Line GNLX 33,000 Gallon Tank Car. I love tank cars, especially big ones. I bought this one because it’s blue, and I once saw a similar looking tank car at the refinery when I was driving over the (Perilous) Penrose Ave. Bridge on my way to a Phillies game.
MTH Premier ‘Sunoco’ Funnel Flow Tank Car. Found this on the shelf with the 33K tank car. I have a six car set of these from a previous release so this will be added to the consist.
There are a few items I got prior to York and after arriving home, just to round out some of my infrastructure. I’ll show them at another time on another thread. It’s amazing how you can discover things that you didn’t realize you needed! At York I fully expected not to get much at all but there must be something in that central Pennsylvania air!
I had a great time at the York Meet and visiting friends and family and some fantastic meals with a lot of amazing train people. Lynley and I already have our badges for October’s York Meet. We’re really looking forward to it!! Now hopefully I can spend more time on building my layout