What Did You Buy at York?

Not enough yet only got through dealer halls today.

Just pulled the trigger from Mario on a B&O WBB 4-6-0. Price was WAY lower than the dude in the Orange Hall plus shipping was free. All in all, not bad. Heard so many great things about this little loco. Hopefully it runs cool, unlike my WBB J which is once again at my dealer for overheating (shout out to Larry Harrington at Bachmann - asked him about it and he immediately offered to send me a new motor for it at no charge. Didn't even have to ask. Excellent service. Thanks Larry!)

First timer. And Wow.WOW WOW!!!

Found a set of lionel E6 Rock Islands.  Really rare. Brand new.

Burlington E5s. Ps4 cars with piggy back trailers. Great prices. Ca4 cabooses. UP. And some scale PS2 covered hoppers. All on day one.

Metal coal hopper car loads, Lionel Premium smoke, some great deals on more hopper cars for my all-hopper car freight consist. MTH club Membership.

If anyone saw a company called Jelsma Graphics then let me know. They sold me an item a few weeks ago. (They make Railroad Clothing)

I actually found the Junior Suspension Bridge I was looking for at the price I wanted to pay. I started in the Blue Hall at noon and 15 minutes later I had the bridge in hand for $35.00. Quite a surprise because I was not confident that I would find one.

Three American Excellence/NEO 1:43 cars (total $220.) from the folks at DiecastDirect (that for some reason goes under a different booth name).

But best of all...2 vintage Corningware covered cooking pots from a antique mall on the way to York for only $8. each.

Jim McGehee posted:

I actually found the Junior Suspension Bridge I was looking for at the price I wanted to pay. I started in the Blue Hall at noon and 15 minutes later I had the bridge in hand for $35.00. Quite a surprise because I was not confident that I would find one.

 

It doesn't get much better than that. Congratulations.

When I saw Alex Malliae's pics of the Korber booth, I was very excited because I noticed that they had one of the 2-stall engine houses on display. I've been interested in it since they announced it at the October York, but it never appeared on their website. So I made Korber my second priority on Thursday (got there just after noon). I was able to measure the structure and determined it would fit on my layout. They had the standard 24" kits available for sale, but, having little artistic talent, I wanted the built up/painted/lighted version. I spoke to Alex (who was manning the booths with his delightful wife) and told him I was interested in one, and he immediately offered me the one on display... soooo, I am now the proud owner of an Alex Malliae original (and signed!!!) Korber engine house. And before the purists have a canary and the rivet counters pop one, in my little 14x16 world, large steamers use diesel houses!!! Really wish I had the room for a turntable and roundhouse, but that's a whole other issue.

Picked up a MPC track bumper, some electrical parts from Dallee (along with a wiring diagram and helpful advice on how-to-install), and a MPC #783 Hudson at Trainz.com (paint peeling off deck of tender and "SOS & whistle" doesn't work - but hey, I can replace that with a postwar whistle that I prefer). Good prices there. Got to see nearly all my York friends. So, a good meet for me.

I picked up a very decent Post-war Grey topped Lackawanna FM and some near mint Super O 112R switches along with a couple of videos and Lou Palumbo's "I've never met a train I didn't like" publication.  As always I had a  really good time.   I was there Thursday afternoon and Friday morning.  

I found 2 Railking flat cars, one with pickup trucks and one with vans, a track cleaning car and a rooftop tank kit from River Leaf Models (Andre). Andre's structures are very impressive. They look even better in person than in his excellent pictures. I also got my DCS system upgraded to version 5.0 by MTH. I may go back tomorrow morning for one last walk through before heading home.

I picked up 3 Weaver SD40-2's from Bob Feneran and Merrill Tucker from the NJ Hi-Railers. Definitely a bargain for all 3 at once.

Oh yeah, and a Missouri Pacific boxcar by Lionel, a CD by TM Books & Video, and a Lionel T-shirt. Very happy with what I got, and spent less than I thought I would need to. Not to mention ran into a few familiar faces in the hobby, and met some very nice people, young and old.

Well day two and my head hurts.

I bought 2 newly released  MTH Ca1 cabooses, 1 lionel Wabash scale reefer, 2 cantelever crossing signals and a lionel veranda UP turbine.!

Ate at Smokey Bones and called it a day

I picked up the MTH Wifi Interface Unit,the MTH York Club Car,the MTH Railking Penn Central Crane Car from Just Trains and the Conrail Ore Car w/ore load from MTH as well today. I cannot wait to try the Wifi unit.

Hornby

Always a good trip no matter what the haul and best of all is meeting old and new friends.  This years haul includes:

For me personally:

MTH Penny Gondola

Atlas L&N Gondola

Atlas Tank car (weathered)

Lionel Legacy Burlington Northern SD40

Cable reels (laser cut from Andre Garcia)

Acetone paints in various rust colors

RR Jacket (BTW the quality of the clothes from the dealer in the center of Orange hall is GREAT)

OGR Great layout adventures Vol 12

Mega Steam Smoke (Will call pick up from Jeb K)

Picked up a dozen scale cars that I had Harry Hieke weather for me)

For the TMB Club (@Scenic Express)

4 - 5-gallon pails of Ballast

Lots of plaster cloth

4 variations of of the new super leaf

Bag of BIG Pine trees

What  GREAT show. I got the stuff I wanted, which wasn't really all that much after taking home trunk loads of stuff twice a year for over 20 years.

Jeb had my pre-order on the smoke I wanted. What a great convenience.

Got the OGR DVD with Don Klose's and Dave Minarik's layouts. I've been to both of them, and I can't wait to see the videos and be po'd at everything I missed.

Got the TM DVD, Christmas 2015. Gotta have Marty's layout on a DVD.

eHobby had the LeMax items I wanted. They are SO nice to deal with. And have been for years. 

Trying to figure out what to order from the new MTH catalog.

Really wanted to buy something from Mr. Muffin, but didn't find anything this time around. I'll have to try harder in October (or call Steve ahead of time so he brings what I want).

Anxiously awaiting the posts from the nattering nabobs of negativism who will tell us why York is doomed and isn't anywhere near as good as it used to be. Once that arrives, the Spring, 2016 York is complete.

Gerry

I already bought a ZW for $100 from a friend of mine. The condition of it was greater than the ZW's that were being sold there. Regardless I picked up a Lionel postwar Ice Depot for $120. Best price I've seen for that piece. 

Had a really good 2 days; especially since I could look for area fillers since the new layout is going to be 3x the size of the old one.  

18 Atlas 36' woodsided reefers
2 Korber buildings weathered by Alex M
Z-4000 Transformer
Lionel Hot Air Balloon Accessory
Lionel Test of Strength Accessory
Lionel Carnival Scrambler Accessory
Lionel Swing Bridge
Lionel 6-12782 Lift Bridge
Ordered 3 items from River Leaf Models
Atlas Track

Only the tickets themselves as a last minute family emergency had me forgo this York entirely.

gmorlitz posted:

What  GREAT show. I got the stuff I wanted, which wasn't really all that much after taking home trunk loads of stuff twice a year for over 20 years.

Jeb had my pre-order on the smoke I wanted. What a great convenience.

Got the OGR DVD with Don Klose's and Dave Minarik's layouts. I've been to both of them, and I can't wait to see the videos and be po'd at everything I missed.

Got the TM DVD, Christmas 2015. Gotta have Marty's layout on a DVD.

eHobby had the LeMax items I wanted. They are SO nice to deal with. And have been for years. 

Trying to figure out what to order from the new MTH catalog.

Really wanted to buy something from Mr. Muffin, but didn't find anything this time around. I'll have to try harder in October (or call Steve ahead of time so he brings what I want).

Anxiously awaiting the posts from the nattering nabobs of negativism who will tell us why York is doomed and isn't anywhere near as good as it used to be. Once that arrives, the Spring, 2016 York is complete.

Gerry

I heard there were also some pretty good deals on BCRs.  

This was my first trip.        All day Thursday in members and purple halls.

Only 2 1/2 hours Friday before we had to leave.  On Friday only in the Orange hall. WOW!! I could have stayed in that hall a week.

It was as much fun as I have always heard about and I enjoyed everything with no negatives at all.

I'm not documenting each item because it may be used as evidence against me LOL

I may need a bigger truck next time!!

OH...and the garden G lay out planing has begun.

Larry

ogaugeguy posted:

Only the tickets themselves as a last minute family emergency had me forgo this York entirely.

I hope everything works out for you in your emergency.

Peter

A great 3 days in York......left about 5:30 PM.....drove to Baltimore and had dinner on Rte 40 west, the Double T Diner.....got back on the road at 7PM and since the DC traffic had thinned out, was hope by 10:15.

I needed military vehicles to populate 4 new flat cars and I did great:

BTW....the picture in the background is from 2011(when I was 40 lbs heavier) and shows the "founding members" of the River City 3 Railers......behind my right shoulder is Gilly@N&W. To his right is Kanawha. The fellow all the way on the left is Ben who was a newbie to York lastOctober and came to QSL. He'll be back in October.

A few more cars, catalogs, MTH wifi:

I have always wanted the green 2400 cars.....G/VG is fine and $120 is a decent price for all 3.

Peter

15 pieces of rolling stock all Christmas related - MTH Christmas boxcars, Polar Express add-ons, Polar Railroad rolling stock, North Pole Central caboose and freight expansion pack, 2 Lemax houses for the layout, couple of Metal Figures (one looks like my wife - played that one up 1st when I got home so she wouldn't notice how much I spent), little dollar items here and there to add to the layout, 2 manual O-36 Fastrack switches. I was there Thursday through early Friday afternoon. I literally quit about 1 o'clock as my brain said, "I can't take it anymore!"  1st timer, but going back in October for sure.

I went with my list which was a bunch of hard to find Weaver cars and Marx light towers. I scored on the light towers I was able to get four. Not finding for my list I bought a Franks IGA grocery store, some new scenery product from scenic express, three more Miller signs, and from Ross a crossover and three uncoupling tracks. I lost out on a good buy on a Z4000. Price was 300.00 brand new. When I went back to get it had been sold. Got to learn when you see a good price do not hesitate. So that was what I got......................Paul

First and for most I got to see a lot of my forum friends. Powered and Dummy Legacy PRR shark nose b units. 2 scale PFE cars, and a PFE hotbox car. A good time as well. 

Folks,

I had a great time Thursday and Friday.  Saw friends and enjoyed talking to them.   

Here is what I bought for myself:

3 Weaver NS 4 bay Covered Hopper at a great price  I have been trying for 2 years to score one on Ebay.    Got all 3 road numbers

2 Diecast M985 Hemitt's for my modern military train (they list for $180.00 each but I payed $100.00 each )  VBG

Also picked up my Atlas-O 20 ft containers from Andy Peterson over by the Atlas-O display.   Look forward to my 5 sets of Atlas-O new intermodal cars and 53 ft containers.  

Scenic express I bought some of the figure sets  and other diecast trucks are for our club layout.  

Was looking for a MTH US Army genset but did not find one.

J Daddy posted:

First timer. And Wow.WOW WOW!!!

Found a set of lionel E6 Rock Islands.  Really rare. Brand new.

Burlington E5s. Ps4 cars with piggy back trailers. Great prices. Ca4 cabooses. UP. And some scale PS2 covered hoppers. All on day one.

These are great engines.  They have the correct cab numbers for the engines that pulled the Golden State, so I pull my K-Line 18" Golden State cars behind mine.

Unfortunately I missed York this time because of a bum leg.  First time in many years.  I feel like

I had a pretty nice meet.  My legs are sore from the walking, but I did acquire:

• K-Line die-cast PRR gondola with coils
• Atlas PRR X-26 boxcar
• Atlas PRR X-29 boxcar
• MTH PRR N6b cabin car
• Some large ventilators from Altoona Model Works (destined for a steel mill building)
• Several figures
• Video w/ Norm Charbonneau's layout

George

Mike is right, we did get a few BCR's.

Enjoy those Rock Island E-6's. They are great engines. IMO, the E-6 series that Lionel did years ago just didn't get the attention they deserved.

Gerry

beautiful engines

Bob C.

Light bulbs and a New York Water tower from ANDRE.

paul 2 posted:

I went with my list which was a bunch of hard to find Weaver cars and Marx light towers. I scored on the light towers I was able to get four. Not finding for my list I bought a Franks IGA grocery store, some new scenery product from scenic express, three more Miller signs, and from Ross a crossover and three uncoupling tracks. I lost out on a good buy on a Z4000. Price was 300.00 brand new. When I went back to get it had been sold. Got to learn when you see a good price do not hesitate. So that was what I got......................Paul

Paul,

If it makes you feel any better if we are talking about the same z4000 I was the one who got it and only had to pay 290.  I chalk it up to younger legs and also that is what you get for not waving back when I saw you   See you Tuesday at Ian's.

Lots of arriving pre-orders meant a light York for purchases, but I did pick up an Atlas hopper that was on my want list, a Duquesne Incline Miller Engineering sign (being sold by Fort Pitt TCA for next year's convention), the new OGR layout Blu-Ray, a Model Power lighted figure, and a set of "Sensored" figures from Bakers RR Shop.

Andy

Picked up a bunch of scenery material from scenery express.

MNP track cleaning car, what a great car and worth every penny. 

Saw some great items but just did not pull the trigger. 

But best of all was seeing old friends and making a few more. This was my 62nd straight York and every one has been great. 

On a cat theme! New MTH Chessie steam locomotive and passenger car set.  Atlas Chessie hoppers too and a Chessie caboose.  Other cabooses and boxcars.  MTH wifi.  Put in order for N & S locomotive from new MTH catalog.

My four year old grandson Austin was with me and had a great time meeting people, looking, and running trains. He also managed to come home with a new Lionchief  + switcher, a N and W hopper for his brother, and a Southern boxcar for me (all Lionel).

Andre gave him a cable reel kit and I bought some water tanks.

Also a DVD from OGR, brick mortar from Korber, lights from Ogre, H and C Coffee sign from Miller, several items from Dave with Crescent Loco, and three sets of tanks from Stan the Tank Man who said that after 25+ years, this was his last show.

Also talked to Harry Hieke about building a model of the N and W Roanoke station post 1950's remodeling. Vickie Hieke fed Austin candy, chips, and water while Harry and I were talking. She made a friend for life. The project looks promising.

It was a fun time but nothing exciting on my list. Pre-orders take away a lot of the $$$ as pre-order = pre-spent to me.