York show finds

looks great and sounds great I just got one last week and loved it as soon I stared it up .    - Matt   PS do you legacy ? If you do the speed tells the crew talk what to say and what you did before you pressed the key  .

Good looking diesel!

I got the New York Central Water Level Route set from Gryzbowski's. The  Legacy Mohawk is sweet......I'll post a video this weekend.

Peter

Thanks for the video... Great fun.

I don't legacy yet but plan to.  This is my first legacy loco.  I was able to do everything in the video with the cab1.  I got a little carried away with the crew talk.... Well the engineer was really chatty.  So it was really his fault!

Well my big find has a completely different kind of Legacy.

I finally found my Ives 1708 cattle car, but I had to buy the entire set to get it.

I had a set of those lithographed cars years ago. I wish I had kept them. Very nice!

My big find won't excite many, it was a NOS 671RM- 2 brush plate. It is unique to the 671R electronic turbine (1947-49) with worm drive.

Mike.....those tinplate cars are sweet!

Peter

Nice find at York, Jimmy.

Thank you!

Jim, can't go wrong with that engine.  It's a good looker and Legacy too boot.  You will have lot of fun with that one.  Glad you had a good time at York.

Steve, Lady and Tex

Nice stuff guys.  I love York.  Only 162 days to the fall show!

Mike nice cars.  Show us the whole consist.  Looks like an nice engine hiding behind the box.

Peter looking forward to your video.

I didn't buy any locomotives at York...

But I did buy enough parts to resurrect an unexpected artifact from an estate sale I was told about two weeks prior to York. I'm not into postwar, but these and some other rolling stock ended up in my possession, so I might as well care for them as best I can.

These (horizontal-motor) 2343 F3's were in really sad shape when I acquired them. From York, I managed to find:

--decent-looking shells

--all new trim pieces (screens, ladders, porthole windows, windshields, grab irons, number boards, horns and headlight lenses)

--all mounting screws

All the above plus a little mechanical attention results in the units you see below, at about 98% completion (I need to secure the nose grab-irons a little better, ream out the portholes on the non-powered unit so the lenses will fit, and maybe touch-up the pilots). They're not museum-grade perhaps, but they run, and don't look bad for a 62-64 year old locomotive.

---PCJ

As promised......my new Mohawk video.......

Peter

Nice Pete! 

Tin 

Putnam Division,

          Great looking and great sounding Mohawk.  I wish I had one but for now I'll just have to stick with my old 18064 L3A.  It doesn't pull as well as the Legacy engine but its whistle is absolutely haunting. 

Here's my other big piece of York loot.....

In October 2013 I bought a Williams ABBA Lehigh & New England ABBA set and a Weaver LNE Northeastern caboose......Now I needed a coal train.....I only owned about a half dozen hoppers.  I picked up all of these hoppers at April York for about $120......one was a NIB Premier Western Maryland.

Peter

More nice stuff!

Tin

 Nice work!  I got repair parts for my warr passanger set and a bcr (battery component replacement) for my mth general protosound 1.  they work great now.  It's fun to fix old things with parts from York as much as buying new stuff!

I picked up 7 022 switches for 140.  Don't really need 37 switches (have 30 on layout) on the layout though. Especially since planning a redo which might use fast track!

I only bought 3 pcs of rolling stock, a BCR2, a couple of stock certificates, and this (one of the things I hunted for and didn't find until Friday):

I love that it has Shaggy driving and Scooby in the front seat beside him.  It will be making appearances on my PIHR modules in the future. 

Andy

A Lionel red B&O I-12 caboose, crisp box, all of the packaging items........$30!

I already had one....paid a whole lot more for that one.  But, I couldn't turn down a second at that price. 

But, it didn't end there.  When the wife and I got home...a 600-mile drive..., I compared the York find to the one I had.  It was a different caboose number!....but the same box number!!

I investigated Lionel's product listings.  The original I-12 I had was, indeed, p/n 6-17664, car number C-2824.  The York find was in an identical box, same p/n, but the caboose was C-2820....which was catalogued as p/n 6-17647.  Go figure.

Since the car had no signs of ever touching the track, and all of the packing pieces inside were seemingly as from the factory, we figure I simply got an classy enigma at a bargain price!

Oh well, so it goes.  It seems every York meet has its special story for each of us.  This was ours for April 2014. 

Meanwhile, back at the ranch....

KD