Buy anything cool lately?

I just got the mail and Jeff from JD's trains/ AM Hobbies. Sent me the 35 ATLAS Deluxe switch control boxes  Item #57. That I put on order       5/20/14    So you can see atlas has shipping problems to.         

Yup, one of these. Sure is a beauty.

 NIB 21" K Line passenger cars.

Towed this abandoned truck home.  Not sure what make though.  Ford?  International?

It's about as close to O gauge as a 45N.

Along with the serial plate they also stole the drive train.

Bruce

I pre-orded this box car this past Spring and received it this week.  RailKing NS Boxcar with Blinking LEDs

Ken

Very nice car Ken!!

Christmas came early for me lol. Finally gonna try and roll with the big kids! 

update and now ready to go on rail line, on farm

Gentlemen,

   Other than my new 990 Legacy finally coming the last thing I purchased was a Tin Plate Train form one of the forum members, almost a year ago now, which I posted a picture of once before

PCRR/Dave

Now this is what I call a passenger cars!!!!!

A fellow C&O modeler decided to get out of the hobby and was selling his O gauge stuff. He had a couple of unique structures scratch built by NMRA Master Modeller Don Eastman which he offered to me and which I quickly snatched up.

First is a model of the streamlined coal dock the C&O built specifically for their steam-turbine-electric locos.

The real thing:

Second structure is the C&O station from Nuttall, WVA with the unusual octagonal roof tower:

I feel real fortunate to get these.

Ken

Bought this off ebay for my circus train. Don't know the builder, but whoever it was did a remarkable job. All the doors/hatches open and it has the boiling kettles inside.

Dave,

 Contact the C&O Historical Society in Clifton Forge and see if you can get a copy of the Feb, 2008 C&OHS Magazine. It has a long article that includes about all the known information on these coal docks including some basic dimensional data.

Ken

I purchased a Legacy Cab Forward engine on the OGR Forum and am excited about the purchase. Engine 4291....Thanks for Asking. Happy Thanksgiving Matthew and family.

it is used, but it is TMCC and is reported to look NIB

A lot of cool stuff. I have accumulated several nice things lately including an f3 B unit  from the forum, traded an extra Lionel 671 steam turbine for a very nice NW2 #322,  got another steam turbine, 681 and a really nice, early(prewar) #1684 from 1941-42 with box couplers. In very nice shape and runs like a scalded dog.  There is a TCA meet in Cranberry on Sunday so will be dumpster diving there looking for fixer-uppers.

I spent enough time in Virginia and reading about Virginia railroads to say, WOW!

I just picked these 2 up this past Tuesday.

 A    B    AND  B    AND  ANOTHER B      A

THE MIDDLE ONE JUST A LITTLE BIT STRONGER THAN SIBLINGS ON RIGHT AND LEFT

This was droped off by the UPS man yesterday. I also got 2 UPS Package Trucks

This really impressed me.....so I bought it.  Pecos River Brass ATSF 50' boxcar painted for MoW yet the former paint scheme "ghosts" thru.  It was always fun for me to see a cut of outfit cars in the consist of a road switcher.

I bought some Pecos River 50 ft box cars recently......VERY nice cars. Too bad they don't make them any longer.

A couple of Hornby prewar Metropolitan type coaches followed me home from Cal-Stewart today.

Steve

Rob,

I have all of the SF 50' boxcars and would like to find this. Were there extras?

Eric

Really nice building, Scot.

I think the next time we're in Orange visiting the in laws, I'm following you to a train show. You come up with some great finds Steve.

For SD40-2, it was purchased from "them who shall not be named" if you know what I mean. So, it was the only one.

In all fairness, the seller has a real hobby shop, yet also conducts internet auctions.

P.S. I like "Papa" Eastman's reply about items "following him home".  I intend to plagiarize that one.

Those Hornby cars are really neat. I picked up, in a rade for some Lionel junk I had, 3 Lionel lithographed freight cars and a caboose from 1941-42 They went with the 1684 engine I bought last weekend-which runs like a charm. This is the first transition pieces I have acquired except for two passenger cars. It is amazing how nice some of these old trains, that are in good, run. shape. I have several.

Picked this Dorfan 51 up today at Cal-Stewart. Very nice casting. Now to see if I can get it to run.

Steve

I just paypal'd an Ebay seller for two of these 1/43 trucks. We completed the sale privately, and he only had this stock photo, but he claims NIB. I'll see next week. Lol. Very good price.

They are Mercedes-Benz, but ..... I think they fit my modeling era, I do "ESSO," and I think they look so cool.

Couldn't resist Charlie Ro's 'Flyer sale last weekend and picked up this sweet "S" 2-8-8-2. Runs like a Swiss watch...

Another Cal-Stewart pick up. Needs a little work, but runs well.

Steve

I'm waiting for this guy to arrive.  It's an early 1930's Scalecraft PRR K-4.  No traction tires, no command control, no can motors... just good old heavy metal doorstop material.  Yes, I am planning on repainting and detailing it, but it should be a good engine.

I like it !!

Yes, I ordered this Santa, along with a helper elf, from Scenic Express. He's one of the best looking Santas I've ever seen this size, so I adjusted him to fit into this truck cab for my re-crafting, last Saturday night, of the Lionel layout @ FAO Schwarz, in NYC. He's driving, with an elf accompanying him, transporting a big load of presents on their way to happy homes everywhere.

FrankM.

Thanks Jim and Keith!

Yes, there were a few companies that produced trains like this.  Scalecraft, Lobaugh, Walthers, are but a few of the more well known manufactures.  Keep in mind there were mostly sold as kits, but there were a lot of neat trains.  I suspect is was at least partially the success of these scale detailed loco's that pushed Lionel to create the 700E and the B6 switcher.  Really neat trains.  Here is another shot of another Scalecraft K4 that I picked up several years ago in kit form along with a new Lionel Legacy K-4 for comparison.

I wouldn't call any of these "cool" but they will be used to make an AA with six passenger cars Great Northern Empire Builder train using postwar Lionel engines and newer smooth-sided passenger cars:

1.  Two Lionel F3 A unit cabs--purchased from OGR forumite Martin H.  Ironically, they were repaints in GN EB livery, but they'll be stripped and redone along with the other pieces.  I already had the A unit frames, motors, etc.

2.  Illinois Central diner and observation cars.

3.  TCA full dome car.  Lionel made the GN EB full dome, but I did not want to have to match the Lionel colors; beside, Lionel doesn't continue striping across  the vestibule or other end of the car.  Also, Lionel makes it simple to shoot the dome since the dome framework separates easily from the clear plastic "windows."

I already had a NYC duplex car; NYC coach; and, NYC combo car.

I'll post some pictures as I go along. 

And yes, I'd love to be able to do an ABA and 9 or more car consist; but, I simply don't have the room.  AA's with six cars satisfies my eye.