Buy anything cool lately?

Picked up a couple of nice items at the Pgh.  TCA show today.  Got a Lionel #8 Standard gauge loco with the idea of using the motor in another bigger loco I have but runs nice so will hold off for awhile until the Greenberg Show in Nov. Also bought a Lionel 2046, in nice shape, that runs and smokes nice and that I absolutely didn't need but it "spoke" to me !! Also acquired a Lionel V transformer that needs a cord and might be good for lights and accessories. Attendance seemed a bit light and business a little slow. To cap it off I stopped at the LHS annd picked up some more Standard gauge track and two new magazines. Came home with some goodies and a little $$ in my wallet so it was a good day.

Jim,

Looks like you had a good day.  I didn't make it to the show, but plan to be at the Greenberg show on the first Saturday of November.

I like my Vs. I spotted one a few months ago in our local antique mall, with good cord and nice box for $28. Grabbed it cause it was there. 

A few recent acquisitions are a set of K-Line UP streamliners that were 'added to' by the previous owner (notable forum member) with extra passengers, LED lighting, and a scale rear coupler on the Obsv. This week we received an older Lionel D&H Alco C420 which I used to check both it and the UP cars out this afternoon. Not an often-seen diesel & a beautiful passenger set!

c.sam,

You got a deal on those, I  would've bought them if I didn't get a set recently.

And, with who had them prior, you know they were done right!  A true asset to the forum!

  Research says these Williams State sets are over 35 years old.  That's longer than I've known of Standard Gauge and began a modest collection.  See, before O, it was SG that lured me into the toy train addiction.

  Over eight feet long, I've yet to figure out where it can be properly displayed.

A previous owner installed 2 freshly rebuilt Super Motors with McCoy replacement wheels and postwar E unit into the 408E shell.  While it does run smoothly, I have yet to try pulling all 4 cars.

Cost me enough, but I got the whole car to myself.

 And the requisite parting shot, just for PTC.

Bruce

Sam and Bruce,

Those are both beautiful passenger sets!!

Hi Dave, 

Ironically, I have a New Hope & Ivyland R.R. boxcar also by KMT and what's odd is that the number is the same as your boxcar,#800912. The difference is mine is black with yellow sliding doors. Never thought I would see another NH&IRR boxcar around.

Mine came as a gift from a friend and fellow modeler of The Raritan Valley Hi-Railers train group, because he knew that I was a fireman, about 4 years ago, on that railroad, on #40.

It is a consolidation, Baldwin built, in 1925, and a great loco. The gift was primo since it brings back some great memories of working the engine & many other jobs that were needed to be addressed (maintenance). I have the original box and the car is in great shape. Really like yours though.

                        Steam Forever

                             John

Nice, Matt, What are you going to do with that doorstop? Your going to have to get pretty small to get inside that one...

You should get one Jon, Grzyboskis is blowing them out for $500

Done, and done.

I have been trying, but not having much luck...payment hassle over a 1/43rd auto,

and just got in the wrong items in a box with the right shipping invoicel, which looks

like it was professionally packed.  Now working to return and trade this Atlas two

rail UP industrial switcher and caboose...(missing those you should have received?)...

for what I ordered.

The newest RPO addition to the Free State Junction Railway fleet just arrived.  The SW1 switcher just pushed it on to this siding to load the 5 p.m. mail.

LC Albert Hall from a forum member

 An unmanifested surprise arriving at the Winterton Yards  

 Loaded with Magic Coal and Water GN/CB&Q crews take it for a spin

   Albert Hall sits uncoupled, while the Yard Master figures out what to do with it. Nearest Steam facilities are at the North Pole where the PE sits when not in use.. 

Received a gift from a family friend of a set from 1959. Included a collection of Pyro and Plasticville. also included a nice original Lionel accessory catalog from that year.

Hey, I have those cars. Bought them at the train show in San Diego

Just got this in the Mail today. Always wanted one. Now to work on collecting  the passenger cars.

I had a sales table at a model train show on Saturday, and I sold off a lot of excess stuff and I was happy with that.

I also bought some stuff, including a stack of books at $1 each, a locomotive status book from the Milwaukee Road and a few small items...

I was very happy to finally score one of these, a paperweight given out to employees and shippers in the 1920s. The headlights were broken off each end, but I only paid $15 bucks for it!

Cool pic... I was away down in the mountains in southwest Alberta after posing that, there's a guy down there with a yard that's got five or six in ok shape just wasting away. Shame.

Mr. Brown just dropped these off yesterday for me. Lionel S-2 switchers......Paul

Three more items came. Lionel wood chip hopper, Lionel ore car and a Gadsden ore car.......Paul

Here's something I got in the beginning of September.

Here's a photo of the real Prairie View:

Peter Araujo, It looks great!  I'll have to get some cars like that for this!  Yes the Great Northern probably didn't use F3s to pull the Empire Builder, but mine will.  I got an exceptionally sweet deal on this set at the beginning of the month.

The entire first year of the OGR magazine - a York find:

- Greg

This should help keep us on schedule.

The recent sale of some HO brass allowed me to purchase another version of one of my favorite diesels-this time an SP "Bloody Nose"....  (Lionel)

In addtion to a Hallmark 1936 GMC (I had their 1937 Ford, also newly discovered but already repainted) pickup (I hope Hallmark continues that 

series with some pre-1941 Chevrolets and other pickups...the GMC is a 

surprise, as I have seen few in vintage car shows), I picked up a 1936 Ford

sedan, 1;43ed, by White Box, and saw some Neo, first time I have seen

either at a show.  I also picked up the power chasses for more gas electrics,

also maybe including the McKeen car posted on here....IF that happens.

I believe they ran both 3s and 7s on that train, which is what I do as well. Even if they hadn't I think your engines look great!

Paul 2 nice.  Where did you get that blue bridge?  How long is it?

Thanks

Thank you Len!!

6 LBS of scrapple for the Wednesday preYork gathering at my place. Every one left happy, full and content!

Scrapple is a dish best served cool?

Bruce

Ken,

That information is super to know!!  I planned to look into it, just for fun sometime, but I should guess someone like you from the Pacific Northwest would chime in.  So the E7s overheated in the mountains!  How about that!  Up to 1955, the year before I was born is just the era I like to model.  My uncle and his family in Federal Way, Washington rode on the Empire Builder before Amtrak and once Amtrak took over.  

Thank you very much!!  

While on cab units, here is another great deal I got this week; and I didn't even have to leave Butler and drive cross state to York to get it.  

In addition to the F3 A-B-A set, I purchased a ProtoSound 1 B&O E-8 A-B-A set plus 7 streamline passenger cars all new in box that a fellow had from a large estate sale. He lubed, put in a BCR, and checked out the E8s before putting up for sale. Super price! I may upgrade to PS3, but they run great conventionally.

The only trouble is, now I need a larger layout!! 

Added two more cars to my fleet of McCoy with Canadian names.

Steve