Buy anything cool lately?

Thanks to a Forum member, I added a Sante Fe K-Line Baggage car to go with my Super Chief set. 

If you haven't looked for baggage lately, you might not realize how hard it can be to find.  Finding a Station Sounds Diner that you are missing can be very challenging as well.

Art

Art, you are absolutely correct. Baggage cars are hard to come by and thanks to Forum member Jason, he was able to locate two of these Sante Fe cars and was good enough to share one with me.

 

 

A few weeks I picked up a Marx freight set with the 8 wheel auto couplers in the box. The box is also a terminal and has the loading dock as well as the instructions and a well worn Timely Table. The only thing missing is one of the milk kegs. I have repro's, but will search for a original to match the other 3.

 

Steve

 

 

Cool find Steve!  Brings back a few memories for sure.

 

Art

I couldn't resist this very cool NOREV MG-A coupe.  I have about two dozen 1950s British sports cars and this is one of the best.  It will definitely be on the layout.

 

Ok let me jump in. I got these last month at the Dupage Train show last month. I purchased 2 Tunnel Portals.  C1267 & C1266 made by Woodland Scenics

Do the electricals go out with every rain like the real one????

You know why the British drink warm beer?  They have Lucas refrigerators!

This one comes under the so ugly, I had to have it category. ETS tinplate model of a Class PtL 2/2 K.Bay.St.B Glaskasten (Glass Box). Judging by the road number, this is a model of the second series, made from 1908-1914. The last one retired in 1963.

 

Steve

 

 

You are right.  It is uglly, but, to distort a famous phrase, "A thing that ugly is a joy forever."  

 

Nice little loco!

I bought a mohave Lionel 318E at the big train show in Berea, Ohio.  I'm excited to get track for it.  It's the size of a baby.

Mr. Eastman that green thing is really cool.  It's still novel for me to see those sorts of things in O.

Found these at a yard sale last weekend finally for around to looking them over. The 212 Alco runs but need to be serviced and the other is a dummy unit. Both shell are in ok shape but still may replace them. The whole box was $12 came with track, freight cars and a transformer.

great find Steve. Hey can you show me those milk kegs? I have three grey milk kegs that have the Marx logo on the inside. Maybe I have what you need.

finally got my crane. I really wanted a Prewar 2660 , but couldn't beat $11! Needs some TLC, but that's fine for me.

 

 

I just got a Subaru Crosstrek with a 5 speed manual. My first tank of gas of local driving was 26.8mpg. I can't wait to see the mpg to York tomorrow. I just got rid of a 97 Land Rover getting 12mpg.

 

rat

Railblazer set. I have 4-5 of these. I put recitifiers in the locos so I can run them on my ZWs.

Neat little sets.

 

Thank you Sal G for getting me the Norfolk & Southern Support our troops cars. Both me an my uncle both love them

 Very Fun little sets. Bobbers are so cool. Remember to add some weight to the loco and it'll pull extremely well for its size. Out pulls my 4-4-0 PullMor General easy. A few Water Gremlins(sinkers) and this cab forward mod. w/corgi yard plow is pulling a mostly PW die cast work train right now. E&B crane, fish-belly & 2 wire rolls(of solder), a short supply flat (plastic but w/load- brass,steel,&copper bushings/pipe/tacknail-spikes etc., a DL&W 2419work caboose, and a lighted SP caboose. Takes a cast Atlantic to out pull it .

Picked up this 1956 Lionel 2259W set at a estate sale last weekend. The set was very dirty and is

missing parts. Working on cleaning it up and searching for parts.

franktrain

 

Most recent purchases include a couple items I've wanted for quite a while, all lionel, all off ebay:

Postwar 282R magnetic gantry crane, came already serviced and rewired with extra long wire split with couplers in the middle.  Works great, and great price at  $90.

Postwar 2531 Silver Dawn observation, needs about $10 in parts, but I paid $20 including shipping, so a steal for me!  Now all I need is the Silver Bluff and i'll have a complete set!

And just for fun, the Harry Potter Hogwarts Express set.  I had read horrible reviews about this set, but I got it for $60 in the box.  When I got it, I was impressed with the weight and details of the engine.  The fasttrack is as noisy as everyone says it is, but at least now I have something to run on the floor of my apartment while all my other trains are back in my parents' basement.

My father had one of those -- a 1960, complete with the wire wheels. Supposedly, the coupe was somewhat rare. The car was very nice to drive and handled well. He liked it so much he bought my mother a convertible and painted it the same color.

Lee and AMCDave....well I remember this attracive blonde on campus who showed up

driving a yellow MG A coupe.  Later I talked an old girlfriend out of getting a new MG B

roadster, and into a more sensible 1978 Camaro six cylinder coupe, due to the "Prince of Darkness" electronics.  Ratpak:  I just traded my irreplaceable 5 speed manual Aerostar van, which only got 23 MPG, on a 2015 Subaru six speed manual Forester, which got consistently 30.9 MPG driving all over the Rocky Mountain west last month.

(I never could get it to exceed 30.9...could not get it to turn over into 31 even once)

parts available from Jeff Kane @ ttender.com

Obtained these beautiful Sharks from a forum member last week and am enjoying them immensely on my bench test track.

 

That certainly is a beautiful model Lee.  I had a couple of MGA's back in college and almost bought a coupe once. I passed due to the awfully hot weather in New Orleans as the ventilation was poor in the coupes. I did have a factory(?) hardtop for several years that looked just like this when mounted but gave me the option of running as a convertible most of the time.

A section of my layout will have an Amish farm scene.  I just bought 4 o scale buggy kits to complete the scene.  Now I need to find 4 harnessed horses.

 

Nick, where did you get them? As since I was born and raised in Lancaster County, there has to be a spot I can get them on my layout!

This was a result of the recent York Meet.

 

 

now that is a great find!

You can get beautiful horses, correctly harnessed and scaled, for those carriages from my source, if you wish:

Baker's Railroad Shop

Roy Baker, 845-887-4596

 

He knows me as Frank, of Layout Refienments

A Beaufighter is one I never did find when I was mass producing WWll models. My trainboard has a steel(actually aluminum) umbrella consisting of my teenage planes. Still need to find a few and pick up a few replacements for ones lost over the years.

It is the Revell 1974 issue.Even has a full panel ad for the Revell Master Modelers Club.I was a member and vividly remember the Get It Together pamphlet that used to come!

I used to be heavily into model airplanes.  Loved it, still miss building them.  Just don't have the time anymore to dedicate to it.

 

My dad still does, at last count he had over 6,000 different kits!

that is a lot of kits!

AH - HA ,  10 YRS LATER AND THEY STILL DID NOT MILDEW!!!!!!!!!!

 

DUMMY ON TOP OF THE POWERED STILL IN THE BOX,  

ALASKA  R R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   OH  MORE TO COME STILL IN THE BOXES!!