overlandflyer posted:i stopped adding up the receipts about half-way through construction...
guess it could use a better smoke unit, but overall a great runner.cheers...gary
I don't usually nitpick, but it is pretty obvious that the engineer is not to scale!
Mine is the MTH UP Challenger 3985 from around 2004 with PS 2. I recall it costing about $1,300 and yes it has always been worth it!!!
midnightwrecking posted:overlandflyer posted:i stopped adding up the receipts about half-way through construction...
guess it could use a better smoke unit, but overall a great runner.cheers...gary
I don't usually nitpick, but it is pretty obvious that the engineer is not to scale!
and he looks an awful lot like Scott!
overlandflyer posted:i stopped adding up the receipts about half-way through construction...
guess it could use a better smoke unit, but overall a great runner.cheers...gary
Absolutely stunning !! Any videos?
Ron H
I have the Vision Line BB 4018 to go along with the Legacy BB4014, Cab Forward 4294, 2005 NW 611 J Class w full compliment of pass cars, (14) Diesel would be MTH Stockyard Express NKP Blue and White ABA PA'S wit full compliment of 12 cars Special run from 2014. I also have Sunset 3rd rail SP-12 #1278 0-6-0 Switcher on order. Just received new FEF 844, w excursion cars on order from Lionel. Very happy with everything. and MY wife knows of every purchase and or order. She did donate the formal rooms of the house for the Ohio & Southwestern.
VL BB, VL Challenger, MTH DAP NS.
Ron H posted:overlandflyer posted:
Absolutely stunning !! Any videos?
there are a few of these Jim Kreider design NKP Berkshires in the SoCal area. here is a short clip of one of the oil burner models (besides mine, i know of only two other coal burners)...
anyone interested in either building one or commissioning a build, feel free to contact me and i can put you in touch with the right people. as a warning, though, it might just bump your kid's college education to the 3rd biggest expense in your life.
cheers...gary
My Lionel 6-18009 cost me $500 at the time I bought it NIB. I don't have any photos of it; the one above came from an advertisement on the net. I run conventional-only, so it fits my needs perfectly. That's the most I've ever paid for a locomotive, and likely the most I ever will. It's a fine runner, looks great and can even negotiate an 036 switch, as long as I don't take it too fast.
Yeah, I'm glad I bought it.
From what I see the BigBoys are ahead really big. How much bigger does it get?
midnightwrecking posted:overlandflyer posted:
I don't usually nitpick, but it is pretty obvious that the engineer is not to scale!
unfortunately even as a Ken-size engineer, i'm pretty sure Fireman Barbie is still pretty low on Mattel's to-do list.
My most expensive engine was an MTH Reading T-1 (4-8-4)steam engine at $1000.00 plus taxes. Second most expensive was an MTH Reading & Blue Mountain T-1(Reading T-1; 4-8-4) at $600.00 used.
I also bought the DCS with TIU & remote control unit for around $300.00 plus had to update the base & remote unit for $25.00 to use with PS-3 engines. The AIU cost me another $100.00, so command control adds up too for costs.
I have had 2 problems with the MTH Reading T-1; first it won't keep traction tires on for that long, second it won't go through Gargraves 042 switches-derails at the switch. The engine works great if I can keep the traction tires on it.
My second MTH T-1 only had a loose wiring harness that the guys at Ready To Roll in Miami FL fixed for me within a few minutes. Have not run it that much as yet because both engines need 042 curves or larger and I only have one track with 042 curves.
Lee Fritz
When I became aware that Lionel's Milwaukee Road Hiawatha (6-38094) was coming 'round the bend in 2006, I preordered it despite the list price ($1,099) from, appropriately enough, Hiawatha Hobbies in Waukesha, WI. I think I paid about $1,030, tax included. It was a dream come true -- a diecast scale Class A Atlantic in O gauge in proper paint scheme. I never looked back.
overlandflyer posted:...There are a few of these Jim Kreider design NKP Berkshires in the SoCal area. here is a short clip of one of the oil burner models (besides mine, i know of only two other coal burners)...
anyone interested in either building one or commissioning a build, feel free to contact me and i can put you in touch with the right people. as a warning, though, it might just bump your kid's college education to the 3rd biggest expense in your life.cheers...gary
Nice vid. Is that out at Riverside Live Steamers?
763E and 2263W Tender and a tribute to the late Don Haggar.
This is not the locomotive I have paid the most for on the original purchase but it is my most valuable one. Many years ago my wife and I went to an estate sale in our village of Amherst, NH. The home was an antique colonial and had a third floor attic that had been somewhat renovated and was full of all kind of boxes with everything known to man in them. In digging around I found a large box with a couple of large 800 series O gauge freight cars on top and a couple of original boxes. I ask about a price on the two cars and was told I could have the entire box of "whatever" for $40.00. I was told somewhere in the attic there was a smaller box with train parts and if i could find it I could have both boxes for $55.00.
I found the other box and purchased both for $55.00. As soon as we got home I started digging through the boxes and, in addition to two more 800 series freight cars, in the bottom of the big box I found a gun metal 763E and a 2263W tender but without a whistle. The 763E had been modified with outriggers to run on 2 rails. In addition, the boiler front was broken and the main wheels were crumbling. However, I did get it to run and the eunit cycled properly. In digging around in the smaller box of parts I found all the original part to convert the locomotive back to 3 rail and found the whistle for the tender.
Knowing I was on to a great locomotive, I called my very good friend, the late Don Hagar in Colorado. For those who didn't know Don, he was a brilliant mechanical engineer, a holder of many patents in the power generation field, the founder of a very successful company, Damper Design Inc. in Bethlehem, PA, and a long time TCA member who had a passion for bringing prewar Lionel trains back to life and was one of the hobbies biggest promoter of prewar T-rail track. He was a excellent machinist and if a part wasn't available, he would make it. In any case, I packaged up the 763E and all of the extraneous parts and sent them to Don. At the time replacement wheels were tough to find for the 763E so I think he modified replacement wheels for the 700EW to use on my 763E. About a month later I received the beautiful 763E back, in excellent running condition and the only non-original parts are the boilder front and the main wheels.
I am guessing the loco/tender combination is worth 4 or 5 time the amount I have invested in it but much more valuable are the memories of Don and the excellent work he did on the 763E and his total commitment to our hobby.
Jim Lawson
AGHRMatt posted:overlandflyer posted:...There are a few of these Jim Kreider design NKP Berkshires in the SoCal area. here is a short clip of one of the oil burner models (besides mine, i know of only two other coal burners)...
anyone interested in either building one or commissioning a build, feel free to contact me and i can put you in touch with the right people. as a warning, though, it might just bump your kid's college education to the 3rd biggest expense in your life.cheers...gary
Nice vid. Is that out at Riverside Live Steamers?
yes, and if i weren't such a klutz and currently recovering from a recent fall (15 stitches... *ouch*) i would be out there tomorrow steaming up. that clip was shot during the park reconstruction but if you check out another one of my Youtube videos "a lap around Hunter Park", it gives a much better look at the park as it is today.
cheers...gary
Gilly@N&W posted:The 3rd Rail N&W 2300 Steam Turbine Electric. My dad worked in the Motive Power department and was assigned to the 2300 from 1954 to 1957. If I could only have one model locomotive this is it.
Am I glad that I bought it? Let me put it this way. I was glad to be able to buy it. Thank you Scott Mann.
If you have a copy of Louis Newton's book Rails Remembered "The Tale of a Turbine", take a look at page 909. You'll see a picture of my Dad.
This is sooooo cool, to have a model of an engine that your dad worked one and a 3rd Rail model to boot! 
My most expensive model would be my 3rd Rail B&O T-3, just love the long Vandy tender! At $1,300 it was more than triple any other steam engine I had purchased, especially since most of my other steam engines were purchased second hand. I don't ever foresee spending this much money on an engine, again. Unless, of course, 3rd Rail would make a Reading K-1! 
Jim
N&W K2a.
No.
I have no real idea....I don't remember everything I have. But in this state I think it's my Roco HO BR01...right around 550.00 shipped. I have a storage unit in Oregon full of trains. Been a few years since I have seen them though....
And here is the shelf I put up for my other locos. Think the Williams challenger is the second at 350.00
Amazingly I have not paid more than 245 bucks for any of my O scale diesels. Got the GP15 for a hundred. The GP35 for 90. The SD40 for 155. The SD35 for 215 and the GP30 for 225.
my vision bigboy
Yes, VISIONLINE LOCOMOTIVES are a bit PRICY, However Lash Ups are Also PRICY. 4 LIONEL LEGACY CSX AC6000's ROLLING THUNDER...WOW!!! Fun to Run...
Legacy Y6b
It is by far the most expensive model train item that I have ever purchased. But, I'm glad I did .... I really like it.
It was purchased partially because of family sentimental reasons. I have the N&W Y6b for my wife's family, and a Legacy Mikado that I re-lettered from PRR to EBT, for my family. These are my only two steam engines (in addition to a PW 2046 that has been in the family since ~1953).
jd-train posted:<snip>My most expensive model would be my 3rd Rail B&O T-3, just love the long Vandy tender! At $1,300 it was more than triple any other steam engine I had purchased, especially since most of my other steam engines were purchased second hand. I don't ever foresee spending this much money on an engine, again. Unless, of course, 3rd Rail would make a Reading K-1!
Jim
What? Did you just mention a RDG K-1? I'm in!
I'd also go for an L&N M-1.
I suppose my pitiful resources are safe 
Yes the Y6B is a Smoking LOCOMOTIVE!! Pricy and Beautiful....
My most expensive loco is my Lionel scale Polar Express Berkshire. Love this engine. Fortunately Santa's elves takes good care of it, even when it is on the road.
Wow Bill Henning, It's Christmas Everyday with those Elves at Your Service. Beautiful Locomotive, Beautiful Scene....Thanks for posting...
leapinlarry posted:Yes, VISIONLINE LOCOMOTIVES are a bit PRICY, However Lash Ups are Also PRICY. 4 LIONEL LEGACY CSX AC6000's ROLLING THUNDER...WOW!!! Fun to Run...
Do you have a video of this? I've seen three at the most.
Engineer Joe, I do not have a video of this personally, however, Rich Melvin did a Video of my layout in his series OGR THE VIDEO, number 10. I believe this 4 Engine set was in that video. The CSX AC6000, number 610 Bass Unit made the set sound AWESOME....4 Lionel Legacy AC6000 Diesels Roaring, Thundering Down the Track with no Bars Held on the Sound System is Music to Us Model Railroaders Ears....Thanks for asking....
..Erie Triplex...like it...but no...I could have purchased a Glock 17 and Glock 19 and had money left over for the price. This stuff is way over priced and under quality in comparison the other hobbies. Funny thing is I never had to send a firearm back dead out of the box and wait two months to run it like the Triplex.
Johnhorse, What's a Glock 17 and 19? Not sure what money you would have left over, but, have you ever Thought, What Great Fellowship, Great Friendships, Great Toys We Have because Our Vendor/Manufacturers Are Making Such Great Products for us to "Simply Enjoy"? Yes, Pricy they are, Fun to Run, yes. Like the man Sitting on the Engine a few notes back, and that Locomotive is REALLY EXPENSIVE, ITS A Fun Hobby, Multi Faceted, and Multi FUN....Happy Railroading..
The big 1950 hudson.
MTH WM H9. I got the set with 5 boxcars and a caboose. I think I might have paid $890 from Catoctin Trains which was a great price. I don't have the receipt anymore so I'm not sure. It was the most expensive train I've bought to date. But now I have a Legacy Class A coming this fall so we'll see how it compares.
MTH Electroliner. $500 well spent. 
I got a TMCC Virginian E33 as a gift when new. I think it was 300-400 bucks, but it was a gift. It actually perturbed me even though my own pocket was unaffected. I gave it it's own track.
I paid 80-100 for K-line and MPC GG-1s, and 60 for a second RIP General to bash for double heading, but that's about it. All others were under $50.
I'm cheap about things, but don't really care much about money. I spent more on a like new KW at $140 and gave it away later.
I guess that's why folks give me expensive gifts. I "share".
I think I'd have been just as happy with some PW junker though. I can go all Gomez on those 
Unhappy? Only with large Columbia's and Atlantic's , I can't get used to the gap between the drivers.
If I hit the lotto I'd go for the Jawn and C&Os yellow monster, D500 would get offers he'd refuse (run it! That's why it was made )
so small i keep forgetting about this one...
the SP&S being one of my favorites, when i saw this N-scale Challenger, i couldn't resist.
built by LIK Ent. Inc. (Korea) and imported by More quite a few years ago.
if you consider mass, $/kg, it leaves the VL BB in the dust.
cheers...gary
"It's crackers to give a rozzer the dropsy in snide!"
Mitchell; Ok, I'll bite; could you decode this for the rest of us please?
Rod
Being retired on a fixed income, I limit the cost of locomotive purchases to $400, and I mostly buy used equipment from OGR Forum members, train shows and eBay. My most expensive locomotives are 3 articulated Rail King steam engines:
New York Central USRA Mallet 2-8-8-2
Southern Pacific Cab Forward AC12 2-8-8-4
Articulated steam engines rarely derail and they run very well through switches, so they are the best runners on my railroad. I will be adding a Rail King Allegheny, a Rail King Yellowstone and a Rail King Challenger to my roster as soon as funds permit. When MTH gets around to making a Rail King N&W Class A, I will have to have that locomotive too.
Anyone who wants to run a Cab Forward, I caution you that the overhang of the cab is perhaps the most of any O-gauge locomotive.
Jim R. posted:When I became aware that Lionel's Milwaukee Road Hiawatha (6-38094) was coming 'round the bend in 2006, I preordered it despite the list price ($1,099) from, appropriately enough, Hiawatha Hobbies in Waukesha, WI. I think I paid about $1,030, tax included. It was a dream come true -- a diecast scale Class A Atlantic in O gauge in proper paint scheme. I never looked back.
Very nice. Wish someone would release a MR Hiawatha Hudson with the Beaver Tail observation cars like Weaver did some years ago
The most expensive loco on my roster is a 3rd Rail Boston and Maine Lima Berkshire. IMO, it has better detail than the K Line/Lionel version, and runs like a fine watch. Truly a rolling work of art.
Rod Stewart posted:"It's crackers to give a rozzer the dropsy in snide!"
Mitchell; Ok, I'll bite; could you decode this for the rest of us please?
Rod
I've ment to ask that myself.
I'm guessing rugby or a motorcycle cop is involved.
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