I purchased this K4 from a Forum Member. Picked it up on Saturday. Never run. Display only. Added some oil, grease, smoke fluid and a BCR and it runs great.
TomlinsonRunRR posted:Hi all,
I got the two Lionel tank cars shown below back in March or so via early order through Charles Ro. I just love them. They are part of my modeling efforts of the contemporary Norfolk Southern line in Ayer, Mass. The only drawback is that they seem to tip over a lot when going over my MTH switches. They usually drag and spark a bit before I can stop the engine. What a mess it's made of the track and wheels. It's a good thing I bought a Kinsmart Fire and Rescue emergency vehicle at CVS.
Friday after work I went to Mr. Ro's in person. Sadly, I missed out on the Steel City Beer and Heinz Katsup reefers they listed for sale -- maybe one of you got lucky and are enjoying them? My plan was to combine the two boxcars with a switcher to model my other time and place -- intermodal railroad-barge operations in the greater Pittsburgh area. Only the 1991-2 Lionel 44-Ton Switcher was available when I called that AM. As others have pointed out here in previous posts, the model is 'way out of proportion and more like an 80-tonner. But boy can that thing move! It just flies around my track so fast that I don't dare move the transformer dial beyond half way for fear that it will become airborne! So, the size is obnoxious (as is the placement of the handrails and the steps that go nowhere), but the model makes up for it in play value. I love the simplicity of the electronics, too.
As a consolation prize for missing out on the reefers, I got a new Pan Am boxcar. It's so new that the salesman had to search for it a bit. A Pan Am car has been on my wish list, and it does not disappointment when hauled behind my NS SD70ACe. I'm debating getting some graffiti decals to mimic the prototype.
And lastly, to celebrate a successful but challenging elder care effort, I found an inexpensive Bachman N scale Santa Fe set online at Wal-Mart, and decided to give it a try -- just a little something for the dining room table. I won't be converting anytime soon, it was just for fun. When it arrives, I'll mosey on over to the HONGZ page if I have something to share.
Happy Sunday!
Tomlinson Run Railroad
If the Tank cars are as light as my Lionel Tank Train cars, you may want to try them near the end of your consist with heavier cars in front of them. Nice finds, I have to take a ride down to Charlie's soon.
TomlinsonRunRR posted:Hi all,
I got the two Lionel tank cars shown below back in March or so via early order through Charles Ro. I just love them. They are part of my modeling efforts of the contemporary Norfolk Southern line in Ayer, Mass. The only drawback is that they seem to tip over a lot when going over my MTH switches. They usually drag and spark a bit before I can stop the engine. What a mess it's made of the track and wheels. It's a good thing I bought a Kinsmart Fire and Rescue emergency vehicle at CVS.
Friday after work I went to Mr. Ro's in person. Sadly, I missed out on the Steel City Beer and Heinz Katsup reefers they listed for sale -- maybe one of you got lucky and are enjoying them? My plan was to combine the two boxcars with a switcher to model my other time and place -- intermodal railroad-barge operations in the greater Pittsburgh area. Only the 1991-2 Lionel 44-Ton Switcher was available when I called that AM. As others have pointed out here in previous posts, the model is 'way out of proportion and more like an 80-tonner. But boy can that thing move! It just flies around my track so fast that I don't dare move the transformer dial beyond half way for fear that it will become airborne! So, the size is obnoxious (as is the placement of the handrails and the steps that go nowhere), but the model makes up for it in play value. I love the simplicity of the electronics, too.
As a consolation prize for missing out on the reefers, I got a new Pan Am boxcar. It's so new that the salesman had to search for it a bit. A Pan Am car has been on my wish list, and it does not disappointment when hauled behind my NS SD70ACe. I'm debating getting some graffiti decals to mimic the prototype.
And lastly, to celebrate a successful but challenging elder care effort, I found an inexpensive Bachman N scale Santa Fe set online at Wal-Mart, and decided to give it a try -- just a little something for the dining room table. I won't be converting anytime soon, it was just for fun. When it arrives, I'll mosey on over to the HONGZ page if I have something to share.
Happy Sunday!
Tomlinson Run Railroad
Who makes that Pan Am box car?
decoynh posted:TomlinsonRunRR posted:Hi all,
I got the two Lionel tank cars shown below back in March or so via early order through Charles Ro. I just love them. They are part of my modeling efforts of the contemporary Norfolk Southern line in Ayer, Mass. The only drawback is that they seem to tip over a lot when going over my MTH switches. They usually drag and spark a bit before I can stop the engine. What a mess it's made of the track and wheels. It's a good thing I bought a Kinsmart Fire and Rescue emergency vehicle at CVS.
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Happy Sunday!
Tomlinson Run Railroad
If the Tank cars are as light as my Lionel Tank Train cars, you may want to try them near the end of your consist with heavier cars in front of them. Nice finds, I have to take a ride down to Charlie's soon.
Thanks for the tip, Matt. I had been running them behind an empty gondola and then the engine to be prototypical. On certain backup manoevers, that guaranteed a "disaster" especially on a long spur following a switch. I thought the length of the gondola was the problem making for some unsafe geometry but it certainly could be lack of weight as well. I will give your suggestion a try once I lay down my MTH switching track again. (Running a Lionel oval at present.)
TRRR
Bossman284 posted:TomlinsonRunRR posted:...
Who makes that Pan Am box car?
Bossman284,
It's MTH Rail King 30-74835. The box label says "Boston and Maine 50' Modern Box Car", but don't be fooled.
TRRR
Sure I have, I purchased a new in the box MTH premier crane set and just received it last Wed from one of the forum member. The MTH Premier crane set is the nicest crane I ever had for the best price. I had postwar lionel cranes ( my first crane #6560 all plastic junk came with a postwar lionel set #11600 in1968), N and HO scale cranes , Railking crane but this Premier crane tops them all !!! ( I forgot to add this, what makes crane set special is that my first Lionel crane had a red cab and black frame and black trucks but is long gone and this MTH Premier crane set has red cab and black body/trucks) sorry guys, SMILE
Tiffany
nice finds!
thats great to have some common ground with your future father in law. I'm not a tinplate guy either, but they look mighty good
I hope to aquire his someday. I will do a small pre and postwar layout someday to operate my families prew and post trains. If I aquire my friends fathers collection some day I will add an 031 loop for my dads/gps 1950 773. Also I got my future step kids started on Lionel. I'm building them a nice 4x8 layout when I get back down to Florida next month. They have chief Thomas/chessie, Williams RS3 and GP30 and a Lionel 0-8-0 and rs3 down there.
mike.
Matt Makens posted:Franktrain, I had one come through for repair where the battery looked way worse than that and I brought her back to life with a few parts and a little elbow grease
I got the Lionel 2321 FM Trainmaster all cleaned and lubed and should easily last another 60 years not storing the battery inside of course.
franktrain
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I have a Lionel 224E with some freight cars being held at my favorite antique store until I get home. Haven't seen them but the price seemed right and he appreciated him thinking of me. If I don't want to keep it I will post it here for sale. My son and I are talking about going to Spencer although he has a hard time getting around yet. Being a caregiver for your grown son is not for the faint of heart but he has been a good boy.
I had a purchase and an arrival recently. First is a Atlas 53' Boxcar in Illinois Central. I used to see these in the southeast suburbs of Chicago all the time! I was glad to finally add one to my collection. Thanks to the Muffins! Second is the 2016 RailKing club car. My son and I were looking forward to its arrival since it is our first stack car. However, we were both very surprised to see the flashing ETD on the car. My son ran it around his room with the lights off for quite a while!
New Book.
Covers concepts back to 1865 through to contemporary. Seven-pages on the McKeen. Seven-eights-inch thick cover to cover.
Hard cover, 208 pages, with an MSRP of only $35.00.
Ron
Std. Gauge enablers here, clap your hands in delight 
This big baby Big Ben candy tin with a working clock arrived today:
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I did. Just bought and will receive tomorrow a Lionel 28217 GP30 on Rio Grande colors to cut up and fix the pilots on. So now so far my fleet consists of;
Atlas
SD35
SD40
GP35
GP15
Lionel
GP30
And a Williams brass challenger. Not bad for only 6 months collecting. I'll post pics when I get it tomorrow night. Can't wait. Always loved GP30's
Mark Boyce posted:Matt Makens posted:I dont even want it, I was thinking the other day how I dont really want some of the ones I have
Matt,
If that is the way it is, You can ship one to Butler, Pennsylvania. I'll even pay postage.
Mark Boyce posted:Matt Makens posted:Mark, make me an offer, Ive got a brand new GE Demo AC6000 thats been displayed, make me a reasonable offer. Got a few GE Demos with flashing lights too that Id let go too
Allow me to ponder that. I just sold 3 engines, but am waiting to complete the transactions. Though I normally don't buy contemporary engines, I have two friends who work at GE, one in Erie, and the other at Grove City, Pa, where they make the prime movers. Therefore I do have a soft spot for the demos, Evos.
So, if you recall this exchange between Matt and me, you need to see "the rest of the story."
I contacted Matt, and we worked out a deal on one of his fleet. And yes, I paid the postage. :-)
So it arrived yesterday, the CEO is very impressed, and thinks kids will love it.
Matt is a really great guy to deal with, he lubed and test ran the engine, and packed it carefully for shipping!
My one friend helped engineer the communications on the full size beast, and my other friend is a machinist on the prime movers. That is why this is the only contemporary engine I wanted, besides a Buffalo & Pittsburgh GP35-2 which I see at the bottom of my hill
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Silver Lake posted:I found this monster yesterday. One step closer to a good group of late 1970's /early 80's cars that are not all sports cars or convertibles.
Party on.
Egg on wheels.. Love it
Lot of cool stuff posted. Here's my latest, another hard to find on my list. With my wallet still reeling in pain from Mays plunder. I pulled the trigger again. Lionel Legacy CB&Q GP35. Now I need to find the other one.
Ok Cool for me
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Mark, i really did forget how cool they are until I put it on the test track. I really like those locos in that scheme but I dont need that many. I only every run 2 locos unless I'm running a passenger train so I'm glad you could add it to your collection.
