Buy anything cool lately?

Head end power for my Ted Rose USPS Train!

Wow! Big Jim, that is gorgeous!  Great photos, too.

Enjoy your new toy.

Tomlinson Run RR 

Surely not as beautiful as the Milwaukee Hiawatha engine , but , just added a 1950 vintage 6220 NW2 switcher ...  

needs a good cleaning and a touch of lube , to loosen her old bones up ...

not bad for 100.00 ... I've paid more for little N gauge locos ...

not sure what to do with her , she's definitely no where near a mint copy ...

leave her "as is "  or , letter her for "Lionel" as she appeared in the 1949-1950 catalog artwork  or , paint her for my home road , Illinois Central , as shown in the last pic ??? 

Picked up a Sunset 2-rail ATSF 2-8-0. It has DCC, but part of me wants to convert it to Proto-3 so I can have the best of both worlds. Debating on giving it hybrid capabilities so I can run it at the club.

Big Jim posted:

Head end power for my Ted Rose USPS Train!

That is absolutely sweet looking.

man first time I saw that engine was in TM Books and Video's Toy Train Christmas Memories. You got a nice one cause only 250 of them have been made (Weaver version). 

Big Jim, that's a beautiful loco, who's is that one?

Matt Makens posted:

Big Jim, that's a beautiful loco, who's is that one?

Mine.

Stopped into Berwyns Toy Trains today and picked up this gem. WOW has MTH improved their sound!!! Much better bass and clarity. Looking forward to the cars coming in

Haha, nice did Weaver make that for you?

I have recently made some fun trades, and possibly a purchase or two..This is the time of year we get to spend more time with our trains do to weather...

SaWeeeeeeet!!!

Leapinlarry, thise are several nice looking engines but I really like all of those structures in the background on your layout.  Well done.

Tomlinson Run RR

Matt Makens posted:

Haha, nice did Weaver make that for you?

Yes, it is a Weaver. 

Oh yeah....

Thanks Tom and JR Junction.

More pictures of them in the photo album:

 https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/t...82#71538114015824382

Local toy train shop received the last item I have on order.

MTH's more correct version of the UP Flag-Baggage car.  Only one thing I would have extended the "stripes" about 3/16 to 1/4-inches beyond  the door.  But we are working with an 19" verses 22" car.

PRRROn that is one fine looking piece of rolling stock!

It’s a very small thing, but I picked this up for just 99 cents at the local Wal-Mart this morning on the way to work as I had to stop there for something else anyway:

So, what does brown clay have to do with the layout? For my work-in-progress small cow pasture, you have to have cow pies, right? I’ll be painting a few to represent various states of newness. Next will come the fence (I need to get moving with posts, cutting them, dying them grey, etc) after that. I’ve already prepped the ground.

Slow progress overall as I’m getting over a lengthy cough I’ve had for over a month. I’m on all kinds of meds, which are REALLY throwing off my sleep, messing with my appetite and maybe causing me some overall anxiety (or I’m just stressed out as I hate having a cough). Generally, I don’t have a lot of motivation for anything fun right now, but hopefully I’ll be feeling more like myself soon enough (I’m on day 6 of a 10-day course of antibiotics).

After the fence goes in, I have two plastic O scale Holsteins I need to paint to a different breed.

I could see a lot of uses of bake-clay besides cow pies.

p51 posted:

It’s a very small thing, but I picked this up for just 99 cents at the local Wal-Mart this morning on the way to work as I had to stop there for something else anyway:

So, what does brown clay have to do with the layout? For my work-in-progress small cow pasture, you have to have cow pies, right? I’ll be painting a few to represent various states of newness. Next will come the fence (I need to get moving with posts, cutting them, dying them grey, etc) after that. I’ve already prepped the ground.

 

Lee.   The attention to detail is cool, but unless you plan on adding the smell  ( and sure your wife will really like that). Pluck the Good Idea fairies wings.   A dung pile I could see, but the cow chips, best left for the imagination.   Layout great, Drugs are bad.