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machinist posted:

Mark Boyce posted:

Nick,

I love the detail on Atlas O Steam Era Classics!  I also really like old billboard reefers!  The two make a winning combination!!  If you bring it to the next Greenberg Show, I'll tell everyone how great it is!  ;-)

Mark,

I enjoy the billboard reefers also-have a ton of Atlas,  K-Line , & MTH.   It's REAL easy to snap off the steps and brake wheel/post on the Atlas ones(ask me how I know!).   Might run a reefer block behind my Vision Challenger at Greenberg this July as I haven't stretched it's legs in a while.  Our club members try to co-ordinate with each other so there are different types of trains operating at our various shows.   I'v been following your layout design thread.

Nick

Nick,

Yes you have to be careful with the detail.  I have one part that I found trackside, that I don't know what it is or which car it fell off.  I'm just holding it to see if I eventually notice where it belongs.  

Yes, I can see that the club members need to coordinate who is bringing what to each show.

 Thank you for following my topic.  I will be transitioning from plan to a build topic soon.  I have been collecting some material for room improvement, so I haven't had much to report the last week.

#TOM M    gads, I WISH I would have thought of that. I LIKE it!! Watching White Pass Videos lately... OMG!!   and thanks to you, who knew.....

Just opened my package from yesterday. Four new additions for the layout. Three Weaver and one specially done wood chip car. Still have to change the Weaver over to three rails wheels and couplers. Pics.........Paul

A week or two ago posted a pic of my start on a NCTM caboose train.

This week got the last two key pieces.

Here is a couple of pics of the museum's been looking for.

None of the mass-produces of O make a N&W C32P cab to my knowledge.  But Atlas did make their C31 in Red with "NW" marking.

There are four more obvious differences between the C31 vs. C32P.

Picked this up from a dealer in AL based on internet search.

One difference is no end platform ladders.  A close exam of the model revealed that the ladders were only a friction fit.  So popped them off.

The SCL cab MTH made 10 or so years ago that was going to be a "search."  The other day one of the guys at local train store asked if I was looking for anything.  One of my last remaining O-Gauge contemporaries passed last Summer and he and this fellows friend were liquidating his collection for the widow.  Told him the only thing was a MTH ACl cab 20-91082.  Walked in the shop earlier today he said wait a minute coming back with it.  So it is special because was looking for a hard item to find and it was Jerry's.

A good day and week, I really needed that right now all things considered!

p51 posted:

I got this poster yesterday in the mail from the Avery County Museum in NC. It dropped right into the Wal-Mart frame I bought this morning with no problem, can't wait to hang it in the layout room! 

There's nothing better than a little Kodaking after some basket picnicking, I always say.

Nicholas Smith Trains in Broomall, NJ has a terrific sale price on Flyonel Legacy powered ES44AC diesels right now, so I pulled the trigger on a Central of Georgia model this past Tuesday morning. It was on my doorstep in the Jacksonville, Florida area on Thursday morning with no shipping damage courtesy of FedEx Ground. Hope you enjoy the shots.

Beautiful,addition for my O scale Fairbanks Morse collection ...Rivarrosi/AHM C-Liner ...

She's 2 rail , so , either I need a 2 rail loop of track , or , I have a siding display piece ...

Not new Postwar lionel 2035 the 1950 version with its original tattered box that was the sellers dad's .

The shell and motor looked hardly used.

Bought another 1950 version 2035 shell paint poor but casting undamaged that i will restore the shell on it.

For those not familiar the 1950 model had the large round magnet and the half moon eccentric crank and the pick up rollers were the SLS type roller on a fixed axle.

The 1951 model had the square magnet and the 2 pin eccentric crank and rollers that spun on a pin affixed to the roller bracket.

D&H 65.....Wow, very good pictures and that's a nice ES44...I really like that paint scheme.  Enjoy. 

Dprasse...That's a nice Pennsy Locomotive...Thanks for posting...Enjoy..

Wow, Beauuuutiful beasts, beautiful..... ty

Picked up this yesterday at Menards...........Pics...............Paul

So my brother calls me this morning and says some store he is at has Lionel trains on sale.   HMMM so I run over there and got these babies brand new !! 210.00 for both of them!   90.00 for the PA set and 120.00 for the John Deer set.   Just couldn't pass them up for those prices!   

Jim : )

I purchased a 350 Transfer Table for $99.00 incl. shipping, that needed some help.  It didn't take much to get it working.  Just waiting on some small parts from The Train Tender to complete the task.

Nice find Paul and Dan! Pays to be in the right place at the right time!

Dan,

Pardon my ignorance, but what does a Lionel Transfer Table transfer/do?  I've been staring at your picture but I can't grasp it.

TRRR

Tom, the transfer table is used in diesel maintanance facilities to park the locomotives on different parrallel tracks that lead into the maintainance building.  Transfer tables took the place of turntables when dieselization came to the railroads.  I did a Google search and this is what came up.

Ah, that's a great picture that you found, Dan.  It really shows how the parallel track works. Thanks for taking the time to locate and post it -- and so quickly, too!

TRRR

Dan Padova posted:

I purchased a 350 Transfer Table for $99.00 incl. shipping, that needed some help.  It didn't take much to get it working.  Just waiting on some small parts from The Train Tender to complete the task.

 

Great find, Dan.I hope you can locate some extensions too.  It's a great way to store engines in a relatively small area.  The round house is an attractive accessory but requires a lot of space due to the angled tracks coming off a circle.  This would be a popular reissue for our friends at Lionel.  I've also seen third party transfer tables, but they were pricy.  Ross Custom Switches has 3 sizes with 5 or 10 tracks for $850-$1300!  You did good indeed.

Transfer tables are nice, they don't take up as much room as a roundhouse  and turntable.  The B&LE in Greenville, Pa. had a big one.

TRRR- the Diner Guru !  I just read that an empty diner in Pgh's Station Square is moving to a theater in Irwin, Pa. to be put in use.