Tom M,
Great deal! Looks like you have a happy camper!!
A few days ago USPS showed up at our front door with MTH Premier O 20-67215 70' ABS Full Length Vista Dome Ribbed Passenger Car, Amtrak #9383 circa 2013 from Model Train Stuff. These MTH passenger cars are among my favorites with great detail, opening doors and 10 painted passengers per car. 18 1/2" long and operates on 042 rails. Looks best on 072 and above, but at least it will navigate 042 curves.
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Disregard the caboose photo, but the two metal signs on the top edge of the wall I recently got from a vendor in Tennessee. The ET&WNC one was really small. The other is a reproduction of an ALCO ad from about 1943 or 44. It's screams of the WW2 time period, so I had to have it. Along the top edge of the room (above the crew chalk board and clock) seemed to be a pretty good place for them.
Just got this off eBay. A 1942-dated manual on how to load any kind of open car you could ever imagine. It shows exactly how they would have praised and loaded flat cars, gondolas and hoppers. I've actually been looking for a book like this for a while, and the fact that this was printed during World War II is all the better for me.
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These came today from PTF Designs a Petroleum refinery. They are mounted on foam and have a light wired in too. Pic..........Paul
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They look really neat, Paul!
Very, very cool !!
That is really sharp Witz 41!!
Big Jim posted:
McQueen was legit. I'm sure you'd rather have the 1:1 model.
WITZ 41 posted:Big Jim posted:
McQueen was legit. I'm sure you'd rather have the 1:1 model.
A few years ago in Watkins Glen, NY I bought a raffle ticket to win a clone of this car. I didn't win , but, someone about thirty five miles away from me did. I guess that is as close as I'll ever get to owning one! 
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Woohoochoochoo...
I bit bullet today, and after much hemming and hawing, I just bought 5 cars of the repro 200 series for almost all of a freight consist. 214 reefer, 220 searchlight car, 215 tank car, 212 gondola with containers, and a 217 caboose.
Along with that the repro 4400N double signal bridge with 4400C Control panel, and the repro 1867 Ives Signal Tower.
And a little pre-war green water tower.
Does a "layaway" count?? If so, I committed to buy a Lionel GG1 #2360. Not that I needed it or wanted it but the price was right-I think after looking on deBay and my outdated Lionel price guide. There is a newer GG1 that I don't want that will go up for sale here soon.
WITZ 41 posted:Arrived today.
Weaver G1092s CNW Yellow Jacket 4-6-2 #1620
A few tweaks to correct the travel bends and she's ready to go! Finally have something to head my K-Line "400" train. Both are 2-rail.
Beauty!
John-
Jim, Layaway counts in my book. I know, do any of us NEED one more engine? Sure do! ;-)
Big Jim posted:WITZ 41 posted:Big Jim posted:
McQueen was legit. I'm sure you'd rather have the 1:1 model.
A few years ago in Watkins Glen, NY I bought a raffle ticket to win a clone of this car. I didn't win , but, someone about thirty five miles away from me did. I guess that is as close as I'll ever get to owning one!
Back when I was a kid. After a bunch of us saw Bullitt, That was it, we all wanted a Mustang or a Shelby Cobra. What made it worse was divided loyalties between Sox and Martin, Richard Petty , Don Garlits. and the Wood Brothers who ran both the Ford Torino and the Mercury Cyclone.
