Buy anything cool lately?

My next loco will be the MTH DAP CSX DASH 8 with the flag on it that led the Bush Whislte Stop Campaign.

The Proto 3 MTH Reading T1 in American Freedom Train colors and an 8 car set of NYC 20th century cars in 1938 paint found their way home this week.  Ordered the loco about 1 year ago, and it was worth the wait!  The cars look great behind my Williams Master Series Dreyfus Hudson.

Rolland

Yep, MTH AS-616

   Bill T.

Just received a Weaver Consolidation. Off to the Backshop, this will soon be filling it's role as a N&W Class W2. And yes, I know the sand dome isn't "correct". It will just have to "do" until someone offers a better model.

This one is now part of the "short list" for potential PS2 upgrades by J.D.S Ltd.

Recently picked up three MTH Madison style passenger cars from a nearby Forum member. New in the box. They look good behind my NYC F3 units.

My first engine purchase about 2 weeks ago.  

Admittedly I don't think many people liked this (yellow) NH release, but I love it.  Just need to buy a small setup to run it as I have nothing in regards to track/power/etc..

Second engine purchase showed up yesterday

I'll remove it once I'm able to run it.  Hopefully soon.

Hardware,

Congratulations on your new purchases!  The New Haven electric Looks like it is,painted in Pittsburgh professional sports teams colors.  Though I don't follow the team, I see lots of Steelers cars and engines around here.  I follow baseball and hockey too a bit instead!  

While we don't see NH engines in those colors, your liking it is all that matters!

Wow on the Veranda Turbine!   I see it runs on 072 curves.   I don't have the room for that myself.  I am sure it will look super once you get it on the track!

Unless you have a lot of cash, don't get too carried away.  Although I did smaller scale modeling for over 40 years before switching to O gauge 3 years ago, I made a few lesser purchases that I realized later I shouldn't have.  It was no loss, I learned from them, had some fun with them, and so far have been able to seek some of them for not much less than I paid.  I am still learning nuances specific to O gauge that are different from HO and N scales.

have fun with trains!!

$12 Father's Day gift for myself from the bay.

Thanks very much Mark!  

From what I understand on the New Haven EP-5 there were 2 color schemes (do people prefer to call them livery?) provided to NH back in the mid 50's by General Electric.  The one I bought (Canary Yellow) is the one that lost the battle against the normal red-orange scheme we are used to seeing.  I simply bought this one over the standard to have something different and maybe it would be a conversation starter.  Guess that worked. : )  I love the standard one as well and will have one someday.

My goal is to have each UP Turbine.  I don't think I'm going to setup a normal layout with 0-72, but I might do a shelf train with bigger curves just for the bigger engines.  That's the current idea anyway.  Maybe setup on carpet temporarily.

I definitely don't have money to blow.  The price tag on the Veranda seems high because it's from a Canadian dealer.  I paid a good bit less than the MSRP of $799.

Thanks again for the input and reply.

Today, I just received, from Amazon,my copy of Firing The Steam Locomotive, originally published by the Reading Company in 1947.  This is a reprint of the original by Periscope Press.  I have a few other books on steam locomotive maintenance and operation, so this will go great with those.

Yes, the shelf with larger curves makes sense.  I have one 3/4 done myself.  Sounds like you got a good price On the Veranda!

Hardware,

    The NH in Black & Gold is way cool stuff.  Glad you like it.  My latest addition to our layout is a Pittsburgh P2 Street Car, from the 60's era.  

PCRR/Dave

Very nice Pittsburgh car, Dave.  I remember them well from when I was attending Penn Tech in the mid '70s.

Weirton Steel diesel & caboose from MTH.

      Bill T

Don Beckon's Great Western Railway artist's book - for $1! 

Bill T,

    The original Green Weirton Steel Switcher and Caboose is fantastic, now that MTH has made them, maybe they will also make the original Green Union Railroad Switcher and Caboose also!  Is your  Engine P2/P3 or conventional?

PCRR/Dave

Thank you Dave!

I agree with Mark, that is a nice car and I don't recall ever seeing one of those.  Good addition!

Spotted what turned out to be this pair of 3rdRail Milwaukee Road E7's on Petersen's Supply Co website 6 months ago, right before the holidays.
I thought there was one but when I inquired, it turned out that there were actually two in stock.
Well, after 6 months of mulling it over, and in that time realizing no one else had picked them up, I came to the only logical conclusion: I am clearly the one who was meant to have them.
So last week, after selling some items online and finding myself with few extra pennies to spare, I decided to make them both mine.
After seeing all the images of the dual lash-up of the HO version, it was an easy decision opt for both.
Quite remarkable that for 6 months two 3rdRail E7s went untouched.

As you can see I already changed out the pilot to get the 3-rail coupler out of the way on what will be the lead unit.

Now trying to decide if and how to add Kadees between the two to tighten up the gap.

Those Milwaukee E7's are beautiful engines. When did they come out? Had I known I would have grabbed one at the time.

Lionel Vision Line reefers on the S&Y RR

    Bill T.

From Menard's.

Beautiful E7s !!  Wed. was a big day for me. Brought home some lay-away- 3 Lionel tuscan passenger cars, the #60 trolly, a Lionel  O gauge motor that will fit the 55/65 engines plus a like-new LW transformer. Didn't really need it but too nice not o get. Then I was rooting through a box of train stuff that had just come in o the antique store and picked out a nice pothole caboose and a horse car. The horse car had been on my "buy" list. The roof was dirty and the doors were jammed shut. The rest of the car looked new so I bought it for $10. Got it home, opened it up and there were 8 original horses inside, like new. Fixed the jam, a piece of metal had come loose somehow, and it works like a charm so I was a happy camper. Now to find a nice corral.  Fun to dumpster dive. The dealer had bought a ton of toys including an AF road race set, complete and a nice heavy metal floor train with an engine the kid rides on and 5 cars. All original. Any one interested E mail me and i will give you the phone number. An antique dealer.

Spence that looks great! I might have to find room for one of those.

A nice 1985 Dodge Diplomat.  Unusual to see die cast normal non sports caR 1980's cars. As you can see it is so new I haven't even fully taken it out of the package.

Finally got both of them after some years of looking! Perfect additional to my Central Division layout (Minnesota and Iowa)

I just love the looks of a lot of the Flyer transformers. Got this near new 12B from my friend John Parker the other day.

Steve

Those are gorgeous!  Enjoy them.

  In keeping with the transformer theme, this lightly used LW was acquired this morning.  It appears to have spent 99.9% of its life in the original carton.  I might set this one aside for display in a cabinet.

Bruce

Attic fresh 1960 Lionel C&O set with some extra cars, very little run time and in good shape. Bought off ebay and it was a local pickup so no shipping charges. Missing some of the flatcar loads but the can be expected being 55 years old. 

franktrain

brwebster-I picked up my new LW that looks like yours. Bought it because it was so pretty but running my Standard gauge track with it. My repairan likes LWs for shows where he runs a couple of loops with trains on them.

I got a pair of these for the layout

Got this Lionel Congressional set, three cars were pretty well unrun and the observation car was mint save a ding in one side. Came with boxes for $260. They go along with this E. Welz restored 2340 I got for $360 a month ago. Full 1955 Congressional set for a pretty good price, in my mind. They'll be getting run regularly.

I got my new Lionel Y6 B last week,great sound and hooter whistle.

New (to me) VL Challenger. Too sweet.

Scored these off ePay, all there (including the booklet, the extra joker/ad for salads card and the rules card) and in great shape, all for less than $10!

I didn't preorder the Daylight Legacy Cab Forward.  All the videos I have seen of it have increased my regret level in not ordering it.

I knew that it was very popular and thought that I might have to wait until used ones showed up on the market.  Well.......today I ordered the last one that Pat's Trains had.  

I've noticed a local modular club utilizing multiple LW's also, Jim.  Maybe it's the compact size and light weight yet still putting out decent wattage.  The variable intensity indicator light along with the side lit, clear plastic dial is a nice touch. 

Bruce