Buy anything cool lately?

Received my three LCCA Convention cars...

Well, the USPS finally delivered my, new to me K-Line Hudson. It’s going to be fine. Happy Railroading Everyone. 

I think it was well worth the wait Larry!

@leapinlarry very nice K-line steamer! I’ve made my love of all things K-line known in the past, would like to add one of their steam locos! What’s the product number on your Hudson, if you don’t mind me asking?

SteveFromPa, I had never really been interested in the K-Line TMCC engines until a good friend of mine introduced me to the K-Line Hudson. This was several years ago, I was blown away with all of the detailing. It was the casting used for Lionels VL Hudson, so, RickO verified that thought.  I saw this on the for sale Forum, so struck a deal and purchased this handsome Hudson J1e.  TMCC command control version, “5343.  They made 2 models in command, 2 in Conventional. See the picture on the box for your numbers. Happy Railroading, thank you.

Larry,  that Hudson certainly is a beauty.  Enjoy !!!!!

That's a beauty Larry. My favorite steamer and one of my favorite lines.

Larry,

I love even more the red oak corner trim that you have on the edge of your table.  That looks outstanding!

Mannyrock

Mannyrock, Thank You for the compliment. There’s a reason that where the molding is, is a straight line. At one time I had the nicest curve there and the wife said I was taking up too much room, So, we cut the table off right there. A happy wife is the answer to a happy life. She built the house, gave me a great basement, I can not complain.  RSJB18, thank you for the compliment to and I love looking at your pictures. Stay safe, stay healthy, Happy Railroading 

Leapinlarry, 

Glad the engine finally arrived,  it looks like it was worth the wait!

Jeff 

Bought a bunch of cool stuff at a toy train shop about an hour from me this past weekend! Also picked up auction winnings from March and bought some neat stuff at an antique mall! From accessories to buildings to rolling stock to  dummy units!

MTH Operating transfer dock! Full working condition!

RMT& Aristo PRR Smoking Caboose, PRR Boxcar and lighted MTHCAT F3 Dummy

Lionel Maiden rescuse accessory(sans maiden) and K-line 10 pack of 10-inch straight shadow rail

Close-up of MTH F3 Caterpillar nonpowered, lighted unit

Lionl TPC 300 MTH ITAD

Accessory boxes with PRR Rail to Door truck by AHL and Wellys diecast SP truck with Walthers decals

Won at auction scratch built industrial building to go with my Linex oil tanks

Won at auction prewar Lionel 252, 805 boxcar, 803 hopper, 807 caboose

Bunch of very useful Walthers and microscale water decals! RRs, companys(fictional and real)

Walthers decals and extra doors for scratch building

Sealed Microscale LIRR decals

Larry love that Hudson I have one but it’s a lower grade than your but I still like mine it does the job 

More Piggybacks have arrived 

Lee Drennen, Thank you for the compliment, and I love those piggy back trailers. Lionel did a great job on those, cool.  SteveFromPa, Wow, you purchased a lot of neat trains and accessories, nice, Everyone seems to be finding bargains, Yes, I finally ran my K-Line Hudson, although simply TMCC, it’s my little treasure. Happy Railroading 

This week I bought a GGD PRR B70 baggage car and a Weaver New Haven B60b. Delivery Monday or Tuesday. I'll post photos when I get them. I'm assembling a mail train to run alternately behind my Lionel Atlantic or K-line post war K4s. I have been working now and then on a kitbash of a K-line baggage car to run with the two Weaver PRR B60 cars and the two new cars. Up to now my mail train included two K-line RPOs as baggage cars. 

Larry, I like the Hudson. I always admired the look of the engine and the interesting design of the tender. I have a scale K-line TMCC K4 that I bought over 10 years ago and it is a great runner. I added 4 chuffs with magnets and a reed switch. Cheers.  

Larry,

I'm going to have to give you some lessons in wife management.

Tell your wife about an exciting, new, trendy diet, from the Oprah or Ellen show.  Put both of yourselves on it, and lose two inches of waistline.  Then, widen your table by two inches.   By the time you both gain it back, the table extension will be a done deal. :-)

Mannyrock

Lee Drennen, I went Krazy and bought a few of the piggyback cars from Imperial Train Company awhile back, they are nice. Happy Railroading 

@Mannyrock posted:

Larry,

I'm going to have to give you some lessons in wife management.

Tell your wife about an exciting, new, trendy diet, from the Oprah or Ellen show.  Put both of yourselves on it, and lose two inches of waistline.  Then, widen your table by two inches.   By the time you both gain it back, the table extension will be a done deal. :-)

Mannyrock

 

Manny, LOL!!  I'm already down to 165 pounds and I have my aisles about as narrow as I can handle in my 11x11 room!  LOL  My train room is actually a small addition to the house behind the laundry room my in-laws put on when they lived here.  Their intent was that it support the sunroom above.  I pulled out the window between the laundry and the train room.  My wife likes that view, so she actually never goes in the train room.  No, I will never be hosting a convention tour at my layout with it's limited access!  

@Mark Boyce posted:

Manny, LOL!!  I'm already down to 165 pounds and I have my aisles about as narrow as I can handle in my 11x11 room!  ...<snip: some deperate measures by a desperate man>... No, I will never be hosting a convention tour at my layout with it's limited access!  

Well, Pilgram... a train nut's gotta' do, what a train nut's gotta do, in order to see the trains do what trains do.

Train on.

Andre

@leapinlarry thehobby shop to which I went is awesome- every Saturday they open up two sheds outside the main shop that have a lot of new old stock or used like new items. Examples: K-Line Golden State 18 inch aluminum 2 packs in the set boxes & shipping container, k-line 21 inch northern Pacific 4 pack in the original shipping container, MTH McDonald’s set, Lionel MPCera southern set of 7 passenger cars, Weaver  TMCC equipped(and some TAS speed control EOB equipped) RSD-3s, diesels and steamers, Atlas O & Atlas Trainman 95% of which is still in the shrink wrap, Williams & WBB still in the boxes and shrink rap, GG-1s by Williams, Lionel, K-line PRR fleet of modernism, Prewar and Postwar engine’s and transformers in a glass cas, RMT depressed flat car individuals and sets, Prewar o and standard gauge setting out some in the original box!! Also- all 25% off!

And I don’t like to talk prices but to give everyone the correct impression that Ijust got good deals and not whatever i want: TPC 300(with the cables) was 37.50,the Aristo Caboose was $35, andbthe working Operating Transfer Dock was $25!!!! Like I said, don’t like to advertise prices but those were some deals gentlemen 

Ok Steve,  I'll be the first to ask...you gonna let us know who & where?  😊 Sound like a good place. My train budget has Covid 19, but I can still dream.....

Jeff

I guess I've caught the MPC era bug. 

I just got this in the mail, which cost less than 25 bucks for the whole thing including shipping.

I got it for the tender, as I wanna make a water tower out of the tender shell. I'll probably keep the twnder frame and the trucks for some future project, and maybe either turn the loco into a tank engine or make it into scrap. I would assume that runs, and I will test it eventually...

Got these from Beth a few weeks ago. They arrived undecorated. I have been wanting some turn of the century cars for some time to go with my small steam and the only cars MTH had done in the past for NYC were the fancy Empire State Express cars, an unlikely scheme for the local trains. 

NYC passenger cars decals are like hen's teeth these days in O scale. I had been looking for a couple of years for them with no luck. I have even contacted a custom decal maker but before we made a deal I came across these on eBay. Pre War guys may recognize them right off. Anyway I ordered a set and was impressed on how easy they were to use. Also the fact that the film is nearly the same sheen as the paint. I tried some blank film and it was barely visible on the outer surface and with a bit of Micro Sol, no silvering either. What you see is just the decal on the original paint. No gloss underneath no top coat.

Now to find a combine or baggage car to go with these three coaches.

Pete

My final MPC steamer showed up after being lost in the mail for awhile.

Larry those pigs are nice I really like the Illinois Central never seen that one thanks for posting them 

These arrived last week more Pigs this time O27 

Picked this pair of Postwar AA #211 Texas Special diesels a week or so ago.

I received this pair of Williams locos from a forum member yesterday.

Perfect timing for Shark Week !

Warning: Once again, this is actually a "2 rail" post...but we all like old stuff, right? 

I thought it would be kind of "cool" to have a power pack of a similar vintage to run my old Varney/All Nation Ten Wheeler:

Have no idea exactly how "old" this is: I'm guessing 1950s, as it mentions "TT" scale in the little "disclaimer". Prior to its arrival, I did some online research, but couldn't find anything in the MRC archives that goes back far enough. Has a very "post-war" look to it, doesn't it?

It's in really nice condition, and seems up to the task of supplying the big Pittman open-frame motor with whatever power it needs...40 bucks. 

Mark in Oregon

Added a #2020 to my Lionel fleet. Am I the only one with more engines than rolling stock?🤔

This showed up the other day. These Uncle Pete Piggies are nice 

Lionchief bigboy showed up last night I think my son was more excited than I was.

Lee Drennen, nice piggy back cars and Lionels wood floor cars look fantastic, nice rollers to, cool, here’s a couple that I like, 1Slowstang, very nice Locomotive, better yet, a happy Son,  Wow, that’s nice, RSJB18 Bob, now those Sharknose NYC Diesels look cool, sleek, and fast, very nice, Williams Engines will run forever, Cool Set, Bill T, beautiful Texas Special Diesels, fun to run I’m sure, a Wow!, Happy Railroading Everyone...

Wednesday the GGD PRR B70 and Weaver New Haven B60 arrived. I posted the pics on the "what did you do on your layout today" thread. They are both nice additions to my mail train. 

@leapinlarry posted:

SteveFromPa, I had never really been interested in the K-Line TMCC engines until a good friend of mine introduced me to the K-Line Hudson. This was several years ago, I was blown away with all of the detailing. It was the casting used for Lionels VL Hudson, so, RickO verified that thought.  I saw this on the for sale Forum, so struck a deal and purchased this handsome Hudson J1e.  TMCC command control version, “5343.  They made 2 models in command, 2 in Conventional. See the picture on the box for your numbers. Happy Railroading, thank you.

I'll see your KLine J1e Larry, and raise you the 50th anniversary J3a from Lionel.

This one is also from a forum member, and its great. I find the appearance superior to the newer ones, and that WHISTLE. Its gotta be the best one in my collection which includes some newer legacy locos.

I may do a 4 chuff, fan driven smoke upgrade in the future, but a the half the price of a new one, its fantastic as is.

I've reached a point with all of the "whistles and bells" offered these days and potential for failures and what appears to be a change in direction at Lionel. I'm concerned about my collection lasting as long as I do. These Korean built older TMCC locos are quality machines.

I really wanted one of the legacy j3as but it left me a bit disappointed.( i.e.5 chuffs, smokebox patches etc) I've been contemplating one of these for years. Why did I wait???

Yes sir, RickO, your Hudson is Beautiful, and I’m in agreement that these locomotives are made just as nice as the newer much higher priced versions are. I’ve had 3 of the VL Hudson’s, sold them as I didn’t like the whistle. I like yours, and the entire set very much, and maybe I’ll run into a deal on that set someday. I am like you, one day maybe add the 4 chuffs, and a fan driven smoke unit, but I’m in no real hurry. On the master carton, it said, made in Korea. Thank You and enjoy your new train. Happy Railroading 

PWC B&O freight set

Larry. Thanks there’s more on the way 

Ricko. I agree with Larry what a beautiful Hudson and a fabulous picture of it