Buy anything cool lately?

@vash44 posted:

A pair of UP E9's from the custom Mr. Muffins run:

@yash44

Those are first class models!!!!!!!

@Randy Harrison posted:

@yash44

Those are first class models!!!!!!!

Thank you! The Lionel/Mr Muffins team did a wonderful job on these models!

I got some fun MPC operating cars and a rare car also lately.

I had a friend that wanted to trade locomotives, so we were both happy. I traded a 1999 Shay, for a 2000 model Southern Mountain locomotive. Also my CSX 1st Responders Diesel arrived. Everything works. The reason for the trade is I just had no room for a logging train, and I love the green Southern steamer. I’ll have it upgraded to the newer sounds and Gunrunner Johns chuff stuff, super fan driven smoke system, ERR sounds, etc. I also got my new Fake NewsStand, pictures will follow. Happy Railroading Everyone

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Just picked this up for $250, my first set of 18" cars.....

I bought a lionel MI jack on ebay but I have to order a replacement part to fix it. But I think it was worth it.

@Darrell posted:

Just picked this up for $250, my first set of 18" cars.....

Great looking set. love those Sharks

I always wanted a set of sharks, and what could be better than Daylight Sharks?

Her Majesty, the 773:

I've wanted one of these for so long that now that I have one, I think I could be happy never buying another locomotive.

Of course, we  know that won't happen because that is not the nature of the beast. LOL, Arnold

I have three different Milwaukee Road milk cars now😊 A red and orange one, a blue one, and this one. I can die happy now. Off the bay. It’s too bad the USPS saw fit to damage yet another package containing a train of mine. The car seems perfectly intact. The window box suffered a thrashing. At least it did it’s job.

A new iMac so can get back on the forum and communicate with my doctors.

Not sure if I picked this up before or after the old Mac died.

I bought this extra M2 Bradley to paint in desert sand.  But before I do that since the turret  is plastic  will see if can cut the TOW assembly off and trim it to repossession in the transport possession.

And last purchase reminding me of home land ago.

Back in the day in my home state we could legally drink 3.2 beer at 18.  My high school buddy and I stopped at the ZANZIBAR on Market Street to drink our first legal beer, a Schlitz June 1964.

@Trussman posted:

Went to an outdoors under roof train meet yesterday in se Pa., a little cool to say the least. Several vendors, mild amount of trains on tables, o-ga, Lionel mostly postwar and MTH.

I previously made arrangements w/a vendor who reconditions Lionel transformers. I met him there and swapped two 1033 transformers and some change for two reconditioned 1033 transformers.  Also from the same vendor I bought a reconditioned ZW 275. which I thought was a good price. From another vendor I purchased a very nice pw 404 Budd w/ box and insert. I left the meet $300. lighter

Very Kewl, My Favorite controller for sure!! Just added one my self from a great Member on this Forum! and......And...... opened a dusty box to discover a Twin ZW to yours....... avter a clean up, going to test er on test track and see if it works! Love the Green and Red Lights.

Thanks for sharing! Great Catch

Here are the photos of my new Lionel 4-6-4 Hudson Lionchief plus loco.  I bought this from Charles Ro and it arrived in less than a week!  Wow.  It was shipped by FedEx.  The driver placed the box under my carport(light rain today) which required a 40 feet walk from where he stopped on my driveway.   Outstanding!!!  Other carriers have not done this.

Very nice engine, Dan!!  Great service from Charles Ro, FedEx, and your driver!!

Thanks Mark.  It was indeed.  BTW Charles Ro usually ships by FedEx.  On another note, I weighed my Hudson and it is 5 lbs, the tender is 2 3/4 lbs.  My guess is the engine can easily navigate a 2-3% grade.

Got on a Santa Fe/BNSF kick this week. Two new MTH SD40-2 engines and I was lucky enough to find the Lionel Legacy Black Bonnet edition 3762.

Purchased this CN super dome a while back from GGD. Solid brass and very few ever made. I run it with my MTH CN F7s and the matching 70’ passenger cars. Thanks for having this made Scott, hope you make other passenger cars of this road name.

I picked this up off of Trainz for a really good deal. I thought it was not sealed though. Now I have the tough decision to make.

Nice find on the 8600 NYC set. I really like the 665/2065 derived locomotives and wish Lionel would make a modern version like they did for some of the others through their PWC and Conventional Classics line. All black and 665 road number would be my wish.

I went in to a local hobby shop looking to get some scenery supplies and came home with this instead....

I am a new convert to the Lehigh Valley.

Bryce

@RamblerDon- tough decision for sure, but I would run it! More fun out of the box.

@Chris1985 posted:

@RamblerDon- tough decision for sure, but I would run it! More fun out of the box.

I agree.  You bought it to run, not knowing it was sealed.  I would not leave it sealed up.

One advantage of opening the set up is I can display the box with my other MPC era boxes. I wish Lionel had kept making such beautiful boxes. I know the orange is classic but something about those 70s and 80s boxes just really jump out.

A week ago I picked up the new MTH Premier line Penn Central RS-11 from Just Trains in Newark,Delaware.Very sharp.

I bought this PT tender to replace the tender that came with my 6-18056. Reprogrammed with the reset code and it works great. It just won’t negotiate 0-42 curves.

Another MPC era gem showed up today. I've heard these are so rare I never even looked around or even expected to find one. Complete and in ok shape. Someone certainly enjoyed this set in 1972 and thankfully kept all the boxes. I'm guessing they already had a layout or some track. The track included is dirty with age but looks unused.

The FREE Rea Lighted truck hooked me to place my first Menard's internet order, and selected a Green Bay & Western boxcar that one of my club members will run with his many Wisconsin-based railroads:

Not sure why my smartphone pics appear "washed-out."  The boxcar is Green Bay Packers Green and Gold, and the truck is very close to the prototype REA green/red.  In any case, very pleased with my purchase.

@Pingman posted:

The FREE Rea Lighted truck hooked me to place my first Menard's internet order, and selected a Green Bay & Western boxcar that one of my club members will run with his many Wisconsin-based railroads:

Not sure why my smartphone pics appear "washed-out."  The boxcar is Green Bay Packers Green and Gold, and the truck is very close to the prototype REA green/red.  In any case, very pleased with my purchase.

I went with the Santa Fe flatcar with panel trucks. The REA truck is scheduled for delivery tomorrow. Good to hear it's a winner!

I bought a prewar Lionel 1700E. You guys are big dollar guys. I like old Lionel I can restore.

Wow, great finds fellows. I ordered a B&O Kline baggage car and a 1/43 Scale truck with Lionel engines  painted on the sides from a prominent forum member, and a Ford S2 Legacy switcher from TRAINWORLD and it runs great, and was packed so great it could be dropped off the Empire State Building and not damaged, Triple Packaging with large bubble wrap. Happy Railroading Everyone...

In the last two and a half months I've bought 6 Lionel 1700E's. Five where a real mess. But one I almost think is original. But one of the cars has a different color vestibule. Two I have already restored. Two are almost done. Restoring O gauge trains keep you out of harms way. Like CV-19.

Jack, you have done a fantastic job on those 1700E's.  What colors did they come in when new from the factory?

As I understand it Lionel had a Chrome & Orange clockwork 1700. A Red & chrome, Red & Gray, Yellow & Brown, all Silver, Orange & Gary. These all had Lionel JR motors. I just got some parts that I've been waiting on forever. Name plates (Lionel Lines). I've not done them yet. I hate the rivets to hold the trucks on. I'm not a rivet guy at all. With Christmas, CV-18, Vaccine. Sick people with the virus, shipping is a mess. I've been waiting two weeks on a purchase of two extra 1701 coaches? What a mess. Stay home and play with the dog & trains. Be Safe.

I did finally get a GreenBerg book 1901 - 1942 so I could try to understand the colors. I was real disappointed in the book.

I've been using Krylon can paint. I use to use a Paasche airbrush but it's allot of trouble and finding the color paint with mixing and I'm getting old and grumpy. Krylon had a super nice fan spray head that I think out performed my airbrush. Sense the Cv-19 they seemed to have stopped that head and they are using a spray head now that spits. Finding the good head is a real problem. I think they will be gone forever soon. A guy at Sherwin Williams has been helping me find the good spray heads. I thought I could just swap the heads out but that didn't work at all.

@Jack Simpson posted:

As I understand it Lionel had a Chrome & Orange clockwork 1700. A Red & chrome, Red & Gray, Yellow & Brown, all Silver, Orange & Gary. These all had Lionel JR motors. I just got some parts that I've been waiting on forever. Name plates (Lionel Lines). I've not done them yet. I hate the rivets to hold the trucks on. I'm not a rivet guy at all. With Christmas, CV-18, Vaccine. Sick people with the virus, shipping is a mess. I've been waiting two weeks on a purchase of two extra 1701 coaches? What a mess. Stay home and play with the dog & trains. Be Safe.

I did finally get a GreenBerg book 1901 - 1942 so I could try to understand the colors. I was real disappointed in the book.

They did come in several variations.  I'm with you on not liking rivets.  Thank you, I stay home as much as possible!  I don't like spray guns either.  Spray cans work for the little I do.

@PRRronbh posted:

A new iMac so can get back on the forum and communicate with my doctors.

Not sure if I picked this up before or after the old Mac died.

I bought this extra M2 Bradley to paint in desert sand.  But before I do that since the turret  is plastic  will see if can cut the TOW assembly off and trim it to repossession in the transport possession.

And last purchase reminding me of home land ago.

Back in the day in my home state we could legally drink 3.2 beer at 18.  My high school buddy and I stopped at the ZANZIBAR on Market Street to drink our first legal beer, a Schlitz June 1964.

Milwaukee, Nicolet HS class of 64, Marquette U freshman year, cheers!

I forget I order this ,what surprise

Just received my Lionel 2033340 Amtrak E-8s with those early paint schemes. Units 4316/249. The 249 does have two headlights.