Just before Christmas, I lost another of my three main lines (one had to be disassembled due to some work on the back of the layout). For some reason, my middle line flipped the breaker as soon as power was applied. With the holidays and company for about two weeks, I hadn’t been down to the layout until yesterday. I took everything off the loop... still tripped the breaker, checked the entire loop, couldn’t find anything that would cause the short... swept the track, still tripped the breaker. Finally, I started to look at the track itself and found that the drop I attached was too tight, and when I was working on the area, I must have moved the section of Fastrack where the drop was attached and one of the wires came loose and was touching the other!!! I spliced in a longer length of wire and now, I have my loop back. While I couldn’t run much for almost a month, it hasn’t stopped me from buying more trains (surprise... surprise!!!). So here is my recent haul...
First up, a Lionel 120th Anniversary Caboose - I missed these in the catalog, but a person who will remain nameless posted a pic of one here on the forum, so I had to get one!!!
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It goes nicely with the latest National Lionel Train Day boxcar I picked up,from Grzyboski’s in December...
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Next up, two flatcars with trailers that I forgot I ordered from the TCA...
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These were a true impulse purchase... I usually don’t go in for Christmas themed cars, but since these are basically prototypical and since MTH may be going away, I ordered a set of these from Mr. Muffins - they really look cool with the LED’s!!!
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Next, something to go with my growing beer train (mostly) from the NJ HiRailers... and I was amused with the age recommendation on the box ![:D](https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/static/images/graemlins/icon_biggrin.gif)
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This is a Lionel 57’ mechanical reefer with generator sounds (and smoke which I will never use) - it is very nicely detailed...
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Finally, another flatcar with trailers...
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MUST... STOP... BUYING... TRAINS... (except the ones I have on pre-order)
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