Buy anything cool lately?

@paul 2 posted:

Pup day Monday. USPS dropped off another one for me. Pic..............Paul 2

Bob, I have not worked on the layout for a long time..

Well...that's just wrong 😂

I'm sure the inspiration will hit soon 👍

Thanks to a heads up from AGHR Alumus John Pignatelli, I ended up buying this scale-wheeled addition to my motive power stable.

I took delivery of the Lionel semi-scale B&O hopper recently. Great model with lots of detail. Then while visiting family in PA I stopped by the LHS and picked a package of Scenic Expresses chain link fence. Finished installing it last weekend. I put it around my oil tank facility to keep the deer out! I want to get another package of fence to go around the front of the facility.

@ncdave posted:

I took delivery of the Lionel semi-scale B&O hopper recently. Great model with lots of detail. Then while visiting family in PA I stopped by the LHS and picked a package of Scenic Expresses chain link fence. Finished installing it last weekend. I put it around my oil tank facility to keep the deer out! I want to get another package of fence to go around the front of the facility.

Dave. Nice Hopper. I also like that short Switch you have in the second pic nice job.

Pup day Tuesday. Fedex dropped off this today. Nothing else coming for a few days. Pic.............Paul 2

Mike g, Mark and Bob, I wish I had wall space for shelves.

Possibly the last new FL9 Penn Central floating around out there and an unpainted pair of E8As from Mike's farewell auction that will receive black paint and white worms.  Also snagged unpainted Un-Powered scale SD45 and Powered GP20 to also become PC.  Three models they never produced in Penn Central.

@paul 2 posted:

Pup day Tuesday. Fedex dropped off this today. Nothing else coming for a few days. Pic.............Paul 2

Mike g, Mark and Bob, I wish I had wall space for shelves.

Paul, I have that problem too, Paul.  There look great too.  I really like the pup cars, I don’t know why I don’t have any.

Received some interesting cars recently:

6-52011 - Tucson Cornelia & Gila Bend RR Co. Ore Car:

A pair of Angela Trotta boxcars (waiting for the 3rd in this series to be available):

2038110 - Angela Trotta Thomas 'Well Stocked Shelves' Boxcar - Middle Shelf:

And this one: 1938030 - Angela Trotta Thomas 'Well Stocked Shelves' Boxcar - Top Shelf:

6-26300 - UPS® O27 Flat Car with 2 Trailers:

K691-5103 - Circus Transport Railroad Double Deck Stockcar:

MTH 30-74057 - Fort Knox 40' Window Box Car with Gold Load (with windows closed):

With windows open:

Menards 279-4523 - Amtrak® Station:

I was excited (& relieved) to get a call that my MTH Erie-Lackawanna pass cars from my Nov 2019 preorder were in !  Thanks to Rich @ English's Model RR Supply in Montoursville, PA !  Not a big passenger train fan but I will have this one on my layout to remember the sunset of EL passenger train services.

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Trestle king, those E-L cars look good. As I traveled on the Phoebe Snow and other name trains on the DL&W and E-L, they have a place in my heart. I have both O gauge and HO models.

@paulp575 posted:

Received some interesting cars recently:

6-52011 - Tucson Cornelia & Gila Bend RR Co. Ore Car:

A pair of Angela Trotta boxcars (waiting for the 3rd in this series to be available):

2038110 - Angela Trotta Thomas 'Well Stocked Shelves' Boxcar - Middle Shelf:

And this one: 1938030 - Angela Trotta Thomas 'Well Stocked Shelves' Boxcar - Top Shelf:

6-26300 - UPS® O27 Flat Car with 2 Trailers:

K691-5103 - Circus Transport Railroad Double Deck Stockcar:

MTH 30-74057 - Fort Knox 40' Window Box Car with Gold Load (with windows closed):

With windows open:

Menards 279-4523 - Amtrak® Station:

Another addition (6-52011 - Tucson Cornelia & Gila Bend RR Co. Ore Car; sometimes referred to as the "1993 Gadsden Pacific Museum Car"). Just need to find something to change the color of the ore as I've never seen white ore:

Last Saturday, a friend and I were railfanning the Reading & Northern and the Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad in PA. While changing locations, we realized we were close to Grzybowski's... I walked out with two LionScale freight cars, a Lionel puzzle, and a Lionel license plate so I can put on my vehicle.

Yesterday my grandfather and I traveled to Stockyard Express to pick up their limited edition Camp Clariborne water tower. I almost walked out with their display model of the MTH Army flat car with the M16 Half-track, but I didn't due to the guns on it were broken off... (I'm looking at alternatives)

Long story short, I'm working on building a WW2 Army train as part of a family genealogy project that we've been working on for a few weeks now.

Love Grzybowski's. Beautiful store. Nice people.

@Artie-DL&W posted:

Trestle king, those E-L cars look good. As I traveled on the Phoebe Snow and other name trains on the DL&W and E-L, they have a place in my heart. I have both O gauge and HO models.

@Artie-DL&W,  that's a great memory to have.  These cars will be mixed in to "recreate" a Trains magazine center spread from years ago showing an Erie pass PA with an EL PA and mixed baggage cars at maybe Middletown, NY.  I always thought it was a cool scene.

I bought a new water tower, I really like it, it’s a little more detailed than the Railking one I had for the last twenty years. Has sound too, and one button to activate it which I have on my control panel, and it’s wired to my AIU so I can also run it with my remote or phone.

Its made by Broadway Limited, I bought it from Nicholas Smith.

Rear view:

PRR Switcher LC 2.0. Pulling LIRR 027 cars for a “ short line” this little engine looks great on a small layout! Love it!

Today was CN day with more pup trailers. UPS dropped off these on the back deck for me. A Canadian National Williams 70 tonner which I got from Marios for a great price and the Lionel Legacy GP-9 set with pup trailers from Western Depot which was their last one. Pics...............Paul 2

@paul 2 posted:

Today was CN day with more pup trailers. UPS dropped off these on the back deck for me. A Canadian National Williams 70 tonner which I got from Marios for a great price and the Lionel Legacy GP-9 set with pup trailers from Western Depot which was their last one. Pics...............Paul 2

Very nice looking set.

Wow, Paul!! 

@paul 2 posted:

Today was CN day with more pup trailers. UPS dropped off these on the back deck for me. A Canadian National Williams 70 tonner which I got from Marios for a great price and the Lionel Legacy GP-9 set with pup trailers from Western Depot which was their last one. Pics...............Paul 2

Nice Paul. I love that 70, too bad William's  doesn't have a livery I run. Probably just as well.....😂

The other day I took the train down to Ashland, VA for the day to check out the town. I ended up stopping in a hobby shop down there, a little pricey but it felt good to support a small LHS, and I picked these up (both MTH Premier):

Yes! I found a ZW-C new in the box and bought off a forum sponsor. I wanted a set up like Trainroom Gary's, with the 180 bricks powering my two mainline tracks, but also with throttle control because I am having a great time with my PW trains, like my original childhood loco in this video (modern tender BTW, from the 90s, which modern transformers trigger easily. In this video Using a CW80 which is wheezing along on its last legs.)

I realize this is total overkill considering it's a two banquet table layout, but I'm thrilled I found it. I hope that it works out of the box since it's never been opened, so fingers crossed.

A pair of Williams F3's in Boston and Maine paint from Mario's trains that my wife bought me for my birthday

and a set of Williams no name aluminum streamlined passenger cars I bought on ebay

They look great together and I can run the cars with other railroad names too.

Harleyhouse, beautiful diesels, Boston and Maine are a neat colorful paint theme., RJ I, really cool box cars, I like the background effects, Paul 2, cool pictures of the CN 70 Tonner, very nice, and the pup trailers are nice to, everybody has some really neat new trains to enjoy. I live in CSX Country, found this Legacy diesel to add to my fleet. Happy Railroading Everyone

Bought this:

and these:

betcha can’t guess which numbers I’m gonna use...

yep - can't guess - no image 

Of course... it gave me trouble trying to post... I thought I had it, I can see the pics on my end... grrr...

edit- I think I was able to get them on as attachments, are they there?

Yep - photos posted as attachments but not in the body.  engine and letter sheet

Well, at least they’re there... I keep getting error messages if I try to insert them in the post...

Surfing the F/S posts on the forum netted me these two beauties.

First up a K-line PRR Boxcab Electric these are neat little buggers, perfect for small layouts. Still can't believe K-line went belly up with these products.

Next is an MTH LIRR Ore car. I always grab LIRR stuff when I can since it's the home town RR.

Bob

To Quote Bob; "Surfing the F/S posts on the forum netted me these three beauties."

Did someone say Searchlight!? Thank you Kind Members!

I picked up this OO stuff along with this unused transfer table extension . There are three OO Hudson's and some scale craft passenger, Lionel freight cars and a track pack with it. Also included was this unused transfer table extension, American flyer S  and a whole bunch of old HO in boxes.

@Steaming Jon posted:

Well, at least they’re there... I keep getting error messages if I try to insert them in the post...

so you are using 568970225043 on that beauty engine? (awaiting you choice with bated breath)

<I was typing baited, because my breath smells like worms most of the time> "How do you catch so many fish when you are Ice Fishing??"  "Well, you have to keep the worms warm".

@AGHRMatt posted:

Thanks to a heads up from AGHR Alumus John Pignatelli, I ended up buying this scale-wheeled addition to my motive power stable.

Matt, Thank you for all you bring to this forum as well. I Like your tag lines well enough to paste here. You are appreciated!

Matt Jackson
"The best service you can provide for the hobby is to pass on what you have learned."

Angels Gate Hi-Railers San Pedro, California

"Celebrating over 20 years of moving freight and passengers from Point A to Point A!"

@Miggy posted:

Matt, Thank you for all you bring to this forum as well. I Like your tag lines well enough to paste here. You are appreciated!

. . .

Thank you. I'm at a loss for words right now.

Recenty pick this on from a forum member plus the SS diner from a recent auction. The engine has been upgraded to 4 chuffs by swapping out the cam and using a pair of chuff switches, per master mechanic's Harmonyards technique to drive both chuff in and smoke fan. Makes wiring extremely simple. Waiting on paint to complete the engine deck.

Pete

Today UPS dropped off my package from Gryzboski's. Another pup trailer, more PS-1's with sound and a transfer caboose that will eventually be repainted. Pics.....................Paul 2

Finally received the 3rd Pullman Standard box car from MTH. They were originally offered only to MTHRRC members, but are now available to anyone.

Pullman Standard (MTHRRC) Box Car (20-93717):

Second one issued: Pullman Standard (MTHRRC) 40' Box Car (20-93900):

Last one in the series: Pullman Standard (MTHRRC) 50' Waffle Box Car (20-93916):

This one is longer than the others (because it's a 50 footer as opposed to the others being only 40 footers).

And all together:

I’ve purchased a few cool things lately which I hope to share this weekend. I also picked up a few things up today (RailKing stuff) at Cabin Fever Auctions from this week’s 7th MTH auction. I had never been to this place before and they were kind enough to allow me to take a picture of what i was told is a not yet auctioned MTH layout in a large wood event container. I just wanted to share. I kind of want this big box.

While we're on the Cabin Fever topic, I was fortunate enough to win this FA2 unpainted engineering sample (MTH 2016 v 2) in the most recent auction.  It will become Penn Central #1313 former NYC unit if I have my history straight.  Cool thing is it appears to have a rear electro-coupler which if I'm not mistaken the production units did not have, I think it was an A-B set when produced with dummy coupler between the A and B unit.