Buy anything cool lately?

Don't know how "cool" it is, but I've been buying Evan Designs LEDs to put working class lights on a couple of my diesels.

Wow!!  That is a great development, Mike!!

Deuce posted:

Not sure this would count as cool or not ...

1. Three O27 uncoupling tracks, and one uncoupling FT kit

2. Marx railroad crossing signal (I'm digging the Marx stuff for sure) ...

3. A second Marx Switch Tower (I'm planning on putting them at opposite ends and lighting them with Woodland Scenic LED nano lights).

ETA #4. A few amber and white flashing Just Plug LED nano lights off of eBay.

carsntrains posted:

I've bought a bunch of cool stuff lately... 

Reindeer car 4  pack A 

Reindeer car 4  pack B

Santa observation disconnect car

Miller High Life car

Southern Comfort car

8 car mix of 6454 and 2454 cars

2 Fastrack 036 manual switches and

3 Fastrack 30 inch straights

Now I need a place to put them all!! LOL

Jim

 

Pics, please, pics are proof.  Words are just idle rumors.  :-)

@Richard Cuozzo I have eBay receipts. Will that suffice? 

Deuce posted:

@Richard Cuozzo I have eBay receipts. Will that suffice? 

LOL

Forgot about that 4501 engine.  : )  

Thats all the pictures I have ..  waiting for pack A and track to get here : )

Jim

I've recently bought several Atlas 1920's--1930's era freight cars to complement an ETS Baldwin--Westinghouse electric motor I'm thinking of buying. I've also invested in a Lionel mill gondola that would complement a generic looking 1960's-era work train I'm putting together. Since at least two other members have "big hooks," I'll do a different sort of work train.

Now I've now got to screw up my nerve and start painting and lettering.

On Friday, I drove down to Todd Architectural Models in Chatham, NJ to pick up a couple of pieces I ordered. I was able to see the prototypes for some of the new buildings they are working on - looks like some good stuff coming this year.

When Doug had a sale back around Thanksgiving, I ordered one of his manufacturing warehouses and two of his concrete warehouses...

I had intended to use these in this open corner area...

Unfortunately, Doug pooched my plan when, in December, he offered a great deal on a very limited edition 5-story warehouse which he told me was designed as a commission from Scapiron Scher. Well, since I did have around 12 feet of back wall I needed to fill...

LOVE that sign!!!

In these photos, the flats haven't been installed yet - they are just leaning against the wall until I decide on their final placement. Tomorrow, I will have to cut some wood strips to fill the gap between the Mianne benchwork and the wall.

Overall, I find Doug's offerings to be excellent, and the detail in the brick work and windows is amazing. But the manufacturing warehouse is a real standout...

I recently got my SF SD40 to add to the collection. All the varying details between these 3 is really cool.

I saw a picture of the prototype GT #5922 with a snow plow on it in the scrap yard. So I swapped out the rock plow pilot Lionel put on it for a BN pilot. They both have white accents on the steps so it worked great.

Santa postman was very good to me today. 

Marx Union Pacific boxcar

AF Minehaha loco, looks like a motor change

AF Comet set, little rough but some cleaning and straightening will help and 

some lube and tuning. 

Oh, and did I mention I need more prewar streamliners like a hole in the head.

I pulled the trigger on the new Lionel BNSF Tier 4 LC set 6-84732 from Charles Ro just to find out it will not deliver till around 10-10-18. But it came with a nice discount so I hope I am still around to get it when it ships.   

Finally got a call today that my 7 passenger SP cars arrived and shipped out from Lionel's 2016 Vol. 2 catalog.  About time I have something to put behind the legacy GS4 Daylight.  Should have them tomorrow.

bought  my son a vision line gg1

KRM posted:

I pulled the trigger on the new Lionel BNSF Tier 4 LC set 6-84732 from Charles Ro just to find out it will not deliver till around 10-10-18. But it came with a nice discount so I hope I am still around to get it when it ships.   

do you live in marseilles

Just arrived!

Very nice set of cars, Rob!

Duece, Marx is awesome. But be aware running pre war designed fat wheel locos through later turnout curves isn't going to happen and most Marx locos are fat wheeled. They can however make it through most straights if the fat wheel can be kept to the "long rail" on all turnouts (E.g. a left and a right turnout in a loop means no go, but left OR right alone is ok and it, just limits use to clockwise or counterclockwise operations. 

   I struck out on a Menard's visit. Nothing but a few buildings and new military trucks on flat cars was left this year.

I bought a new Lionel 6-84239 Western Maryland 3-Truck Shay, but I am sending it back to the dealer because it grinds and may be missing an axle bushing.

I called Lionel Service, but they are closed for Inventory this week according to a Lionel dealer who waited 90 minutes trying to reach his sales representative.  There is no message on the Lionel phone System either.  If you call, enjoy the doddle. doodle music.

My Lionel Southern Pacific seven-car passenger train arrives tomorrow.  Hopefully Lionel redesigned the roof vents that kept falling off my previous Lionel 21" passenger cars.  In order to re[lace a small roof vent, Lionel had to put an entire new body shell on the passenger chassis.  Dumb, huh?  Waste a $100 shell for a 15-cent part.

Wow John, that is a bummer!!