Buy anything cool lately?

Deuce posted:

I have zero willpower. 

LMAOOOOOO!

If you like little switchers these K-line Plymouths are really nice.

RSJB18 posted:

Deuce posted:

I have zero willpower. 

LMAOOOOOO!

If you like little switchers these K-line Plymouths are really nice.

I do like the look,  I needed (ok, not really) this one for the Inglenook puzzle on my O27 loop. It's small enough to navigate the curves and is a LC so I don't have to futz with the transformer controls. Hope Lionel makes them as a LC+ at some point. 

Deuce posted:

I have zero willpower. 

WOW that is SWEET!    I need something like that to pull my disconnect cars.   In Southern or a Christmas theme!!!

Jim 

carsntrains posted:

Deuce posted:

I have zero willpower. 

WOW that is SWEET!    I need something like that to pull my disconnect cars.   In Southern or a Christmas theme!!!

Jim 

I got it off the bay. It's a part of the Lionel Junction PRR set. It was a breakdown (engine only) and I managed to snag it at a price that made enough sense for me not to buy the whole set elsewhere, or grab the E33 LC+ I've been sweating over.

I'm thinking I'll go through my trains and put a few that I know I'll probably never use (along with a bunch of my golf clubs) on eBay. Maybe I'll make enough to grab an LC+.

Bought a group of cheap people off Amazon. Cut some plastic squares from a package harvested from garbage, some E6000 and I have figures that stand up and can be easily placed around my on the floor layout! Fun!

The switchers are really nice, Deuce!!  They are great for your purpose.

The only think I know about Porters is that they were made by the H. K. Porter Co. in Pittsburgh!

If memerory serves, the Vulcans had to be a creation of Mr. Spock!  LOL Just kidding!!

pdxtrains posted:

Bought a group of cheap people off Amazon. Cut some plastic squares from a package harvested from garbage, some E6000 and I have figures that stand up and can be easily placed around my on the floor layout! Fun!

Congratulations on getting your little people cheap. Cheap is important. I went to a train show recently, and a vendor had some very nice metal little people. I was stunned how ecpensive they were.

I think I paid 12 bucks for 100 and prime shipping got them to me in two days. The seated figures aren’t as good for passenger cars because I think they are a bit too big. But with my toy layout the standing figures are marvelous. Here’s a group I will use waiting for the train .

pdxtrains posted:

I think I paid 12 bucks for 100 and prime shipping got them to me in two days. The seated figures aren’t as good for passenger cars because I think they are a bit too big. But with my toy layout the standing figures are marvelous. Here’s a group I will use waiting for the train .

Great deal. Who did you buy them from?

First off I didn't buy these, seen them when I was returning the bull float to the rental shop.

Then I would like to say a Great Friend BRIANSILVERMUSTANG sent me these! What a great guy!

Thank you so much for the kind gifts Brian!

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

pdxtrains posted:

I think I paid 12 bucks for 100 and prime shipping got them to me in two days. The seated figures aren’t as good for passenger cars because I think they are a bit too big. But with my toy layout the standing figures are marvelous. Here’s a group I will use waiting for the train .

Great deal. Who did you buy them from?

Search amazon for o scale people and it should come up

I went antiquing today with friends and found a nice Lionel 260E  with a tender for $225. The tender looked like a Vandy. I have lost my Lionel books and was wondering if this was a good price ? The piping etc on the engine was copper. It seems I have read that 260s are good engines.  What do yiu think ??

New Railking Amtrak Genesis from Trainworld. Here it goes through the PSA sequence. In the background, I discovered my LC Amtrak loco will negotiate o27 so it pulls a passenger car from the 90s I think, and a string of Lionel horse, zoo and giraffe cars, tailed by a Ringling Bros caboose, all circling the Lemax rides and animated circus. Finally, in the foreground, you can see my grouping of cheap people from my earlier post. Really happy with Trainworld and the clear, no nonsense return policy printed right on the invoice!

mike g. posted:

Thank you so much for the kind gifts Brian!

That plane is gonna look great on your airfield, Mike!

jim pastorius posted:

I went antiquing today with friends and found a nice Lionel 260E  with a tender for $225. The tender looked like a Vandy. I have lost my Lionel books and was wondering if this was a good price ? The piping etc on the engine was copper. It seems I have read that 260s are good engines.  What do yiu think ??

If it is complete and the wheels are good, I'd say yes.  It would have come with either a 260T (Vanderbilt) or a 263W or T also a Vanderbilt tender.  Look at it this way, a new MTH one is listed at $430 plus, so I figure if you can get a really nice original for less or considerably less, that is a good deal.

Mo985 posted:

mike g. posted:

Thank you so much for the kind gifts Brian!

That plane is gonna look great on your airfield, Mike!

You know Mo, its funny I was telling Brian tonight how you and Larry Sr. helped me with the airfield! I told him I would dig up some pictures of it and repost it for him! Thanks again!

I bought a Williams by Bachmann GP-38 that I have ambitions for repainting from its current GM&O lettering to some imaginary engineering company for use on a generic 1960's era-work train.

Also today, my first GG1, Amtrak livery, MTH from Mario’s Trains. Runs great. I have it pulling the Lionel phase 1 cars from the LC set. I love the moving pantographs!

Bought some Lionel LIRR cars. The couplers aren’t strong, but I guess I should expect that. Still, fun.

Here an Amtrak engine pulls a nostalgia train consist of an early Amtrak phase car and LIRR cars. Next stop— the circus and fair! My next purchase needs to be a LIRR loco but I’d like it with passenger sounds. Right now my layout is really all Amtrak motive power and I’m having fun with that.

Finally in what has been a glorious week of adding to motive power, RDC Budd cars in Amtrak livery. Sometimes the second car headlight in front flickers, but it seems to do so when cold and it settles down. If it’s about to fail I guess I will find out, but so far so good.

By the way, the lights flash between psa announcements because I am on transformer power on that loop. I run two loops on good old z500 transformers from old starter sets, a third loop from a remote commander powered by a z500 brick, and the outer loop that has two switches and a passing lane is controlled by the new DCS Explorer and powered by a z1000. I run two Amtrak passenger trains on that loop with zero problems. Since I’m mostly running loops that are independent, I find the use of the different systems liberating and flexible. Too much fun! Enjoy.