Buy anything cool lately?

Went antiquing today and bought an Ertl Hershey  street car bus-I guess you would call it. I plan to repaint it and add a power unit to it so it can run on track. Also, I found a Marx western store front in really nice condition that will go with the one I already have. I want a "western" part of town when I build a layout.

Cleaned, polished and lubed the Lionel JR orange and gray streamliner. It had no motor

when I bought it so I installed one out of a flying yankee. The disc wheels look a lot

better than the one with steam wheels that was original. Runs good. A new one on ebay

today, probably in worse shape than mine and they are asking $230. I prob have less

than a hundred in min. Pardon the inadequate video skills. 

John

Last Sunday (yesterday) I picked this Lionel 10E up at the Wayne train show in NJ (Seller gave a price I could not refuse).
It is all there, the wheels are blown out due to zinc rot and looking at the roller pickups it looks like it had an easy life.

pdxtrains posted:

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.

A nice LIRR RS-3 pulling those cars will look sharp! Give Charlie at Nassau Hobby a call. He has a great selection of MTH equipment.

John Rowlen posted:

Sparky,  My 6-83102 set has bowed and loose Southern Pacific Lines name plates too. The Observation name plate runs out over the door on the side. Lionel has no parts and instructed me to return it to my dealer.  Good luck finding a set that does not have this problem. Your set is one, and my set is two.  Does anybody else have a set with loosening name stripes? 

Lionel will not be attempting to fix these at their service center. They have no parts and will not be getting parts.  The word is "send them back". ...after waiting so long.

I called the dealer. Told me all of the sets are like this. Don't know for sure as they are shipped out in the original cardboard box.  So unless they are removing them how would you know. They told me Lionel says wait for them to warm up and push name plates back and they should stick. HA what a joke.  So apparently Lionel has invented glue that activates at let's say 64F and above but comes loose in colder temperatures.  The excuses given for the price charged is unacceptable. Looks like I'll be doing self repairs on new products. 

I ordered these SP cars a long time ago after the GS4 was ordered and have not purchased anymore Lionel products due to issues like this and a quite a few new Legacy locomotives as well.  At least I have enough engines and cars to keep me satisfied for years to come now.

I can say that my MTH stuff is much more reliable and have experienced an extremely far less amount of problems.

Sparky74 posted:

John Rowlen posted:

Sparky,  My 6-83102 set has bowed and loose Southern Pacific Lines name plates too. The Observation name plate runs out over the door on the side. Lionel has no parts and instructed me to return it to my dealer.  Good luck finding a set that does not have this problem. Your set is one, and my set is two.  Does anybody else have a set with loosening name stripes? 

Lionel will not be attempting to fix these at their service center. They have no parts and will not be getting parts.  The word is "send them back". ...after waiting so long.

I called the dealer. Told me all of the sets are like this. Don't know for sure as they are shipped out in the original cardboard box.  So unless they are removing them how would you know. They told me Lionel says wait for them to warm up and push name plates back and they should stick. HA what a joke.  So apparently Lionel has invented glue that activates at let's say 64F and above but comes loose in colder temperatures.  The excuses given for the price charged is unacceptable. Looks like I'll be doing self repairs on new products. 

I ordered these SP cars a long time ago after the GS4 was ordered and have not purchased anymore Lionel products due to issues like this and a quite a few new Legacy locomotives as well.  At least I have enough engines and cars to keep me satisfied for years to come now.

I can say that my MTH stuff is much more reliable and have experienced an extremely far less amount of problems.

What will yall do when Lionel doesnt have parts  ..  Tells you to return it to your dealer.. Then the dealer tells you that you can't return it to them because they shipped you the right product number so you own them? 

Jim

Quit buying lionel and get a new dealer

Big Mike G,

   The Coors plane is out of sight, very serious gift from Brian.  I just picked up another original Tin Plate 817 Caboose in full semi-gloss Red, to add to the Tin Plate Mini 817 Collection.  She arrived this morning in perfect condition, including the Box Couplers, she is the next to the last Caboose on the 263E Work Train Consist.

PCRR/Dave

Some serious Tin on the over head shelf FasTrack layout.

Nice Dave!

beardog posted:

Quit buying lionel and get a new dealer

Beardog I get it.  But why fault Lionel for not exchanging an item that they are out of??  

Jim 

Bunch of goodies today!

House was not as big as I thought it would be. Might be able to add another to the layout. 

Accessory transformer! Now to get it wired up.

Needed some Pennsy rolling stock for the PRRBeep engines and my son's PRR steam engine. These will fit the bill nicely.

Needed something to shuttle people to/from my stations.

Will never run these, but they remind me of home.

This one works, but the cellophane is broken. I'll fix it with brake light tape, I think.

Pine Creek Railroad posted:

Big Mike G,

   The Coors plane is out of sight, very serious gift from Brian.  I just picked up another original Tin Plate 817 Caboose in full semi-gloss Red, to add to the Tin Plate Mini 817 Collection.  She arrived this morning in perfect condition, including the Box Couplers, she is the next to the last Caboose on the 263E Work Train Consist.

PCRR/Dave

Some serious Tin on the over head shelf FasTrack layout.

Again..  I still like that little light up Santa!!! 

Jim : ) 

carsntrains posted:

Pine Creek Railroad posted:

Big Mike G,

   The Coors plane is out of sight, very serious gift from Brian.  I just picked up another original Tin Plate 817 Caboose in full semi-gloss Red, to add to the Tin Plate Mini 817 Collection.  She arrived this morning in perfect condition, including the Box Couplers, she is the next to the last Caboose on the 263E Work Train Consist.

PCRR/Dave

Some serious Tin on the over head shelf FasTrack layout.

Again..  I still like that little light up Santa!!! 

Jim : ) 

Jim, I am sure glad I seen this picture with out my wife looking over my shoulder! I love Christmas, but hate the work making everything look just right! LOL

I picked up a 624 switcher and did the whistle relay conversion on the couplers. It was a non runner when it showed up. All bound up with dried grease. Not bad for a $60 low ball offer on eBay. 

And I picked up a 6 1/2 foot long 4 shelf set at Home Depot on sale for $149. Finally have a place for my engine shed that was too big for the layout. Set it up for power on the 2 shed tracks and it’ll have 3 full length tracks and a half track for car storage. 

mike g. posted:

carsntrains posted:

Pine Creek Railroad posted:

Big Mike G,

   The Coors plane is out of sight, very serious gift from Brian.  I just picked up another original Tin Plate 817 Caboose in full semi-gloss Red, to add to the Tin Plate Mini 817 Collection.  She arrived this morning in perfect condition, including the Box Couplers, she is the next to the last Caboose on the 263E Work Train Consist.

PCRR/Dave

Some serious Tin on the over head shelf FasTrack layout.

Again..  I still like that little light up Santa!!! 

Jim : ) 

Jim, I am sure glad I seen this picture with out my wife looking over my shoulder! I love Christmas, but hate the work making everything look just right! LOL

Mike.   That was 2015.   All of that is computer controlled also.  Flashes to music.  Roof can be 5 different colors.  soldiers, snowmen, stars, snowflakes, and all hanging lights are hooked to an LOR controller.  

Jim 

I had one of those gotta have sale moments and picked up 2 inexpensive Bachmann G scale conventional engines.

I thought they would be neat to name (decal) Rock Creek RR .

That's my Outside Train in the Yard  Projects name. lol

Larry

Still having lot's of fun. Even in Winter.

Black unlettered 2 4 2

Green unlettered  2 4 2

A good one for the grandchildren to crash and .....well you know .lol

Larry Sr. posted:

I had one of those gotta have sale moments and picked up 2 inexpensive Bachmann G scale conventional engines.

I thought they would be neat to name (decal) Rock Creek RR .

That's my Outside Train in the Yard  Projects name. lol

Larry

Still having lot's of fun. Even in Winter.

Black unlettered 2 4 2

 

Green unlettered  2 4 2

A good one for the grandchildren to crash and .....well you know .lol

Nice buy Larry! Plus great planning ahead! LOL

carsntrains posted:

mike g. posted:

carsntrains posted:

Pine Creek Railroad posted:

Big Mike G,

   The Coors plane is out of sight, very serious gift from Brian.  I just picked up another original Tin Plate 817 Caboose in full semi-gloss Red, to add to the Tin Plate Mini 817 Collection.  She arrived this morning in perfect condition, including the Box Couplers, she is the next to the last Caboose on the 263E Work Train Consist.

PCRR/Dave

Some serious Tin on the over head shelf FasTrack layout.

Again..  I still like that little light up Santa!!! 

Jim : ) 

Jim, I am sure glad I seen this picture with out my wife looking over my shoulder! I love Christmas, but hate the work making everything look just right! LOL

Mike.   That was 2015.   All of that is computer controlled also.  Flashes to music.  Roof can be 5 different colors.  soldiers, snowmen, stars, snowflakes, and all hanging lights are hooked to an LOR controller.  

Jim 

Someone pleased tell me what happened to lights on the gutters, a few in the trees, and maybe some around the windows! I thought as you get older things were to get easier! LOL

bought a Lionel southern pacific ac 9....engine is amazingly detailed...very happy

Impressive! But I have to ask; Where dose it all live during it's post season hiatus?