Received this handsome U30C from a Forum member yesterday and put it on the test track today. Great sounding horn and different from the horn on the Santa Fe U28c behind it.
Railking PRR Alco. Nothing like an Alco starting up. Love that sound. These Railking engines are pretty no frills, but I just adore them, the price is right and now I have a passenger PRR diesel.
Here it pulls in and goes through the PSA cycle.
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Just picked up my first Geep. ATSF GP-9
Don't think its ever been out of the box.
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The Geep looks very nice, Bob!!
RSJB18 posted:Just picked up my first Geep. ATSF GP-9
Don't think its ever been out of the box.
Nice looking one, Bob.
Should I go Pennsy or Conrail?
We have three Pennsy trains already, so getting another would be consistent with what we already have on hand, but Conrail elicits memories from my childhood, and this would be my train. So ... decisions, decisions.
Deuce posted:Should I go Pennsy or Conrail?
We have three Pennsy trains already, so getting another would be consistent with what we already have on hand, but Conrail elicits memories from my childhood, and this would be my train. So ... decisions, decisions.
Don't forget Penn-Central
RSJB18 posted:Deuce posted:Should I go Pennsy or Conrail?
We have three Pennsy trains already, so getting another would be consistent with what we already have on hand, but Conrail elicits memories from my childhood, and this would be my train. So ... decisions, decisions.
Don't forget Penn-Central
It links them ... but it's not an available option for what I'm looking at.
I finally got all my REINDEER CARS! Thank you Charles Ro!!!
Jim
Deuce, if you can do all three. Pennsy, Pennsy to Penn Central, Penn Central to Conrail. Best of all the worlds .................Paul
paul 2 posted:Deuce, if you can do all three. Pennsy, Pennsy to Penn Central, Penn Central to Conrail. Best of all the worlds .................Paul
I'd love to, but dolla dolla bills y'all.
I think I'm leaning Pennsy, just to keep it consistent (forgot that I also have that Williams PRR FM Trainmaster). But the Conrail is calling to me ...
picked up 40 shares of Pennsylvania Railroad stock! Now all I have to do is sit back and wait for the money to come in!
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Bought May 2017 just arrived today
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My locomotive servicing area is almost complete. Grabbed a coaling tower for cheap. Now just waiting on my MTH sand tower. On the old Lionel water tower, I may paint it, slap a PRR sticker on it, drill a hole in the top and slip a red blinking nano Just Plug LED in the top.
Some ninny was selling the Santa Fe tower on eBay as being O scale and it definitely isn't. It's a bit on the smaller side but similar size to the Marx towers. I may put a PRR sticker on it and keep it on the layout anyways. Or sell it on eBay and hope to break even.
And still debating Conrail vs Pennsy.
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Santa postman just brought a french Jep two unit streamliner. Finally was able to resist taking
something apart the moment I received it. No action when I first put it on the track. A little
WD40, cleaned the wheels, a little contact cleaner on the commutator. The light came on
and it started moving barely. Finally got it to do about a half a lap, very slowly, then it started
smoking so I shut it off. I have to do a bit more research, somewhere in the back of my mind
I am thinking these may be 20 volts.
Learned something today, I always thought JEP and Joustra were two different french trainmakers.
Turns out JEP stands for Joustra en Paris. 
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Deuce posted:My locomotive servicing area is almost complete. Grabbed a coaling tower for cheap. Now just waiting on my MTH sand tower. On the old Lionel water tower, I may paint it, slap a PRR sticker on it, drill a hole in the top and slip a red blinking nano Just Plug LED in the top.
And still debating Conrail vs Pennsy.
Deuce, can I see your layout? Is that a 4 x 8--it looks great!
Illinois Railway Museum, used to live a few miles away many years ago. They have/had
an early Burlington Zephyr. Great condition, even all the linen and silverware and china in
the dining car.
beardog posted:Illinois Railway Museum, used to live a few miles away many years ago. They have/had
an early Burlington Zephyr. Great condition, even all the linen and silverware and china in
the dining car.
I have been there myself.. I was absolutely amazed at what they have!!
