Originally Posted by CAPPilot:
This gives me 14 21" cars (mix of K-Line and GGD) which is the max I can fit into my planned staging track with my E7 ABA.
Wowzer! That's gotta be over 30' of track!!!
Bruce
bought a 1928 wide gauge american flyer #4694 steamer (ives built # 1134) to restore. this will go with a flyer #4693 vanderbuilt tender that i purchased a while back.
GE EVO Caboose.
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Got these off ebay and found some cheap frames with matting for them.
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I won the FEC car in a contest. It's a traditional Lionel car. The rest I bought at 2 train shows this month. The REA reefer is a Lionel Standard O car, the Mathieson reefer is an MTH Priemier operating car and the rest are MTH Premier cars.
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I forgot the new truck.
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Originally Posted by Matt Makens:
PTC, I have 8 as well and none of them are duplicates. One of my 21 inch sets is not listed on the site. I may buy the K-Line Catalog DVD for $25 to see
Matt, I think I'm going to do the same. The Legacy site is good, though some errors (not being a critic, I've used the site many times).
The set product numbers don't list an accurate content of which cars are in sets. For example, a set product number of 4690C is just the 3 car set number-not the specific cars in it that had different product numbers. This is only an issue when looking for sets, not individual cars. I found out the hard way....
The DVD should clarify what cars came in which sets, based off the catalogs.
Originally Posted by CAPPilot:
I don't know if it is cool, but I have been looking for this car for several years. I've been outbid on it three times over the last 7 years, so this time I bid really high. I won it at less than half my max bid
This gives me 14 21" cars (mix of K-Line and GGD) which is the max I can fit into my planned staging track with my E7 ABA.
K-Line 21" Pullman "Huron Rapids"
Love the K-Line 21" aluminum cars~! I still get excited when I find a set for sale-though I have all the cars I want, I buy 'em every time. Just bought another set today.
And, as you already know, some of them are very hard to find and demand a premium!
You'll need a heck of a staging yard for 14 of those monsters!
Attended the Large Scale Train Show at York on Friday. Took my buddy over to the Charles Ro booth to show him their BigBoy and stumbled on this:
It's a Gauge 1 Pacific Steam engine manufactured by a Swiss company called Fulgurex. Their models in N, O and G are handmade in brass in limited quantities. It's a Deutsch Reishbahn (DR 18) cab#201. It is very similar to a model made by MTH a couple of years ago. It was in mint condition with a $6,000.00 asking price (make an offer). A follow up to a company called Reynaulds Trains which sells only European models said this loco probably sold for $10,000 .
He asked me what I paid for it and said that I made a "steal" (it's about time). It comes with lights only and runs under DC power.
I made a couple of counter offers and we agree upon a price. This model was shipped yesterday to an installer for the installation of DCC, synchronized smoke timed with the drivers and I hope smoke. Much to my amazement is the fact that this loco is under steam today and ran in 2014 in Germany.
Here is a you tube video showing it in action; watch in HD and enjoy.
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Picked up my Ebay stash from my pal. He's a ex-pat Brit so I supply him with British Cadburys chocolate and he looks after my US Ebay train stuff till I visit.
I had quiet a few boxes .... imagine the scene from Radiers of the Lost Arc the one with the box in the warehouse and you get the idea he said
Really like the semi-scale cars from 1990/91 I managed to get to go with my 1-700e
Nick
At the Edison NJ World's Greatest Hobby show, where we had a booth, my daughter and 3 grandchildren came to visit me and the wife. We bought them Lego stuff, little furry things that run all over the floor of the house, puzzles, toy airplanes, toy trucks, other odd ball toys, cotton candy, chocolate, pickles [from the pickle man] and other goofy things. NO TRAINS--they had no interest in them. Maybe that is why so many non-train items were being sold in the place. We did not try the fried Oreos!!!
Deep fried Oreos! Sounds like the deep fried Mars Bar or Cadburys Cream Egg we get in the UK. Who thought it was a good idea???
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Nick
Last week, I purchased a K-line F-7 A & B set from a fellow forumite. Now, I have the perfect completion to my passenger train. I started buying the cars about 5 years ago. The cars are MTH Railking and are decorated in a C & O-influenced B & O paint scheme. For years, I waited for a suitable locomotive set to pull this train. The wait was worth it. Thank you , Jeff!
Yep, and a beautiful set it is.
Art
Don't know who invented it, but the fried Oreos were selling like crazy--6 for $5.00
Bart,
I was very nice to see you and your wife.
What an engine you got there my friend! Wow.
Norm
Talk about cool....my 3rd Rail Timken 4 Aces was delivered yesterday. I have not opened it yet,but,looking at the posted photos I would say that it is pretty cool.
Happy Easter to all!
Norm
Unique, absolutely gorgeous and will run on DCC...Congrats!
Originally Posted by daylight:
Attended the Large Scale Train Show at York on Friday. Took my buddy over to the Charles Ro booth to show him their BigBoy and stumbled on this:
It's a Gauge 1 Pacific Steam engine manufactured by a Swiss company called Fulgurex. Their models in N, O and G are handmade in brass in limited quantities. It's a Deutsch Reishbahn (DR 18) cab#201. It is very similar to a model made by MTH a couple of years ago. It was in mint condition with a $6,000.00 asking price (make an offer). A follow up to a company called Reynaulds Trains which sells only European models said this loco probably sold for $10,000 .
He asked me what I paid for it and said that I made a "steal" (it's about time). It comes with lights only and runs under DC power.
I made a couple of counter offers and we agree upon a price. This model was shipped yesterday to an installer for the installation of DCC, synchronized smoke timed with the drivers and I hope smoke. Much to my amazement is the fact that this loco is under steam today and ran in 2014 in Germany.
Here is a you tube video showing it in action; watch in HD and enjoy.
MTH PS3 Cab Forward.
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I assume most folks have never seen one of these: Model Railroader, Volume 1, number 1 issue!
Scored it off eBay and it arrived last night. It's in a bound volume of the entire first year of MR from 1934. I couldn't resist as I'd never even seen one before and the price was very afforable. I'm surprised it went for so little...
