Buy anything cool lately?

@Train Nut posted:

Modern, then postwar, and now i find myself liking prewar too!

Lord help me ....😁

If you are looking to go broke even faster, may I recommend looking into Lionel T-Rail track!

Tom

So, I was all set to control myself at Ag Hall. Friday morning before 1st frost, I check the marketplace and what pops up? A mint K-Line Nestle set. And it was priced right! So, pretty cool...

Finally have a minute to post York Finds.  The entire haul represents three generations of wish list items.  Also included is scenery and accessories for the new layout under construction.

the engine splurges totaled 6 engines.  Highlights included Weaver Hiawatha Hudson, MTH Trainmaster demonstrator, and a K-Line k4 with smoke detectors.

Personal score was a Legacy RF&P Berkshire for my growing RF&P collection.

I picked up the MTH Railking Amtrak Box Car with blinking lights from Just Trains yesterday at the Allentown Train Meet.

Finally found my childhood dream engine! Found it on the Bay for a great price and the seller was only 30 minutes from me. So no shipping ! Score!

Just picked up this stash at a local train swap meet. It is sponsored by a HO club but all scales were present.

Picked up all the above for $75  everything looks good.  I checked the voltage out of the PH-1, which was around 18V, and I had to clean up the battery compartment of the controller.  

These were lower on my list of things to purchase but on the list!

@Postwarman posted:

Nothing new lately, finally got around to framing this for my train room. Thought you guys would get a kick out of it. I think we have all been there at one time or another..  Jeff

Haha. Guilty of that. I also do all that stuff to earn time in the train room.

UPS delivered this today.  It's the MTH Lionel Christmas set 11-5505-1 new in the box, still sealed!  I have been looking for this for a long time and finally found one. Of all the tinplate sets I have seen on YouTube, this is the set I wanted the most.   Never thought I would find one new in the box.  Here is the link on YouTube for this set.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtbV4J5mX6I

Photos below.

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A haul of Menard's "56 Ford trucks.  I added the Army Power Wagon to the fleet, red, yellow and Forest Service, I had purchased previously.

My wife gave me this book from Smithsonian for my BD a while back.

Picked this up at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay.

@Dave Ripp. posted:

I was at Menards getting a new front door handle and lock set and picked this up. A Sinclair tow truck to go with my Sinclair service station.

Dave, what house is that in the background?

@FrankRazz posted:

Dave, what house is that in the background?

Frank, Behind the gas station is a Davenport Mercantile made by Woodland Scenic I combined with a Menards Mercantile made by Woodland Scenic for Menards. The Service station was a Menards that I changed the pumps and signs to Sinclair.

I went to trainfest in Milwaukee this past weekend.  It is the second time that I have been and I had a lot of fun.  It's about a 90 minute car ride from my house and from my first experience, it was more of an HO or N gauge event.  There was more O gauge this time but not a lot more.  I had a very enjoyable time and spent time with @MrMuffin'sTrains.  I bought 2 custom run MTH Milwaukee Road gondola cars from Steve.  I also bought some cool lighting accessories from  https://www.dwarvin.com/  which I am looking forward to installing.  I bought some street lights and signal crossing devices.  

John

Found some cars and caboose for my t1 chessie steam special. In  my train world it ran freight. Lol

Donnie i love your chessie trains!!!!

Donnie, it's your railroad so the Steam Special can pull whatever you want it to but you have to admit a string of matching passenger cars would sure look purtee behind it.

Another 4 vehicles from Menards. IMO, you can’t beat the quality for the price.

Gene

Stopped in a local store “just to look around” on our way home after Dr. appointments last week.  Found out the store was having a clearance on older Dept 56 Dickens Village buildings.  We already have several DV buildings but found a couple we liked that we didn’t own.  There was no way I was passing up the Gad’s Hill Place” building for $25.  Also got the “T. Puddlewick Spectacle Shop” (it was $20) because I have needed glasses since the 5th grade.

A few days later I was thinking about a couple other DV buildings we saw on clearance and decided to purchase them too.  Well once in the store we were informed about other series of buildings also on clearance.  Sometimes I get a little carried away but in this case I had set a maximum spending limit that we would have kept to if it wasn’t for the two $15 buildings my wife bought (and she paid for).  Lol. We ended up getting 3 Dickens Village, 4 New England Village, and 2 Alpine Village buildings.  The Alpine Village buildings were the ones my wife bought.

Here are a few pictures of the remaining buildings.  The first picture is the two buildings I specifically went back to buy.  The next two pictures are the other buildings we purchased, setup on the fireplace mantle.  

And if that’s not enough, each purchase earned us “Santa bucks” that we used to buy these fence sections.

@GregM posted:

Stopped in a local store “just to look around” on our way home after Dr. appointments last week.  Found out the store was having a clearance on older Dept 56 Dickens Village buildings.  We already have several DV buildings but found a couple we liked that we didn’t own.  There was no way I was passing up the Gad’s Hill Place” building for $25.  Also got the “T. Puddlewick Spectacle Shop” (it was $20) because I have needed glasses since the 5th grade.

A few days later I was thinking about a couple other DV buildings we saw on clearance and decided to purchase them too.  Well once in the store we were informed about other series of buildings also on clearance.  Sometimes I get a little carried away but in this case I had set a maximum spending limit that we would have kept to if it wasn’t for the two $15 buildings my wife bought (and she paid for).  Lol. We ended up getting 3 Dickens Village, 4 New England Village, and 2 Alpine Village buildings.  The Alpine Village buildings were the ones my wife bought.

Here are a few pictures of the remaining buildings.  The first picture is the two buildings I specifically went back to buy.  The next two pictures are the other buildings we purchased, setup on the fireplace mantle.  

And if that’s not enough, each purchase earned us “Santa bucks” that we used to buy these fence sections.

Greg, if your looking for more Imight have some, I just have to talk to the wife!

@mike g. posted:

Greg, if your looking for more Imight have some, I just have to talk to the wife!

I think I need to slow down for a while since there have been some additional trains added to the accumulation recently too.

Bought this today at a hobby shop on Burien as I was up that way for work this evening.

Grabbed this 2020 without a tender for $50 after tax and shipping. It was an impulse buy sold 'untested as is' but runs and smokes great after some CRC to the eunit and a little TLC. Needs a rear steps/apron piece.

I'm loving the rock bottom post war prices out there on the more common stuff. Good deals are certainly out there.

@p51 posted:

Bought this today at a hobby shop on Burien as I was up that way for work this evening.

Lee great find, if your talking about West Seattle trains, I use to walk there a least once a week just to see if there was anything new to me on sale! I sure miss that place!

@mike g. posted:

Lee great find, if your talking about West Seattle trains, I use to walk there a least once a week just to see if there was anything new to me on sale! I sure miss that place!

I went to the Electric Train Shop in Burien. It's the last of the classic old school hobby shops in the region.

@p51 posted:

I went to the Electric Train Shop in Burien. It's the last of the classic old school hobby shops in the region.

When I lived in Burien I used to go to the West Seattle Trains and one day they closed down, come to find out the lease was up so they moved it to Burien! The one I am talking about is on 150th main street!

Stopped in at grocery store to pick up creamer and came out with a 1:43 tractor trailer. I have a couple of others - Coca-Cola, 7-Eleven, and Market Basket - enough for a convoy in the background or on a perimeter road when I finally get around to putting a layout up. $15. Kind of fun.

I picked up a new magnifier for my workbench and some  50s autos  
55 Pontiac Starchief, 56 Ford, 57 Ford Rachero, 59 caddy, 59 Chrysler and a Jacob Ruppert beer truck  

@th55 posted:

UPS delivered this today.  It's the MTH Lionel Christmas set 11-5505-1 new in the box, still sealed!  I have been looking for this for a long time and finally found one. Of all the tinplate sets I have seen on YouTube, this is the set I wanted the most.   Never thought I would find one new in the box.  Here is the link on YouTube for this set.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtbV4J5mX6I

Photos below.

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Watched the video TH .   What a beautiful train.  Great find.

Bought 10 road champ 1/43 muscle cars for $48. I’m adding a car show to my Christmas layout this year.

@mike g. posted:

When I lived in Burien I used to go to the West Seattle Trains and one day they closed down, come to find out the lease was up so they moved it to Burien! The one I am talking about is on 150th main street!

I love that store!  The owner is awesome!  I bought my legacy 990 system from him a few years ago.

Just revived a 50 year old 8141 locomotive... 

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...1#168107102123416371

@Mooner posted:

Stopped in at grocery store to pick up creamer and came out with a 1:43 tractor trailer. I have a couple of others - Coca-Cola, 7-Eleven, and Market Basket - enough for a convoy in the background or on a perimeter road when I finally get around to putting a layout up. $15. Kind of fun.

Brings back memories of my Philly days.  Still have my old ShopRite courtesy cars knocking about somewheres... 

Mitch

I was lucky enough to find the bunk car, remaining one of the set. Knowing how a run like these may not be available in the future I should have bought all three at once, Trainworld had only one left. I have learned quickly why certain (run) locomotives or cars become a one time collector’s item.

Gene

Just arrived today and took them out of the box to inspect them.   They look flawless.   Can’t wait to run them.  

@Donnie Kennedy posted:

Found some cars and caboose for my t1 chessie steam special. In  my train world it ran freight. Lol

Beautiful engine, Donnie. I actually had one on my roster back in the day, but my ex swiped it in the divorce but I still have the caboose that was issued with it. Looks great pulling just about anything (but part of me agrees with Joe - passenger cars would make for a sharp consist!!!).

Picked up two pieces of rolling stock at the Greenberg's Train Show in Wilmington, MA this past weekend.

The first is an MTH Railking SF ATSF lighted steel caboose with LED warning lights, detailed interior and brakeman.

The second is a Lionel "uncatalogued" welding car in B&M livery. The welder figure at the end of the car rotates from right to left as the car moves and the welding torch flickers from a blue LED light. The side of the tool box reads, " Portsmouth Naval Shipyard est. 1800". Very cool.

I bought a Divco milk truck in my price range.

Been quiet lately on the purchasing front.....well that is over!

Lionel NYC RS-11 w/ command

@RSJB18 posted:

Been quiet lately on the purchasing front.....well that is over!

Lionel NYC RS-11 w/ command

Very nice detail Bob, and you don't have to convert it.

@RSJB18 posted:

Been quiet lately on the purchasing front.....well that is over!

Lionel NYC RS-11 w/ command

Yep… you’ve been hit hard by the command bug. And a NYC to boot. Now we’ve got to work on some O-72 curves. And some articulated steamers