Just came a little while ago from LOTS. IMHO, they make the best club cars available. That Yuengling car is also from LOTS.
No flash on this one.
Beer consist, overhead layout.
Jerry
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Getting my Sam Adams car next week. Yours looks great... cannot wait to get mine !!! Also have the LOTS Boston caboose with the man repairing the track and sparking (welding) periodically. A favorite of visitors.
I picked up this K-Line wood chip gondola off of the bay last week. I’ve always liked the CP Rail Pac-Man style logo.
Mail lady delivered this sweet Lionel 400 Budd. Took it apart, cleaned, greased and oiled it. Hopefully I'll find two 2559's reasonably priced at Allentown meet next Sunday to complete both postwar Budd sets.
For those of you who live in NE OH, the Mt. Hope Train Show last weekend was the bestest ever. At least I thought so after paying $2 for a fully functional #91 Lionel Circuit Breaker! Paid $10 for this MTH searchlight car - Yep, the searchlight came with it - not a huge bargain, but I just fell in love with it - got a weakness for lights!,
and gave $20 for the 3656 Stockyard, plus cattle car, plus 8 cattle in their own little box. 'Nuff to make my day!
Just received my MTH 44 Tonner in Sacramento Northern Black & Orange. She's a beauty (even after a 3 year wait) Runs like a Swiss watch in DCS. She spent her first day shuffling beer cars at the Coors plant
Been a great couple of days for new additions... I think I need to add a storeroom!!!
A couple of items from the LCCA...
A pair from LOTS:
One from the gang at the NJ HiRailers:
And a trio from the folks at Amazon:
My friendly mail carrier interrupted me from cleaning up leaves to give me this.
An Atlas mailing box? No, I knew what it was from a Forum member. I have wanted one since they came out. Finally, the timing was right.
Well, I guess I had better go out and at least retrieve my tools I left outside before dark.
Mark Boyce posted:My friendly mail carrier interrupted me from cleaning up leaves to give me this.
An Atlas mailing box? No, I knew what it was from a Forum member. I have wanted one since they came out. Finally, the timing was right.
Well, I guess I had better go out and at least retrieve my tools I left outside before dark.
Mark, I really like mine. It's designed w/o a smoke unit, so it doesn't set off my smoke alarm. Only issue is it doesn't creep well through switches. I can go 8-10 smph without stalling. Good luck.
For one of my grandsons.
Thank you Matt! I don’t use smoke either. Right now I don’t have any switches installed, since I stopped construction when my wife offered the bigger room. I’ll have to remember to see how it does.
Mark Boyce posted:My friendly mail carrier interrupted me from cleaning up leaves to give me this.
An Atlas mailing box? No, I knew what it was from a Forum member. I have wanted one since they came out. Finally, the timing was right.
Well, I guess I had better go out and at least retrieve my tools I left outside before dark.
Now that's a very good reason to stop cleaning up leaves. :-)
Trussman posted:Mark Boyce posted:My friendly mail carrier interrupted me from cleaning up leaves to give me this.
An Atlas mailing box? No, I knew what it was from a Forum member. I have wanted one since they came out. Finally, the timing was right.
Well, I guess I had better go out and at least retrieve my tools I left outside before dark.
Now that's a very good reason to stop cleaning up leaves. :-)
I wonder why I didn’t get as much done outside as I thought I would have. ????
Mr. Brown stopped this afternoon and delivered this Williams NYC class "A" 2-6-6-4 . Been looking for a Wm's Big Boy at a reasonable price for several months, then I noticed this NYC was up for auction.
At last Sunday's (Nov. 4) train show, I picked up an American Flyer 312. For those unfamiliar with Flyer, this is a postwar model of the PRR K5.
On the outside, it looked pretty good, and in fact, cosmetically, it is. The boiler casting and tender shell were dirty but undamaged and intact. But when I got it home, I discovered that some hamfisted Bubba, whose name is now mercifully lost to history, had removed the reverse unit from the tender and hard-wired the locomotive to run in forward-only.
If that weren't enough, he had also removed the cast tender trucks and put on a pair of stamped tinplate trucks. Their pickup wires looked like they'd been soldered with a hot rock. It was a mess.
Fortunately -- though am a longtime Lionel man -- I do own a Flyer 302 and 322 that I bought back in the Seventies, then restored and upgraded. Apparently that was why I had a box full of Flyer parts that I seem to have acquired long ago, and left lying dormant in my attic. After some searching, I found it and dug it out. Surprise! There were two Flyer reverse units inside, along with other assorted Gilbert odds and ends.
Of course, that left me with the unfamiliar task of wiring up a Flyer reverse unit from scratch. But the Internet came to the rescue, and I was able to locate a wiring diagram on-line. First, I located a couple of screws to hold the reverser in place on the tender floor. Then, I replaced the junky stamped tender trucks with proper cast Flyer trucks. And finally, using my diagram as a guide, I carefully soldered the appropriate wires to their places and thence to the contact-plug plate that joins them to the locomotive.
With great trepidation, I connected the little Lionel transformer that I use for testing purposes to the tender trucks and powered it up. To my great amazement, the reverse unit began clicking and cycling away every time I touched a wire to the trucks. It works! And on the first try!
Of course there's a lot more to do yet before the 312 takes to the rails again with its 302 and 322 brothers. When it's done, I'll post a picture.
Trussman, It looks like your search was rewarded with a winner!
Balshis, Congratulations on the rewiring job!!
Bought a bunch of parts during LIONEL's 50% off sale (BIG THANKS to LIONEL) to make my personalized Texas Special passenger train; and, from a forum member, some very hard to find (been looking on and off for several years) Microscale decals for two projects.
Almost forgot, I also bought $25.00 in tools to do a $10 repair job--it's called "hobby math."
Pingman posted:Bought a bunch of parts during LIONEL's 50% off sale (BIG THANKS to LIONEL) to make my personalized Texas Special passenger train; and, from a forum member, some very hard to find (been looking on and off for several years) Microscale decals for two projects.
Almost forgot, I also bought $25.00 in tools to do a $10 repair job--it's called "hobby math."
Dude, I've been wondering how to justify my tool purchases! Thanks for the heads up!!!
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