@RSJB18 posted:Just arrived from a forum member.
Baltimore and Ohio 4-car passenger set.
Bob
You must have searched high and low for those, they're from the 2000 catalog. I have similar cars from the same tooling, except they are Santa Fe and were offered in 2018 catalog. Very nice find Bob!!!
@RSJB18 posted:I got the a fore-mentioned B&O coaches out of the box and on the rails last night. These are very nice cars for us 027 nuts. These will go into the shop at some point for an led lighting upgrade and passengers. The baggage car does not have lights so I will need to order a set of powered trucks.
Bob
Hi Bob, as I mentioned I have a Santa Fe set from the same tooling from the 2018 catalog. If you're planning to add lighting to the baggage car, I found the power collectors, but had to call Lionel. Here's the part number 6209043026.
However, I have yet to find the right size copper ground that goes to the wheels. Sounds simple enough, but they are tempered copper, or I'd make a set myself (doesn't have to be copper). Still working on that. If you find a solution let me know.
Just thought I'd pass this along to you.
Happy railroading!
Just received these two Santa Fe Chief passenger cars to add to the 6 I already had. Keep in mind my layout is just 12 x 8 1/2 feet, and part of the 8 1/2 feet is in the bay window. So all my curves are 048, except for the inner loop which is 036. So I have to keep my passenger cars to semi scale 15" or less, otherwise they look ridiculous and might run into things from the overhang. These new SF passenger cars are from the Lionel 2018 catalog and are 12.5 inches in length, but the look good to me. Especially behind the new to me Santa Fe F7 Yellow Bonnet ABA. I'll be adding passengers to the new cars soon.
Here's a vid:
@WesternPacific2217 posted:Just received these two Santa Fe Chief passenger cars to add to the 6 I already had. Keep in mind my layout is just 12 x 8 1/2 feet, and part of the 8 1/2 feet is in the bay window. So all my curves are 048, except for the inner loop which is 036. So I have to keep my passenger cars to semi scale 15" or less, otherwise they look ridiculous and might run into things from the overhang. These new SF passenger cars are from the Lionel 2018 catalog and are 12.5 inches in length, but the look good to me. Especially behind the new to me Santa Fe F7 Yellow Bonnet ABA. I'll be adding passengers to the new cars soon.
Here's a vid:
Very nice Scott and I've always admired your layout.
A couple of goodies showed up while I was away this week…
First up, from the gang at the Nassau Lionel Operating Engineers on Lawn-guy-lind, a nice LIRR bobber caboose. Nicely done (as are all their offerings I’ve purchased), and surprisingly heavy for it’s small size:
Next up, a pair of special run MTH fantasy Premier boxcars from forum sponsor Berwyn’s Toys & Trains. I just love the graphics on this car and just had to get the pair - a good friend of my parents was an engineer for RCA back in the 40’s and 50’s and had several patents for them. When he left RCA, he went to to work helping to build the BART system in San Fran!!!
@Dave Ripp. posted:Very nice Scott and I've always admired your layout.
Dave, thanks, I'm glad you enjoy it! :-). I feel the same way about your layout and I always enjoy your rolling stock and consists.
@Apples55 posted:A couple of goodies showed up while I was away this week…
First up, from the gang at the Nassau Lionel Operating Engineers on Lawn-guy-lind, a nice LIRR bobber caboose. Nicely done (as are all their offerings I’ve purchased), and surprisingly heavy for it’s small size:
Next up, a pair of special run MTH fantasy Premier boxcars from forum sponsor Berwyn’s Toys & Trains. I just love the graphics on this car and just had to get the pair - a good friend of my parents was an engineer for RCA back in the 40’s and 50’s and had several patents for them. When he left RCA, he went to to work helping to build the BART system in San Fran!!!
Paul, you and Bob @RSJB18 are twins! LoL Both of you must belong to the Nassau Lionel Operating Engineers. Link below to Bob's post. 
That caboose is really neat, and for a little guy very detailed. Enjoy!
Good looking as it is, it would look great between an 0 4 0 steamer with tender and a string of ore cars
@Dave Ripp. posted:Very nice Scott and I've always admired your layout.
As I mentioned before I'm not big on Sound effects, but I think I hear Satchmo and Earl Fathar Hines playing in the Observation car. Swinging out Brother
@WesternPacific2217 posted:Hi Bob, as I mentioned I have a Santa Fe set from the same tooling from the 2018 catalog. If you're planning to add lighting to the baggage car, I found the power collectors, but had to call Lionel. Here's the part number 6209043026.
However, I have yet to find the right size copper ground that goes to the wheels. Sounds simple enough, but they are tempered copper, or I'd make a set myself (doesn't have to be copper). Still working on that. If you find a solution let me know.
Just thought I'd pass this along to you.
Happy railroading!
I generally prefer actual battery power, myself and there is so much room to work with, plus several different ways to hide an on/off switch. However, And Roy and Dale use to sing Happy Rails to You
@WesternPacific2217 posted:You must have searched high and low for those, they're from the 2000 catalog. I have similar cars from the same tooling, except they are Santa Fe and were offered in 2018 catalog. Very nice find Bob!!!
Actually I fell into them. I hadn't been looking but after recently switching out power to B&O, I realized that I didn't have any passenger cars.
A member posted them on the For Sale forum and I snapped them up.
I'm either really lucky, or I spend way too much time on here.....😃😃
I can wait for the powerd trucks to be stocked again.
As for the caboose, Paul @Apples55 is a Lawn-guy-land ex-pat so he shares the LIRR love-hate that we all do. 🤣🤣
Bob
I bought some AMT/KMT undecorated stock cars for parts. Instead of tossing the cars, I retrucked them with Lionel trucks and lettered one of the cars for the Onion Pacific.
Good move, If you get another one, "Bullshippers" might be a good lettering
@WesternPacific2217 posted:Paul, you and Bob @RSJB18 are twins! LoL Both of you must belong to the Nassau Lionel Operating Engineers. Link below to Bob's post.
No, Scott, I don’t belong to the NLOE, however purchasing one of their cars makes you an Associate Member (which basically means you get notified of new car offerings - a vicious cycle for sure 
). While Bob and I aren’t related, I do admit to being a bad influence on him - I believe I’m the one who told him about the bobber!!!
@RSJB18 posted:As for the caboose, Paul @Apples55 is a Lawn-guy-land ex-pat so he shares the LIRR love-hate that we all do. 🤣🤣
Bob
Wow, Bob - you actually admit us Brooklynites are actually Lawn-guy-linders!!! Not sure who denies it more… real islanders or Brooklynites. I guess I am now a proud Poconoid
A Happy Easter to one and all.
Got a great deal on a Lionel TMCC C&O 2-6-6-2 articulated Mallet steam engine. Been wanting one of these ever since the Western Maryland restored a C&O mallet they got from the B&O museum. Perhaps some day Lionel will make a Legacy #1309. In the meantime I'll be running this O-54 rated scale articulated on the inside and outside loops of my new layout. Happy Easter!
Paul I had that argument with a young guy from Brooklyn. I was still commuting from the Bronx to work in East Meadow and Carmine was coming out from Brooklyn. He would never concede that Brooklyn and Queens were part of Long Island even though those two Counties resided on the same sand bar as Nassau and Suffolk.
@Obsidian posted:Got a great deal on a Lionel TMCC C&O 2-6-6-2 articulated Mallet steam engine. Been wanting one of these ever since the Western Maryland restored a C&O mallet they got from the B&O museum. Perhaps some day Lionel will make a Legacy #1309. In the meantime I'll be running this O-54 rated scale articulated on the inside and outside loops of my new layout. Happy Easter!
Congratulations are definitely in order. And the layout itself look like its going to be great
I picked up the HO PE PCC at the Joplin train show after Thanksgiving, which allowed me to make a PE PCC pyramid...
make a kiddy land tack on the layout to run it
Paul
Berwyn’s always does a nice job with their special runs. The RCA boxcars are really well done.
Thank you for posting.
Jerry
@Apples55 posted:No, Scott, I don’t belong to the NLOE, however purchasing one of their cars makes you an Associate Member (which basically means you get notified of new car offerings - a vicious cycle for sure
Wow, Bob - you actually admit us Brooklynites are actually Lawn-guy-linders!!! Not sure who denies it more… real islanders or Brooklynites. I guess I am now a proud Poconoid
A Happy Easter to one and all.
It's usually the other way around......Queens and Brooklyn residents are reluctant to say they live on Lawn-guy-land but as Joe said, geographically, it's a fact! 
Unfortunately, western Nassau County where I am is looking more like Queens than a quiet suburb these days.
And as to the bad influence comment...........You wear it proudly! Not that I need much encouragement......
Bob
@RSJB18 posted:Unfortunately, western Nassau County where I am is looking more like Queens than a quiet suburb these days.
Bob
Looking back, I always thought that my friend’s home in Little Neck was more like Nassau than Queens. He had a sprawling ranch near the WB exit of the GCP. He ran several loops of G scale on his lawn at Christmas time. Sadly he passed in 1998.
I lived the first 70 years of my life in Marine Park Brooklyn. One time I educated one of my workers that Brooklyn was part of LI. I drew a map and then gave him a history lesson about the battle of Brooklyn during the Revolution.
@WesternPacific2217 posted:Just received these two Santa Fe Chief passenger cars to add to the 6 I already had. Keep in mind my layout is just 12 x 8 1/2 feet, and part of the 8 1/2 feet is in the bay window. So all my curves are 048, except for the inner loop which is 036. So I have to keep my passenger cars to semi scale 15" or less, otherwise they look ridiculous and might run into things from the overhang. These new SF passenger cars are from the Lionel 2018 catalog and are 12.5 inches in length, but the look good to me. Especially behind the new to me Santa Fe F7 Yellow Bonnet ABA. I'll be adding passengers to the new cars soon.
Here's a vid:
Hi Scott,
I've been contemplating getting the Yellow/blue bonnet set to go with my Warbonnet set and those passenger cars look great.
1. How is the silver/finish match between the cars and the engines ?
2. Where did you get the observation car at the end - was that from the set or is it the Navajo car ?
Thanks
The question is are we remembering a time or are we trying to prefect in scale something. Size only matters in the latter. in the former, it's something we What to remember fondly. Size is only a matter in your mind, nobody else has right to change that. They look good to me, BUT one thing I will say. Don't park anything next tot Bay window, The suns heat magnified through the window has a way to destroy anything
A gift from my daughter yesterday. A puzzle she made and framed.
Gene
@Richie C. posted:Hi Scott,
I've been contemplating getting the Yellow/blue bonnet set to go with my Warbonnet set and those passenger cars look great.
1. How is the silver/finish match between the cars and the engines ?
2. Where did you get the observation car at the end - was that from the set or is it the Navajo car ?
Thanks
Hi Richie,
Question 1: The silver matches okay, not exactly but close. Here's a photo of the engines with the passenger cars next to the locomotives. Unfortunately it's a photo and the color could always be off a hue one way or the other.
Question 2: The observation car came in a set with the FT locomotive and two passenger cars (Santa Fe Super Chief LionChief Set 6-84719 2018 Big Book). A lot of dealers broke the sets apart and sold the locomotive and passenger cars separately. I bought the passenger car set that came in the 6-84719 set that included the passenger cars Isleta and #1474, and the Navajo Observation car. I also purchased separately 3 dome cars #500 (6-84725), the baggage car #1386 (6-81724), and another passenger car #3155 (2227230), which were sold separately as add on to the set. I plan to renumber the 3 dome cars.
By the way neither the AT&SF Super Chief or the Chief had Dome cars!
I hope this helps.
Great buys everyone! and I love all the fooling around but I have a question
What is Lawn-guy-linders?
@mike g. posted:Great buys everyone! and I love all the fooling around but I have a question
What is Lawn-guy-linders?
Mike, us west coasters gotta stick together! LoL Think heavy Massachusetts accent, specifically some areas of Boston and “Long Islanders”! East coasters, correct me if I'm wrong about the location, but I remember being in Boston, but don't remember all the places I went. I do remember the accent.
@WesternPacific2217 posted:Mike, us west coasters gotta stick together! LoL Think heavy Massachusetts accent, specifically some areas of Boston and “Long Islanders”!
LOL Thanks Scott I would have never got it!
Sent Ron045 an unlettered MTH caboose, and “presto” this is what I received back, painstakingly decaled. Thanks, again, Ron
@mike g. posted:Great buys everyone! and I love all the fooling around but I have a question
What is Lawn-guy-linders?
Mike- Many people say that there is a distinct Long Island accent (much like New England, the south, etc). Those with the heavier accent pronounce their O's as AW's, and put the accent after the N, so they pronounce the G. (Lawn-Guyland)
It's kind of like "Paak the Caah in Havaad Yaad"
Those from Brooklyn have their own distinct accent too..... I'm sure Paul will chime in at some point.
https://findloveandtravel.com/...ers-say-differently/
Bob
@WesternPacific2217 posted:Hi Richie,
Question 1: The silver matches okay, not exactly but close. Here's a photo of the engines with the passenger cars next to the locomotives. Unfortunately it's a photo and the color could always be off a hue one way or the other.
Stockyard Express had a custom run of passenger cars with yellow striped above the windows. I'm willing to guess they would go nicely with this engine.
Close enough for me, Has anyone ever actually looked at a stainless-steel Passenger train, or even a set of matched box cars, while at a distance, usually you can't tell the color difference, but close up, one can see, that one of the cars has a slightly different hue then the other, and that would be due to the amount of time they had been in the weather. If I were going to pick on some detail, it would be the color of the side frames on the Engine's trucks, but guys, It isn't the nit picking we are here to enjoy. it's the very remanences of what we enjoy. Long may the chief thunder down the rails
Just added to the roster this afternoon: Reading Company F-7 A and B units.
Jay
Well, I kinda went the opposite in size. From a Weaver scale sharknose to a K-line pacific based on the classic Marx 333. Couldn't pass it up, especially with the Baltimore & Ohio RR. Gave her some tlc, rebuilt the smoke unit and she's a smooth runner. Found some ore cars by Lionel. Painted those Gawd awful loads flat black. Guess it's a coal load now? And this really cool 7 inch k-line bay window caboose! Nice little consist. Needs a sound board though. The Rail Sounds went out. 
The Lionel UP Rocket Booster Train Set, The EJ&E Es44ac, and I a giant 3'x7' "Welcome to the World of Lionel" vinyl banner that was hung in the Lionel Factory and at Richard Kughns Carail in Michigan before it closed. Photos to come shortly
@Donnie Kennedy posted:Well, I kinda went the opposite in size. From a Weaver scale sharknose to a K-line pacific based on the classic Marx 333....
Those are great runners, I have a santa fe 3016 and it's a smooth operator.
@Genemed posted:A gift from my daughter yesterday. A puzzle she made and framed.
Gene
I've been looking for a sign for the same spot you have yours. I didn't want a lighted sign there since I'd have the sign plugged into my layout and it wouldn't be illuminated while coming downstairs. This is a great (and econimical) solution. My MIL enjoys puzzles so I'll get her a lionel one and a frame. Thanks again for the idea!!
@PRRick posted:I've been looking for a sign for the same spot you have yours. I didn't want a lighted sign there since I'd have the sign plugged into my layout and it wouldn't be illuminated while coming downstairs. This is a great (and econimical) solution. My MIL enjoys puzzles so I'll get her a lionel one and a frame. Thanks again for the idea!!
You’re welcome. It’s all about sharing ideas for others to enjoy!
Gene
@FrankRazz posted:Stockyard Express had a custom run of passenger cars with yellow striped above the windows. I'm willing to guess they would go nicely with this engine.
Thanks - they would go nice, but I called them and they are sold out. They made a limited number of sets and individual cars as a custom run and they are all gone. Maybe a set will show up on the secondary market for sale, but I'm not holding my breath.
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