Buy anything cool lately?

Hi Bob!  Is Paul your sponsor?

@coach joe posted:

Hi Bob!  Is Paul your sponsor?

I don't think Paul would be what you would call a sponsor.......enabler maybe.......

@RSJB18 posted:

I don't think Paul would be what you would call a sponsor.......enabler maybe.......

I resemble that remark, Bob!!!

By the way… did you see that NLOE just announced their next offering??? As a Lawn-guy-Lind ex-pat, you might be interested too Joe

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...c/174582993418661865

And before you ask, yes, I’ve already ordered mine

@Apples55 posted:

I resemble that remark, Bob!!!

By the way… did you see that NLOE just announced their next offering??? As a Lawn-guy-Lind ex-pat, you might be interested too Joe

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...c/174582993418661865

And before you ask, yes, I’ve already ordered mine

Nice car but I'll pass on this one. Would have been better if they wrapped the load with one of the old yards like Kleet.

I have a wife that loves teaching middle school age kids.  She says, "Someone has to love them." Along with the kids she liked a show called "Psych".  You might understand why I needed a pineapple car.  Finally found a postwar 6475 in my price range, nothing broken and 4 vats in excellent shape.  It took a 2nd busted up donor to get all good vat labels.  If you get one of these, be very careful in servicing and cleaning the vat labels.

It came along with a few other cars that were on my postwar list.   

And an engine in good shape

@Tranquil Hollow RR posted:

Newly arrived from the Red Lion Road plant of the Edward G. Budd manufacturing company, in northeast Philadelphia, the consist for The Crusader.

Tranquil Hollow RR, NICE! I have the Santa Fe version of those passenger cars and there are some interesting differences. Questions: Did the baggage car come with interior LED lighting? Your models have vents on the roof, my SF version do not, are those original? The roofs on my SF look a little plain without vents, yours look next level, I like it.

Anyway, they are a great addition to your layout! Enjoy!

Scott, I received these today from EBay. It appears that the cars were new in the boxes. The flaps, except for one, were tight with no marks or creases. I will take a look because I don’t know if the lights are LEDs or not.

Jay

@Fatman posted:

Probably the coolest thing I will buy this year .... thinking I have used up my fair share of the Train Gods

H

When I first saw the pics I had that little tingle in the back of my neck happening ........... and indeed it turns out to be a John Van Riemsdijk controlled clockwork 0-6-0 Peckett saddle tank locomotive .. made in the 50's by the man himself in his workshops in gloomy old England

Hope you can find the key for it Fatman........mostly so the rest of us can see your video of it running.

She sure is a beauty though , just setting there.

@VHubbard posted:

I have a wife that loves teaching middle school age kids.  She says, "Someone has to love them." Along with the kids she liked a show called "Psych".  You might understand why I needed a pineapple car.  Finally found a postwar 6475 in my price range, nothing broken and 4 vats in excellent shape.  It took a 2nd busted up donor to get all good vat labels.  If you get one of these, be very careful in servicing and cleaning the vat labels.

It came along with a few other cars that were on my postwar list.   

And an engine in good shape

Looking good, hope you can pick up another FA, for the consist

@Tranquil Hollow RR posted:

Scott, I received these today from EBay. It appears that the cars were new in the boxes. The flaps, except for one, were tight with no marks or creases. I will take a look because I don’t know if the lights are LEDs or not.

Jay

Somehow I didn't get the pictures but I hope you don't mind if I name my next passenger Car Tranquil Hollow. 

@Guttersnipe posted:

Somehow I didn't get the pictures but I hope you don't mind if I name my next passenger Car Tranquil Hollow.

Here are the photos again.

Jay

Have a pair of these on the way. Now I have to find where I put those scale trucks. I don't recall if these were an exclusive for Berwyns. I also ordered a CNW FM Trainmaster.

It's never too early to start preparing for the Christmas layout.  I received this from Trainworld yesterday.

@Tranquil Hollow RR posted:

Here are the photos again.

Jay

Thanks. looking great.

Great Cup, as to the real world, presently the Tourist Railroad out of Ely Nevada is having a memorial to their round house cat "Dirt," and I believe they had a coffee cup with His picture on it. I use to have one, it disappeared, but I plan to get another. I have never been their and am not associated with them and yes this a plug. but what better way to promote the hobby then to support the real thing

It was not bent in the pictures

He put it in a tiny box. The box was not damaged. Consider this a reminder to pack well!!!!!!!!!.

No I don't actually love it,  Having done time at UPS and had the box showed more signs of damage itself, you could file a claim against the carrier,  but it looks more like bad packing.  The top of the cab level with the top of the box, doesn't look like it had any Cushing at all.  Looks like your only recourse is to take it up with the seller, or custom repair it. 

@Guttersnipe posted:

No I don't actually love it,  Having done time at UPS and had the box showed more signs of damage itself, you could file a claim against the carrier,  but it looks more like bad packing.  The top of the cab level with the top of the box, doesn't look like it had any Cushing at all.  Looks like your only recourse is to take it up with the seller, or custom repair it.

Yeah he already responded since the first post and stood tall with a full refund so we’ll be ok.

@Dennis Holler posted:

Yeah he already responded since the first post and stood tall with a full refund so we’ll be ok.

That is fantastic, but I still commiserate with your disappointment

From the 1992 Lionel Stocking Stuffer Catalog, A sealed Amtrak Work Train set.

@VinceL posted:

It's never too early to start preparing for the Christmas layout.  I received this from Trainworld yesterday.Boy

Boy are you scaring me Vince.

I appreciate doing the Christmas layout and seeing everyone's on the forum .........but I have a really rough time trying to figure out what to get Judy for Christmas.

Premier Pennsylvania tank car ......cool to me from the Bay. ..............

............I have to control this RR building somehow.

@Dennis Holler posted:

It was not bent in the pictures

He put it in a tiny box. The box was not damaged. Consider this a reminder to pack well!!!!!!!!!.

GOOD  GRIEF  Dennis............

..............looks like somebody was having BATTING  PRACTICE. 

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Premier Pennsylvania tank car ......cool to me from the Bay. ..............

............I have to control this RR building somehow.

Good luck with that, Back in my HO days I rebuilt 200 different cars into booze cars before my wife called an intervention

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Boy are you scaring me Vince.

I appreciate doing the Christmas layout and seeing everyone's on the forum .........but I have a really rough time trying to figure out what to get Judy for Christmas.

She may not appreciate it, but one year I got my wife an observation car, painted in her favorite color, with her name on it. lik they did in the olden days.  WE are no longer married

Just received two MTH Reading and Northern tank cars (different road numbers) from Forum Sponsor EZ Catch Train Shop. Now I need to get some R&N engines to pull them.

Bob

Santa Fe A-B-A (all powered w/sound) ALCO PA’s by Rapido.  The absolute best looking engines I own.  The ESU LOK sound package is fantastic.  They look pretty sweet pulling my 1957 era Super Chief set of Walther’s Name-Train passenger cars.

@bobfett posted:

Just received two MTH Reading and Northern tank cars (different road numbers). Now I need to get some R&N engines to pull them.

Bob

Nice tankers, Bob. Grzyboski’s did a custom run of Lionel Reading & Northern SD40-2’s recently - sweet engines (they still have some last time I looked).

Update: just ordered one of the tankers… would have ordered both, but the E-ZCatch home page showed another of their special runs - a Jade Green NYC Jade Green hopper. Just had to get one of those too. Looks like I’ll have to pay closer attention to another forum sponsor!!!

@SantaFeJim posted:

Santa Fe A-B-A (all powered w/sound) ALCO PA’s by Rapido.  The absolute best looking engines I own.  The ESU LOK sound package is fantastic.  They look pretty sweet pulling my 1957 era Super Chief set of Walther’s Name-Train passenger cars.

Best looking Diesel's ever,  Even in the Blue and silver colors

Here is a close-up.

That's heart breaking @Dennis Holler Glad seller looked after you , but so sad the loco got bent up like that .

@Guttersnipe posted:

She may not appreciate it, but one year I got my wife an observation car, painted in her favorite color, with her name on it. lik they did in the olden days.  WE are no longer married

@Guttersnipe posted:

She may not appreciate it, but one year I got my wife an observation car, painted in her favorite color, with her name on it. lik they did in the olden days.  WE are no longer married

Who kept the observation car?

@Apples55 posted:

Nice tankers, Bob. Grzyboski’s did a custom run of Lionel Reading & Northern SD40-2’s recently - sweet engines (they still have some last time I looked).

Update: just ordered one of the tankers… would have ordered both, but the E-ZCatch home page showed another of their special runs - a Jade Green NYC Jade Green hopper. Just had to get one of those too. Looks like I’ll have to pay closer attention to another forum sponsor!!!

Thanks, Paul. That's a nice looking engine. I'm only about an hour from Grzyboski's so I'll have to make time to run up there. Hmmmm.....it's Mother's Day weekend; I'm sure my wife would love to have one of those as a gift.

Bob

@bobfett posted:

Thanks, Paul. That's a nice looking engine. I'm only about an hour from Grzyboski's so I'll have to make time to run up there. Hmmmm.....it's Mother's Day weekend; I'm sure my wife would love to have one of those as a gift.

Bob

LOL   I feel obligated to point out, Bob, any damage to the engine sustained when she hits you in the head with it IS NOT covered under the warranty

@Guttersnipe posted:

She may not appreciate it, but one year I got my wife an observation car, painted in her favorite color, with her name on it. lik they did in the olden days.  WE are no longer married

My ex left with my best mate ... Gee's I miss him ...

@Fatman posted:

My ex left with my best mate ... Gee's I miss him ...

The kind people at Atlas sent me something. Western Pacific 40' PS-1 boxcar.  Gorgeous.  Club car I am guessing.

@Dennis Holler posted:

It was not bent in the pictures

He put it in a tiny box. The box was not damaged. Consider this a reminder to pack well!!!!!!!!!.

Dennis, I don't think the jig I made to straighten out my Mohawk roof will help with that.

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Boy are you scaring me Vince.

I appreciate doing the Christmas layout and seeing everyone's on the forum .........but I have a really rough time trying to figure out what to get Judy for Christmas.

Dallas 85% of the Christmas gifts I buy Irene get returned!