Buy anything cool lately?

 hello chessie1971..........

Good video

Tiffany

Rick, really like the ballast job and of course, the Mikado.

Two Atlas BNSF Heritage Trinity 5161 hoppers.

This is not my video. I posted this for harry trains. 

Last night I ordered a couple of goodies off of Ebay.  An MTH PRR handcar and an MTH

SD-70 ACe (CSX).  I saw one of these SD-70 ACe's at the TNW Show at Tacoma's Freighthouse Square.  A guy had one in WP colors and I fell in love with it.  Suzie loves Trolleys, Motor Cars, Hand Cars and other "cute" little gadgets.  But she also hinted that she wanted a CSX locomotive she happened to see in the 2015 MTH catalog.

So I thought, "Ah-Ha" ..  So I ordered the SD-70 ACe unit..

Cheers.

KRK

I got this bad boy last night

Got a Milwaukee 18V impact driver yesterday (goes w/the cordless drill set I have).  Will help me finish building the shelving.  Which will help us organize & re-do the basement.  Which will give me the space to build my layout benchwork.  For which, I'll also probably use said impact driver.  Might be forced to re-plank the deck first, though....

Too much!  I found amazing prices on that auction site and this forum for the following items:

K-Line F40PHs in Amtrak, Custom painted VIA Renaissance III, and CalTrain (to be painted in VIA).

MTH F40PH in Amtrak and a nice dummy in Tri-Rail that will get a repaint into Amtrak.

MTH FP45 in Amtrak (not an SDP40F, but it is still cool and I took the front handrail off to make it look a little closer to the prototype)

Yet another MTH FP45 in Santa Fe to bring my fleet to 4 to pull my GGD El Capitan when it arrives along with a damaged shell Wisconsin Central one to make one of my Sante Fe units powered.

An MTH P40 in Phase III Heritage Paint.

Now I finally have the motive power to pull my various sets of GGD / K-Line passenger cars.  I'd like another FP45 in Amtrak, but I'll wait until the pricing is good.

I also have coming a 2 rail 3rd Rail PRR F7 AB set to for my home layout and to complement my small fleet of FP7As.  Finally, I have a 12 car set of GGD El Capitan cars coming.  11 in Santa Fe and an add on baggage in Amtrak.  Can't wait.

I've spent most of my budget for the year, but the bargains were there!

Received our first K-Line F7 Diesels this week and just tried them out on the bench tonight. Issued in 2005, these were some of the last diesels issued before K-Line's demise and are quite attractive with very nice detail and the parts needed to change the pilot to several different configurations. Gotta pull that huge coupler soon!

I had picked up the matching B unit (with smoke) several weeks ago for a possible repaint but found it quite attractive so I set out looking for the AA pair. I'm impressed...

Thank you for getting that up there. I hate just posting links to things.

Your welcome!

Bought a cool Norfolk Southern wrist watch with a nice expansion band from 2005 today. Has a gold stallion on the face plus gold numbers and hands. Marked "Pittsburgh Division".

Bought 11 brand new, in the original boxes, Hess trucks from the 80's and early 90's at an auction yesterday.

Nice purchase, Sam.

Yesterday I took a trip to the Firelands show in Mansfield OH. Never was here. It is not a big show but Brummy's happened to be there and I bought a bag of cinders to make some roads in different parts of the layout.........Paul

Got the flat car a few months ago, just added the load of steel H beams.

Also a test to see if I could download pictures to my new computer and if I could find them and added them into the forum.

I scored this, which seems to be in really good shape (and not the 1971 Kalmbach re-print), for well under half of what the re-prints usually go for.

If you're not familiar with these, they were printed every year or two and showed all the new developments in locomotive types and design. They usually had over 1000 pages and were filled with drawings, photos and technical info.

I couldn’t believe I got this for so little. The listing showed plenty of interior page photos and it all looked pretty good. Can’t wait for this to arrive, I’ve been wanting a 1941 or 44 one for years.

I also scored this print off eBay, which got here over the weekend.

I'm not sure of the print itself, as this artist only offered a print of this painting in a large-format (and expensive) glicee one, I was surprised to see a nice 8X10 one of this painting of the RR that I model.

It’s slightly inaccurate as it depicts a wartime commuter train entering the Doe River Gorge, but Hampton (the only community in the direction you can see the houses in the background) is show way off from where it would have been and you’d never seen it from the gorge as there's a ridge with a tunell between this location and Hampton. And # 11 is green when it would have been black in that timeframe. But still, I like the painting, so I was happy to get this.

I got this frame for it at a local crafts place on sale. It'll hang in the hall right at the door for the toy room:

Hello p51..........

Would Santa Fe's 5000, 5001 class 2-10-4's be listed in that ?

Tiffany

No idea, as I previously posted that  i just won the auction and am waiting for it to arrive.

But if it was a production locomotive in that year, I'd think it would likely be in there. These books were quite inclusive.