Buy anything cool lately?

The Santa Fe 5001 - 5010 class 2-10-4 is shown in the 1941 Cyclopedia.

Picked up another General this week off eBay to add to my collection.  Runs pretty good but no sound allowed.  Good smoker though.

Hello Hot Water.............

I am SORRY for what I said you about month ago (about 10 dollars). I have decided NOT to trade or sell my Sunset 3rd S.F.5011 as that would be a very big mistake on my part. We would never able to afford something like that again if I let it go. I believe it is happening to other forum members too(income getting smaller).

Tiffany

I have no idea what you are talking about.

Hello Hot Water........

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Tiffany

And right you are about that car being a "bad boy." That beautiful car goes waaaaaay beyond being a mere toy (train.) It is a model nearing artistic status, right, folks?

Beautiful, can imagine having a full set of accompanying cars to run behind a sleek and fast 4-8-4 Balwin loco.

I picked up a purchase from a local Forum member today.  It was handy he lives only 15 minutes from where I work.

I got a great price on an MTH Premier PS2 B&O Atlantic.  Boy is it a great looking locomotive.  It has better detail than any of my other locomotives.  It sounds, smokes, and runs great even conventionally while my TIU is at MTH for warranty repair.  I would have taken a short video, but I encountered a track problem, so here are some photos.

Hello, you need some scenery large type buildings either by korber or just MTH can you post more pictures of your layout, I would like to see some more, thanks 

30th Street,

Yes you are right, I do need more buildings.  Actually, I'm not doing too bad considering I got the first one about a year ago.  This layout is just set up temporary, and I have been moving things around.  Here are a couple.  I have some more, but can't get to them from the iPad.  I want to move the Main Street to better fit them in since I just got the Menards Hobby Shop a couple of weeks ago.  I hope to take some more this weekend.

Just returned from my local hobby shop, with a nice new Atlas CZ dome observation car. I tend to model the CB&Q in the steam era, but this new dome car so so spectacular, and I have ridden in the real "Silver Solarium", I just had to have one. Since Atlas chose not to offer the "Silver Solarium" in the CB&Q lettering, I simply purchased the Western Pacific version, and will have my custom painter buddy re-letter the RR initials and name on the car.

Wow sure did with the best my 3rd Rail CBQ FT

Scored two Atlas GN Standard Cupola Cabs X66 and X72

Pecos River AAR 50ft CBQ box car and a GN 50ft AAR DD

 Although bought a bit back in time Intermoutain NP 40Ft AAR box car kit that was finally built.

Two Lionel PS4 TOFC PRR and UP

The best for last My 3rd Rail CB&Q FT ABA

You are aware that the CB&Q didn't purchase, nor run, FT A-B-A units? The CB&Q FT models had the A & B units connected together by draw bars, thus they only operated them as A+B - B+A until the purchased F2A units. Then the FT four unit sets were "broken up" into FTA+FTB-F2A consists. Those Sunset/3rd Rail models are really nice though.

Hot water I know that. Until I can install kadees on the FTB unit ( They came with drawbars on the A units). My only option is to run ABA or AA. I plan on running AB due to the length of my sidings on my current Layout. New one in the planning stages will allow ABA in the sidings in the yard.. Also, CBQ had used F2s with the FTA/Bs but I have found some pics with an F3 similar what GN had done. I plan on posting pics and questions in my other thread. The big thing is Kadee mounts( Spacers) 

Doug

my York finds  the blue passengers cars have been a quest for years,,was at the very 1st booth I stopped at !!! love the #6 also

Okay, I got this custom pained Marx ILC caboose. (Marx never made one for the ILC).

Also got an RMT GG-1 in black with the "US Savings Bonds" Conrail logo. I purposely picked this GG-1 paint scheme because I feel I can run it with Luxury Lines, PRR, or NYC passenger cars or any of my Marx freight cars w/o it looking out of place to me...  

Bought 3 pieces of Lionel tubular 054 curved track just to see if it would work in a couple of places on my layout. Getting in to the wider radiuses.  Chatted with the lass at the LHS and looked at the cases of awesome looking new engines. Nice but not in my price range !!

Received this yesterday from a forum member and am very pleased. Have only recently 'discovered' the K-Line aluminum passenger cars (have an 18" PRR Obsv, a 15" FOM Combine, and now this handsome RPO).

Am saving for a set of the 18" Union Pacific 'City of Los Angeles'

Forgive the assumption, but that's really saying something impressing you into the wrong era. Nostalgia or not