Buy anything cool lately?

Peter Araujo posted:

This just arrived this week. I've been having a lot of fun running it. Plan on blackening the tires for an excursion appearance.

I've got a MTH Premier version from the late 90's that has been converted to PS2. It's got nickel rimmed drivers. At first I was thinking of blackening the drivers but I think they add to the passenger locomotive look, so I've left them alone.

Nice buy. Scale Southern Pacific GS class Northerns are nice locomotives. 

I want to start a new thread subject "Done anything stupid lately?".      

I was quite pleased with myself about finding three 2-bay offset hoppers in C&O. Only after they all arrived and I unpacked them did I realize that they were all the same road number!  Oh well, I've been doing a lot of decal-ing lately anyway. I only have to change the last digit on two of the three cars.  Not the end of the world - just a little extra work.  Guess I need to pay closer attention. 

Ralph, I wouldn't call that "stupid," but I do wonder if that isn't standard operating procedure. When a company manufactures more than one copy of a railcar, DO they give each one a different number?

Vincent Massi posted:

Ralph, I wouldn't call that "stupid," but I do wonder if that isn't standard operating procedure. When a company manufactures more than one copy of a railcar, DO they give each one a different number?

yes. 

Ralph, I agree with Vincent!  I have a couple pairs of cars with the same road number, but when the train is moving, I can’t focus on the lettering anyway!  LOL. I do agree your renumbering is a great project, and you probably have it down pat!  Excellent job!

Mark Boyce posted:

Ralph, I agree with Vincent!  I have a couple pairs of cars with the same road number, but when the train is moving, I can’t focus on the lettering anyway!  LOL. I do agree your renumbering is a great project, and you probably have it down pat!  Excellent job!

 

 

"but when the train is moving, I can’t focus on the lettering anyway!"

Mark,  my OCD or being too "anal" won't stand for it ! 

Ralph, I do get it about OCD.  I have it too, but I’ve been too busy the last few years, my OCD has gone into remission!  Once I’m fully retired and don’t have responsibilities to my elderly relatives, I expect the OCD will rear it’s head again.  LOL

Finally got out to Hobby Lobby and got my black foam boards. Good timing too. They were 40% off. Pic.......Paul 2

Paul... that's brilliant and thanks for the heads up.  It's been on my list to get some foam board to mock up a raised loop but you made me pull the trigger and get it at 40% off... took their entire stock which wasn't much.

While at that store I, of course, looked around.  Outside of drooling over the air brushes (too soon in this hobby to play with that) I found one thing that can be kit bashed in the future to add more action to the layout.  Also give my kid something to fiddle with and hopefully not break.

That door looks O-gauge enough to me!  Future mountain to city cable car is what I'm envisioning here, if he ever lets me acquisition it.  Kit bashing opportunities are endless... and new topic worthy I suspect.

Kirk

After 5 years of collecting almost exclusively Christmas themed engines and rolling stock, I've started to acquire non-holiday items. Picked up MTH PRR RS-3, several scale PS-1 boxcars of varying RR lines (Burlington Northern, Great Northern, Lackawanna, Chessie, US Army, State of Maine, PRR), Sunoco tank car and the NS Veteran's smoking tank car from MTH. The latter today spurred on by a patriotic flash. Happy Memorial Day.

Congratulations Moon for broadening your horizons!  Pun intended!  LOL

Hi I just received my long awaited Lionel Lion Scale WM 6 pack hoppers. They are nice but out of the 6, 3 of them have problems. The worst one sounded bad from the start, the metal weights are only glued in place. Well they broke free from the bottom and most of the pieces of that form the hopper are loose and free. And those pieces don't even seem to have any glue marks whatsoever. All of these are made here in the US, and are falling apart. Half tempted to send them back or to put them together. If this is what I am to expect of US made products then just keep it made overseas, sorry but no pride is shown in this workmanship.

paulp posted:

Hi I just received my long awaited Lionel Lion Scale WM 6 pack hoppers. They are nice but out of the 6, 3 of them have problems. The worst one sounded bad from the start, the metal weights are only glued in place. Well they broke free from the bottom and most of the pieces of that form the hopper are loose and free. And those pieces don't even seem to have any glue marks whatsoever. All of these are made here in the US, and are falling apart. Half tempted to send them back or to put them together. If this is what I am to expect of US made products then just keep it made overseas, sorry but no pride is shown in this workmanship.

That’s a shame. Probably an easy fix BUT you should send them back. We can’t keep fixing their problems. The pictures show much more than a simple piece falling off. 

Paul, that is something I would not want to happen to me after waiting so long for those cars. I too have a bunch of the Lionscale cars I have been waiting for. I would either call the dealer you got them through to see if they can help you but also contact Lionel about the problem.....Paul 2

Well that kind a kills the made in America quality.

Please remember that Ross switches made in America are the best you can buy. They operate flawlessly on my layout.  And Mianne bechwork also Anerican is top notch. I think.from my experience that your observation is not on made in America,  but rather made by Lionel . That said I just got a prewar Lionel that runs like clockwork.  So maybe it is Lionel today that is the issue. 

Please see attached my Lionel 700 Electric Engine. It is 1915 and I got it recently on Ebay in a box with American Flyer O gauge freight cars. Please expand the picture to see its numbering, etc.  I have also attached a video of it running . It is over 100 years old and yet runs like it is brand new. It was very dusty inside, and I did clean out grease and added very fine oil. But its type 1 motor hums. And it has the "L" marked  typed 1 pickup assembly on red felt ( I mention for those interested) .

Lionel 700 Electric 1915

Old Lionel posted:

Please see attached my Lionel 700 Electric Engine. It is 1915 and I got it recently on Ebay in a box with American Flyer O gauge freight cars. Please expand the picture to see its numbering, etc.  I have also attached a video of it running . It is over 100 years old and yet runs like it is brand new. It was very dusty inside, and I did clean out grease and added very fine oil. But its type 1 motor hums. And it has the "L" marked  typed 1 pickup assembly on red felt ( I mention for those interested) .

PERFECT!

Just got my first "scale" Lionel freight car:

It's #6-27356, and the details are unbelievable; seems everything (except maybe the air hoses) that could possibly been added was done so...and it rolls smooth as silk. 

Question: this doesn't have those terrible-looking  uncoupler "tack tabs" on the bottom of the trucks:  when were they discontinued?

A beautiful model... 

Mark in Oregon

PS: please forgive the lousy photograph...