Buy anything cool lately?

Just came in from eBay. I’ve been looking for one of these for a while and was lucky to find this one being sold as “new in box” at an excellent price. The deck ends had a minor lift that I wanted to glue. I’ll be making an open air passenger car with railings and benches. I’ll have to redo the deck to cover the holes. I watched a video of one being pulled by a Lehigh Valley Coal Co. 0-6-0t #126 which I have. I think it will be cool when finished.

Gene

Me too

@redbarchetta81 posted:

Got this little K- Line Plymouth switcher on Valentine’s Day . Has ( I guess), a Seuthe type smoke unit in it !😳🚂🚂🚂🚂

These are prodigious smokers..... I ran a couple once with the smoke going and couldn't see them after a few minutes.

Bob

@RSJB18,

When I turn on the smoke on the Lionel Diner ( coupled with this switcher), the smoke fog from J.T’s Mega Steam hangs for a while !🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂

This just arrived yesterday from @Beth Marshall-The Public Delivery Track, thanks Beth for this beautiful RSD!

Getting better on the impulse purchases...

At my clubs train show, 7 assorted ETS freight cars.  Here's one. It's a beer car.

Made in Czechoslavkia, country of my ancestors. Has K-line trucks.

Bought this set from 1986. NIB Santa Fe Work Train set at the Greenberg Edison show for an excellent price. Always liked the set over the years but not at the $175, $225,$275 price. Could not pass up this deal!

@Ted Bertiger posted:

Bought this set from 1986……

WOW, Ted!  I didn’t know 1986 was still selling trains!  I thought he skipped town thirty eight years ago!!

Nice set though.  Have fun with it!!

Lionel VisionLine UP Genset item 6-28314

Added a Lionel LC+2.0 Doodlebug to the fleet courtesy of Trainworld. The engine lives up to the hype and reviews. Very well done by Lionel. It's bigger than I thought and I'll have to make a few minor modifications to the ROW.

Also grabbed a Universal Remote

Bob

@RSJB18 posted:

Added a Lionel LC+2.0 Doodlebug to the fleet courtesy of Trainworld. The engine lives up to the hype and reviews. Very well done by Lionel. It's bigger than I thought and I'll have to make a few minor modifications to the ROW.

Bob

Nice Bob. Looks like it will go well with your recently upgraded PRR RPO.

@Apples55 posted:

Nice Bob. Looks like it will go well with your recently upgraded PRR RPO.

Yep....

@RSJB18 posted:

Yep....

Wow!!! I see what you mean about the Doodlebug being large.

Morning Bob that's a great looking engine, but I have to be honest with you, being a little younger and living on the west side of the world I have never seen an engine like that before! Sorry

But I still think it is a wonderful looking engine!

Greenberg Train Show Haul

@Brooklyn Corey posted:

Greenberg Train Show Haul

Keep ‘em comin’, Corey!

@Brooklyn Corey posted:

Greenberg Train Show Haul

Great looking haul Corey.

Great video as usual sir.     Watching you open up all these trains really makes me feel like I'm there.  Brings your opening boxes excitment right to my house.

What a lot of fun you are having.

The real noise of train in the backround sure adds to your train room.

Thanks for sharing another fun video Corey.

Guys...some of you are using up our expensive bandwidth with talk about food and ear cleaners, etc.  This is not what "Buy anything cool lately" is about nor what the forum is about.  Keep it about the subject of the topic!

Got another one:

K-Line K-515705. The box cars in this series are hard to find (got 9 of the total 13 in this series)

Do have all the boxcars in the K641-74080n series of 7 boxcars.

Remember Bungalow Bar Ice Cream?

I wonder if anyone makes a model?

@pennsyfan posted:

Remember Bungalow Bar Ice Cream?

I wonder if anyone makes a model?

I absolutely remember Bungalow bar! Should not be too hard to convert one of the common Good Humor ice cream trucks available for us.

Were they unique to New York City? I was their customer in Queens, NY, 1950's - 1960's

With all the craziness I was dealing with last year, I completely overlooked the beautiful Lionel Santa Fe “Blue Bonnet” F7’s from the 2023 v2 catalog, but Joe Grzyboski was able to get me a set and I’m so glad he could - they are absolutely beautiful. I think I like this version a bit more than the classic warbonnet (mea maxima culpa!!!).

And, since I was going to be in the neighborhood… I checked out their website and found a NOS set of MTH 70’ New Haven passenger cars which I just couldn’t pass up.

This one arrived last week. The MTH-by-Atlas scale-wheel diesels now come with couplers, but I'm going to change them out for Kadee 743's. The MTH stamping is still on the truck cover plates, but "Atlas" is pad printed over it.

My latest purchase is New York Central Lines/Boston & Albany 4-6-0 Ten-Wheeler #1916 delivered in 2002 - Lionel 6-28098 - like new from Trainz. A steam locomotive with classic looks.

MELGAR

Couldn’t pass this up. The Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company, “The Red Arrow “, was very innovative in its day. Until it was taken over by Septa it was owned by three generations of men named Merrit Taylor; father, son, and grandson.

Jay

This Wellsville Addison & Galeton single-sheathed boxcar just arrived from a fellow forum member. It's my first Atlas O car and the first freight car I have with this kind of detail. I also like the heft of it.

John

@Tranquil Hollow RR posted:

Couldn’t pass this up. The Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company, “The Red Arrow “, was very innovative in its day. Until it was taken over by Septa it was owned by three generations of men named Merrit Taylor; father, son, and grandson.

I have the later edition, which covers the period from 1948-68 as well...

Mitch 

Mitch,

Who is the author?

@Tranquil Hollow RR posted:

Mitch,

Who is the author?

Ron DeGraw, same as the original. 

Mitch

@Apples55 posted:

With all the craziness I was dealing with last year, I completely overlooked the beautiful Lionel Santa Fe “Blue Bonnet” F7’s from the 2023 v2 catalog, but Joe Grzyboski was able to get me a set and I’m so glad he could - they are absolutely beautiful. I think I like this version a bit more than the classic warbonnet (mea maxima culpa!!!).

Sweet! I've always been a big fan of the blue/yellow/ silver scheme.

In sticking with a few road names my purchases of rolling stock are less frequent these days. Every now and again though I'll see something pop up that fits right in including this MTH Premier (20-98213) New Haven Coil Car with load. Auction victory for $21 which makes it even more enjoyable as these days I don't see much of what I want for even $30. Seems like the price of used stuff has gone up considerably since the pandemic. Some of it is greed as you'll see some dealers price new old stock, sometimes very old, for the same price as a current release. Laissez-faire as they say, but I'm still holding out for the deal. Happy today.

Nice purchases, all. I especially like that stunningly beautiful blue bonnet, @Apples55, and that Ten Wheeler @MELGAR

John

Hey Y'all,

I bought a Lionel #3656 Cattle car and corral.  Everything works, it's clean, and it only costs $12.50 on the bay.  I already had a 3656 car hiding in storage.  This is fun.  The CFO likes it too.

Bill

@Odenville Bill posted:

Hey Y'all,

I bought a Lionel #3656 Cattle car and corral.  Everything works, it's clean, and it only costs $12.50 on the bay.  I already had a 3656 car hiding in storage.  This is fun.  The CFO likes it too.

Bill

That is fun. Great play value, and a good job corralling that one at only $12.50.

We were in our local multi-seller antique shop in town last week, looking for something unique for our oldest sons 44th birthday.  After finding that unique thing for him, an exact copy of a metal cannon that almost killed me as a kid when it was loaded with firecracker powder and set off, I spotted a Lionel set in its box.  I opened it up and perused it, saying I really did not need this.  But, I went home and discovered it was #6-11906, Factory Selection Special Set from 1995.  The picture on the front was captioned with the fact that what you see is not what you get.  It had everything but the transformer, a Lionel Lines 8641 4-4-2, with a no whistle tender, 16244  D.S.S.& A. box, 16578 caboose, and 16132 Deep Rock tank all in LN to mint condition.  So, my wife said get it and consider it my birthday present, so I did.  Oh, that cannon for my oldest son, I wrote down the story of the cannon explosion, and advised him not to try it, or at least not try it when his cousin loads it and tells him to set it off.

@John's Trains posted:

That is fun. Great play value, and a good job corralling that one at only $12.50.

I'll second that emulsion

I just got this MTH crane and tender that was already two-railed, saves me the hassle!

Picked up a few items at the Greenberg's show in Wilmington, MA this past weekend.

The first is a red B&M coal car by Lionel. Haven't seen many B&M pieces in red and had to have it. Possibly out of a Pauk Revere set, but not sure.

The second is a probably an uncatalogued MTH UP flatcar with a speedboat. Sprung diecast trucks and the deck unscrews from the base plate. Already apart and ready for repaint in a NE livery with a wood deck.

The third item was a group of 3 flatcars that I picked up for very short money and will use to create some different flat car loads.   

Only downside was somebody swiped my collapseable umbrella when I put it down on a table in order to get my wallet out to pay for an item and it was gone when I went to retrieve it. Spent the rest of the day in a foul mood looking as much for someone walking around with a small, maroon umbrella as I was looking for train items.

I back shelved my second level plans, and decided to go BIG with the Atlas turntable.

It dominates the whole right side of my layout, but promises fun operating and scenery options.

Impressed with the turntable so far - itʻs inexpensive, works, variable speed, variable direction, easy to wire and operate.

Photo is of my first test using a temporary setup on right side of layout.  Might see how it looks on the left side which has my yard.